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Exhuming Monkton Wyld

by LJA Brown

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Circuitous 03:55
This is a song for no one I know This is the day to let down and go This is the go to for what’s wrong in the world This is a clue to what seethes in the soul The turn in the tables alerts everyone The cold in the answer deafens the tone In the time when they don’t talk back Let me say for them the words they don’t have I can’t hear you your mouth moves too slow I won’t be trapped here there are places to go Walk out of the picture and take it over again Boundaries you drew well they’ve sure kept you in Let’s build a rock if you can write a reservoir Assuming only that we have all we are Committed to the beauty of the law The one which states we’re not coming back no more I wanted only your breath to know my skin To know only where it is to begin Bodies form out of a restless unity And take the place where once was memory Resting in the ruins you get no sleep A stone throw for a border is some kind of cheat Nameless is the cause settled for ourselves Digging up the treasure opens oh well.
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Momentary All the people that ever meant anything to me, I’d like to bring you all back and put you on a table One by one To look at you all You gorgeous people Because that’s the one thing I never did. Black lines that shoulder the blame and can never be tamed. Sing Out Sing out, roundabout, up the spout and inside out, Forget the chances of the day. I went looking for new ground, let the paycheque wear me out, I have no more rent to pay. All joy is rent for me, Faust became my tourniquet, Pretentious musings let me down. It’s a pretty one don’t you know, a perfect face when wrapped in snow, We have all this to consider. Hit the table with a fist imagining what went before this Knowing all it was was you conceived in another view. Back to back and all arms down, given time they’ll work it out, Suck on bones instead of dinner. I have no where left to roam, a guilty feeling left at home, At best I’m only thinner. Bold as brass her ass at night; she has friends who think she might Make a living on the telly. Sing a song she doesn’t know and feel better that she don’t, Well, I’m afraid I beg to differ. Arms that seem to hold the size of a tin bath held upright Seem a lot funnier than when her body was alive. Just to think it all around I left the priesthood to be found In a state of misdemeanour, You were not my only friend nor the blanket that you lent, At Christmas time I’m better. A simple misbelieving in the trust that was once kin Cannot excuse the shade of blue that you had to beat her into. Sing out, roundabout, up the spout and inside out, Forget the chances of the day. I went looking for new ground, let the paycheque wear me out, I have no more rent to pay. I have no more left to say. I have no more in the way.
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"Many, many moons ago LJA Brown and Anna Ryan gathered together in the room of a flat on Lea Bridge Road, that LJA Brown was living in at the time, to record these handful of demos.

At the time LJA Brown was posing under the moniker of Monkton Wyld, hence the title of this EP, and these songs presented here, two of which were to end up on his first album, were some of the first songs LJA Brown was to write and record as a solo artist.

Unearthed and dirty as they are, they are not without charm, in particular the two unreleased songs Circuitous and Momentary/Sing Out, the first of which has some unerring, yet ghostly, harmonies by, then bandmate, Anna Ryan.

So, pull up a chair, sit yourself down, and listen in on a snapshot, fragmentary and inchoate, of a time that once was: once".

Giles Chandler - The Post Office Review.

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released May 1, 2020

LJA Brown: vocals & guitars
Anna Ryan: vocals, metallophone & melodica

All songs by LJA Brown

Recorded on 4 track tape by Ciaran McNamee
Mastered by MULE

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LJA Brown is a singer/songwriter based in East London.

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