Name: The loss of a shoe
Channel: Lolita Ray
Description: "The loss of a shoe" is a song by Lolita Ray.

The loss of a shoe

Lolita Ray

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Lolita Ray

Lolita Ray Swedish and English acoustic songs

Here you find some history of my songwriting kept. Back in the the day's I recorded my songs directly into my computer, often just a couple of days after I wrote them. The sound quality is not good. But each one of them reflekt the very special feeling I only have when a song is new.... You can also listen to some studiorecorded stuff with my two ex. bands here on soundclick: search for the bandnames Little Failures (English songs) and Lill-Britt Siv (Swedish songs). I write both in English and in Swedish wich is my native language. And when I write in English I try to use the language in my own way wich means it may not always be after the book... Most of the photos on this website are taken by Welsh photographer Rhys Jones. The others my myself. In november 2011 I released my first soloalbum in Swedish. Flickan av is. 10 songs of my own and three translations of Steve Earle. You can listen to a couple of tracks att myspace.com/lolitaray, and of course Spotify and iTunes, and if you want to order a copy, drop me a mail at sixstring97@yahoo.com Pax Lo

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #148

Peak in subgenre #20

Author

Lolita Ray

Rights

Lolita Ray

Uploaded

May 14, 2002

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Lyrics

The loss of a shoe

I had the strangest dream one night
I was going for a swim
I went down to the little lake
Where I played when I was a kid

Villy De Ville was sitting on the bridge
And David Bowie sat there too
David looked at me with sad eyes and said:
I lost my red shoe

From the moment we where born
Till the day that we die
There are things that we lose
And we keep asking why
If we just can accept
That time is our share
That life itself
Is the greatest gift we’ll get

Then you will see it too,
There is nothing to do
Life is far more important
Than a loss of a red shoe

I sat down on the bridge with them
And we talked about old times
Villy said that he felt old, 
That ageing was a crime
David said he didn’t mind
That his grey hair was okay
If he only knew where to find
The red shoe he left behind

From the moment we where born
Till the day that we die
There are things that we lose
And we keep asking why
If we just can accept
That time is our share
That life itself
Is the greatest gift we’ll get

Then you will see it too,
There is nothing to do
Life is far more important
 Than a loss of a red shoe

I woke up and I felt relieved
Like a heavy burden fallen from me
I packed a lot of stuff that day
And gave away for charity

If we just can accept
That time is our share
That life itself
 Is the greatest gift we’ll get

Then you will see it too,
There is nothing to do
Life is far more important
Than a loss of a red shoe

(photo: Rhys Jones)

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