Name: School Reunion
Duration: P00H02M49S
Description: A song about not doing well at school in a kind of later Leonard Cohen style with Margot Leighton on backing vocal.

School Reunion

from The Song is Everything by James Wakeling and the Brothers in Law

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A song about not doing well at school in a kind of later Leonard Cohen style with Margot Leighton on backing vocal.

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School Reunion

The Master Class a tisk a task
A strong, familiar lesson grasped
That held me firm and held me fast
Adept domain and guiding sparse

The bell that rang with hand-held clasp
It whispered low a question asked
To amplify the damps and darks
And classify the clanging brass

So ring the bells and lock the doors
Then add the marks and tally scores
There’s a judgment coming
And a test to pass
You’re just a face lost in the crowd And back to fronters ain’t allowed There’s a judgment coming
And a test to pass

To climb the stairs and plot the charts
And weigh my make in stops and start
Assembling and took apart
The pieces of these works of art

They seminared and sermonized
The genus from the itemize
And in my place and from which side
They gazed across the ace divide

At rhythmy hands and flailing spellers
Secret sounds and sea salt sellers
There’s a judgment coming
And a test to pass
For school is out and die is cast
Whilst seasoning the Master Class
There’s a judgment coming
There’s a test to pass

© JAMESONGS 2016

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from The Song is Everything, released August 1, 2020
JAMES WAKELING: VOCAL, RHYTHM GUITAR, KEYBOARD | TIM NIKOLSKY: BASS GUITAR | SERGE DE LUCIO: DRUMS | MARGOT LEIGHTON: BACKING VOCAL | ROB VINCS: TENOR SAXOPHONE

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