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I was thirteen years old.
With a looming grey cloud of smoke on the skyline.
I didn’t know what it meant, for ‘us’ or for ‘them’,
I just knew that something bigger was coming our way.

Now twenty years have flown by I suppose,
And what we have to show for them the devil only knows,
In the world we made, in those dumbstricken days,
What a world to bring you into.

My smiling and sweet little girl.
Who will you turn to in a withering world?
So fractured and frenzied and falling apart.
May it spare the foundations of your delicate heart.

They say that ‘kids these days are growing up fast’.
Faster than we thought we might have been in the past.
So we’re building our borders high and we’re harking back to days,
When the loneliness inside us didn’t feel this way.

Oh sweet delicate child.
May you find beauty in the rugged and the wild.
In a world so fractured and falling apart,
May it spare the foundations of your delicate heart.

I pray you live well and live long.
Show me I’m just old and tired and teach me I’m wrong.
And with all that’s left in me, I’ll do anything to see you
Build your spirit stronger than mine.

Just build your spirit stronger than mine.

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from Broadcast The Secret Verse, released November 4, 2022
Chris Cleverley - Vocals, Acoustic, Electric & Nylon String Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, Ebow
John Patrick Ellliot - Piano
Lukas Drinkwater - Bass
Kathy Pilkinton - Vocals
Graham Coe - Cello

Engineered, produced and mixed by John Patrick Elliott

Mastered by Tim Debney at Fluid Mastering

Artwork by Martin D Hyde

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Chris Cleverley was born under a solstice moon, in an aura of honeysuckle mysticism. He is among a new wave of pioneering artists carving an uncharted path through the UK acoustic landscape. Inspired by the Lo-FI Indie greats Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens, his ambient Dream-Folk songwriting pushes the boundaries and shatters the expectations of 21st Century acoustic music. ... more

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