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Jacqueline in Paris

from To The Mountain by Matt Hartless & the Maverick 7

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You went away one month today
To live la vie d'amour so they say
And you became more and more estranged
And we became more afraid
As you were climbing the Eiffel Tower
Or having your picture drawn on Montmartre
A smog grew from our capital
A storm over us all

Have you seen what's happened here
Since the last time you wrote
It's gone to shit since last year
When you didn't even vote
They've declared martial law
And we are stranded
A thousand miles apart

Jacqueline
You pause for thought and squander hours
You can't see
Your disinterest is key
Jacqueline
You go for love and they close the borders
Jacqueline
There is no way back

Like a cartoon in his everyman manner
We lost control to this pound-shop Powell
Discoursing fear and sounding too sincere
The scapegoat disembowled
And the foreign born blamed for economic downturn
And all evidence to the contrary burned
Special prisons for immigrant detainees
It's like Nazi Germany

Now you may think this is unfair
But you should accept part of the blame
For abandoning us here
For we miss you my dear
They've declared martial law
And we are stranded
A thousand miles apart

Jacqueline
You pause for thought and squander hours
You can't see
Your disinterest is key
Jacqueline
You go for love and they close the borders
Jacqueline
There is no way back

And my bloodline wasn't pure
So they gave me the sack
Heritage is currency here
Oh my God, don't come back
It's like we're on the set of Brazil
Or 1984
I promise I will keep in touch
If they let me any more
They've declared martial law
And we are stranded
A thousand miles apart

Jacqueline
You pause for thought and squander hours
You can't see
Your disinterest is key
Jacqueline
You go for love and they close the borders
Jacqueline
There is no way back

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from To The Mountain, released February 11, 2022

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Matt Hartless & the Maverick 7 Manchester, UK

Many moons ago, Matt Hartless rode into town from across the Sea on horseback with nothing but a guitar and a song in his heart.

Selling an aquatic horse would have made life easier, but that's not the Maverick way and Matt soon found himself recruiting troubadours from across Manchester to give the gift of Gypsy-ska-flamenco-folk-punk-rock to the world. ... more

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