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Old Man

from Murky EP by Samuel Idwal

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    The Murky EP on a white disc, packaged in a handmade sleeve cut from cartridge paper, written and decorated by my hands before being tied up. Each sleeve bears a unique design and is numbered for posterity, making each EP individual.

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Joel Cockcroft (percussion). All the tracks for the EP were recorded in a live session; three mics, a dark room, one hour playing each track a couple of times to captured genuine sound.

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Old man, I don’t want to be you
Out of place and out of time, out of my mind
Out of my era. Will I live in fear
Of the end when I’ve lost all my friends?

Hold close your bones and breath
Before my life blinks out I’m due a date with Death

Widow, watching the grass grow
On the ground again where he lives now.
Crying alone, unknown,
In a home too big for one now I’m buried and gone

Cage of ribs! Defend my heart!
I’ll grip my luggage tightly as we step into the dark
Cage of ribs! Defend my heart!
I’ll grip my luggage tightly if strength remains

Father, so set in your ways,
Do you notice the days
Disobey you, the way we did when we were just
Little children?
Make certain you recall it well,
Time strips us of even that skill.

Bury an acorn in my grave
So I can rise again some day
Sow my earth with dandelion seeds
(I’ll tell the time again through the medium of weeds)

And when Death comes to call
Against whom no mortal portal is sealed or barred
I shan’t answer
but spend the time making sure I’ve steeled my heart (you stealed my heart long ago)
And if my nerve will hold I'll laugh in his skull -
What’s the worst death can do when its really not his fault?

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from Murky EP, released June 13, 2012
Joel Cockcroft (legend)

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Samuel Idwal Leicester, UK

London based singer-songwriter with new EP 'Brightbark' out now. Contact: samuelidwal@gmail.com

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