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Wrong Place; Wrong Time: - Lyrics & Poems -

Wrong Place; Wrong Time: - Lyrics & Poems -

Murphy, Paul

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798249127138
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
'Wrong Place, Wrong Time'

- Lyrics & Poems -

Whilst creating his epic, 300,000-word prose-novel My Tale [A Ballad of Love], Irish singer/songwriter Paul Murphy additionally wrote a series of further songs during that time. In the recording sessions for that material, a file of lyrics to earlier songs, included 2 prose-works, never catalogued even as demo recordings, was discovered, and several of those were also given music. 29 of those titles are presented here.

Severely disabled by a muscle-destroying auto-immune conditionaty this point, many of the lyrics deal with ruminations on life, and mistakes made during it ['Not That Sorry (To Leave It All Behind)', 'Would Anybody Care', 'A Life In 2 Pages']; as Paul wryly notes in the enclosed essay Sapphire Tears On Soil, I always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Other subjects dragged under the spotlight of the caustic pen of this long-time social campaigner include Trump's America ['Past The Point', 'Values '26', 'Sacrificial Lambs', and 'Have A Nice Day', a swingeing excoriation of the tactics of ICE]; domestic abuse ['The Illusion Of Love' 'Malevolent Torment (A Strong-Stemmed Rose)']; broken relationships ['Mercury Kiss', 'Open Wounds Closed Exits']; and, experienced first-hand, the contemptuous attitudes of society, and charities, to the disabled ['Here To Help'].

As ever, the mischievous humour is there, in 2 double-entendre blues numbers ['Miss Glory's Latest Story' 'Fireman Blues', and several allegorical tales and 'mini-movies' were composed ['The Ballad of Old Luke Moore', 'The Demon's Lair']; also included is a re-written/re-nuanced version of the epic 1994 song 'Sadly; As A Storm', looking at the two lovers therein from a distance of several decades.

This collection presents a stunning series of narrative works - thought-provoking, heartbreaking, humorous, angering, and inspiring - all the more remarkable for the circumstances of their creation ['These songs were written in 2 kinds of pen and 28 kinds of pain'].

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