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Particularly Mediocre at Best

from A Life Of Labours by Silverlode

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Peter Saint KC makes it clear that he has heard quite enough of this, as maybe have you Dear Listener.

With all evidence considered, the verdict is sharply returned, although, as will all matters of life and spirt, it is not clearcut. Is this man a good man? Hardly! But he’s like so many other men who lived and achieved a spiritual judgment of ‘Mediocre at Best’. What a legacy! Mr. Saint continues to say that many misdeeds surround the Defendant, and whether they can be attributed solely to cruel and unfair circumstance or to the foolishness of youth; to grief; to guilt; to fear; to injury; to the fragile human form matters not; for as he stands before the court, he has come to see that his soul is tarnished. And so his sentence is cast - the punishment of Rebirth.
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I hang the blame on your coat hook --- on tenterhooks
Under your name, you took a love --- and it crumbled at your touch

Life is a series of situations
You failed to realize all the implications

I hang the blame on your coat hook --- the tender hook
Under your name, you took a love --- and it crumbled at your touch

Life is a series of situations
You failed to realize all the implications

You need to try again to make it out there
Too many times you’ve stood and faltered out there
Stood and faltered out there. Down there.

Life is a series of situations
You failed to realize all the implications

It’s all circumstance and sin
For men can make many things;
Homes and wars and aeroplanes
Bridges, politics, parlour games
Make fun, make war, make friends, make haste
Beg, borrow, steal or kill in vain
It’s not only about what you take
Because everyone must die someday
And you must surely see that now ---
Love is really all that counts

Circumstance and sin have leveled out
And I for one am curious as to how you would fare a second time around
And so, another term of Earth shall come to pass
To try to be kind is all anyone can ask
For you were not a wicked man but you were not great ---
I am sending you back to try again
Hey boy, I’m not through with you
I’m sending you back down!

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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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