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Lewis & The Chessmen's lyrics & chords

Lewis & The Chessmen is the musical project of Lewis Daly, the cosmo-botanist. In December 2011, Lewis & The Chessmen released Bright Black, a short album centered around themes of blackness, cosmology, and botany. Lewis is currently conducting ethnographic research in the Guyanese savannah, and writing songs about his experiences for a forthcoming album, Guyana Songs. This will emerge from the undergrowth some time in 2013. Lewis Daly divides his time between Oxford, London, and Guyana. He sings and plays the guitar, piano, clarinet, and ba...read more

bright black

ophelia among the flowers

waiting

the two thousand year old computer

the holy light

the love that remains

a violet wave

melancholia in walthamstow

an imaginary winter

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weirdo of our time

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the second time i left the levant

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we were all alive once

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party political broadcast

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the ballad of bougainville

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your opinion of the rain

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conversation with self in twenty years

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ankles in the estuary

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beneath the radiator sun

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radiotherapy

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fight up

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stronger men than you and i

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sketches of strangers

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tall buildings

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single magpies

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the last days of socrates

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your disenchanted heart and my botanical brain

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recombination

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misery likes company part ii

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the chaosmos before the birth of the world

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cat on a piano

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the daughter of the devil demo

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it made me think of a miracle

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lucifer

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one hundred years of solitude

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medicine jars

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church intro

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josef k

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honeysuckle recommends

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midnight the beauty blues

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tristes tropiques

Bloodshed in the boathouse Iconoclasts Quicksand January Hot girlzz Regenesis of the satellite sun These times of brilliance Seven curses Song to self Quite alright The annex of innocence Highgate cemetry winter Numb Subterranean homesick lew Georgetown Nuclear winter lover The dark corridor Clarinet and friend I am a rock Drum Lackadaisical lover I am nothing Working class hero New rap demo Ophelia Baby The helen twins demo

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