Expatriates (The Free and the Brave)

from EXPATRIATES by Patsy Moore

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"Expatriates (The Free and the Brave)" is the second track on EXPATRIATES.

The famous expatriates pictured on this page are Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

"Poet on the battlefront of the world, what does your heart hear? What poems unfurl bright banners made of words with red wings to fly over the trenches and over frontiers and over all barriers of time, through the years, to sing this story of Spain on the ramparts of the world?" -Langston Hughes

lyrics

They touch down in New York to the drumbeat of rain
Only two hours till the takeoff for Spain
Only two hours till all that remains of their lives is them
Winding their way through a portico
There they go
There they go

They touch hands in New York just to make sure it’s real
And spark like the spin of a Catherine wheel
Sparking and spinning is just what they feel in this space and time
Willingly offered to the undertow
There they go
There they go

And it’s “Dear friends and lovers, goodnight”
Here’s where the dream takes flight
Winging away from the Americas
To settle with the free and the brave
The free and the brave
The free and the brave

They touch down in New York in the hammering rain
Only two hours till the takeoff for Spain
Only two hours till all that remains of their lives is them
Speeding away from the staid tableau
There they go
There they go

Now it’s “Dear friends and lovers, goodnight”
Here’s where the two get it right
Winging away from the Americas
To settle with the free and the brave
The free and the brave
The free and the brave

Winging away from the Americas
To settle with the free and the brave
Soaring away from the Americas
To get a little free and some brave
Flying away from America
To a home among the free and the brave
The free and the brave
The free and the brave

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from EXPATRIATES, released 15 March 2011
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words and music by Patsy Moore
Copyright © 2010 Patchouli Grove/SESAC

Patsy Moore: piano, synths, programming
Myrrh: guitar
Toshi Yanagi: guitar
Les King: bass

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Patsy Moore is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter who, in the 1990s, released two albums on Warner ... more Bros.. Numerous performers, including jazz world favorite Dianne Reeves, have recorded her tunes. Moore's self-produced full-length recording, *The Most Private Confessions of Saint Clair*, was released in 2008, followed by the ambitious concept album *Expatriates* (2011). less