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Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage

58 songs
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2020
Album
Oct 2020
12 Questions

1 track

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Oct 2020
12 Questions

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2015
Album
May 2015
Past and Present: Poetry Anthology

1 track

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Album
May 2015
Past and Present: Poetry Anthology

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1993
Single
Jan 1993
‘Strike two. My mind works’
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Single
Jan 1993
‘Strike two. My mind works’
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1993
Single
Jan 1993
‘My party piece’
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Single
Jan 1993
‘My party piece’
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1993
Single
Jan 1993
‘I rate myself as a happy, contented person’
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Single
Jan 1993
‘I rate myself as a happy, contented person’
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The Not Dead

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The Not Dead

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Album
CloudCuckooLand

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CloudCuckooLand

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Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid

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Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid

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Top Songs

#1
‘Strike two. My mind works’
#2
Transmission Report
#3
Man with a Golf Ball Heart
#4
Resistance
#5
‘My party piece’
#6
Kid
#7
The Patriarchs - An Elegy
#8
Harmonium

About Simon Armitage

Discography

The Not Dead
3 tracks
CloudCuckooLand
2 tracks
12 Questions
1 track · 2020
Past and Present: Poetry Anthology
1 track · 2015
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid
1 track

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‘Strike two. My mind works’

* Strike two. My mind works quickly and well these days, and I like the look of myself of late: a little more meat around the face, a little…

Transmission Report

It’s the year two thousand and twenty two on planet Earth, apparently, and I’m careering through time and space, careening between galaxies,…

Man with a Golf Ball Heart

They set about him with a knife and fork, I heard, and spooned it out. Dunlop, dimpled, perfectly hard. It bounced on stone but not on softe…

Resistance

It’s war again: a family carries its family out of a pranged house under a burning thatch. The next scene smacks of archive newsreel: platfo…

‘My party piece’

My party piece: I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick conjures up its light, to when the brightness moves beyond its means, and…

Kid

Batman , big shot , when you gave the order to grow up, then let me loose to wander leeward, freely through the wild blue yonder as you like…

The Patriarchs - An Elegy

The weather in the window this morning is snow, unseasonal singular flakes, a slow winter’s final shiver. On such an occasion to presume to …

Harmonium

The Farrand Chapelette was gathering dust in the shadowy porch of Marsden Church. And was due to be bundled off to the skip. Or was mine, fo…

Mother, Any Distance Greater than a Single Span

Mother , any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands. You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors , the …

Homecoming

Think, two things on their own and both at once The first, that exercise in trust, where those in front stand with their arms spread wide an…

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58

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5

Albums

50

Singles

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Simon Armitage is a music artist with 58 songs on Lyrks.

Popular tracks by Simon Armitage include ‘Strike two. My mind works’, Transmission Report, Man with a Golf Ball Heart, Resistance, ‘My party piece’. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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