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  • The Complete Works (Year 1)
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This 2nd edition of our boxset contains all four of The Bookshop Band's CD albums. All the CDs are individually numbered and packaged in a bespoke letterpress-printed case. The box also contains our very own newspaper - The Bookshop Band Chronicles.

    All are bound together in a lovely box.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Complete Works (Year One) - 2nd Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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This song was inspired by Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov. Here's the video from the night: vimeo.com/29258703

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FORTUNES NEVER KIND

I’m the author I want to be
I write about beauty
And all that’s close to me

I’m happy in my home
But conscious I’m alone, with
more money than I’ve known

Yet often now I find
That fate will be unkind
To all the words I write

Seems dangerous next to me
My stories tend to read
Like obituries

So, baby, if you spend
Some time with me, well then
I’ll write you in the end

Then darling would you mind
If the love that we had found
Was the temporary kind.

So darling if we spend
Some time together, sure
We’ll write ours in the end

Write my, write my,
write our obituary

Thought that we were strange
But darling, these days its..
It’s just contemporary
Living with you
My home becomes a zoo
And it’s just not habituary

Thank God it’s all
in your obituary

Thought that we could find
a mutual piece of mind
But, that was just temporary

Darling don’t you find
That fortune’s never kind
And the future it’s getting scary

Every time I write
Someone else will die, and it’s
not good, it’s obligatory

Everything’s confused and
I don’t know who’s who, and they
Think I’m a mercenary

Thank God that’s not in my obituary
Thank God it’s right in my obituary

Oh, but they didn’t ask me
To write my own obituary

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from The Complete Works (Year One) - 2nd Edition, released June 22, 2013

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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more

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