After seeing a matinee performance in Exeter, audience member Caroline David wrote a song inspired by Inside Out of Mind.

Many thanks to Caroline for sharing it with us.

Listen to the song below.

Song Lyric by Caroline David 2015
After a play of the same name by Tanya Myers
carolinedavid@live.co.uk

Inside Out of Mind

Alouette, gentille alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai . . .

In this place where thoughts and words
in circles flap like naked birds,
All hearts must fight the day unkind
that turns us inside out of mind.

He swings a pillow from his bed, feathers fly around his head.
Like thoughts he tries to pin them down, hold them fast with wordless sounds.
Doctor Doctor, quackerty-quack. We hear your beak go clackerty-clack.
Have you really much to say to a man whose thoughts are plucked away?

He shambles down, he shambles up. He tries the door, again locked shut.
He hunts around, he casts about, by slender chance he’s off, he’s out!
So much rush, he’s gone before we have seen him slip the door.
Not the lass, her aching eye sees him go without goodbye.

We do not hear – she tries to tell, her cracking voice a warning bell.
When at last we realise, we scold the girl with the aching eyes.

For In this place where tasks and words
in circles flap like naked birds,
Our hearts must fight the day unkind.
It turns us inside out of mind.

He came back. He climbed the stair. He hung his hat upon the air.
She welcomed him as if back home. He went to her as if alone.
He gave her flowers, she took them all. He scattered petals, she let them fall.
He laid his hand upon her cheek. She held her breath for flowers to speak.

A moth flew out, a lark flew in, and troubled the air with naked wings,
And loosed in him her passion song, his sounding tongue, and then was gone.
Then to the window Love she came, as if in answer to her name.
He saw her – There! As clear as day! Just a window pane away!

We saw her too, as clear as day, just a window pane away.
Through his eyes as clear as day, his love the window pane away.
Through his eyes as clear as day, love’s the window, pain away.
Love’s the window, pain away, love’s the window, pain away.

In this place where hearts and words in circles flap like naked birds,
Thus may we meet this day more kind
And turn us inside
Out of Mind