Name: Game of Fools
Duration: P00H02M39S
Description: I wrote the chorus of this track years ago, but didn't finish it until recently when I found myself sitting and enjoying the morning sun in a kitchen in Henbury UK, a little suburb of Bristol. A lot of the lyrical themes on the album have to do with the idea that the true ghosts are those who linger in the material world, choosing to cling to substance over spirit, hence the game of fools.

Game of Fools

from Her Majesty's Secret Circus Vol. 2 by The Great Speckled Fritillary

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I wrote the chorus of this track years ago, but didn't finish it until recently when I found myself sitting and enjoying the morning sun in a kitchen in Henbury UK, a little suburb of Bristol. A lot of the lyrical themes on the album have to do with the idea that the true ghosts are those who linger in the material world, choosing to cling to substance over spirit, hence the game of fools.

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Game of Fools

I was a guest/in a house with unlocked doors/I played the game of fools/never knowing it was I and I alone who made the rules/you, my friend are gone/whilst I alone remain/ensconced within my/scarred and battered/frail old English heart////
When you’re gone, who’ll linger on?////
I loved a girl/way down in Summer’s Isle it was so long ago/now I’ve found her creeping through the cobwebs of my life/her bent and twisted frame/these hollowed eyes where shadows dwell/her blistered lips cry out to save me from the reveries of Hell////
When you’re gone who’ll linger on?////
The green, eternal angels where their grace upon their face when ‘ere they go/and all they know
When you’re gone, who’ll linger on?/////

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from Her Majesty's Secret Circus Vol. 2, released May 21, 2022

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The lovely butterfly-dragons of Sona-Nyl are insectoid creatures with beautifully-patterned wings, insect-like legs and long, curved necks and tails. These creatures feed solely on nectar, fragrant odours and silence. If threatened, a butterfly-dragon responds by emitting a rose-coloured mist from glands along the sides of its body. Anyone inhaling or even touching this mist goes deaf. ... more

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