Richard Thompson - Broken Doll

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"Some songs, you never finish...you let them lie for 20 years, adding a line, changing a verse," reflects songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson. "Songs always sound best before you write them, before you get them on paper or into a recording."

Honing his creations ever closer to their initial spark of inception has required a diligent, tireless dedication to his craft of songwriting - and has resulted in an unparalleled career now spanning five decades, from his formative years in seminal folk-rock alchemists Fairport Convention to his acclaimed solo work.

Still, available via Proper Records on June 29, 2015, is testament to Thompson's ongoing evolution as a songwriter and performer, and his willingness to continue challenging himself. "By this point," Thompson explains, "I've done about forty albums on my own. I know how to make records. I know the process. But I also fall into my own patterns and habits."

Broken Doll - Lyrics:
You called for me so here I am
Not a boy and not a man
Man enough to know the odds are long
They dress you up and keep you clean
Like courtiers around a queen
Show you good from bad, right from wrong

All the tears in the world
All the tears in the world
Won’t mend a Broken Doll

The little things in life escape her
Dolls are made of rags and paper
China cracks and chips so easily
Doesn’t have the will, the strength
To hold the world out at arm’s length
Skin’s too thin, eyes too wide to see

All the tears in the world
All the tears in the world
Won’t mend a Broken Doll

Wish I could give love to you
And life to you and hope to you
As you look through me to something else
In your face I think I see
Twisted-up infinity
Angel soul imprisoned in a shell

All the tears in the world
All the tears in the world
Won’t mend a Broken Doll