This
time Jackie gives credit to no less than 20 bars which allowed him 'moments
of reverie and inspiration'.
Cooking Vinyl COOK CD 090, 1994
- Young Male Suicide Blessed By InvisibleWoman
- Some Ancient Misty Morning - 'I will see you on some ancient misty morning', a beautiful poetic Russian expression meaning: no matter how terrible or sad life may be, we will meet again in the great morning of eternity. - Jackie Leven
- Working Alone/A Blessing - 'Working alone in the evening sun a man and two horses come' - When I was a boyin the Kingdom of Fife, there were three trees on the slope of the hillabove our glen. They were called the ploughman and two horses. The west wind had bent them over to the east, and in the evenings I would sit and watch the trees as if they were friends of mine forever. - Jackie Leven
- Leven's Lament - Leven's Lament is a whiskey that according to sources elsewhere on the Internet, Jackie Leven distills.
- Marble City Bar - The song is a collision of experiences in Ireland - having a nervous breakdown whilst on tour there with Doll By Doll, and years later when I lived in County Kerry, the strange and beautiful love affair I entered with the unique west Irish seascape and landscape. - Jackie Leven
- The Wanderer
- Exultation - Thank you Eddi Reader for capturing the still, determined sense of passion and intrigue that illuminates this great poem about our journeys outward and inward. - Jackie Leven
- Men In Prison - The old Celtic sense of life re-creating itself in the margin - 'the betwixt and between'. One of the most beautiful moments of my recording career was working with the 60-strong Cornish Choir "The Megavissey Male Choir" who sing so softly on this track; a song about the masculine sense of despair, and anxiety concerning the father. - Jackie Leven
- Birds Leave Shadows
- Stornoway Girl
- Silver Roof
- Lammermuir Hills
- Come Back Early Or Never Come - Poem by Ulsterman Louis MacNeice. 'My mother wore a yellow dress' she also committed suicide, which is why 'when I was five the black dreams came'. A great reading by Andy White. - Jackie Leven
- By The Sign Of The Shattered Star - A poem about the death of an Irish friend of mine from cancer, but also caused by the witholding of 'blessing' on the part of his father, an old hero of the I.R.A. When I heard of the son's death, I bit one of my teeth in two, then wrote this poem. - Jackie Leven
- The Scene That Haunts My Memory
