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Running Home

from Redemption Road by Sandy Kilpatrick

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It depends on which day you catch me but it seems like the town where I grew up, East Kilbride, is more than one place. If I’m in a bad mood it was a depressing grey urban landscape, rife with working class poverty and lack of opportunity. But there is another East Kilbride and it’s the one that always mattered most to me then, and matters more and more to me now, and as I get older.

It’s the East Kilbride of longs walks through miles and miles of open fields, chasing the cows, climbing trees, swimming and fishing in the River Cart. It’s the East Kilbride of going up to the big pond near Hairmyres Hospital (where I was born) and searching for newts and frogs – which we’d sometimes take home or take to school. There was the burn that ran through the local park and, even though it had an occasional rat, it seemed to us then like a Natural Wonder. It was lined by trees and there was a particularly large oak where we hung a permanent rope swing.

Slightly later, as I entered adolescence, the town became a new place of wine bars and discos, punk bands and goth bands, and glue-sniffers with wild criminal tendencies. Well, that was my childhood and youth, and I feel very lucky to look back on it with such affection – because, although I had a lot of deep love at home, I always felt that I would have to escape it to become the person that I wanted to be.

lyrics

Playing tappy on the chip-shop wall
Climbing the monkey tree in the park
Walking the pipe to the waterfall
Running home when it gets dark

Collecting wood on bonfire night
Riding a horse on a terraced row
Rabbit hunts on the railway line
Running home when it gets dark

Running home, running home….
Running home, running home….

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from Redemption Road, released April 25, 2012
Voice and acoustic guitar: Sandy Kilpatrick
Drums: Sérgio Vicente
Bass: Emmanuel Martins Coelho
Viola: Lucia Lima
Cello: Maria Luis Duarte
Violin: Miguel Gil
Violin: Ana Tadim

String arrangement by Pedro Sousa

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Sandy Kilpatrick is a soulful singer and songwriter from Scotland, currently based in Portugal.

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