In Memory of a Time Traveller (unreleased early mix)

by Paul Roland

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Christian Mumford people come and go in hospital beds in zion... Some escape with tales of kali Magick & Lotus birth & incense dance to bliss & travel though time... we die? we know better... we take an exit... side tryps. Favorite track: In Memory of a Time Traveller (unreleased early mix).

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H.G. Wells (1866-1946) is often acknowledged as a godfather of steampunk, but I'm not aware of any bands who cite his visionary proto-science fiction (or 'scientific romances', as he called them) as an influence. I paid homage to him several times (on 'The Great Edwardian Air-raid', 'Wyndham Hill', 'The Late Mr Evesham', 'Triumphs of a Taxidermist' and 'In Memory of a Time Traveler'). As much as I love Tim Powers, Cherie Priest and Alan K Baker among others, it is only Wells, in my opinion, who can evoke that wistful Edwardian world in to which the alien and fantastic intrude, disrupting the lives of his often hapless characters.

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In Memory of a Time Traveller
Every evening about this time I call to mind a good friend of mine
Who hazard his life and much more to go where none had ventured before

I dare say you’ll think me naïve, but I hope, I trust and believe
He will return one of these days though from where I just cannot say

I suppose you consider it queer, but I assure you that I am sincere
They don’t call me a fool to my face, but they think so for keeping the faith

The last thing he said to me, “I do not mean to be unkind,
I can’t expect you to understand this sullen restlessness of mine”

I thought him rash, I have to say and implored him to delay
But Time was pressing, he replied, and the hour had come to say goodbye.

If I could only leave this mean world, this world of woe and suffering
And by some means find another not for gain or to play the king

He was not himself, that I could see, and I would not let him be
“Are not some things best left alone, should not some things remain unknown?”

And then one morning I swear I saw him, but how could that be? It just confounds me
For all the world to age and change while one man still remains the same
I’m sure I’d seen him, it must have been him, but that just can’t be. It just confounds me
For all the world to age and change while one man still remains the same

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released October 21, 2023

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Paul Roland England, UK

Formerly managed by June Bolan, Paul has been spinning supernatural and historical-themed tales against a backdrop of gothic rock, psych-pop and baroque strings, earning him the sobriquet, ‘The Male Kate Bush' (attributed to former label mate Robyn Hitchcock) ... more

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