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EVEN SONG Lyrics & Poems / October 2025 A collection of all the lyrics and prose that Irish singer/songwriter Paul Murphy composed during October 2025. This anthology collates the individual anthologies 'In Humanity' and 'No Mercy' as Volume 6 of the "Words" series, the lyrics and prose without the accompanying reproductions of the handwritten manuscripts. Written as Paul's auto-immune F-MND had placed him in a wheelchair and with only one functioning arm, these were his final works, and in just 31 days he crafted an incredible 45 works, a sweeping range of tales concerning matters such as the dissolution of order in Trump's America and elsewhere ('You Know Who I Mean', ''33 Again', 'Come Tomorrow'); social and legal injustice {'It's Still Sunday', 'English Justice'); persecution of the individual ('Reclamation', 'Not In My Name', 'Angels Turn Away'); allegorical parables on the rise, and perils, of autocracy ('Wake Up Baby [And Smell The Dead Roses]', 'Beauty'); and, against those starker works, a song of self-belief and empowerment ('Me'), and the beautiful ode from a parent to his child, 'To A Sleeping Angel'). Despite the harsh and uncompromising content of most of the works, there was still a flash of what his young daughter would call "Daddy's cheeky grin", two double-entendre-laden numbers in 'Ballad Of A Hungry Boy' and 'Her Majesty's Pleasure', whilst among the prose presented here, the heartwarming 'Dawn Poem' and 'To The Two'. Also included, two stark semi(?)-autobiographical life-reflections, 'Wrong Colour Name' and 'And Then... The Last Song Came', and, on his penultimate creating day, the incomplete narrative epic, 'My Tale', an elegiac story of love and trag