Stef Penney
Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a filmmaker and writer.
She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films; a BBC 10 x 10 starring Anna Friel and a Film Council Digital Short in 2002 starring Lucy Russell.
She won the 2006 Costa Book Awards and The Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award with her debut novel The Tenderness of Wolves which is set in Canada in the 1860s. The novel starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada.
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by Gorky Park
City Of Pain
by: Gorky Park(4:57)
(CD bonus track 1993)
(1st verse)
When the sun goes down on the city street
And the shadows move thru the night
Daddy's little angel begins her dance
To the beat of the flashing lights
Down the murder mile with a seductive smile
She playes a desperate game
With a sweet caress another trick is blessed
On the corner of the 3rd and main-
In the city of pain
Thru the toxic fog down the dirty streets
I follow her steps like a cat
Past the drugged out scens, the transvestite queens
Past the other side of the tracks
She's a hard sell as she casts her spell
She's the wicked witch of the west
The touch of her skin
The smell of her sin
My fantasies burn thru my flesh-
In the city of pain
In the city of pain.
YOU GIVING AWAY YOUR BODY
BURNING AWAY YOUR BODY
DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT
MAYBE YOU NEED SOMEBODY
MAYBE YOU MEET SOMEBODY
DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT
BAD TO THE BONE YOU GOTTA
MAKE IT ALONE YOU GOTTA
RIGHT TO BE WRONG TO BE RIGHT
IN THE CITY OF PAIN
IN THE CITY OF PAIN
She burns hot for now but she knows somehow
It's only a matter of time
She's gotta make her play until the day
When she lays it all on a line
Thru the broken glass of a tenement window
Thru the eyes of a little girl
You can see you can see her hopeless dreams
Light up a hopeless world-
In the city of pain
In the city of pain
(Chorus:)
YOU GIVING AWAY YOUR BODY
BURNING AWAY YOUR BODY
DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT
MAYBE YOU NEED SOMEBODY
MAYBE YOU MEET SOMEBODY
DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT
IN THE CITY
BAD TO THE BONE YOU GOTTA
MAKE IT ALONE YOU GOTTA
RIGHT TO BE WRONG TO BE RIGHT
IN THE CITY OF PAIN
IN THE CITY OF PAIN
(Repead Chorus:)