We sold out of these but we've now had a limited repress of the beautiful digipack CD with 16 page lyric booklet. Most of them are going round the English motorway system in Gav's merch box but we've keep a handful back at My Little Owl HQ for our lovely Bandcamp customers.
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Gavin says: "John (The Comment Section) who teaches music in Bristol, told me how during an Ofsted inspection his colleague was told "there's too much music in your music lesson""
lyrics
With all my savings, I bought this block of wood, now I can’t wait to make the thing talk
Today my bedroom tomorrow the world, strumming before I can walk
In this small town there’s a factory plant, no other signs on the road
But each time I pick up this six-string guitar, it’s like pulling the sword from the stone
Dad says, “Son, you need a proper career, something more conservative”.
And I shout that “I don’t just want to make a living, it’s far more important to live!”
Standing on twenty-year-old kitchen tiles, he’s shaking his head but somewhere in his eyes,
I swear I see more than a flicker of pride, as he holds onto my shoulders and says...
“Grab a pen and some paper and write ‘til it hurts
Whatever you do, it’ll need hard work
No one owes you a living in the real world
You’re just gonna have to be creative”
The ‘free’ school they built just a few miles away, turned out to be far too expensive
So my favourite teacher taught music to me, in my small town comprehensive
With her head in her hands she said “powers that be, tell me I can’t teach you how to play, they said ‘there’s too much music in your music lesson’ I can’t carry on this way”.
As she cleared out her desk I picked up my guitar, and the whole class just burst into song. “In a world of more testing and relentless assessment, you taught us not to fear being wrong.
They think poetry, painting, theatre and art are just hobbies to us but we reach for the stars, they may have full wallets but we have full hearts” and you stood in the doorway and said…
“Success, in this world has no reason or rhyme, do what makes you happy and you’ll do just fine, but if you don’t want to toe that old party line, you gonna have to be creative”
With all my savings got this block of wood, now I know just how to make it sing
I open the window as wide as I can, feeling the future rush in
To hell with the choices you tell me to make I’m ready to build my own track
My education will always be full of mistakes No curriculum can hold me back
And I’m gonna have to be creative, and I’m gonna blow this town today
I’m gonna have to be creative. And nothing’s gonna stand in my way
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