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Written at a time when I was experiencing irrational guilt.

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Obligation
I watch the shore from here while a breeze keeps the mist away
Thinning out the fingers of a ghost
I smell the fields of green from across the rocky waters.
It blows a kiss of perfume to my home
The seagulls come and go - they don't know responsibility - while I'm obliged to
Keep my charge alone

Obligation - I feel an
Obligation - held fast
Obligation - I'm torn between an
Obligation and my heart
And my heart

Today I'll make-believe on a passage to the headland
I've left my charge behind forever
I'll kiss the ground and let my senses embrace the scenery
And for a moment I'll forget
I'm on the path to give my vision possibility
I won't return to climb those stairs again

[Chorus]

Someday I'll give the keys away when the circumstances favor it
And let the beacon pass to other hands
I'll hurtle down the stairs where the ferryman is waiting
I'll take an oar until we land
I've waited patiently and it feels like an eternity
But I'm still penned up held inside my charge

Like a ship stuck in a jar
Like a ship stuck in a jar
Like a ship stuck in a jar

[Chorus]

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from A Selection of Musical Tales, released April 9, 2017
Artwork: Jennifer Hankin
Recorded, Mixed, mastered & layout by: Dr Jared Micallef @ Marban Music Studios
Visit at: Www.niqreefman.com.au - Join my traveling muso mailing list for updates on the road of photos, gigs and crazy stories (maybe 4 times a year)
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Niq Reefman Sydney, Australia

Niq trumpets like a singer, keyboards like a bass player, sings like a narrator and ukuleles like an electric guitar - his musical performance is best described by picturing “Tim Minchin, flying a trumpet through a thunderstorm”.
He spreads songs of beauty, mirth, camaraderie, inspiration and action to a world that craves the social zest of an Irish pub and the hopeful melodies of nature. ... more

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