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Common Ground

from Playtime for Everyone by Adam Holden

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”Everything indispensable to life is the whole of society’s common property” – Robespierre in Geoff Mann’s 'In the Long Run We Are All Dead'.

A terrible slogan, but still a pretty good idea.

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Common Ground

Do you live in castle?
Do you live on a cloud?
Do you long for some other shore?
Or to blend in with the crowd
For every bond that’s broken
For every world unbuilt
There is anger to be spoken
And hope to be spilt

I don’t need you
You don’t need me
Is that that the best
That we can be

Life is not a ladder
Love is not a bet
You take up some space
And make your place
With what you give and what you get
We all need enough
We all want something more
You can play it tough
Or hold open the door

I don’t need you ...

Where do we go now?
What was it went wrong?
Does anyone know how
We just get along?

The party is over
Take the bunting down
These streets unloved, unwanted
The big top has left town
Common wealth is common wisdom
Common sense on common ground
But in this disunited kingdom
Where can it be found?

If I don’t need you
And you don’t need me
What’s the best that
We can be?

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from Playtime for Everyone, released October 12, 2019
Words and music by Adam Holden. Yamaha C3 grand piano and vocals recorded live at Simpson Street Studios, Thropton, Northumberland, 9th May 2019

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Adam Holden Gateshead, UK

Adam Holden is a songwriter who performs solo and in folk duo Another Penny (with Maurice Condie). He sings and plays guitar and piano.

Adam grew up in East London playing classical music and listening to songwriters from as many sources as he could find. His songs touch on immediate social, domestic and natural landscapes but are also rooted in a love of political ideas.
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