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from Word Bombs II by Eddy Morton

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  • Word bombs is the first collection of poems by singer/songwriter Eddy Morton former member of 90’s Folk rock band The Bushbury’s. It is an eclectic mix of political commentary, childhood memory, and recollections of places visited in 30 years of musical travelling. As a solo artist Eddy Morton has released 4 albums " The Singing Tree" and "Stourbridge Town" both distributed via Proper throughout the UK. New album “What It Is to be Human” was released in 2013 and is available on iTunes . Based in Stourbridge he has for the past seventeen years along with his wife Trina Keane owned and run live music venue Katie Fitzgeralds , New Mountain music and more recently Stourbridge Foundation4Music raising funds to help local musicians. Rainbow Man Eddy Morton's fourth solo album is also now available on iTunes

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REFERENDUMB

Where lies this Country you speak of so fondly
Is this the state we chopped off Charley’s head to create
Are these false debating monarchs of Suburbia the true heirs to
our magic kingdom
Kings and queens of all they survey and yet the unspeakable
future lies unsurveyed
A new National Lottery of whim to the the wind of fate
A play unwritten, uncast, untested, untried
Ah but the darkness beckons us all at times
and therein lies a morbid temptation to jump
When Its tea for two in a two up two down
with all our enemies faithfully gathered round
Beelzebuub whispers “jump, jump”
for the devil is not behind but in the detail
And in our embezzled minds twisted by
constantly battling lies and rapture
Lies the Holy Grail of Sainthood
our nations flag to capture
The Queen and everything Holy
“Is this the place you mean”??
Here where stands the clock that stood where time stands still
Where as children above the town upon the hill we played
and stood down our childish armies to dream of
a land of lost contentment far beyond the Division Bell
Those ever present chimes that dull the mind and sooth the sense
In our minds eye it was ever thus imagined
and so its own truth become
Footie in the street , gambols on the green
But the clock has ticked and played its merry joke
an age of change is worn as a heavy yoke
All that was good is memory disenchanted
is this the Country you speak of so fondly
is this the motion that conference granted?
Is this the clock that stood where time stands still?
The mechanism moves us to tears
The grapple and grind of moving gears
And what was once innocent is now lost
and all that was value now bears a cost
We sell our soul for the price of fame
to see others terrible lives ripped from the frame
of TV and social media page
In our withering anger and gunfire rage
is this the country you speak of so fondly?

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from Word Bombs II, released September 3, 2017
words and Music : Eddy Morton
Narration : Ted Fisher

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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK

As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more

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