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NOW & FOREVER

by DATSON HUGHES

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URSULA COLLIE Such a mature,professional sounding album.The songs are performed with great integrity and the production is spot on.
Annette’s voice is somehow comforting and Geoffrey’s guitar skills match the songs. Highly recommend this duo. Favorite track: Beauty's Lament.
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    Now and Forever is 11 tracks cut in vinyl by Zenith records, mastered by Don Bartley (Benchmark), produced by Meju (Megan Bernard and Kalju Tonuma) at their B Side studio in Melbourne, recorded at Datson Hughes's Greenroom studio in Cooroy, written by Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes. It is the second part of their masterpiece double album, first of which is the 2017 release Flowers and the Axe, also in limited edition of 100.

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1.
A fall is waiting after the pride see the fine lady out for a ride humming a fairy tale fantasy song the pony princess gallops along A fever's burning, but her hands are cool she waits in hope but feels a fool
as she tells herself it’ll be OK 
though night is falling on another lonely day Find your missing crystal slipper and buy a brand new dress step into the folds of its sympathetic caress
find another place to hang your mirror ball
'cause princes don't come looking for princesses any more Her heart is aching but her eyes are dry
her voice is shaking every time she lies
and tells herself it will be alright
though the dawn is breaking on another lonely night The time has come for waking, the wicked witch has died spindle’ stopped spinning and the spots of blood have dried Smash the casket glass and spit the poisoned core
'cause princes don't come looking for princesses any more The grain is counted and the golden fleece is plucked after all the trials of Venus, you find your life still sucks It's never going to be the way it was before
'cause princes don't come looking for princesses any more
2.
When I said I was glad that I met you I meant now and forever
 When I said I was glad that I met you I meant now and forever You don't want me back but you'll have me Don't remember my face but you'll see me Wouldn't know my voice but you'll hear me In your dreams. In your dreams.
You won't get me out of your dreams I'll take everything you've got but you'll give it
 Drag you screaming all the way but you'll follow When you dream, you'll be swimming then I'll drown you Off a cliff I will push you
 You'll be running like a deer
 and I'll kill you in your dreams. In your dreams.
You won't get me out of your dreams We got this stuff between us though civilisations collapse around us When I said I was glad I met you
I meant now and forever You never think about me in the day time You're blissfully without me when aware It's only when you're sleeping
I'll be there It's only when you're sleeping
I'll be there now and forever in your dreams You will dream you are falling and I'll catch you
 When you're lost in a maze
I will find you We'll be fighting to the death then I'll kiss you in your dreams In your dreams, you wont get me out of your dreams now and forever falling falling falling running running running falling falling falling running running running I'll be in your dreams
3.
Written during the heady warehouse days as age began to stalk and beauty looked like leaving town - or being left behind. Geoffrey and I had just met and the song was written in that period of time during which we became inseparable. I was feeling acute about turning 40.
4.
Lifeline 04:23
There's a passion vine twining round a tank stand I'm starting to recognise faces in the street I washed the Lifeline smell of other lovers from the sheets and the phone on the wall no longer calls asking for somebody else The kitchen's freshly painted and a rag rug covers up a stain on the floor A mismatch of cutlery is lying in a draw and a little chipped vase of vaseline glass, resting bravely on the table to remind me you said, 'I will love you forever' and declared, 'I'll never let you go' I only listened for the word and not the way you said it. Now I hope you won't find me again this time The car needs a new radiator I'll manage somehow though the money is tight The miles and miles of that last lifeline flight choked it with dust, stubborn as the rust that keeps blooming like a bloodstain Now your little girl is shaking the nightmares she's given up waking up screaming in the night And the song she sings on her lifeline swing with her toes in the air and the wind in her hair is drowning out the lie you said, when you said 'I will love you forever' and declared, “I will never let you go'. I only heard the verb and not the way you said it Now I know you won't ever find me again This time This time This time
5.
Brave Heart 05:01
