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    Gatefold all-cardboard CD cover. Photography by Leisa Clements, design by Leisa Clements and David Creese.

    Includes unlimited streaming of When You Were A Man via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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A memory came back to me
on a morning bright and still
the table held a square of light
spilling from the windowsill.

In a restaurant where I worked some years ago
one morning I was sweeping out the store
when I found a lifeless mouse in a patch
of sunlight on the floor.

Looking closer I could see
something moving beneath the fur
I leaned on my broom and watched
as nature worked on her.

Lying in the dust and sun
casting a shadow on the floor
I swept around that little corpse
then left and closed the door.

Why did that come back to me
a dusty downstairs memory
steam from my cup rising in the light
that slowly edges toward me.

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from When You Were A Man, released October 25, 2010

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David Creese England, UK

David Creese, founder of The Dumb Earth (Melbourne, Aust. 1993-2006)
and Mysteries (Mel, Aust. 2001- 2005),
drummer for Lizard Train (Adelaide, Aust. 1985-1996),
now occupied with self released albums of songs & narrations and composing music for the films of
Jason Tovey.
Latest album is Rocky the Clown & Other Follies. Spirit Monitors (2021) is a collaboration with Mike Cooper (YSF).
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