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Heart in the Rheinland

from A Matter of Mind by Doctor Mirabilis

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Down and outward up in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Michel-Erik was in need of a smoke
Georgey Orwell was his travellin’ companion
He was feeling abandoned, he had embers to stoke

The third child of a delicate dalliance,
Mother was a chanteuse from the banks of the Seine
Father nimbly side-stepped her Papa’s indifference
He’d been in the Resistance, there’d been others to blame

A folked-up singer in a suburb of electro,
He kept it low-key in his basement of bliss
His boyhood idyll in a haven of retro
Blown away on the metro the night of that first kiss

But now his heart is in the Rheinland
His spirit’s on the line
He’s on track to trace her trail as he glides in darkness
Like the barges on the Rhein

Now Katharina was a dangerous damsel,
Her eyes hue ice-blue in the Margots Café
She sought out loathful leering Lotharios at random
She felt commanded to damn them, she was solemn that way

But Michel-Erik wove a new kind of hymnal,
At piano in the corner, she watched him in bloom
On a melancholy Monday, he finally picked up the signal,
A fateful wait after hours the birth of glory and doom

In the silken streets of Paris, no romance was wasted
From Montmarte’s constellation to the steps of Sacre Couer
Vin by the carafe, no bouquet went untasted,
You don’t spill distillation of a vintage so pure

Now her heart is in the wine land
Her mind is on the vine
They say you’ll find the cure if you don’t mind the silence
In Burgundy and time

All along the Left Bank he’d walk in the evenings
She’d left in the autumn when he’d told her his plans
Wrestling with the question can you say that you’re grieving
When the love that you’re mourning died by your own hand

Now his heart is in the Rheinland
The narrative’s aligned
It’s too late to save it now but he’ll live to say he tried and
Keep the diamonds that he mined

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from A Matter of Mind, released August 1, 2011

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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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