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Clean For A Day

from The Trains & The Rain by Roy Smiles

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Written & performed by Roy Smiles. Keyboards & produced by Simon Walker, at Loophole Studios, Brighton. Guitar by Dave Mayberry.

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Clean For A Day

They call her a slut, they call her a whore
They call her a skank, a junkie and more
Let them say what they will, Sweet Jesus I pray
I just dream she might be: clean for a day.

Born in the gutter; made to take pay
From dirt-bags and drunkards; in bedrooms she lay
She shoots to the sun to numb nights away
But the dream she still dreams: is to clean for a day.

Chorus
With lust in their eyes men have laid her
Mistaking their lust for love
With lust in their eyes men have paid her
Mistaking their hate for love
With hate in their eyes men have used her
Mistaking addiction for love
With hate in their eyes men abused her
Mistaking oblivion for love
Mistaking oblivion for love.

Yes, they call her a junkie, they call her a whore
Beaten & battered & busted by law
For each night a fix, for each fix a lay
Yet still the girl dreams: she’ll be clean for a day.

(Instrumental)

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One of these nights, I’ll snatch her back
From days on the streets & nights on her back
Give me this hope, Sweet Jesus I pray
So the woman might live: to be clean for a day
So the woman might live to be clean for a day
So the woman might live to be clean for a day.

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from The Trains & The Rain, released May 30, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk.
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