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The song about Bill

by Zirkus

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Written in 2006, this work became the start of a grandiose orchestra and a huge epic story of the fabulous magician Jean Jacquel Le Mage and his demons

lyrics

Look down there at the bar
There sits old Bill
Bill he’s that long haired half blind man
He worked all his life in the mines below
For what?
For what?
Yeah for a rose

In the old bar called The Glittering Star
Sits old Bill in the darkness
He worked all his life in the mines below
See the scar on his cheek
See the white dots in his eyes
He’s almost blind the mine took his sight
All this for a rose

But she left him for a young man
A man with a rose in his hand
All Bill ever wanted was for her to be happy
Hah! That’s what I call irony

There on the broken chair
In the shattered home
Sits old Bill he is all alone
Carving crosses
Sowing the seeds
Thinking of all his un-quitted deeds

Bill I know you’re blind
And you can’t see a thing
But your ears works quite all right
And you can hear me sing
Pull the trigger
Make the angels sing
End your life with the bullet
Forged from your wedding ring

credits

released August 23, 2013
Recorded at Halftone Studio
by - Mina Göl Bertelsen

Mix and Mastering by
Tobias Pyndt Steinmann

Art By
Robert Friis

Arrangements and transcriptions
Lars Fjeldmose
And Zirkus

Zirkus:
Andreas Birk - Violin.
Dennis Westerberg - Guitar.
Lasse Koch - Piano and Accordion.
Michael Hurup Jensen - Geräusche.
Nijas Ørnbak-Fjeldmose - Vocals and percussion revolver.
Peter Kjeldsen Hansen - Percussion.
Scott Kristian Bidstrup - Drums.
Theis Hansen - Clarinet and Bass Clarinet.
Tobias Pyndt Steinmann - Saxophone.
Tue Birkholm Segel - Bass.
Ulrik Hvidkjær - Trombone.
Victor Dickers-Eisner - Trumpet.

Author and Composer
Nijas Ørnbak-Fjeldmose.

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