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A Writer's Retreat

from Uncertain Vista by Sills & Smith

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lyrics

A cabin in the woods
A writer’s retreat
A long gravel road
Hides his conceit

Single malt whiskey
His libation of choice
The words flow more easily
The liquor guides his voice

When he writes a rainbow
You know that it’s there
When he describes a mountain
You’re breathing that air
But his real life’s a mess
Like the carnage in his prose
A writer’s retreat, that’s how it goes

A Booker Prize
For his last work of fiction
Addled by drugs
Dangerous predilections

His Underwood is battered
The keys tap his pages
The cabin fire’s stoked
The work calms his rages

The affair with a grad student
The tabloids have a feast
The mind of a genius
One more book at least

When he writes a rainbow
You know that it’s there
When he describes a mountain
You’re breathing that air

But his real life’s a mess
Like the carnage in his prose
A writer’s retreat, that’s how it goes

Oh, when he writes a rainbow
You know that it’s there
When he describes a mountain
You’re breathing that air
But his real life’s a mess
Like the carnage in his prose
A writer’s retreat, that’s how it goes

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from Uncertain Vista, released September 15, 2011

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Sills & Smith Ottawa, Ontario

Sills & Smith is a band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with 6 studio albums. The first 3 were recorded and produced by Jonathan Edwards at Corvidae Music in Ottawa. For the albums Uncertain Vista (2011); No Way In, No Way Out (2012); The Glorious Ache (2013). the band members are Jeremy Sills, Frank Smith, Jonathan Edwards. More albums by Sills & Smith: sillsandsmith.bandcamp.com/music ... more

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