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Book Of Small Hours

from Book Of Small Hours by TA Walker

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(i) Processional
(ii) Leave It All Behind
(iii) The Getaway
(iv) Golden Age
(v) Leave It All Behind (reprise)

I finally recorded a "side-long epic"... one to cross off the bucket-list :-D

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(I) PROCESSIONAL

[instrumental]

(II) LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND

That never-ending summer
Was nothing of the sort
I'd barely downed that lemonade
And we're back in class once more
Those weeks of sun and rockpools
Feel like a long-lost dream
That melted down in the autumn rain
Like a seaside trip's ice cream

[chorus]
Leave it all behind (x3)
Tomorrow waits for you

So many circuits round the sun
And somehow I remain
To ride the rodeo of life
Aboard the ages' train
Wiser heads than mine have talked
Of starting guns once missed
A day to lie and catch the rays
I won't cross off my list

Leave it all behind...

(III) THE GETAWAY

[instrumental]

(IV) GOLDEN AGE

Doors that never bolted
Cricket on the green
Of our imagination
The kitchen sparkling clean

Present, past and future
Not what they used to be
Stained-glass windows of the mind
Colour memory

Yearning for a simpler time
Of tea upon the lawn
The golden age they long for
May bring a golden dawn

Uniformly-shaded streets
Of pure conformity
No need for bolted doors, when minds
Gave up their liberty

Yearning for a simpler time...

(V) LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND (REPRISE)

Much further down the runway
The bird still taxi's round
Oblivious to the years long past
It should have left the ground
Now stranded by the crosswinds
That rake the landing path
Time to dream of flight with friends
Or share a tale and laugh?

Leave it all behind (x3)
Tomorrow waits for you

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from Book Of Small Hours, released April 12, 2015
TA Walker: electric 6-string and lap-steel guitars, acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars, bass guitar, Galileo Organ, ARP2600V, Super Manetron, Modular, Samvada, DR-OM, iVCS3, iSEM, Arpeggionome Pro, Bismark bs-16i, drums

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TA Walker UK

Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.

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