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A Child With My Name

from Walk Me Home by Del Scott Miller

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'A Child With My Name' is an acknowledgement of grief as a rite of passage and a reflection on, when that initial loss subsides, the sense of distance from any life previous. It's also a confirmation of the passing of time in general and how big personal events act as catalysts triggering the next phase of life: with each new age that gets its hooks in, memories, objects and even wider world events from childhood and youth are rendered increasingly alien and intangible.

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There, nothing's harvested or sown, nothing weakens, nothing grows
Youth and nerve they say I once owned fill scenes I'm told I ought to know.
Attire that evokes what secrets failed to keep the one percent awake
Horrors now just anecdotes, parables of how an era breaks.

Bled of colour, not quite black and white, something haunted, something lost
Squares and ovals scattered across walls tell of times when fingers crossed

I scoured every corner of each warped and faded frame
and found no one more familiar than a child with my name.
Free from the fallout of each image since repaying every glare



Signed and stickered commendations, yellow at the edges, a font now used in irony alone
Someone of a species known only by a surname
prasies how much discipline was shown
Grades and inclinations vie for influence and bias beneath a growing sediment of dust
A cap and gown confined, shedding thread with each year spent
rue the day they proudly placed their trust

The principles they promise and the faculties they claim
betray no one more familiar than a child with my name.
Free from the fallout of potential all those milestones brought to bear



Tiny cars that planted seeds of aspiration fill a box that bears the emblem
of a brand no longer sold.
Catapults and guns and bows and arrows, decommissioned
having taught what glories victory can hold
Cinematic villains cling with growing desperation
to what little ancient menace they can find
As their paint peels away it's clear they're moulded much the same
as all those heroes to whose ruin they'd been assigned.

The hours of play they weathered, distraction without shame
the weightless work of some fictitious child with my name.
Free from the fallout of knowing no one else was playing fair.

credits

from Walk Me Home, released April 29, 2021
Del Scott Miller: words and music, vocals, guitar
Fionnuala Donnelly-Schmidt: cello
James Fosberry: recording and engineering
Phil Ruston: design

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Del Scott Miller Barnsley, UK

Del Scott Miller is a songwriter, guitarist, composer and poet from Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Calling on the experiences and ideals of his Northern working class background, his songs often marry poetic and cinematic narratives with a guitar approach informed as much by jazz and classical traditions as his singer/songwriter influences. ... more

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