Who Is My Neighbour (Acoustic Demo)

Who Is My Neighbour - A A J Russe
Written sometime in 1992
Recorded 12th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1

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I wrote this 30 years ago when I was 29. There were a bunch of people killing other people. There were refugees.

By the way, this is one of the songs I wrote that re-used chords and melodies from “I Hope I Love Them” that I wrote a few years earlier (and recorded the other week).

I never noticed this before but, given what they mean to me internally, the two songs seem to fit together quite well.

At the time, I was thinking “I Hope I Love Them” was an unfinished “never gonna get used” song and I liked the chords and melodies, so I used them for another song that also ended up “never gonna get used”.

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Who Is My Neighbour - A A J Russe

When there’s writing on the wall
I will know that it’s my call
But until it comes
I’m keeping low
When they want someone to go
They will surely let me know
So until they call
I’m staying home
Once somebody asked who is my neighbour
And someone told a story in reply
It didn’t seem to make the answer any clearer
So the question still gets asked by you and I

From the safety of my room
I have watched the gathering gloom
The most dismal tales of misery
In countries far and near
The problem seems quite clear
No-one seems to want to love their neighbour
And still the wise man asks who is my neighbour
But he just listens to the story with a sigh
If there’s someone who needs help, who is suffering
His neighbours, it would seem, are you and I

Copyright (C) 1992 A A J Russe. All Rights Reserved.