Take hold of me, or I’ll go cold stay close to me so I can mould myself around you and unfold whispering songs of my Brave heart If you close your eye’s, I’ll disappear Darkness will turn to fear and loathing only silence hear the echo of the tears of my Brave heart Keep me curled inside your hand a cricket in a match box and wash yourself upon the sandy beaches of the island of my Brave heart Melt your kisses into mine Turn my water into wine Unclench my palm, read my mind and finger trace the line of my Brave heart Let your petals fall and decorate me for the courage of my Brave heart.
6.
Evie 04:41
Here comes Evie with a new boyfriend. He's strutting round the place like he owns it. But he can't see what I can see - the look in her eye, I think it's over.   Slow down, you move to fast. You're gonna walk before you can crawl Take it easy, take it slowly, If you want your love to last. Ooh Eve ,he go an evil eye on you telling you his love sill last forever but you know the taste of empty promise in a hasty lover   Poor little Evie, she's all alone now Watching TV and taking take out But she's staring at the telephone, like it's an omen And if he calls she'll probably go there.   Slow down, go slowly, take it easy, don't go too fast, If you want your love to last.
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8.
Sixteen Candles were discovered in a house down by the water hiding like lovers lucille amonia you got a family don't run for cover Lonely like sailors the sky is on fire the anchor holds firm the heart's a lyre Out on a jetty you were just floating away lucille amonia A mermaid found a swimming boy picked him for her own pressed his body to her body and laughing, plunging down forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown oh oo - this is your lonely lucille amonia ah ah Viking Funerals don't come easy You burn the boat and I'll keep the poems After the fighting is done there'll be Hel on at home Hel on at home If your lonely heart breaks
9.
Hey Sheba 04:20
7 days and 7 nights 7 trees in the garden of earthly delights 7 deadly sins and 7 seas I see you but you can't see me Promise me, he'll be mine If you promise, promise, promise I will dance for you 7 steps to heaven scale Behind the hems of 7 veils Ring around the rosie, slip together slide Skip to my loo and I'll be your bride I am the womb of every holt I am the blaze on every hill I am the queen of every hive I am the shield to every head I am the tomb of every hope Here is a candle to light you to bed Here is the chopper to chop off Your your your your 7 years of famine, 7 years of feast I'll be the princess, you be the beast This little piggy goes wee wee wee wee 7 pillars of wisdom, who knows but me? And if you promise, promise, he'll be mine If you promise promise promise, I will dance for you.
10.
Blue Guitar 03:27
Follow you follow me Round and round the mystery of why we are lovers Drive me home in your car Play me on your blue guitar Take my hand I'll go with you anywhere you want me to Follow you follow me Round and round the mystery of Why we are lovers And I will make you angel wings And chain your mail with golden rings Setting sail for foreign lands Of harvest moons and caravans You'll find inside a garden grown where every tenderness is sown and every beauty seems the same as every other every day follow you follow me round the round the mystery of Why we are lovers and paradise is when your are playing me on your blue guitar.
11.
Swimming in a river of rocks and trees reflection pooling all over me
drowning in a sea of tranquility the music of the spheres a symphony 
October moon is on the rise burning like a fire in your eyes
Venus and the sea and you and me and nothing as far as the eye can see 
 Lying here under a million stars in the circle of my arms
 you wake up to find yourself tied up in ribbons and bows A net of fireflies on the air landed and stranded in your hair
feeling a stream of gleaming sand falling on your skin from the palm of my hand The Milky way is breaking like a wave on a hill and the centre of the universe is perfectly still sinking down into the height of night A flock of dreams in the edge of flight Lying here under a million stars In the circle of my arms you wake up to find yourself tied up in ribbons and bows

about

Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes are singer-songwritier folk duo DATSON HUGHES. We will spend whatever life is left in these days of contagion writing, recording and digitally re-releasing our pre-digital catalogue. This album is our second Masterpiece album, which completes our double album masterpiece recording project with Meju.

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released August 7, 2021

© Written and performed by Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes
Produced by MeJu - Megan Bernard and Kalju Tonuma in association with OOK records.
Mastered by Don Bartley, Benchmark
Sleeve by Ben Paskins
P Masterpiece 2021

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