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Raga morning Rainbow Gardens
Cat sits in the blossoming trees
You and I, why should we ever leave?
A hundred blessings, a hundred pardons
Story park full of poems, prayers and pleas,
Blown away in the sweet North London breeze
There’s a car horn blaring streets away
We can stay in bed. We could read all day

Raga noon Rainbow Gardens
Light pours down from a bigger sky
Where now, for you and I?

No rain - pathway’s hardened
The ground in Highgate Woods is warm and dry
What shall we do there? We’ll get high

And we can touch the endless blue -
Paint the bigger picture - just we two

Raga evening Rainbow Gardens
Time to talk and laptop, drink and cook
Everyday we nearly write the mac-book

A hundred blessings, a hundred pardons
Story park full of poems, prayers and pleas,
Blown away in the sweet North London breeze

Evening falls the night is warm
Under a bigger sky, all is calm

And all we are is now and here
Under a bigger sky, this small idea

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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