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lyrics

Everything looks smaller inside
as you drift from room to room,
testing boundaries, searching
for the heart of words, a detail
to match your long imagination.

Books line walls, obscuring
cobbled streets, slate sky,
wooden passers by,
lines of tourists snaking
across the grass, waiting

to see their own reflections
in the dead poet’s lines.
At last you find it,
perfectly small, fragile
beneath glass eaves.

The air smells familiar:
pipe tobacco, tomatoes,
paraffin, polish. Your eyes
sting with forgetfulness
shaken loose from years until

catching the light, you discover
a tiny imperfection, scratched
lightly at first, later more firmly,
a dead man’s name,
while, on tumbling shelves,
books catch fire.

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from The House Of Memory, released September 1, 2017

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Peter Byrom-Smith Glossop, UK

In addition to his classical pieces for soloists, ensembles and orchestras Peter Byrom-Smith has written and arranged music for many theatre and film productions, as well as bands from all across the genre spectrum (including the Eurovision Song Contest). His works have been performed, broadcast and recorded in Europe, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand and the U.S.A. ... more

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