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Triplets

Paradox, Paradigm and Paragon
Were triplets, sharing the placenta.
They jostled and tangled in their mother’s womb
(Up and down and round again!)
Each was born rejoicing, satisfied.

Paradox defied all intuition,
Achieving the apparently impossible.
Paragon embodied virtue, wit and charm.
(Round and down and up again!)
Paradigm was an example to us all.

They were the heart and soul of our town,
Impressing everyone who met them.
We missed them all when they were hounded out
(Up and down and round again!)
Driven away by hardship, poverty.

We’re saddened by the fact that they have gone,
Although they’d smiled and said that times will change.
We still hear their laughter round every corner
And still we feel expectant, full of hope.

At what secret spring did those girls drink?
Where the hive at which their lips were honeyed?
At whose knee did they learn their letters,
Sharpening their literary knives?

Paradox, Paradigm and Paragon
Lie side by side, they rest in peace,
Waiting for the trumpet that will split their sleep,
Prising open their deaf ears,
And the light to wash their bleary eyes.

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Time and again I feel myself drawn back
To where it all began.
Yes, to where it all began.

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from Where It All Began, released May 21, 2018
All instruments, voices, programming, production, mixing and mastering - David Mudie

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daviesteelman London, UK

David lives in south London, UK. He has been writing and recording (but rarely finishing!) music for a number of years. He plays keyboards, guitar and bass, and enjoys the process of recording, producing and mixing.
He has played keyboards in The Arrivists and The Othersides, both London-based bands, and regularly played in blues-rock jam nights in south London (before Covid! Those were the days).
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