Straight For The Heart

Album: Too Late To Hate (2016)
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  • Running to around 3 minutes 20 seconds, this song, written by John Lawton and Peter Hesslein of Lucifer's Friend, is the fourth track on the 2016 Too Late To Hate album. In a November 2016 email interview, lyricist Lawton said it was "dealing with so called TV/radio celebrities who it turns out were not all that they seemed."

    Clearly there are many candidates, but it would probably be considered defamatory to be more specific. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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