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The Centre Cannot Hold

from Broadcast The Secret Verse by Chris Cleverley

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lyrics

We left the 7th of December twenty sixteen,
The week they raised the city to the ground.
They said that they could get us Southwest, down to Rashadeen,
Or the outskirts of some other border town.
Under the auspices of peace keeping forces
Checkpoint lights flicker in the storm.
The sobering lessons. We were burning our possessions
In the cold winter night just to keep warm.

The sickle moon’s rising, the Lord is devising
His plans for us all.
Who are we to question the great ebb and flow
And the rise and the fall.

The Tiergarten shimmers and a Berlin winter
Wraps you up like a waking child.
Icicle memories will splinter and I'm thinking on
A dissipating image of your smile.
My love glowed brightly in the desert that night
Fragile as a naked flame.
So easily extinguished, what slipped through my fingers,
Who could ever put it right again.

The sickle moon’s rising, the Lord is devising
His plans for us all.
Who are we to question the great ebb and flow
And the rise and the fall.

Fading, Smiling
The Sickle moon's rising, the sickle moon's rising.
Who are we to question the great ebb and flow
And the rise and the fall.

The sickle moon’s rising, the Lord is devising
His plans for us all.
Who are we to question the great ebb and flow
And the rise and the fall.

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from Broadcast The Secret Verse, released November 4, 2022
Chris Cleverley - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Banjo
John Patrick Ellliot - Piano, Programming
Kathy Pilkinton - Vocals

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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