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MUD AND SAND

I’ve been travelling
Wayfaring this my native land
Past stately homes and standing stones
- the national brand
And now I feel them crumbling
Turn to powder in my hand
My skin is paper thin with sorrow
In a world of mud and sand
Mud and Sand

It’s unravelling
The force that through the green fuse ran,
Too many elegies
too many hearts club bands.
Silent as a surgery
A tomb, a room, a secret plan
Come closer – let me whisper
Of a place of mud and sand
Mud of Sand
Shall we stay here me and you
Where the sea is dark ink blue
In a beach hut made of card and glue
We walk beyond the carpark
Past the pub, into the dark -
Our island story arc.

Now we’ve driven
Far beyond the sat nav’s scan
Seahouses Shingle Street,
Mersea Island, Poundland
Driven round a thousand bends
Under stars we understand
Why we seek that stretch of coast
The map calls Mud and Sand

Shall we stay here me and you
Where the sea is dark ink blue
In a beach hut made of card and glue
We’ll dream of sheep tonight
Grazing under greying light
The beach bone white

It’s unravelling
The force that through the green fuse ran,
Too many elegies
too many hearts club bands.
Silent as a surgery
A tomb, a room, a secret plan
Come closer – let me whisper
Of a place of mud and sand
Mud of Sand

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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