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from A Life Of Labours by Silverlode

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With the Prosecution process well underway, the room hears of a childhood. A rather miserable affair that took place along the North Yorkshire coastline with the grey North Sea proving to be an ever-present roar, which used to keep the boy awake at night in an unhappy home, a home ruled over by a violent and overbearing Father. The memories make Henry wince.

It was fifteen unhappy years before he finally broke loose, travelling inland to industrious Leeds, looking to find work; to find adventure in the hope of a better life. The room is also told of the sadness he felt to leave his Mother behind. A gentle woman who lived in fear and yet, would never speak out against her husband, despite his heavy hand and drunken tempers. The Bastard.
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At the turn of the century
Things weren’t so great
It was kind of barbaric ---
The poverty into which I came
A social order
From another age
It shackled me tight
And would have suppressed me to the grave

I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.

And I try to remember my mother
She was… gentle and kind
Unlike my brute of a father ---
An aggressive drunkard, most of the time
I must have been around ten
When it really hit home
That this was no life here
And one day I would kill him or go

I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.

So I let it be known
That I was leaving home
This place --- had a sickness
That through the years, I had come to know
And I knew there’d be hell on
When he got back
But I boarded that train anyway
And I, I never looked back

I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.

I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.
Tight.

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from A Life Of Labours, released November 4, 2022

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Silverlode Leeds, UK

Silverlode is a folksome indie rock band from Leeds.

A folk band in the broadest sense of the word; dogs of pop; self-taught musical ruffians who play to their own traditions. Reinventors of self and prone to playing their songs in a myriad of ways, join Silverlode on their mythological journey through history, future, fantasy and good times via their ever-evolving music.

DIY since 2001. ... more

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