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All is Right

from 30something by Antoine Bustros

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ALL IS RIGHT

We swam the other day
I dove with you for words I could not find
all in the mind.

Fading colours of my past
so fixed for long,
so bright,
now shading into night.

But yours still forming
like the rays of dawn
your finger on the canvas
waiting for the light,
for the first stroke,
the first bold stroke
of the colours of your life.

And if I fear for you
and lie awake,
and see the dark shapes
through the light,
all is right.
all is, right?

For the fisherman says
- and he should know -
there's no such thing as status quo.

In a stream the other day
we watched the play of things alive and dead,
all in the head.

I pretended the past is a thing alive O,
still deep
in moonlit sleep.

But yours only now
wells in your eyes,
your glance a knife
cleaving the tangled web of cliché
so blithe, so astonishingly blithe,
revolving.

And if I fear for you
and lie awake,
and see the dark shapes
through the light,
all is right.
all is, right?

For the fisherman says
- and he should know -
there's no such thing as status quo.

And if I fear for you
and lie awake,
and see the dark shapes
through the light,
all is right.
all is, right?

For the dying man said
- and he should know -
there's no such thing as status quo.

From nightmare fears
I woke to sanity and lay awake.

Like ghostly writing
in a dream of life I've never lived
or can't recall
now holding me in thrall.

And thoughts of you
like water on my face,
dashed up in mockery
of all my silly vows.

It's only me, but still you'll leap
across the stream from where I roam.

And if I fear for you
and lie awake,
and see the dark shapes
through the light,
all is right.
all is, right?

For the dying man said
- and he should know -
there's no such thing as status quo.

Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros

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from 30something, released February 22, 2015
Music: antoine bustros
Lyrics: Gillman Noonan & antoine bustros
antoine bustros: vocals, guitar
Alain Bellaïche: back vocals, lead Guitar
Dave Gelfand: double bass

Recorded by Philippe Attié

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Antoine Bustros Montreal, Québec

Birth and early childhood in Cairo.
Later childhood and adolescence in Montreal, Canada. Lived in Dublin, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Now lives in Montreal, where he writes film music. Also founded the Ensemble Ulysse for which he writes chamber music.
The songs from 30Something were previously performed under 'Tarek B'. ... more

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