Name: Where Letters Keep (remake)
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: A re-recording of the song that originally appeared on my FAWM 2016 album "Blackbirds Banquet". The arrangement is almost identical (albeit a bit trimmed for time), but I wanted to correct a couple of flaws I heard in the original version. I think I managed that :-)

Where Letters Keep (remake)

from Four Loose Leaves EP by TA Walker

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A re-recording of the song that originally appeared on my FAWM 2016 album "Blackbirds Banquet". The arrangement is almost identical (albeit a bit trimmed for time), but I wanted to correct a couple of flaws I heard in the original version. I think I managed that :-)

lyrics

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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from Four Loose Leaves EP, released July 15, 2016
TA Walker: electric and EBow guitars, vocals, iPad organ, MIDI guitar Moog bass, 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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