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Walking Through Walls

from How to Smile Upside Down by Gary Hurlstone

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During Christmas Day 1914, shortly after the outbreak of WW1, French, German and British troops were engaged in a very different kind of battle: an unofficial ceasfire agreed in order to play football. Walking through Walls is about what they all faced during the years that followed having left their loved ones.

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Walking Through Walls

In summer lines
Where fields of corn
Sway in sweet refrain
On city streets where lives have gone
Only savage hearts remain

Walking, keep walking, walking through walls
Walking, keep walking, walking through walls

Oh, you made the choice now feel the love
Press a life in thought
Come on, shout it loud
Still kneeled and bowed
But don’t you spill my blood

Walking, keep walking, walking through walls

No need to fight, or hold your hands high
Sweet December frost cannot fade our smiles
And I love this life why should I lie?
In my dreams there are …

Still bright rows of anthems wave
In red, green white and blue
Come on, see them off - now blow a kiss
Safe, the moments truth

Walking, keep walking, walking through walls
Walking keep walking, walking through walls
Walking ...

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from How to Smile Upside Down, track released June 10, 2020
From the album 'How to Smile Upside Down' with contributions from Todd Caldwell, (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Jackson Browne) Tony Scherr, (Norah Jones, Iron and Wine) Jamie Parkes (violin) and Richard Bamping, (Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra) all under the creatively sonic ears of producer, Peter Scherr.

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Gary Hurlstone UK

I tell stories - work created over years of performing and writing. Thematically this can include just about anything!

In a varied and colourful career, I have also busked on the Chinese underground, been banned from playing festivals by the PRC Communist Party, sang at the opening of a Kitchen Appliance Shop and appeared second on the bill to a singing dog! All character building stuff. ... more

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