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Shaun Panda Nicolson - Toboggan

from The Skye & Lochalsh Community Album Project by Louis Barabbas

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Inspired by conversations in community spaces around Skye and Lochalsh - this one's inspired by a photograph of a child on a sledge in the Glendale area.
Recorded by local musicians as part of the Culture Collective project funded by Creative Scotland and co-ordinated by local events charity SEALL. Profits from album sales go to Alzheimer Scotland.
www.seall.co.uk
www.culturecollective.scot

lyrics

Hemmed in tight by years of things
That groaned all night like playground swings
Time piled up, day on day
The lawns of youth all scorched to hay
Feelings snarled up like brier
Loosely fenced with rusting wire
A hillside cold and pale as bone
Where I slid down
Alone alone

Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan

Plans and dates arranged all neat
And fixed in place like climbers’ cleats
Under the sheets I’m pinned and straight
Like notes beneath a paperweight
But from my bed I clearly see
The shape of the wind in the blasted trees
And memories I’d overheard
Flew through my thoughts
Like panicked birds

Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan

Down the frozen slopes I speed
Where all the woes and hopes agreed
You’re all I want and all I need
Toboggan
Adrift in some unnamed forever
Below the snow lay fern and heather
Where we go we go
Together

Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan
Carry me
Toboggan

credits

from The Skye & Lochalsh Community Album Project, released August 4, 2023
Written by Louis Barabbas

Lead vocals: Shaun Panda Nicolson
Drums: Graeme Deas
Guitars and mandolin: Paul Taylor
Clarinets: Hanna Pentikäinen, Sheila Ryding, Lynne Anstice Brown and Jacqui Ross
Tuba: Mike Norton
Synth and backing vocals: Tom Cleghorn
Bass and backing vocals: Louis Barabbas

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Louis Barabbas Manchester, UK

Louis Barabbas is a writer, performer and firefighter, best known for caustic love songs and energetic stage shows.

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