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Stand Easy
"Stand Easy contains songs for all occasions. The excitement of mixing and mashing the worlds of both celtic and rock was the idea behind my first CD. I wrote rock songs and combined them with bagpipes, instrumentals and old traditional Scottish and Irish tunes to form a cohesive celtic rock album."
- John Allan
Going Home
I could never catch my breath
In that suffocating town
The guidance teachers at the only school said
"Boy, you'd better just settle down"
And the dreams they said were crazy
Showed me a world I'd never have found
And ten years on I've made my peace with my
favourite home town
'cause I miss you
Faults and all
You haven't grown but you're not so small
There's a part of me that will always live alone
Till I'm going home
A few weeks home gives me the reality I need
You are you and I am me
And we agree to disagree
My family and my friends
saw something in you I couldn't see
But now I love to visit you and let you visit me
(chorus)