Name: For The Love of Parkus Mann
Duration: P00H04M10S
Description: “…one American reviewer hated us so deeply that he not only published the most personally insulting review I have ever read, but took the time and trouble to print it out and send it via airmail from the States to my home address England just to make sure I read his spiteful auld bollocks…”

For The Love of Parkus Mann

from We Are The Compass Rose by Paul Devine

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“…one American reviewer hated us so deeply that he not only published the most personally insulting review I have ever read, but took the time and trouble to print it out and send it via airmail from the States to my home address England just to make sure I read his spiteful auld bollocks…”

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Many lovers loved are passed
And many friends grown old
And as this lesson’s net is cast
My weary heart grows cold
And oceans of despair I weep
The bitter truth is told
Few and short were words we said
We spoke no words of sorrow
But gazed upon the lonely dead
How short this life we borrow
Pale hands clasped lifeless to her breast
We quailed before tomorrow
I think we are crusaders sent
From some infernal clime
To pluck the eyes of sentiment
And dock the tail of rhyme
To snap the back of memory
And crush the neck of time
I have forseen the death of this Death Scene
It’s carrion
Shackled
Away to the fire screen
And as the flames rise
It’s like salt-over-shoulder
It’s written
By wriveners
Until it gets colder
And out on the watchtowers
Observing the fight
Are the men with the pens
Tucked in safe for the night
They’ve unringed your white fingers
And they’ve redrawn your casket
With Frankenstein Monsters
All made out of plastic

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from We Are The Compass Rose, released February 13, 2023

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Paul Devine England, UK

1983: Sheffield, singing with Siiiii
1986: Leaves band
1989: South Wales
1993: DVO form
2005: Siiiii reform. Release Ancient
2006: Siiiii active live. Play New York
2008: Ein Verdammtes Versprechen released
2008: A Murder of Sandfleas released
2014: Modern. Paul leaves band again
2019: Diagnosed with ADHD, BPD and Tourette’s
2021 – 2022: Publishes four books
2023: The Compass Rose released ... more

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