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from The Darkness by Toby Darling

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Penang
Em9 Am7 Em A
Midnight and no sleep in dock at the Swettenham Pier
Em A Em9 A
No cicadas, just an aircon’s dreary fan
Em F Em D
No ‘Okay Lah’’s to be heard around here
Am G E7
To soften the traffic out on the jalan

The generations of travellers here
Have gazed up at the Bukit cloaked in green
The gentle bays with no pirates to fear
And the fine British buildings so white and serene

F C
And felt they had found their Mandalay
Dm E7
From where they would never need to embark
Am - G - F - Em
A ship, to see out their Somerset days
Am - F Am
Melt from an Andaman sunset to the dark

I too should be sharing this dream
But I’m lonely and I’m lost in a jungle of fear
Pulling disasters from the air like ripe mangosteen
Yearning to get back to a life miles from here

This, the bitter fruit of my karma
Not sweetened by ‘tinkly temple bells’
Even in this place farthest from harm, a
[end on E7]
Chinese dragon can drag me back to my hell

Em9: 0x0002

Toby Darling, 20.1.18

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from The Darkness, released August 26, 2018

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