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Imagined Letter #4

from This Old River by Jacob & Drinkwater

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Imagined Letter #4

Everyone here seems so self-absorbed
maybe its the city or maybe its just me
Can we love and ask for nothing more
Maybe we just failed at being free
Well they’re closing down the units and the old cafe
Sold them all to new millionaires
That seems to be the way that London’s going
And nobody at the top seems to care

But when we danced to the sound of accordions
Bass drum pounding in my chest
The light of halloween moon
Ah well you know the rest

You’re often in my prayers if you can call them prayers
But I rarely talk about you to my friends
Last week I thought I saw you coming down the stairs
How the heart sinks even as it bends
By Liverpool Street Station i sat down and wept
It hit me on the circle line
Do you ever wear the pendant that you kept
Or just hold it in your hand from time to time

And every once in a while we fall apart
To exercise the voluntary muscles of the heart
So oppose those dying days
Don’t let your spark burn away

Well I still have my suitors so I must be lovable
But what’s the point in playing the old game
Maybe romance is dead as a theme these days
As for the rest why call it any other name
In the pages of your unwritten book
With wild flowers that grow down by the sea
When you knew me with a lovers look
Something was born and something died in me

And I don’t know why I even wrote
Mainly life goes on from day to day
Time is the eternal boat
That carries all our dreams away

So I went as far north as I could go
Walked for miles and miles in the driving snow
Just to carry my soul to the end of the world
And stand with weary wings unfurled

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from This Old River, released March 20, 2019

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On tour in UK April/May '22.

Jacob & Drinkwater have been called ‘stand out new Folk’ by BBC6 Music and ‘inventive and thrilling’ by R2 Magazine. Jacob's sweeping vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a spine-tingling moment; the fluidity and precision of his finger-picking underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly rhythmic double bass; the layers of depth a perfect counterfoil. ... more

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