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ANOTHER TRAIN - Pete Morton MP3
THE BEGINNING IS NOW AND WILL ALWAYS BE,
YOU SAY YOU LOST YOUR CHANCE AND THAT FATE BROUGHT YOU DEFEAT,
BUT THAT MEANS NOTHING, YOU LOOK SO SAD,
YOU'VE BEEN LISTENING TO THOSE WHO SAY YOU MISSED YOUR CHANCE.
CHORUS: THERE'S ANOTHER TRAIN, THERE ALWAYS IS,
MAYBE THE NEXT ONE IS YOURS, GET UP AND CLIMB ABOARD ANOTHER TRAIN.
YOU MAY FEEL YOU'RE DONE, BUT THERE'S NO SUCH THING,
THOUGH YOU'RE STANDING ON YOUR OWN,
YOUR OWN BREATH IS KING,
THE BEGINNING IS NOW, DON'T TURN AROUND,
FOR REGRETS OF BAD MISTAKES WILL ONLY DRAIN YOU.
CHORUS.
WE CRAWL IN THE DARK SOMETIMES AND THINK TOO MUCH,
FILL OUR HEADS WITH CRAZY THINGS THAT ONLY BREAK OUR HEARTS,
I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN WHAT THIS EARTH CAN DO,
WHEN ITS DRAGGING DOWN ANOTHER LOAD OF US WORRISOME FOOLS.
CHORUS:
I KNOW ITS HARD, WE CAN FEEL CONFUSED
CROWN OURSELVES WITH IT ALL 'TILL WE FEEL WE CANNOT MOVE,
BUILDING WORLDS THAT DON'T EXIST
IMAGINATION PLAYS THE WORSE TRICKS.
CHORUS:

Flying an Unknown Flag
Living Tradition issue 66 Jan/Feb 2006-02-08 (See more reviews here)
This latest collection of original songs from Leicester’s finest effortlessly maintains the standard he’s set over the years. Although the immediate impression is perhaps of a more relaxed set than Pete’s previous offering (the mighty Swarthmoor), there’s no lack of depth or commitment in the writing. The songs speak directly for themselves in exactly the way good songs should – reflective commentaries that have no truck with the empty posturing of the soapbox yet are ideally able to make meaningful commentaries on our lives.

One of Pete’s special gifts as a songwriter is that he doesn’t need to resort to an overt linguistic expression of anger or bitterness to make his point, and his songs are all the better for their succinctness and their thoughtful, cautiously optimistic demeanour. Pete’s realism and intrinsic truthfulness are allied to this skilful use of quiet observation, ensuring that imagery is kept simple and universal, easy to relate to and easy to assimilate both in spite of and because of the intelligence with which the words are put together. That quality of directness of thought and simplicity of expression in Pete’s might suggest to you that maybe, just maybe, Pete’s possessed by the spirit of Emily Dickinson (in the touching “I’m in Love With Emily Dickinson”, Pete walks “the dream between God’s love and life’s despair”)! Pete’s sense of bafflement at the ageless conundrums of life, love and living is something we can all identify with, for let’s face it, “all the world’s within a world in the Post Office Queue”!

When considering romance, Pete’s supreme economy of expression makes more from less, as “In Another Life” proves. Pete takes us on a journey of self-discovery, making us think without preaching. Pete’s sense of history, the continuum of human concerns, runs through his songwriting like a consistent thread – from the jovial and catchy opener “Harvest”, through the softly meditative “Further” (a standout) and “The Shores of Italy” (from the lyrics of which the album gets it’s title) and on to the chummy reminiscences of “The Busker’s Song”, finally finding its natural conflation in “A Love That I Don’t Understand”, where Pete’s imagined situation (“in the year 2090 and still here in Blighty, still trying to make poetry rhyme”) calls forth a telling and resigned reflection on the insignificance of human endeavour when set against the laws and processes of nature. I’m not entirely convinced by Pete’s decision to end the album with a revisit of his “greatest hit” “Another Train”, although one could say that it seems to bring the album (and Pete’s songwriting to date) full circle.

Pete’s “house band” on the album consists of Neil Segrott, Chris Parkinson and fellow Urban-Folkster Roger Wilson, and their spirited ensemble sound gives the set an identifiable branding that suits the material – and Pete’s personality – down to the ground. The accompanying booklet, interestingly, informs us of the location where each song was written – many were composed at friend’s houses (or sheds!) – and full lyrics are included too.
David Kidman

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"ANOTHER TRAIN" is still Pete's most requested song and he has re-recorded it as the final cut on the new CD (Flying an Unknown Flag). There are many versions of this cropping up all over the place now. Pete's versions can be found on "ONE BIG JOKE", on Harbourtown's Pete Morton Compilation - Eerily titled "Another Train" and on a rare but wonderful album. "PETE MORTON AND JO FREYA." B.T.L.CD2. Available from 3 Old Row, Burley, Oakham, LE15 7SY or Phone 01572 755006. The album also includes the only recorded version of "THE LITTLE BIKE".

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