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Fragile Moon
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Fragile Moon – Sophie Bancroft (©2019 PRS/MCPS)
I heard your song
A haunting cry
That calls a purple haze of charcoal trees.
What stirs you in
These gentle skies?
A fragile moon that tells no lies.
Transparent shadows, sounds of slumber
Breathing, breathing.
A flicker of tentative light
Your call is strong in your solitary state.
What keeps you there
What thoughts run wild
And stir your senses when you
Should be sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.
A nightingale
A luminescent landscape
Comforts yet intrudes upon repose.
A backdrop to a fertile mind
That follows pathways to and fro.
Never finding peace
Never finding peace
Never finding sleep.
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Miles Away
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Miles Away – Sophie Bancroft (©1995 PRS/MCPS)
You’re miles away
And I want to talk to you.
You’re miles away
And there’s so many things I want to say.
You’re miles away
I want to reach out and touch you
But you’re miles away.
Just a memory
Is all I have to hold on.
Just a memory
Is all I have to keep you alive.
And this sweet memory
Makes my longing feel worth it
But you’re miles away.
I wanna reach out
And relive the vibe that makes me
Feel good whenever
You are beside me.
Wanna reach out
And know that you are there.
But you’re miles away
And I want to talk to you.
You’re miles away
And there’s so many things I want to say.
You’re miles away
I want to reach out and touch you
But you’re miles away.
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Blue Room
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Blue Room – Sophie Bancroft (©2016 PRS/MCPS)
In a blue room I will lie
With dancing shadows on the wall
Like clouds rolling by.
And they beckon with their shapes
Bringing dragons to my world
Colouring in the places they leave behind.
They remind me of you
And the space between my fingers
Where your fingers once fit through
And the circle we completed
That never seemed to end,
Now has a beginning, middle and an end.
In a green room I will dream
Of sparkling, crystal, shiny water
Bubbling in a stream.
And of spring and hope and life
When the sun begins to show
And calls the new shoots to live and love and grow.
They remind me of you
And the space between my fingers
Where your fingers once fit through
And the circle we completed
That never seemed to end,
Now has a beginning, middle and an end.
In a dark room I will cry
For hidden possibilities that now pass me by.
And an overwhelming love
For those I hold so dear
And those long gone, but very much still here.
They remind me of you
And the space between my fingers
Where your fingers once fit through
And the circle we completed
That never seemed to end,
Now has a beginning, middle and an end.
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Far From Mars
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Far From Mars – Tom Lyne (© 1994 PRS/MCPS)
Once there was a farmer in the town
Who said he’d visit Mars.
Wasn’t much that we could really say
Other than that’s real far.
Family came together
All his good friends too.
Talk of how to help him
Things that we could do.
How to make this journey
Far from Mars.
Everybody started making things
And painting all the parts.
All the pieces fit together well
Everyone had to sing.
In the farmers garden
Rose a wondrous sight.
Dancing round the bonfire
Singing through the night.
Celebrate a starship
Far from Mars.
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Comfort
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Comfort – Sophie Bancroft (©2017 PRS/MCPS)
Go lean against the crumbling walls
That stand the test of time.
Breathe in the dust from those long gone
Who worked and lived and sheltered here.
Go put your arms around those trees
Resplendent in their age.
And press your cheek against the bark
Invit the strength and love and life.
Once their world was crazy too
Their leaves torn to the ground.
A carpet now to lie upon
A place to shelter, safe and sound.
Go seek the sea and golden sand
Of wild liberty.
Stretch out your arms and taste the spray
From waves that dance and pulse
And dance again.
Once their world was crazy too
Wild horses chase the sea.
The pull of moonbeams comfort you
Go sail the ship Serenity.
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Grapefruit Moon
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Sophie Bancroft Edinburgh, UK
Sophie Bancroft is a singer and songwriter of contemporary jazz-based songs whose music has been used on American hit TV
series 'Six Feet Under' and recorded by various artistes.
She is also a filmmaker and her film poem (S)kin was screened at the UK Women Over Fifty Film Festival in 2021 and the Italian film festival Cinema D'Idea. Her new film song 'Old Mother Blackbird' releases November 2022.
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