The Mystery of Innocence

from MINA by Geoff Smith

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The Mystery of Innocence

“This is where I used to pick blueberries amongst the pines
Away from the track nothing’s changed it’s like we’ve gone back
But the look the summer hut is bordered up”
Just like a smile, not just any kind of smile

It’s your smile of innocence, a face once alive
Such animation long since died
Those days have gone
It’s getting dark we must go home

“They don’t want kindergarten nurses anymore” you reminisce
No what they want is for you to play the part time whore
You’re so used and confused
How many times were you betrayed?
How many times was he forgiven?

It’s your smile of innocence, a face once alive
Such animation long since died
Those days have gone
It’s getting dark we must go home

Home is where the heartlessness hides, so traumatised
As I get close

I see the distance in your eyes
A face once alive
Such animation long since died
Those days have gone
It’s getting dark we must go home

What is innocence anyway?
It’s just made to take away
Cute gullibility
Naive purity

What is innocence anyway?
It’s just made to take away
A word in your dictionary
Because when it’s gone it's become

A mystery

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from MINA, released October 30, 2020

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Geoff Smith Brighton, UK

Composer, performer, songwriter, vocalist & inventor Geoff Smith is acknowledged as a world-leading virtuoso and a unique innovator & pioneer in composition, technique and performance on the Hammered Dulcimer. His albums comprise songs, instrumentals & film soundtracks. He is the inventor of both the Fluid Piano & Fluid Dulcimer.

“The musical equivalent of splitting the atom” The Guardian ... more