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Star of the river

from Travels from your armchair by The Bookshop Band

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    'Travels from your armchair' is the first album by The Bookshop Band. It contains all the songs written for Season One of the author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs were all inspired by folk tales from around the world.

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This is the traditional tale from South America about how the water lily (Vitoria Regia) came into existence, following the unfortunate infatuation of the lovely Naia with a handsome, but ultimately unreachable Prince who lived in the moon. One night, as she was our a wandering she spied what she believed to be the Prince himself standing on a lake. As she reached out for him it unfortunately transpired that is was just the moon’s reflection. Not being able to swim, the poor Naia drowned in the lake. The Prince, looking down, saw Naia and felt sorry for her and so granted her life again, as the Star of the River, the water lily. We also think it’s quite a nice way to respond to the song about the Moon Princess.

This song was written and performed for when James Scudamore came into Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights on BRAZIL night to talk about his book Heliopolis.

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There is life on the moon that you might hear of soon if you lean closer
But they are just too far, living among the stars that look close in the water
Then one night one of them shone a light and it reached the heart of Naia
And she spent all her life reaching out for a love that was surely beyond her.

Then she calls and she calls and she calls...
I will meet you, come my love
Reflected on the surface of
The pond, your face so close to touch
I am a lily in your light.

She walked out in the night and suddenly spied his reflection before her
She reached and she tripped off the side and she fell into the water
She almost reached, then she drowned, but he saw as she sank down slowly under
He took pity on her and granted her life, as the star of the river.

Then she calls and she calls and she calls...
I will meet you, come my love.
Reflected on the surface of the pond.
Your face so close to touch.
I am a lily in your light.
I am a lily in your light.

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from Travels from your armchair, released December 1, 2011
Written and recorded by The Bookshop Band
Mixed by Marco Migliari

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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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