A Way from Shelter

from Exiles by Doctor Mirabilis

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Your sentences were self-imposed
Grim and bloody-minded deeds
Ancient vows of noble seed
Now cast anew, oaths recomposed
With brutal youth and hardened heart
You cast off binding winter deep
Awoke from lavish love-lush sleep
To embrace this cold and stony creed
The waves of consequence arose
And how stark was the sting of cost
Freed from ties, now bound to loss
You reached out for the alms of art

New laws on neon battlegrounds
The wildness of a city tamed
And rules reframed in archaic games
Still blissful fools seek wistful clowns
You sought out missals from the old world
Missions manned to scared vaults
But in retrospect only faded faults
And you found you’d had enough of ghosts
The phantoms of those you’d loved the most
Banished then to leave no trace
‘Cept anthems penned, you're left to brace
Yourself again against the cold

Across the water, a way from shelter
A bridge through force of rhyme
And home a state of mind

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from Exiles, released September 24, 2014

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Doctor Mirabilis Nottingham, UK

After shedding the exoskeleton of troubled troubadour JT Songs, Doctor M emerged fully formed and backed by the superb playing and production of Peyton Pinkerton on his first three albums, A Matter of Mind (2011), Exiles (2014), and The Captain’s Chorus (2017). Aims and Methods (2023) signals a new musical direction and the first release recorded and mixed at Doctor M’s own Sublemotion Studios. ... more

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