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Four Loose Leaves EP

by TA Walker

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Dave Jeffery "Christmas In England" is one of my favourite Christmas songs, and it would be well worth the price this this one song alone, as once you've heard it you'll be digging this song out every year. The other songs are all very strong too, with "Where Letters Keep" being particularly touching. Favorite track: Christmas In England.
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Waves Of You 05:51
Where the fallen leaves surround For an hour or two, is common ground Where the mist yields to the sun A sight best seen as more than one Move from forest to shore And scan for futures from the harbour wall The waves of you that ebb and flow And take us places we don’t know The waves of you expand our seas To unknown harbours on a salty breeze Where the daylight drains away How many drops we saved, I cannot say The hardest part of rolling stones They say is starting off when you’re alone Move from forest to shore And scan for futures from the harbour wall The waves of you...
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Is our tale an empty page We draw upon at will? Best to steer a moving car Or spend some moments still? Reach for birds in thickets, yet Retain the one in hand Get to know the maps that show Your latest promised land Someday we may find somewhere The better purpose lying there Just around the bend Panting from the sprint from which Our marathon transformed An unaccustomed pace to run My heart left strangely warmed Find out where, much further than Our navigation planned This crazy rush has swept us Our latest promised land Someday we may find somewhere... To fail to prepare - is to prepare to fail Sometimes preparation - can take you unaware
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It all started with the word A greater distance, overturned And surely by the letter they were made Came the light, and all were pleased And then in time, a bended knee Began their journey - neither felt afraid Wherever they roam Down every path and lane Each place where they lay to sleep A secret store Accompanies their steps The chest they only know, where letters keep As a life reveals How words can wound or heal A dagger or a scalpel to use A spring both salt and sweet A coin’s opposing sides compete Every moment, a path we choose Wherever they roam… To the start, they retire To the lines forged in fire In the white heat where love took form Where the strokes of the pen Lead the memories to when The shards to a sword reformed Wherever they roam…
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Just one more hour Here by the fire The embers unborn in the flames My universe lives Inside your embrace A stadium of midwinter games When the tree sprinkles light from the window On the wet grass and cinnamon wine Christmas in England... or anywhere As long as there’s you - I’m fine Gather the rug And shut out the gale To stay where our evening began And doze through the sleigh-bells Or more likely, rain And give heartfelt thanks that we can When the tree sprinkles light from the window...

about

These songs "fell between" the various writing/recording projects I've been working on in recent months, but I'm rather fond of them, and thought they deserved a hearing.

"Waves Of You" and "Christmas In England" are "proper" re-recordings of two songs I wrote/demoed for the NaSoAlMo challenge in November 2015 (and I haven't forgotten about the demos from that...). The version of "Where Letters Keep" here is a new recording with the same arrangement as the original on "Blackbirds Banquet" (but re-done mainly to put right the flaws I hear in that first version), whilst "Better Purpose" is a new song that I don't think quite fits my next project idea, but i still like it and hope you will too.

Thanks for listening!

Tim - July 2016

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released July 15, 2016

All songs written by T.A. Walker
Played, sung and arranged by Tim
Recorded by Tim at Sidingsound I and on the Sidingsound Mobile between November 2015 and July 2016
Special thanks to Alex Fletcher for mixing "Christmas In England", and for mix advice on "Waves Of You"
Cover image from openclipart.org

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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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