An Old Bookshop

from All Power to the Bookshop by Steve Roberts

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All Power to the Bookshop, Steve's latest album, began as an Arts Council project about our relationship with books and reading. He explores how our memories, our hopes and dreams, our thoughts and emotional responses can be formed by the books we read and share. It’s an eclectic collection of songs that acts as propaganda for bookshops and reading.

Wild and chaotic, capricious and frustrating, there are certain physical laws that govern secondhand bookshops and like gravity, they're pretty much nonnegotiable.
Kathleen Tessaro

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lyrics

Must and dust and walls of
wood,I'd call that a bookshop
On rows and rows of shelves are
stood, words to make your heart
stop
If you are looking to escape or
maybe even claim your place
Then it's all in an old bookshop
Lines and spines of covered text
waiting for a reader
Maybe you will be the next
nothing could be sweeter
Than your eyes falling on a page
and opening a golden age of
time
All from an old bookshop
Bookshops here to feed us
Always gonna need us
Hoping for a reader
Nothing could be sweeter
W hat a prize is an old bookshop
Peace and quiet or childish glee
find it in a bookshop
Somewhere where your
thoughts are free and you can
let your guard drop
And open up your eyes to see
the person who you want to be
in this life
I love an old bookshop

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from All Power to the Bookshop, released January 1, 2022

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Steve was/is the singer and songwriter with Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines who signed to BMG and toured and recorded throughout Europe in the late 80s and 90s.
He’s since recorded 3 solo albums and one with the band Captain Pop. He’s also written for TV and semi theatre pieces about the Cold War and Surveillance. He lives in the Peak District. ... more

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