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Where did we begin?

from Into the farthest reaches by The Bookshop Band

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is The Bookshop Band's 4th album of 2012. It represents the songs inspired by Season Four of the author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights, and contains songs inspired by books, including Alexandra Fuller's two autobiographical works - "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight" & "Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness", Carol Birch's seafaring adventure 'Jamrach's Menagerie', Andrew Miller's Costa winning novel 'Pure', and 'Dark Matter' by Michelle Paver.

    The album comes in a numbered limited edition bespoke package, created by the band, all hand printed on an old letterpress machine.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Into the farthest reaches via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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This song was inspired by 'Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller. Here is the song's first outing: vimeo.com/30066338

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Where did we begin?

Mountains turn from pink to slate
Outlaw nation, rebel state
Who will remember if the schools won’t write it down
How many die here? As the shots don’t make a sound

Walking round in skin
Where did we begin
Walking round in circles
Don’t blame it on gin

Coloured by the history books
We are proud and off the hooks
Who will remember if the schools have closed their doors
We can do no wrong here, though we break their foreign shores

Aahhh x3

Walking round in skin
Where did we begin
Walking round in circles
Don’t blame it on gin

Mountains turn from pink to slate
Outlaw nation rebel state

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from Into the farthest reaches, released June 18, 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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