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bemuzic busking - The Books We Read (New Song)

Thought I'd try out this new song. It's very new, so there are a few mistakes! Just recorded on my phone and I notice the video sort of jumps here and there which is annoying...
Oh well I enjoy singing it, and it might be awhile before I get round to recording it, so thought I'd share it : -)
The song was inspired by the titles of several books that were in front of me while noodleing around on a guitar.
I looked into it and it seems book titles aren't generally covered by copyright. The books were by Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Milan Kundera, so if you like those authors you might recognise some of them...

LYRICS

The books we read
shape our mind.
Life is elsewhere,
while we're eating fire.
It's a wild sheep chase,
we can't see the joke.
This is the book of laughter and forgetting.

And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance, dance, dance after dark.
And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance,dance, dance,
to the end of the world.

da, da da etc (could end up as some sort of instrumental?)

I want to see behind the door.
Truth is surfacing,
about life before man.
It's a wild sheep chase,
we can't see the joke.
This is the song of laughter and forgetting.

And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance, dance, dance after dark.
And the world is full of ignorance,
as we dance,dance, dance,
to the end of the world.

The books we read
shape our mind.
Life is elsewhere,
while we're eating fire.

That isn't clapping at the end, it's someone running across the road in flip flops,lol!.
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Comment by bemuzic on September 11, 2012 at 4:10am: ah does that mean you've posted em?

Comment by Brian Tin-Pot Pearse on September 11, 2012 at 4:03am: Just DA!!! **** Ahhh, what the heck!

Comment by bemuzic on September 11, 2012 at 3:31am: thanks Bri...why would you not post em? bad language?

Comment by Brian Tin-Pot Pearse on September 11, 2012 at 3:28am: Lovely. A breath of fresh air, B. I've been sitting through my Dave Arcari and Bad Mood clips wondering if I dare post them. Ha. B-)

Comment by bemuzic on September 11, 2012 at 2:51am: thanks people. @ turtlehead -thanks also re Nowhere Man. I tried several different things, but in the end went for ultra simple!!

Comment by turtlehead on September 11, 2012 at 2:49am: Lovely. You really have developed a great style bemuzic. Your version of Nowhere Man is off the charts.

Comment by Clock The Wolf on September 11, 2012 at 1:10am: I hope this person wasn't from PORLOCK (°_o) !!!!!!

Comment by bemuzic on September 11, 2012 at 1:00am: thanks John.Talking of flip flops, I have another new song which is insipred by the suntan marks you get on your feet when wearing flip flops. Tried to film it yesterday, but someone came up and talked to me in the middle of it! Will film it soon...

Comment by Uncle John on September 11, 2012 at 12:46am: Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip flop. (That is clapping). Nice song, singing and playing. The lyrics make a beautiful poem.