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Steve Skaith (voice and guitars.)
Steve Jeffries (keyboards, percussion and backing vocals)
Mary Carewe (backing vocals)

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The Big Pool
(Skaith/Jones)

There's a mouth on the book she is reading
The lips are so red, they could almost be bleeding
As red as the shirt that she has to pull on
As the wind cools
By the big pool

She is asking advice of her mother
The woman in black she could not be another
As black as the look that she gives to the boys
Calls them "Poor fools"
By the big pool

The big pool is frighteningly wide
Lapping a town where the red and the black collide
Sometimes the waves even have to decide
The big pool stirs just outside …

At the edge of the square there's a meeting
The men are in black and their wave is no greeting
Black as the sockets of skulls in a cellar
The new ghouls
By the big pool

Through the dust there's a cluster of young boys
Red neckerchiefs in the heat and the noise
Red as the past of Emilia-Romagna
By whose Rules?
By the big pool

The big pool is frighteningly wide
Lapping a town where the red and the black collide
Sometimes the waves even have to decide
The big pool stirs just outside …

"Tell me again", said the young girl
The sun's setting red and my head's in a whirl
Red is the colour that killed Aldo Moro
While black uniforms lived by torture and sorrow
But there's no middle ground, not now or tomorrow
Still, I will choose
I will choose
By the big pool

The big pool is frighteningly wide
Lapping a town where the red and the black collide
Sometimes the waves even have to decide
The big pool stirs just outside …

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from Latin Quarter: Bare Bones, released April 17, 2015
Arranged by Steve Skaith and Steve Jeffries.
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Steve Jeffries.

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Steve Skaith London, UK

Steve Skaith was the singer and writer with the UK band Latin Quarter‚ best known for its 1986 single 'Radio Africa'.. The band made several albums and continued touring throughout Europe until 1998. - The idea for this album was to take some old LQ songs back to the state when they were first written and demoed: just a guitar, a voice, a bit of harmony, a touch of keyboard colour and hey presto! ... more

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