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Cool and Collected

from A Kind of Circle by Jim Bryce

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Teenage years - those dances which we go to so full of joy and anticipation, which sometimes don't work out as we had hoped.

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Little Dulcinea, she's the belle of Battersea, the high-school Juliet. When she gets home on Fridays, she puts on a new face for the local disco, and to the rhythm of a radio, she squeezes on her denims to emphasise her womanhood, and, as she trims her figure neatly, her mirror smiles on sweetly as it always should.
Oh, she's cool and collected. she picks up her handbag and butterflies off down the street to the dancing Dominion with wolf-whistles snapping around her feet. Yes, she 's could and collected. She smiles at the doorman as the smoke lingers round her perfume. The world is her milk-shake: a floozy-froth sweet-tasting disco tune.
So our little Cinderella turn to see her fella on the near-virgin dance-floor, and each acned Aphrodite pulls her puppy-fat in tightly to draw his favours, and in the coca-cola atmosphere, she wills his body nearer to offer him her crown. Her heart says "I love you! Won't you take me, baby, take me?" but her eyes look down.
But he's cool and collected, he draw on his cigarette and looks through her with hardly a word, for Love feeds on action - not half-muttered phrases - It's too absurd! Yes, he's cool and collected. He calls to his mates and walks past her with hardly a glance. She stands alone on the floor and suddenly, all the world starts to dance.
But she's cool and collected. She stands by the bar and sips her stale lager-shandy once more. Smiles sweetly, "No thank you. My lover is coming - of that I'm sure."
Yes, she's cool and collected. She picks up her handbag and slowly walks out to the street. The air hits her face. Her eyes start to water, but so discreet.

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from A Kind of Circle, released November 24, 2020
Jim Bryce - music & lyrics, guitar, vocals
Produced by Gerry Callaghan for Moreme.

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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