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Fortunes never kind

from Revolutions by The Bookshop Band

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    Revolutions is a limited edition, bespoke CD album package, individually numbered and printed on an old Heidelberg letterpress. It is the band's third album of 2012, and contains all the songs from Season Three at Mr Bs Emporium. Books written about include Patrick Ness' "A Monster Calls", Amanda Foreman's "A World On Fire", "Fists" & "The Break" by Pietro Grossi, and "Death and the Penguin" & "The Milkman in the Night" by Andrey Kurkov.

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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 Revolutions, released June 1, 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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