Any Complaints? Adrian Mitchell. Out Loud.

From "Any Complaints?", Songs for US, Circuit, Spring/Summer 1967 

Also in Out Loud, 1968

My first critic (from a letter from Adrian Mitchell, 1968)

The song of mine to which he refers ("it needs to be sung"):

The Wine Speaks

I hadn’t planned it all,

it just happened,

it’s the way of the world

since the Fall;

hadn’t planned it all,

it just happened –

it just happened,

that’s all.

Retsina, retsina, I’ll drink you no more,

my resistance is low, my mind is unsure.

It’s sad being untrue,

it just happened,

in life we always want

something new;

it’s sad being untrue,

it just happened –

it just happened

to be you.

Retsina, retsina, I’ll drink you no more,

my resistance is low, my mind is unsure.