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Each Mortal Thing (2023)

by Robert Farmer

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1.
Lay Down Your Burdens (free) 04:33
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Our lives a gift What a strange and wondrous thing is to exist But our time is brief Too short to live full of fear, pain, and grief For when we’re gone All that remains is the effect we had upon The ones we leave Are their lives better for our having been? So lay down your burdens Lay down your cares Lay down your sorrow Lay down despair Seek out the silence Seek out the song Of every living thing Before all that you are is lost and gone Each mortal thing Emerges from the darkness with a song to sing No song the same Each one is heard a moment then returns again Each song a spark Illuminating, like an echo in the dark Our brief candle burns And all too soon to the darkness returns So lay down your burdens Lay down your cares Lay down your sorrow Lay down despair Seek out the silence Seek out the song Of every living thing Before all that you are is lost and gone Since it is taught That nothing comes from nothing, and naught returns to naught That all life’s conjoined And we are all of one body, matter in the void As each leaf of grass Contains within it the entire universe So each thing that’s born Is not contained within the limit of its form So lay down your burdens Lay down your cares Lay down your sorrow Lay down despair Seek out the silence Seek out the song Of every living thing Before all that you are is lost and gone
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A Million Miles (free) 04:25
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We’ve gone so far along this track I don’t know if we’ll make it back I love you, and I’ll always feel this way It’s just that sometimes I’m a million miles away We’ve been too long too far apart I lost your trust, I broke your heart I’m sorry, I never know what to say Some days I’m a million miles away Oh I still remember the day we met And the bed where we used to lay I wish I was lying there with you now But I’m a million miles away Who drew first blood, that’s lost in time No, it wasn’t you, you were always kind to me And you’ve always been that way Even when I’m a million miles away Thoughtless actions I regret Will time allow you to forget The days when my heart was cold as clay? When I was a million miles away Oh I still remember the day we met And the bed where we used to lay I wish I was lying there with you now But I’m a million miles away
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Monochrome Tears (free) 03:20
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Against a plain pale background The light upon your face Action, Miss Falconetti, please Adorned with woven crown Your eyes imploring god Tears glister on your cheek But when I saw you cry In sorrow and in fear I could never forget Those monochrome tears Light undoes the darkness The carbon arc ignites Nitrate shadows start to breathe Your image ever drawn On panchromatic film A ghost upon the silver screen But when I saw you cry In sorrow and in fear I could never forget Those monochrome tears
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Goldenhair (free) 01:27
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Lean out of the window, Goldenhair, I heard you singing A merry air. My book is closed, I read no more, Watching the fire dance On the floor. I have left my book : I have left my room : For I heard you singing Through the gloom. Singing and singing A merry air. Lean out of the window, Goldenhair. James Joyce (1907) Chamber Music

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"Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came."
(As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Recorded at home during April and May 2023.

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released May 22, 2023

Robert Farmer (Guitar, Vocal).
Album cover, 'E nu anâ 'ngíu a cuntâ' is by plochingen (www.flickr.com/people/le_plochingen/) and is used here under the terms of a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Tracks 1 - 3, words and music by Robert Farmer.
Track 4, words by James Joyce, music by Robert Farmer

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Robert Farmer Northampton, UK

Songwriter/"Singer". Creator of numerous downbeat, lo-fi recordings, adding unnecessarily to the seemingly infinite digital white noise of cyberspace.

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