Vocals - CISSY
Tenor Saxophone - Joe Browne
Music and Lyrics - David Bevan Jr

© 2025 

When we were younger
And the world was ours to live
I never thought that
It would stitch me up like this

How was I supposed to know
You'd leave me in the cold?
You know that we're supposed to be
The pair that grows too old

But now the ground it opens
And it's you it swallows down
And I'm just gyroscopic
As the world just spins round.

Another day another time
But nothing less
I would have taken til' 
You left me in this mess

And now I'm just a paper boat
That's floating in the sea
And all the cats are out
And all the crows are at my feet

And if you had a moment left
To sidle up to me
I'd hold on gyroscopic
While the world goes rinse/repeat

I'm waiting on a sight a sound
A touch that isn't there
And when the night is drawing in
And still the bed is bare

I dream you're spinning
down to earth
and through the covers
next to me

And if I see you when
my number's on the wall
You'll tell you me how I kept
My head above it all

But oh it isn't easy 
While I'm treading on my toes
And turning tail and running down
the roads where no one goes

And if I could I know I would
Check out and change the deal
Instead I'm gyroscopic 
And the world's a spinning wheel


Gyroscope

Joint winner of the 2016 UoB Chamber Choir carol competition, performed in their Christmas concert.
Conducted by Will Brockman
Words by Edmund Sears, set to music by David Bevan
Friday 9th December 2016 at All Saints Church, Clifton. 

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heavens all gracious King!"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.

For lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold,
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendours fling,
And all the world return the song
Which now the angels sing.

Miniatures

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

The Cathedral At Beauvais - performed by Amy Aron-Muellbauer

Performed by the Johan Löfving for the Contemporary Music Venture, March 2017.

Circadia, for Solo Guitar

Trio for Violin, Violoncello & Piano, performed by members of the Bristol Ensemble In January 2018.

Composition

Memento

Written for and performed by Bristol CoMA (Contemporary Music for All), with gratitude for their good humour and devotion.

Jazz Suite

I definitely peaked 7 years ago.. this Summer's earworm. 
 hats off @Tiggy Acworth!

Pear Drops

Another Lover

Final piece of the MA portfolio, and a farewell to Bristol.

Introduction & Allegro for Chamber Orchestra

Performed by David Bednall and the Lansdown Consort live in La Fontenelle, Brittany, August 2018.

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Written for and performed live by the Vicars Choral of Wells Cathedral Choir, New Music Wells, October 2019.

David Bevan Jr

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