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We have always (even as students) been fond of tragic, minor key, romantic music and literature... This song reflects that. Quoting John Keats (and Copeland's description of Gustav Mahler) "Half in love with easeful death".
Janette's lyrics tip a hat to Keats and to one of her heroes, Peter Hammill.

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Half in Love

Softly his wings brush over your face
The opium veil descends
Clinging to curtains, laden with night

Half in love with easeful death
His embrace ... Adieu

Sharp realisation casts doubt in your mind
Willing defeat is surrender
Grasping your soul in the shattering light
Future tense muscles won't give up the fight
Crazed inspiration of death's blinding sight
Watching the pinnacle change to a funeral pyre

Ebbing away from moribund limbs
Heaven and hell are one
Retraction into oblivion....

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from Primitive (from the archives), released January 11, 2015
Music: Brian Kidd, David Reid, Janette White (Kidd)
Lyrics: Janette White (Kidd)

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Not for Pussies Perth, UK

Not for Pussies came into being in 2008, although Brian and Janette Kidd have been together - and playing music together (and with others) for much, much longer.
We felt we're into an era in our lives where Bette Davis' quote about getting older (it's "not for pussies") felt very apt - and our music reflects this - and the experience of having lived a little! ...
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