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from A Kind of Circle by Jim Bryce

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After death, there's the memories, some regrets, and ultimately, transfiguration and acceptance.

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Slipping into dreams at night and wishing I were somewhere ... anywhere but what's been found a what's been given, I think back to the people I have been, the people seen and all the twisted thoughts uncertainty has driven us to; and this time, like all other times, the future slips away into another voice which talks in yesterdays, but this time, unlike other times, there's noone to call the tune. It's so much clearer now your life has slipped away.
Oh John! I need you here beside me! You're the beginning and the ending that I tried do hard to find. You're the content and the context that I tried to leave behind. You're the one true piece of knowledge that I'd banished from my mind and I wouldn't be here today without your being.
Sweet mystery of life, I get so tired.
There's a crazy sort of progress... so-called progress... that we make, recreating the mistakes we've made so many times before, but thinking to the times when I rejected all you stood for, seems to me I know you better than I thought I did before; for those times, like all other times, our likeness called the tune. We were so close we wouldn't give nay quarter, but this time, unlike other times, there's no-one to call the tune. It's so much clearer now your life has gone.
And looking from my window now, I see you as you are in every bush, in every tree, in every sunset, every star, for every action that you did creates anew, and in this moment, there is peace. At last. Peace be with you.

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from A Kind of Circle, released November 24, 2020
Jim Bryce: music, lyrics, vocals, piano
Produced by Gerry Callaghan for Moreme.

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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