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The word keeper

from And Other Dystopias by The Bookshop Band

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is The Bookshop Band's second album of 2012, containing the songs inspired by Season Two of author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights. Books that have inspired these songs include 'The Paris Wife' by Paula McLain, 'The Coral Thief' by Rebecca Stott, Cornelius Medvei's 'Caroline: A Mystery', and 'Embassytown' by China Meiville.

    The album comes in a bespoke, limited edition and numbered case, created by the band, and printed on fine Italian card on an old letterpress machine in Oxford.

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The Word Keeper was inspired by Embassytown, a sci-fi novel by China Melville, and performed at Mr B’s Corruption Night on the 18th May 2011. Here's the live performance from that night: vimeo.com/25361197

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The Word Keeper

There’s a sea between words
You immerse and focus
Leave your mouth wide open
Breathe while you are spoken

For you are now a word I’ll understand
Call you out and there’s meaning to the sound
Walls are high but my voices bring them down
Thought that I was a keeper of this town

I learn you have two meanings
We fall when you deceive us
Enthralled, but you should leave us
Don’t leave this world in silence

For you are now a word we’ll understand
Call you out and there’s meanings to the sound
Walls are high but our voices bring them down
Thought that we were the keepers of this town
For you are now a word I’ll understand
For you are now a word I’ll understand
For you are now a word I’ll understand
For you are now a word I’ll understand

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from And Other Dystopias, released June 23, 2012

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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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