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Long​-​Departed Train

from Retreat Songs EP by TA Walker

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I had no famous friends
By the time I turned twenty
My face on my NUS card
Instead of Times Square
And Paul McCartney’s number
Remained a mystery
With Spotify a cream
For facial care

A generation on
Things change yet look the same
Through varifocal lenses
At where a long-departed train
Once stood…

I know I can’t complain
My riches lie elsewhere
And my own official fan-club
Sends me to the shops
If my face is in the papers
It’s only to read them
And I rarely have to wish
The world would just stop

A generation on...

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from Retreat Songs EP, released August 6, 2021
TA Walker: acoustic and electric ukuleles, vocals, electric ukulele-bass, Stylophone GEN X-1, electric guitars, Pocket Operator PO-12, percussion

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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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