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No Mercy: - Lyrics & Poems -

No Mercy: - Lyrics & Poems -

Murphy, Paul

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798270970178
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 22 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
No Mercy

Lyrics & Poems

An anthology of lyrics and prose from Irish singer/songwriter Paul Murphy. Dating from late October 2025, these 27 compositions were his final works, a sweeping range of tales concerning matters such as, the dissolution of order in Trump's America, and elsewhere ('You Know Who I Mean', 'Come Tomorrow'); social and legal injustice {'It's Still Sunday', 'English Justice'); persecution of the individual ('Reclamation', 'Angels Turn Away'); allegorical parables on the rise, and perils, of autocracy ('Wake Up Baby [And Smell The Dead Roses]', 'Beauty'); and, against those starker works, a song of self-belief and empowerment ('Me'), and the beautiful ode from a parent to his child, 'To A Sleeping Angel'). And, although the material from these closing writing sessions was amongst the darkest even this no-holds-barred songwriter crafted, there was still a light-hearted double-entendre-laden number icrafted n 'Computer Love'. Meanwhile, as topical as ever, 'High & Mighty - Fallen', a commentary on the then-Prince Andrew, presciently written 2 days before his title removal.

Among the poems presented in this collection are the heartwarming 'Dawn Poem', with an alternate closing section seen here for the first time, and 'To The Two'. Also included, are two prose/song epics - the semi(?)-autobiographical life-reflection, 'And Then... The Last Song Came'; and 'My Tale', an elegiac narrative ballad of love and injustice in small-town 1930's dust-bowl America. Writing the 48 verses all in one day, this song - his final one - is incomplete, as his health finally failed. Realising this, 'signpost' verses were written, along with the final verse, and Paul then left details in the essay telling what the missing parts of the story would have been.

Accompanying the works are an essay - Goddamn, That Hurt - detailing the composition circumstances and back-stories to each song and poem; alternate, unused cover art and Internet cue-cards; and photographs of the original handwritten manuscripts.

Moving, emotive, conscience-provoking and, occasionally, disquieting, this anthology collates the final works, and wordplay, of a master songwriter whose narrative talents burned bright until his last line was scribed.

Angels Turn Away [Extract]

Lightning's striking, trees are falling down

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