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The Merchant of Venus

from Belgian Whistles by This Much Talent

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Was I just holding something back or trying to do my worst?
Good intentions come to mind but you don’t forget your first
Waves upon the water and suitors on the shore
Trying to get it back to what they used to know before

He said “I want to talk to you” but ‘torture’s what she heard
And it seemed that in mishearing she’d expressed what he preferred
She said “Do you have children, and how did you two meet?”
He said “Once I did but now I don’t, my family’s incomplete”

Meanwhile back in Belmont the room’s alive with their transgressions
They’re gathered in the courtyard trying to make a good impression
One by one they all pull back the curtain on the caskets
And pose a question to themselves as if they’re too afraid to ask it

Like a long-forgot celebrity to crops up on the screen
You ask what they’ve appeared in and where they might have been
From the courtroom to the gallery there’s always someone who’s been framed
Where everyone’s a suspect, but no-one’s ever named

And in his mind he quickly says he’s not prepared to budge
It’s the modern online habit to offend and then to judge
It’s a man in a million who never makes mistakes
And blessed is a woman when she gives and when she takes

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from Belgian Whistles, released June 13, 2023

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This Much Talent England, UK

I did my first gig in 1980. Between then and now I’ve been in a blues rock power trio, heard The Big Music, played heavy-big pop, been an acoustic troubadour, stage manager, author, Beatles specialist, and once joined a travelling family of Appalachian musicians named the Guitars. Good times.
Thanks to all of the wonderful musicians who took time to collaborate with me this time around.
Shane. ... more

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