Name: Skies That Smile
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Description: I've written several songs about how rubbish my hometown of Peterborough is and how daft the Fens are... but actually, every time I go on the train in that direction, as soon as I hit the great flat plains of the fens I feel at home. That's what this song's about.

Skies That Smile

from Wonderful Wednesday by MJ Hibbett

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I've written several songs about how rubbish my hometown of Peterborough is and how daft the Fens are... but actually, every time I go on the train in that direction, as soon as I hit the great flat plains of the fens I feel at home. That's what this song's about.

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Slide past Stevenage
See the landscape flattening
Feel the fens draw in
Skies that smile for miles

Trees outline the land
Distant steeples beckoning
Dykes in lines like maps
Skies that smile for miles

You can keep the hills
Cliffs and valleys, not for me
Take me to a place
With skies that smile for miles

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from Wonderful Wednesday, released April 4, 2011

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MJ Hibbett & The Validators London, UK

MJ Hibbett & The Validators have performed live on Radio One, had a Record Of The Year in Rolling Stone, an Album Of The Day on 6Music, released one of the first ever viral videos, toured the UK and Europe, featured in an Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, and recorded a science fiction rock opera, all while maintaining their complete independence from outside record labels. ... more

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