Tired Old Eyes' is the ninth track from Paulusma's album 'The Pivot On Which The World Turns', out 30 September 2022 (c) Wild Sound Recordings / One Little Independent Records 2022.

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Song written by Polly Paulusma with heavy inspiration/intercession from Leonard Cohen.

Video created and edited by Polly Paulusma.

Polly Paulusma: vocals, guitars, mandolins.
John Parker: double bass.
Rastko Rasic: drums and percussion.
Elysian Collective string quartet: Emma Smith, Jennymay Logan, Richard Jones and Laura Moody.

Mixed by James Hawkins.
Mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios.

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Tired Old Eyes

D A D F# A D / capo 2

Little curly head, sleepy head, curled in your bed,
With your head slipping off of your pillow,
Changing face, what you will, grown-up-face peeps out of
childhood’s slow-closing window
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

When I was your size, when the fires of surprise
burned a mile high so everyone saw them,
I was given a message in a bottle of gold
That love is the answer to boredom.
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

For years, I’ve been basting my fears
in the juices of blame and recrimination.
All the hours that I lost simply counting the cost
Of relentlessly smashing, rebuilding,
But I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

So I’m down at the bottom, past glories forgotten,
The posters have crumpled and faded,
Here’s another blank page I can harness my rage to,
And no-one will know that I made it.
But I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

You are the beginning, the days flow before you,
You’re the head and the source of the river,
As you slip and you run, my sweet beautiful one,
Take this bottle of gold to deliver.
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.d Turns', out 30 September 2022 (c) Wild Sound Recordings / One Little Independent Records 2022.

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Song written by Polly Paulusma with heavy inspiration/intercession from Leonard Cohen.

Video created and edited by Polly Paulusma.

Polly Paulusma: vocals, guitars, mandolins.
John Parker: double bass.
Rastko Rasic: drums and percussion.
Elysian Collective string quartet: Emma Smith, Jennymay Logan, Richard Jones and Laura Moody.

Mixed by James Hawkins.
Mastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios.

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Tired Old Eyes

D A D F# A D / capo 2

Little curly head, sleepy head, curled in your bed,
With your head slipping off of your pillow,
Changing face, what you will, grown-up-face peeps out of
childhood’s slow-closing window
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

When I was your size, when the fires of surprise
burned a mile high so everyone saw them,
I was given a message in a bottle of gold
That love is the answer to boredom.
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

For years, I’ve been basting my fears
in the juices of blame and recrimination.
All the hours that I lost simply counting the cost
Of relentlessly smashing, rebuilding,
But I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

So I’m down at the bottom, past glories forgotten,
The posters have crumpled and faded,
Here’s another blank page I can harness my rage to,
And no-one will know that I made it.
But I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

You are the beginning, the days flow before you,
You’re the head and the source of the river,
As you slip and you run, my sweet beautiful one,
Take this bottle of gold to deliver.
I could watch you sleep for hours, for hours
if my tired old eyes would let me.

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