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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Delux edition Compact Disc of the revised and remastered 2011 album Ghosts and its companion piece EP Against the Odds combined into the two parts of a single song cycle. Part 1: No Way Home. Part 2: The Dancer. The CD includes photographs and individual track credits in a jewel case.

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The singular title track to the album, a wraith of a song.

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GHOST

So long — it’s been so long now
So far — we’ve come so far so far
But the frame of thought and time
Is etched and grey
And as the cracks at last appear
I strangely sense you very near

Wild hair, raven dark and curling
A wry laugh, piercing pensive eyes
An A frame on a road forever changing
A small child without a hand to hold
The memories merge as the years fade by
And like a lost and callow youth
I stumble upon the hollow truth
In a photograph
On a sun-drenched afternoon
Of a gentle friend
In a sweetly shaded room
A failing hologram
Flickering in my mind
A broken key
Lost in the folds of time

No pain ― no words of anger
No gain ― no deeper truth
But I can sense you now standing there
On your way to the masquerade
Dressed all in black like the Queen of Spades
In a photograph
On a sun-drenched afternoon
A gentle friend
I won’t see again too soon
A failing hologram
Flickering in my brain
That the folds of time
Will never release again
Oh no…

SOLO MIDDLE EIGHT

Like a photograph
On a sun-drenched afternoon
Of a bunch of friends
I won’t see again too soon
A tightly tangled scene
Etched into my brain
That the folds of time
Will never release again
Oh no…

© IAN LILBURNE 2005

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from Ghosts 1​|​2, released November 1, 2017
Music and lyric: Ian Lilburne. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pete Grandison at Shanghai Twang Studios. Original recording 2011. Revised, remixed and remastered at Shanghai Twang in 2017. Produced by Ian Lilburne and Pete Grandison. Copyright Aeon Songs 2017.

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