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Rain In Bologna

from Homeroad by Roger Lucey

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There's a light in the city that calls to your heart
Like the edge of a dream that transports you
And shadows five hundred years old that seem to whisper

And Cape Town is bowing it's head to the winter
Those storms seem so far from me now
And the hole in my heart and the memories hardly linger

The waiter is laughing at Daniel's Italian
Brendolini is ordering the wine
But the back of my mind is on fire like this little kitchen

The truth only hurts if you manage to find it
Bologna's a good place to look
All that I found was a ghost in the dusk in Bologna

As the clouds start to gather out over Ferarra
The storm in my heart starts to fade
But filled with misgiving it's time for returning
To the dry land where my beds been made
My hearts on the run and my head's in decision
Leaves me no choice but to fly
I'm boarding the plane as the rain starts to fall
In Bologna at the end of July

There's rain in Bologna
And now that I'm leaving
I leave with this rain in my heart

There's a street in Bologna where merchants once travelled
With riches and spoils of war
And the wars of the heart that I left behind in Bologna

And nights when the wine flowed like heavenly bodies
And secrets slipped out without fear
And song that just seemed to rise up from the shadows

And Nibs and Amanda are talking about Jo'burg
In that country where our dreams are held
My dreams are suspended and hang from thread like a madman’s

And nothing comes closer than a good bit of distance
To see how the limits imposed
On our lives can be lifted, I'm lost in the night in Bologna

On the road to the mountains and Santa Sofia
The storms start to darken the day
But back in my homeland the storms of our birthing
Are drifting much further away
I'd stay if I could but there's somebody calling
Leaves me no choice but to fly
I'm leaving with longing
As the rain starts to fall in Bologna at the end of July

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from Homeroad, released January 1, 2004

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Roger Lucey Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Lucey (born 1954) is a musician, journalist, film maker, actor and educator who was born in South Africa

In the late '70s and early '80s his music career was destroyed by South African Special Branch, because the lyrics to Lucey's protest songs were considered a threat to the Apartheid State

With the end of Apartheid bringing freedom, Roger is again performing, with a new album in progress ... more

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