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Lavender's blue

from We Are The Foxes by The Bookshop Band

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    The Bookshop Band release WE ARE THE FOXES, their second album of 2016, inspired by a collection of books that revolve around stories of cities and those who live in them, curated by their local independent bookshop Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs were first performed in front of the authors themselves at the bookshop’s events.

    The city-tales that inspire this album span both time and continents; from the seedy printing worlds of London’s Victorian backstreets in MJ Carter’s novel The Infidel Stain, to the Australian high rises in Tim Winton’s Eyrie. The band sing on urban life through the many different lenses each book gives, via the lives of a household in Armistead Maupin’s groundbreaking Tales of the City series, to through the eyes of the foxes that roam the streets in Ned Beauman’s GLOW.

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Inspired by Honour, by Elif Shafak.

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Father’s left us for a beauty queen
If only he could see that we need him
The gap is getting bigger, we’re all drifting
If I were a boy I could step in
She’s still searching for a better place
Lavenders blue but there’s no trace
Shame she can’t disguise her face
If she was born here might not be the case
Secrets fill our minds up
We’re hiding so much
We’re guided by the past
We’re Shrouding the truth in veils
The boy is only seven going on 19
No one noticed that he grew up
The other fell towards a violent scene
Didn’t want a stain to our name
Longing for my own closed door
Where I can hide my fears and my joys
Restricted by a family law
I can’t be free like the boys
She has seen it all before
In a different place, different name
The other tries to save their honour
He loves her and he hates her for the shame.

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from We Are The Foxes, released July 3, 2016
Beth Porter - vocal, concert ukulele. Ben Please - baritone ukulele, vocals. Poppy Pitt - vocals. Pete Gibbs - double bass. Sue Lord - violin. Ian Vorley - violin. Patrick Dunn - viola. Michelle Falcon - viola.

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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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