A Mystery To Me
Words and Music Steve Somerset c2020

He’s out there protecting statues
Oh he’s a mystery to me

Sometimes you think you know someone
Turns out you never did
I just bumped into an old friend of mine
We went to school together as kids
But now he reads the Daily Mail and votes Tory
Believes in some kind of England that never really existed
It’s a mystery to me
and I say
It’s a mystery to me

And down at the caravan club
They’re having a real good time pretending it’s 1963
When you can open at atlas and see lots of red
The Empire, the Queen and country
But now he opens the Daily Mail 
And it’s still red that he sees
Oh those headlines get him all steamed up
He’s a mystery to me
And I say
It’s a mystery to me

Maybe his mind got narrow as his waistline expanded
They say that’s often true
He lives in a world that I don’t inhabit
But many people do
We occupy the same time and space
How could we think so differently
He’s out there protecting statues
He’s a mystery to me

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Forever and a Day words and music Steve Somerset c2020
I read Anthony Horowitz's  excellentJames Bond Novel 'Forever and a Day' and set myself a 'write to order' task to write a theme tune should it ever make the big screen. The story is set in the fifties in the South of France.
All instruments and vocals Steve Somerset

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Forever And A Day  by Steve Somerset

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Written, performed and produced by Steve Somerset c2021

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Written by Steve Somerset c2016
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Recorded at Turn Again Studios Highgate

Skeleton Key - Steve Somerset

The title track from the album Nostalgia For The Future by Steve Somerset's Shadow Kabinet available now on Kool Kat Musik.
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Written and performed by Steve Somerset. All vocals and instruments Steve Somerset.
While the lyrics are often inspired and the arrangements ambitious it is the melodies that carry this excellent album. The title track may be Somerset’s best ever though Honey Glow Afternoon – a gorgeous slice of folk pop – runs it very close.
If you have ever loved Pugwash, XTC, The Orgone Box or any number of McCartney influenced US power poppers then you’ll adore this." - Pop Junkie's Review of Nostalgia For The Future

Nostalagia For The Future -- Steve Somerset's Shadow Kabinet

Dead Romance - written, produced and performed by Steve Somerset c 2017 
Recorded at Turn Again Studios, Highgate, London

Dead Romance -

Tell Me - words and music Steve Somerset. All instruments and vocals Steve Somerset. Recorded at Turn Again Studios Highgate London. c2017

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Tell Me

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Written, performed and produced by Steve Somerset.

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See Me Stumble written and recorded by Steve Somerset c2017

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gaslight
verb
gerund or present participle: gaslighting
manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.
Gaslighting written and performed by Steve Somerset c2017

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Inside written, produced and performed by Steve Somerset c 2018

Inside

Singer/songwriter solo performer. Released four albums as The Shadow Kabinet. Albums available here
http://www.gomojo.net/basement/shadowkabinet 

Vocals, guitar and bass with The Blues Ghosts. Album 'Bootlegged In Barnes' released August 2014.

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