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Held by strangers

from Bring Me Back A Pyramid by The Bookshop Band

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Inspired by Questions Of Travel, by Michelle De Kretser.

lyrics

A hollow type of conversation
Elevated above the situation
Sitting In a cool café
A place made fake
By our presence
But my persistence to see through the
Opaque
Pictures portrayed, I take the unlit way
Trying to escape
The cliché
A sad man stands
Selling things that are
Not in demand
And strangers pass
Cameras in hands
Well greased to, ease through
And where am I
And why am I here
And try as I might, well I can’t see through
Must I always
Hold this view
Standing alone in crowd
I take a photo of how
The sun looks, now my home land changed
By the perspective
I must now take
Standing alone In a strange land
Held by strangers hands
My logic grows loose like a dream
The places that they take me
Unconnected to these scenes
And they play, in front of me
Shapes change, my memory
Is stained, reality
Stays ingrained, with their shape

credits

from Bring Me Back A Pyramid, released August 3, 2016
Poppy Pitt - vocal, guitar. Ben Please - guitar, vocals. Beth Porter - cello, vocals. Jools Scott - Wurlitzer. Song sponsor - Michelle De Kretser.

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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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