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Flashback Jack

from Into The Blue by Neil Porter

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about

Something new before the end of 2014 ...... who'd have thought!?

This has taken a long while to write - I've had the backing tracks done for quite a while, but the lyrics took ages. "Flashback Jack" is something I read somewhere which I wrote in a notebook for future reference. It seemed a great "nickname" for a friend who seemed to be living in the past more than the present, although you could never be quite sure where he was when you spoke with him.

Anyway, it's another tribute to a departed friend who had a lot going for him, but substances kind of got in the way. "There but for the grace of god" go a lot of us I suspect.

Musically it's pretty traditional jiguma - acoustic guitar bed, bass, drums and percussion with electric soloing.

lyrics

Flashback Jack
©2014 Neil Porter

Flashback Jack was no-one’s hero
Someone saw him hangin’ ‘round
His goodwill stash was close to zero
Flashback Jack is back in town

He left a string of bridges burning
And his second chances stretched up to the moon

Jack’s been singing all his sad songs
All his heartfelt lost and found
Pumping out the “done me wrong” songs
Flashback Jack is back in town

He left a string of bridges burning
And his second chances stretched up to the moon

Too much time away
Coming home too soon
Running out of second chances
Coming home too soon

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He left a string of bridges burning
And his second chances stretched up to the moon

Flashback had a voice like honey
Minstrel mind and broken heart
Sang his songs for love not money
Flashback needs another start

He left a string of bridges burning
And his second chances stretched up to the moon

Too much time away
Coming home too soon
Running out of second chances
Coming home too soon

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from Into The Blue, released January 1, 2015
Neil Porter- all instruments/vocals

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Singer songwriter from Pambula Beach in Australia.

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