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    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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Declaration was written for Obsession Night on the 5th May 2011 at Mr B’s, and is inspired by themes from the book Caroline, a Mystery by Cornelius Medvei.

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Declaration One

His hands are everywhere I turn
His eyes are questioning and peaceful
He looks into these depths as though he’s lost at sea, lost at sea
He drove me away
 
His kindness is sticky
Insistent, expecting
And I feel small and bitter
 
I crave simplicity
Like to think that I’m grateful
But I don’t like this box

I remember now your face
Was soft your pace was slow and steady
If only you could turn your back
Instead of circling round, circling round
You drove me away
 
Your kindness is sticky
Insistent, expecting
And I feel small and bitter
 
I crave simplicity
Like to think that I’m grateful
But I don’t like this box


Even when we part I feel you
Following following following following

Arms round my waist you pull me back to you
You drove me away
You drove me away

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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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