Alesha

ALESHA
©Trev Teasdel, Coventry March 1969

I count everyday of every minute you're away,
I kneel on the floor and my tongue starts to pray.
Bring my love safely
Bring my love hastily
Bring my love back
I crave her love.

Roses may bloom but they fade with the season
A candle may burn till the wick runs out.
But our love's not the same
to part there's no reason.

I count everyday of every minute you're away
Blow the days fast
Blow the days past
Floating sadly in joyful sorrow
Yearning madly for our tomorrow.

With heavenly eyes
She tenderly lies.
Face like the sun
emitting her rays.
I'm cast in a trance
I'm lost in a daze.

Time is a wall
I can't penetrate
It's spears thrust me down
and insists that I wait.
Patience is slow in nesting in me
A mountain of love is resting in me.

 

 

I wrote the lyric in 1969 after seeing the Zeffirelli film Romeo and Juliet - inspired by but about the film. Coventry guitarist / songwriter Johnny Adams (later with Squad - a Coventry punk band, formerly led by Terry Hall who left to join the Specials, showed me some classical mediaeval guitar licks (a very versatile guitarist!) and I created a guitar based version. Rick Wakeman's 6 Wives of Henry V111was out around then and this song is one I took down to a publisher in Greek Street London in 1973.  He like the lyric and suggested i form a band to do it. I never formed that band but now in 2025 i have created / produced a new version using modern technology to get the idea of the song over.