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Short story developed with Roger Duperrex for second album "Umbrella Fitz & Gerald" (2006). We recorded two of them and only one could go on the record, so this was dropped. Based upon a drawing by my daughter Emma, who was 4 years old at that time.

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Three-eyed Cat

Once, I met a three-eyed cat, on a wooden fence it sat, its head so nicely tilted, gazing at the moon. It guessed my silent question and, to my bewilderment, turned and spoke.

My first eye is for detecting food, it said; mice and birds and everything that quivers in the shade.

My second eye, I use to assess the world, all its flaws, heartache and pain, bruise and wound and the culprit blade.

My third eye, finally, is open to all the nightmares in my head; the ever silent devil that gnaws at my heels and assaults my trembling bed – until I’m twice awake…
or three times dead.

Oh gosh, said I. I wish I too had a third eye. The one for the mice and birds…

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from Spike (Rare and Unreleased Tracks) 2000​-​2012, released September 5, 2012

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Hemlock Smith come from Lausanne (Switzerland). Since 2002, they’ve released 7 regular albums with intelligent pop, as well as 2 soundtracks for silent film and 2 collaborations with Noise duo Les Poissons Autistes. Fronted by singer-songwriter Michael Frei, Hemlock Smith's distinctive voice is complemented by a talented band seamlessly blending Pop, Folk, Rock and Trip-Hop Sensibilities ... more

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