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A Room With A View

July15

Lynx by Donna Williams  In 1985 I wrote a song called Not Just Anything.  In 2009, I rewrote the lyrics to form the song A Room With A View.  Unlike the award winning Merchant Ivory film of the same name (adapted from the 1908 novel by E.M Forster) my song is not a about an Edwardian romance.   In 2007, I had written a filmscript, Mc Reedy’s Christmas (represented by Bicoastal Talent) about a post apocalyptic society and related to climate change in a world where we did nothing to stop it.  The lyrics to A Room With A View were based on Mc Reedy’s world.  Here’s its lyrics:

ROOM WITH A VIEW by Donna Williams 1986

I’m singing now the clay birds have arrived today

and the view that I have painted can go on display

so we can gather on the sofa and imagine how it was

before the world went crazy.

I had the strangest of dreams.

There were days when you could breathe without a mask

and the skies rained down clear water,

people went out after dark.

That’s not just anything .

No, that’s not just anything.

And it could be everything if I could

just have a room with a view.

It’s warmer now that everyone has gone to sleep

and but for eight of them who snore you wouldn’t hear a peep

from where we huddle in the corner and dream of how it was

before the world got greedy.

I had the strangest of dreams.

There were days when people sat under the sun,

and you could get food from the soil,

there was even space to run.

It’s peaceful now that everyone has just been fed

and it’s amazing how much more there is when half are dead

to leave the rest of us to scavenge what has already been ravaged

since the world got hungry.

I had the strangest of dreams.

There were days when you could buy food in a bag,

where you could be the first to try something

no-one had ever had.

That’s not just anything .

No, that’s not just anything.

And it could be everything if I could

just have a room with a view.

 

Donna Williams

Author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter.
Ever the arty Autie.
http://www.donnawilliams.net
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