Jackie Leven

Some quotations from Jackie Leven used by Ian Rankin in his book 'Standing in Another Man's Grave':

A man disappears down bar steps
With a piece of wounded sky...

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I see the dead men shuffling in their bones
Young girls laughing on their mobile phones...

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And looking from a low ridge
To loch waters in the west
Where darkened hills are dreaming...

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I took a jar of pain to the soaking field...

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Smell of blood is everywhere -
Even in stone...

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Woke up this morning, I had snow in my eyes
And I've been sleeping under terrible skies...

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And from the song 'Standing in Another Man's Rain':

"
Every man has his flower
Believe it or not
From the mighty old English rose
To the humble forget-me-not.

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