{"product_id":"songs-without-music-9798345597491","title":"Songs: Without Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Murphy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Political \u0026amp; Protest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSONGS - WITHOUT MUSIC \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of Irish folk-punk singer\/songwriter Paul Murphy's lyric anthologies. This superb collection is mainly drawn from the period 1982 to 1997, with a few bookend pieces from either side of those years for context.\u003cp\u003eMuch of the work herein covers the artists' performing years, and places an equal emphasis on his social commentary material, life reflections, and his love songs and ballads. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany of these songs have found fresh audiences through his Internet performances, showing the uniqueness of his prose and alliteration have yet to be eclipsed in certain arenas: 'Bitter Realities', 'Urban Paranoia', 'Candle', 'So Many Times Before', and especially 'She Cried A Million Tears', remain at the pinnacle of their respective subject matters. Is there a better document of unrequited love than 'Maybe Tomorrow... Maybe Next Year', or a more harrowing dark-night of the soul prose than 'Sadness'?\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the more tender side, the epic ballads, 'The Fair Angel Of Sherborne' and 'Lady Helen' - each running over 20 minutes on album - stay high-watermarks of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotive, empowering, though-provoking, heartwarming and heart-rending, and occasionally, unsettling, this anthology showcases a master of the songwriting and prose-poem mediums at his peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - - - -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Menelaus And Paris [excerpt]\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTonight won't give me any answers\u003cbr\u003eShe won't tell me why you saved me just to let me die again\u003cbr\u003eI've been stone-walled and incriminated\u003cbr\u003eHeaven-bound and intimidated\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere I can hear the mission-bell chime\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere, there's just one more mountain to climb \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYour eyes don't look at me any more\u003cbr\u003eYou either look right thru' me, or you turn your face away\u003cbr\u003eI've walked the sword and been compromised\u003cbr\u003eStranded in a land where there's no sun rise\u003cbr\u003eSomehow the circle came to me complete\u003cbr\u003eSomehow, I had one more mistake to repeat \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYour words don't give your feelings away\u003cbr\u003eYou took my heart down to Poverty Row, and you left it there\u003cbr\u003eI've been sold doubt and lied about\u003cbr\u003eShoot down the moon before I'm all cried out\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere, there's a shadow calling your name\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere in the dark, I'm doing the same \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShow me how you know we can't go back\u003cbr\u003eIn spite of all you've done to me, my soul will always be yours\u003cbr\u003eYou're a flash-flood of switch-blade emotion\u003cbr\u003eThe White Queen of refused devotion\u003cbr\u003eSometime soon you'll come crashing to a halt\u003cbr\u003eSometime soon, you'll see who was at fault \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI read evil in the mind of the man you once saved\u003cbr\u003eI could live with it if he loved you, but he treats you like a slave\u003cbr\u003eThere's a bad deal on here, that no-one can win\u003cbr\u003eIf I can't meet the odds, don't let the wheel spin\u003cbr\u003eI don't know what you are to him, but you're more than that to me\u003cbr\u003eYou'll always be much more than that to me....\u003cbr\u003e. ","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45555029246103,"sku":"9798345597491","price":927.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798345597491.webp?v=1768589296","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/songs-without-music-9798345597491","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}