Only The Sorrow

from The Weight of Smoke by Edible Tent

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The Weight of Smoke features poems by Sir Walter Raleigh set to music by Peter Spafford. These songs are part of a longer theatre piece that includes text telling the extraordinary story of this Elizabethan explorer, poet, lover.

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Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired,
And past return are all my dandled days;
My love misled, and fancy quite retired.
Of all which passed, the sorrow only stays, the sorry only stays.

My lost delights, now clean from sight of land,
Have left me all alone in unknown ways;
My mind to woe, my life in fortune's hand.
Of all which passed, the sorrow only stays, the sorrow only stays.

Only the sorrow, only the sorrow.
Whom care forewarns, ere age and winter cold,
To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold.

As in a country strange, without companion,
I only wail the wrong of death's delays,
Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well-nigh done.
Of all which pass'd the sorrow only stays, the sorrow only stays.
Only the sorrow, only the sorrow
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from The Weight of Smoke, released January 3, 2022
Words: Sir Walter Raleigh. Music: Peter Spafford. Piano/vocal: Peter Spafford. Double bass: Dave Bowie Jnr.

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Edible Tent Leeds, UK

Edible Tent is the moniker for projects by Peter Spafford in collaboration with other artists. Peter Spafford is a writer and songwriter based in Leeds. He is also one half of Schwa.

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