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National TV - A Lament for Anneli Alderton

from This Music Thing by RAIE

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a lament for Anneli Alderton, one of the victims of the Ipswich serial killer - I saw her on the TV news (a train security camera clip) ... hours before/after her death

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National TV – a Lament for Anneli Alderton

And if we captured that moment
In the tree rings
Picked up and touched
The worn river pebbles
Found the altered pattern
In the blackbird’s nest
Saw the runaway fear
In the fox’s footprints

Oh but we watched you
On national TV
On a train
In a police check scene
Combin’ your pretty blonde hair
For the men to see
In the window of a night train ooh ooh
On the TV screen

How do the May tree seeds know
To let go and fly
And the turtles return
When thirty years has passed by
What brings the whale from the deep
When the sailors cry
Why couldn’t we
Hear the riverbed call out
At your demise

When we could watch you
On national TV
On a train
In a police check scene
Combin’ your pretty blonde hair
For the men to see
In the window of a night train ooh ooh
On the TV screen

We’d see you there
Caught in a moment
Caught in a moment
In the before
Caught in a moment
And in the after
In the before
Caught in a moment
And in the after

Oh but we watched you
On national TV
On a train
In a police check scene
Combin’ your pretty blonde hair
For the men to see
In the window of a night train
On a TV screen
In the window of a night train
On the TV screen


 Bennett/Brown/Coe/Klein

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from This Music Thing, track released September 2, 2020
National TV – a lament for Anneli Alderton Written and Arranged Bennett/Brown/Coe/Klein | Drums Chris Bell | Guitars Jamie Coe, Jon Klein, Wes Maebe | Bass Jordan Brown | Banjo Tom Chudley Evans | Percussion Chris Bell | Keys Jon Klein | Violin Jo Eaton-Kent | Backing Vocals Bukola Abdul, Nathan Devonte, Nazarene, Evie Rose, Abdul Shyllon| Lead Vocal Rachel Bennett

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