The+Colour+of+My+Dreams

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I'm a really rotten reader the worst in all the class, the sort of rotten reader that makes you want to laugh. I'm last in all the readin' tests, my score's not on the page and when I read to teacher she gets in such a rage.

She says I cannot form my words she says I can't build up and that I don't know phonics and don't know a c-a-t from k-u-p.

They say that I'm dyslexic (that's a word they've just found out) ... but when I get some plasticine I know what that's about. A song by Tom Smith (editors) and Andy Burrows (Razorlight) using Peter Dixon's poem for lyrics.

I make these scary monsters I draw these secret lands and get my hair all sticky and paint on all me hands.

I make these super models, I build these smashing towers that reach up to the ceiling and take me hours and hours.

I paint these lovely pictures in thick green drippy paint that gets all on the carpet and makes the cleaners faint. Andy Burrows explains why he produced the album.

media type="youtube" key="AXsqBJvYfLI" width="425" height="350" align="right" I build great magic forests weave bushes out of string and paint pink panderellos and birds that really sing.

I play my world of real believe I play it every day and teachers stand and watch me but don't know what to say.

They give me diagnostic tests, they try out reading schemes, but none of them will ever know the colour of my dreams.

- Peter Dixon [] - A website about Peter Dixon