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Mixed memories from childhood visits to Grandparents and also to Wester Ross. I started it during a writing course with Boo Hewerdine and Findlay Napier. The prompt being curtains. I wanted the sound of the clock from my grandparents...from a time when the space was a lot quiieter than it is now. And then as we got into the arrangement I asked Mary Ersking to narrate an extract from Cuddle Doon which was a favourite of my Gran ( Isa Adam)

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Heavy Felt

Heavy Felt, hanging waiting
With small tears where we pin it back
Winter moths have had their wanting
Six months between the cracks
Warm now, lost in the flame
Safe now, forever the same
Forever the same
Forever

The darkness big as any haunting
our small hopes where we pin it back
The silence loud as any screaming
Cries lost between the cracks
Wait now, whenever the night
Watch now, whatever in sight
whatever the night
Forever

The wood is damp, the curtain closing
Over rusty nails where we pin it back
The first fire is always smoking
Soot and ash between the cracks
Warm now, lost in the flame
Safe now, forever the same
Forever the same
Forever

The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
Wi muckle faught and din.
“Oh try an’ sleep, ye waukrife rogues,
Your faither’s comin’ in.”
They niver heed a word I speak,
I try tae gie a froon,
But aye I hap’ them up an’ cry
“Oh, bairnies, cuddle doon!”


Off to bed, time still ticking
One more tale as we hold it back
Candle light, moving, dancing flicking
Through heavy felt, between the cracks
dream now, footsteps on the path
Sleep now They’re coming back
They’re coming back
forever

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from Everything In The Delicatessen, released October 6, 2023
Vocals and Acoustic Guitar : Tom Houston
Cello, BVs and Narration : Mary Erskine (Me For Queen)
Bass : Joe Murray
Drums : Mattie Fould

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Tom Houston releases his sixth studio Album in October 2023.
Everything in the Delicatessen.



Tom lives in Central Scotland and was songwriter of note on BBC Scotland's Iain Anderson's show in 2017.

He is also a regular on Tom Robinson's BBC Introducing Mixtape

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