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Kitchener Street

from Playtime for Everyone by Adam Holden

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I started writing this on my ballot card as we walked up to Old Durham Road in Gateshead to vote in the 2010 General Election with our two young children. Sadly the Temporary Unit – a portacabin with voting booth at the dead end of said street - is no longer in use. In spite of my optimism the rest of it is largely true. For Philip and Judith.

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Kitchener Street

Once in every while well don't you know
People get up and the People go
An army of you and me just marching on its feet
To that temporary unit on Kitchener Street

Rain and cherry blossom is in the air
An ill wind blowing strong that seems to come from everywhere
If you want to change the world then it's hard to beat
That temporary unit on Kitchener Street

Temporary like the blossom
Temporary like the rain
Temporary like the change that will come along again
Temporary like victory
Temporary like defeat
Temporary like that unit on Kitchener Street

How your country needs you like it did way back when
Women were called to suffrage while they sacrificed the men
And still your country needs you there can be no retreat
From that temporary unit on Kitchener Street

Freedom's not like property you can't just exchange it
You can't make it, you can't break it so you live to rearrange it
Remember every step that saw the franchise complete
At that temporary unit on Kitchener Street

Temporary like the blossom
Temporary like the rain
Temporary like the change that will come along again
Temporary like victory
Temporary like defeat
Temporary like that unit on Kitchener Street

So show up early, bring a friend and wait in line
And maybe by the morning it'll all work out fine
But you've got to hope for more than just keeping life sweet
It's a temporary unit on Kitchener Street

Oh how your country needs you

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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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