A song about addiction, something that only serves to stop the pain.
John Kerslake. Singer, songwriter from Sunshine Coast. Always been aware of the magical qualities of music and try to create the same.
It's just me at the moment. I've been writing and performing my own music for about twenty years now with increasing intensity. Sometimes I get lost in the cause in my lyrics, wishing I could get the message of love and peace across. Sometimes I just have fun with my songs. Sometimes I write and sing about the sadness we can experience but I always like to think there's a positive side to all in the end. I also like the attraction of fantasy and have written songs about Faeries, mermaids and even a sorcerer. I can immerse in fantasy but embed messages on life in there. Makes it fun to listen to as well.
Story behind the song
I watched a documentary on ABC TV about heroin adiction and listening to the woman explaining what she went through to escape the pain planted some seeds. Dedicated to that brave young woman and all like her who fight the pain and destructionn of addiction.
Lyrics
Can you see her, in the morning
with her eyes in shades of grace
scarlet stockings around her ankles
and her hair is on her face
When she's finished, needle singing
then she floats on warm blue seas
through her white arms, it is bringing
sudden healing as she screams
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
On a blue star, where we all love
There are places she can go
and the starlight doesn't shimmer
She can feel the colours flow
And she counts them, seconds moving
In her wonderland of time
And she feels it, in her heart beat
As her voice begins to cry
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
there are places, she could wander
where the world was rather kind
she's forgotten, or maybe lost them
so she seeks what she can find
In the mountains, in the skyways
In the corridors she'll fly
she will linger when the sun goes
she will push the moon and sigh
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
Undo the pain, caress, caress, caress, caress, caress
