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Voynich Manuscript

from Hindsight by Year Without a Summer

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I guess it’s hard to be
The only branch of your family tree
And everyone just leaves
Bears no fruit and never seeds
You’re the only book on your shelf
The essential core of yourself
A forgotten code
No-one solves or no-one reads

And you follow the paper trail
Up to the point of the first known sale
But the line goes dead
The trail goes cold
And no documentary
Series on the BBC
Can help you get ahead
Can get you solved

Viewers love a mystery
But it’s not an easy thing to be
Written in unknown writing
With no Rosetta
And they think that the enigma’s the point
That any answer’d disappoint
In fact, you’re hoping it’ll happen,
It’ll make you better
If nine people die in the snow
And you shrug and guess we’ll never know
Why they died, well that doesn’t help the survivors
You can give a kid a brand new start
You have their best interests at heart, but you can’t show
Where the landing site is

Am I attracted to the mystique?
Is it the glamour that makes it unique?
Is the mystery a guest or an intrusion?
And if I could complete the puzzle
Maybe it’d be nothing but an empty bubble
But at least it would be an answer, a conclusion

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from Hindsight, released May 1, 2020

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Year Without a Summer Coventry, UK

Beach-shack post-punk. Solo play in the bedroom. Sailed from St Annes, washed up in Coventry. Interests include apocalypse survival, false memories, moths.

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