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Berlin 1989 ( Bridges Not walls)

from Word Bombs II by Eddy Morton

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  • Word bombs is the first collection of poems by singer/songwriter Eddy Morton former member of 90’s Folk rock band The Bushbury’s. It is an eclectic mix of political commentary, childhood memory, and recollections of places visited in 30 years of musical travelling. As a solo artist Eddy Morton has released 4 albums " The Singing Tree" and "Stourbridge Town" both distributed via Proper throughout the UK. New album “What It Is to be Human” was released in 2013 and is available on iTunes . Based in Stourbridge he has for the past seventeen years along with his wife Trina Keane owned and run live music venue Katie Fitzgeralds , New Mountain music and more recently Stourbridge Foundation4Music raising funds to help local musicians. Rainbow Man Eddy Morton's fourth solo album is also now available on iTunes

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Berlin 1989 Walls come Tumbling Down.

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BERLIN 1989

Nineteen eighty nine coming up to Christmas time
The markets lined the neon street
the Unter Den linden snow crisp feet
At the Kurfurstendamm everyone is shopping
a cornucopia of consumption
Shouted in neon jingle bells and jingled tills
a world away from a somnambulant east
where a family schism sets concrete hard against freedom
Checkpoint Charlie slipped behind the curtain
with glaring guards in the streets beyond
In a no mans land of museum time and aspic
the Brandenberger Tor is an island adrift
the Pergammon with its gunshot walls
Shell shock masonry still
Rainswept cobbled tramlines curved
Subterranean cast iron covers
Echoed steps with East German stars
no shops , no smiles nothing just shuffling papermache cars
At Friedrichstrasse bahnhof
a silent subway drama played
Criss crossing the invisible subterranean border
wall lights on carriages
windows mirrored faceless faces
Slipping back I took a hammer to the wall
built with all the bricks of my childhood
Chipped away at its painted western facade overlooking
Hitlers Bunker and the Potsdammerplatz
A rubicon was crossed
the people spoke the giant awoke
Crowbarred concrete and hammered at steel
Shoulder to the oppressor
reaching out across the border
A proclaimed end of history
a whole new world order
A generation of paint
graffiti skin deep
Hacked with a penknife
treasure to keep
I carried my little piece of history home on the plane
like a cake wrapped in tissue
to family and friends kept in a frame
It sits on a wall above my head
reminding me that history is never dead

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from Word Bombs II, released September 3, 2017
Words and Music : Eddy Morton
Narration : Ted Fisher

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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK

As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more

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