Saints and Poets (The World We Left Behind) Pegasus mix

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This track is from an album that lives within the interactive novel "Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse," which comprises a set of artifacts related to a vanished science fiction writer, Arthur "Buddy" Newkirk, and playwright and musician Emily Keane. In universe, this is a cut from Emily's album "Heart Sutra," and is arranged and performed here by the amazing vocalist Leighanne Saltsman.

Words and Music: John McDaid, ASCAP

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From the nowhere to the here
From the distant to the near
Through that moment when things shift
And you’re suddenly adrift
In a place you've never seen before
Where nothing matters anymore

CHORUS
The saints and poets tried in vain
They were helpless to explain
All the lost you'll never find
From the world we left behind

Haunted memories no one shares
From a different then and there
You are suddenly alone
Past and future blank unknowns
Left to wonder at it all
From here that world just seems so small

CHORUS

THE DEAD
We the dead are lost and found

EMILY
Now you walk familiar streets

THE DEAD
Try in vain to stand our ground

EMILY
Empty hands and empty seats

THE DEAD
No illusions, no escape

EMILY
Grief for all that's disappeared

THE DEAD
Taking on this different shape

EMILY
Left with only what you feared

THE DEAD
And the memories start to fade

EMILY
You hear the whistle of that train

THE DEAD
Of the world where we were made

EMILY
And wonder if there’s some way back again

CHORUS

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released August 27, 2023
Album art by Lis Mitchell

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist, folk/filk singer-songwriter.

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