UFS 07 Stuck in Bahrain Again

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Stuck in Bahrain Again

A slow atmospheric intro the into a boogie... This whole writing/recording malarkey (re)started in 2003 when I was stuck in Bahrain airport overnight before flying into Beirut (it's a long story...) This time it was on the way home from 6 weeks holiday in the Himalayas and there were more people about - making me muse on the contradictions of the place.

UFS 07 Stuck in Bahrain Again

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Stuck in Bahrain again, middle of the night

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Long day travelling looking a fright, but hey…

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This time I’m on my way back home

Stuck in Bahrain again, waiting for my muse
Too many people here but nothing to lose, ‘cos hey…
This time I’m on my way back home

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Little girl here, just a slip,

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Playing mama with a baby on her hip

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Burkad mother looking on

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At the Chinese card school going on strong


Win a Porsche or go and pray
God or mammon, either way, but hey..
This time I’m on my way back home

Instrumental verse & break

Beef bacon, whisky duty free
There goes the sheik of Araby, but good for me
This time I’m on my way back home

Hijab fashionistas dripping gold

Seems to run contrary to all I’ve been told

But hey, this time I’m on my way back home

It’s not so much that it seems strange to me

Just a little contradictory

I guess we all like to bend the rules

If only to prove that we’re nobody’s fools

Repeat verses 1&2 & last section twice