wow,the lyric wrote my life,almost! great song.

Tom Rosenthal

this song tells a true story of me sitting next to a 87 year old lady on the train. 



Dilys, we sat next to one another on the train, you said your husband died 4 years ago and for the most part your alone, your many teddy bears don’t keep you warm at night and you don’t believe in a god, you husband spent 5 years as a prisoner of war , you sent him letter upon letter, 

but those annoying little Nazis didn’t let any letter through, the youth today don’t know, you’ve forgotten more than they will ever know know know know know know know, you had no children of your own, no children of your own 
 
I said I would write a song about you, but you did not, you did not believe me, so listen so listen to this, oh Dilys
 
You got off the train before I did, you said this journey would have been harder without you here, and 68 years between us but we laughed, like youngsters would laugh, so Dilys I wish you well, you said you would remember my name, and I’ll remember yours, I will, I will, I will., oh Dilys  


Dilys

'Karl Marx In The Bath' is available on: 
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gZn24esaeyI

LYRICS: 
You, you used to read Karl Marx, alone in the bath, whenever 
You were low, whenever you were low. 
You made cakes out of love and love out of hugs 
Cos that is what you do, that is what you do. 

You made a paper boat and you sailed all across the floor to 
The harbour by the door 

You caught a bug in a jar and you named it Escobar 
But your mother let it go, your mother let it go.

You made a paper boat and you sailed all across the floor to 
The harbour by the door 

You made a paper boat and you sailed all across the floor to 
The harbour by the door 


Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop

Karl Marx in the Bath

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'Toby Carr's Difficult Relationship With Tuna' is available on: 
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LYRICS: 
He put it on his toast and those he liked the most 
He stole it from his cats and from the fishmonger 
He would run fast as he could His hat blew off in the wind 
He was a rapscallion It all was a game It all was game. 
Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna 

In his school photo he held one high above his head 
So the future boys could see what he had done done done. 
  Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna

In the dead of night, he drew them high on city walls 
In the light of day he showed the girl he loved Love love loved 
Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna 

Oh the love did end , one day he found them sickening 
So he threw them all far into the sea 
They swam away from him, to the lows to the lows 
He waved goodbye to them from the coast, from the coast.

Toby Carr's Difficult Relationship with Tuna

'The Boy' is available on: 
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/rj34nSnxg6c

LYRICS: 
The boy sits in a field tall grass above his head, and he’s thinking of the path that his ancestors did tread and as he’s dreaming of the future a mist does descend, and he wonders if this is the beginning or this is the end 

And out of the mist a tall creature does appear, his eyes wide and friendly, his face full of years , he says “we’re going on a journey in my hot air balloon, and the time is now so we must get going soon”. 

They flew over the houses and the streets they use to know, over trains going fast and people going slow, there were snow on the mountains and boats on the sea, and there were lovers in the forest carving their names into a tree 

The boys says “where are we going, where are we going to, I’m scared of the future and I’m mildly scared of you, the creature looked down and said “don’t be scared of the unknown”, we’re going to a place in which I have grown 

With a sudden gush of wind the balloon fell from the sky, and the boy shut his eyes and hoped he wouldn’t die, the creature was calm, he had done this before so he landed the hot air balloon and he opened the door 

The boy walked out and he couldn’t believe his eyes, there was a flock of sheep floating through the skies followed by a magic carpet on which their shepherd did fly and the boy wondered what was going on. 

So he walked through this land with the creature by his side, to his left was a painter, painting the tides, and to his right a pack of wolves did cry to the rise and fall of the moon. 

They entered the forest and the trees they hung low, everything was dark and nothing there did grow apart from a single yellow rose that the boy put in his hair 

Out of the forest, the snow it did fall, the creature held an umbrella high above the boy then out the of snow appeared an empty platform, and they waited patiently for a train 

From far in the distance a train did arrive with a thousand polar bears passengers inside, the creature said to the boy “are you ready for the ride” and the boy said” yes I think I am” 

So they sped through the hills and over mountains they did go, over old wooden bridges withered from the cold, and the boy stared out of the window and smiled at all he could see 

They travelled through the desert to the setting sun, over streams and rivers to where it all begun, and through the wind and the rain until the days were done, they rode through the land 

All of a sudden, the train it did stop, the creature said to the boy “this is where we both get off”, and all the polar bear climbed to the top of the train to wave their goodbyes

The pair, now alone, walked through a featureless land, no blade of grass, no grain of sand, and on the horizon a great sea did stand and creature said “ this is where I must go” 

At the waters edge, nothing more was said, the boy looked at the creature, not a single tear was shed, and the creature laid his hand upon the boys head, and gave him a wink of his eye 

The creature turned around and walked slowly to the sea, to go to a place where forever he would be, and with one great leap he leapt into sea and in the blink of an eye he was gone. 

The boy stood still, alone now on the shore, he stared into the distance and hoped there would be more, and the yellow rose it fell to the floor and drifted away on the wind. 


The Boy

Can't Help Falling In Love (cover)

'Eyes Eyes Eyes' is available on: 
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/298H_0N0SHE

LYRICS: 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
I'm happy to be near you. 


Eyes Eyes Eyes

Keaton Henson - Milk Teeth Cover

'Panda in the Chandelier' is available on: 
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Bandcamp -tomrosenthal.bandcamp.com/album/bolu

LYRICS: 
Theres a panda in the chandelier 
Oh what have we got here? what have we got here?

Well i'll tell you how it got up there 
This is a story of a young girls flair   
for throwing pandas 

It was her fathers friends wedding day 
and she was dragged along, as is the way, 
for the poor young ones. 

As the big people did their thing 
the panda bear she did swing 
oh the panda bear 
flung through the air 

Well a serious man with a frown 
came with a ladder and took it down, 
aren't ladders handy 

He had never seen this happen before 
Pandas normally stick to the floor 
Call it good timing 

And you got your panda back 
you got your panda back 
you got your panda back 
and your were happy about that 

Bolu

Panda in the Chandelier

I Wrote A Novel

Coastlines

Fenn

The Only Good Thing About Bad Bob

Shooting The Moon (Over The Moon)

Iron Orchestra - Organism

Taking its name from novelist Jack London’s 1904 seafaring adventure, Sea Wolf has evolved organically from its hermetic origins in Alex Brown Church’s living room into a muscular, full-bodied musical entity with passion to burn. After adopting the sobriquet, Church burst onto the music scene in two-fisted fashion with the EP, Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low, and the subsequent full-length debut album, Leaves in the River, about which Interview magazine observed, “His music is both erudite and unvarnished, a blend of swirling melodies, literary balladry and damaged art-rock composition.”

And now, Church’s singular vision has led to the creation of the eloquent and expansive new album White Water, White Bloom, which not only fulfills the immense promise of the initial musical diptych but conjures up its own cosmology. This is one of those rare and mysterious records wherein, the first time you hear it, you can’t shake the feeling that it’s always been part of the soundtrack of your life. You intimately know its ups and downs, its melodies and cadences, its settings and characters.

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