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The Far Horizon Line
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A pathologically optimisitic song for these dark times.
folk steffan hannigan ber
A bright light in these dark times
The Magic Ox Band were a spin off of the Magic Ox Theatre Group - a zany bunch of performers who used to do wild things at the old Albion Fayres. Although the Band split up long ago, I feel the songs we did back then still deserve a listening today. Folk never goes out of fashion - it just matures nicely :-)
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #1,118
Peak in subgenre #133
Author
Berni Armstrong
Rights
Berni Armstrong (1985)
Uploaded
November 15, 2003
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MP3 4.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Another song for the "Friends of the Earth" gig. A friend told me too many of my songs were depressingly true and challenged me to write one that was more positive. So here is this optimistic song from 1985 when Reagan ruled the roost and Thatcher followed him to the end of the Earth - which he promised to arrange with the Evil Empire! Being optimistic back then was pathological! Cold War logic seemed to be chiselled in stone - I never expected it to end in my life time. This was my small contribution to helping it on its way :
Lyrics
The Far Horizon Line Things seem to be changing for the better right now Old fears and doubts are all vanishing I’m not dreading tomorrow and I’m ready for today There appears to be sunshine coming over: CHORUS The Far horizon line – the far horizon line The far horizon! There appears to be sunshine coming over The Far horizon line – the far horizon line The far horizon! People are singing to each other in the streets (Like) out of some nightmare they are waking. They’re not ready to live the lies they were living yesterday. There appears to be joy coming over… CHORUS Weapons of war are being broken up for scrap, The idea of nations we’re abandoning We’re discovering the wisdom of live and let live, There appears to be peace coming over…. CHORUS We’ll look at the planet and the role we have to play, Achieving a balance with nature. We won’t leave to others what we can do today. There appears to be hope coming over…. CHORUS
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