Name: If I Can't Get To London
Duration: P00H03M34S
Description: First this song was an attempt to show off having learned a new chord. Then it was a song about being frustrated and desperate. Then it became also about a character from children's literature.

If I Can't Get To London

from Shiver by Rain Ruin

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First this song was an attempt to show off having learned a new chord. Then it was a song about being frustrated and desperate. Then it became also about a character from children's literature.

lyrics

Night bus rescue me
When it becomes a burden to be free
You find me at the right time
I lie about my name
'Cause after this one nothing is the same
It's me against the nighttime

If I can't get to London
There's killers on my trail
If I can't get to London
Darkness will prevail
I have to get to London
I have to be that strong
If I can't get to London
Then everything is gone

Black dog in the night
A shadow of a shadow of the light
But it can't touch me inside
I watch the night roll by
But where I want to go I'll have to fly
It's getting close to midnight

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from Shiver, released June 1, 2005
Vocals, guitar, saxophone - D.C. Simpson
Bass - Jim Clawson

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