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Found Wanting

by Rob Britton

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1.
Hello 02:57
The sun is high the sky is blue the morning dew licks over you your carnival-eye heart a beat from letting go So put on costumes in your room and tear a face from TV too the worse you’ve got is never going to better you Hello A moment on the lips to spend a lifetime on the kiss, well really! Passage from a film that just describes you best Round and round and round you went to ground and how and now you’re like a painted window faded in the morning sun. Hello
2.
Lily white face and ageless skin took a gentle battering all the people came to see the branches snapping off the tree Left them lying in a bar in the back seat of his car crumpled up and trampled down and smeared across the cenotaph Take a picture of the earring it’ll be front page by morning you can say you saw it first hand this is how you take the world in Shake the small town apathy tangled hair and broken teeth burning cars and burning trees and coffee stains on single screens And just run far just outrun what you are Be in London by evening where under the sunset they’re opening boxes in everybody’s heads and losing perspective is so recommended the best you can do is the best you can do So send a postcard back to them as though you’re all that’s happening oh the places you’ve been in who do you think you are again? Let your parents use the phone kill yourself to stay ten stone promise them you meant to call you piss your twenties up the wall Lying sideways face the door as scalpel blades serrate the floor wrap yourself in disco lights dream of clear Midland nights Then brush the country from your teeth and keep the sadness underneath just keep the sadness underneath ‘cause now you know where these roads lead You just ran far and forgot what you are So in London this evening you’re under the sunset and opening boxes in everybody’s heads and losing perspective is so recommended the best you could do was the best you could do So you find yourself almost asleep in the kitchen you boiled the water now where does that fit in? You walk for three miles in any direction but cannot walk yourself right out of your own skin You’re wrapped in the past and you’re stuck with no chance of escape but the dark path of least resistance is calling to you from down the side of the bed and if this is the high life I’d rather take death But that’s giving in just as they all said you would like they thought you were easy well let them get fucked you just lost your perspective – it was recommended the best you could do was alright You’ve got your lily white face and ageless skin you took a gentle battering let the people come and see branches hanging from a tree That was now and this is then and who are they to recommend? Who do you think you are again?
3.
Star 04:17
We’d like a word Rob a vague note of compromise All smiles are one way lost in the mirror eyes Beautiful dreamer it’s time to realise Man cannot live on hope’s idle tranquilize Wish on a star and keep walking your weary line it’s all you can do in the end We need to talk Rob and stop trying to visualise A way to stop the clock exposing your pretty lies Life slips away while you’re toeing the party line and things never end if you just cannot change your mind so wish on a star and keep walking your weary line it’s all you can do in the end
4.
The Heel 04:43
Headlights on the midnight hedges water through the moving ink fathering a month of Sundays breathless in the kiss of drink Memories made of karaoke papered in the endless bars understudy snowy angels underhanded bathroom stars All call me forgiven and call me the heel and call me through my sister and call me to sea Richer never made it better poorer made it even worse clothes they might as well be cardboard words may just as well stay verse So call me forgiven and call me the heel and call me through my sister and call me to sea Bury me in Fiat Pandas christen me a simple fuck dogs who walk though broken glass doors slide but never come unstuck How is it too dark to see them? How’d they ever get away? How is it too late to save them? How could I have made them stay? So call me forgiven and call me the heel and call me through my sister and call me to sea Don’t call me forgiven and call me the heel and call me through my sister and call me to sea Don’t call me Just call me Don’t call me Please call me
5.
Close all the doors turn out the lights Turn down the noise and hide the knives Those Palais lights just burned a hole in our mornings I’ve seen enough and oh I need you, I need you This just feels like breaking glass So I’ll buy the drinks just for your smile and I’ll hear your voice for just a while You need some sleep, man so calm down, just calm down She’ll never leave, man so calm down, just calm down This just feels like breaking glass So I’ll dream of warm hair tonight and I’ll see your face and I’ll be fine You need some sleep, man so calm down, just calm down She’ll never leave, man so calm down, just calm down This just feels like breaking glass
6.
Sorrow floats in midnight runs Just this once hurry, come Faster than falling stars faster than speeding cars Don’t take the train don’t call a cab Wake me up we’re not friends After this once never again Softer than broken flowers into the early hours When you leave me you won’t want me When you want me you won’t touch me In my bear suit
7.
Empties 03:17
Radio’s a lipstick mark camera flash across the park “Up from 25 to 10” dressing for effect again Blonde of brain are in my roots studded belts and ‘fuck me boots’ Out by “In at number 3” Don’t you stay awake for me Deep below the orange glow on cold bus station seats Dreams are only for the lonely and you’re stuck here with me Rolling floors and lighter sparks corner creatures kiss the dark Blue to red and back again raffle ticket on a pin Heels with nothing left to lose sodden carpets stick to shoes Light and bass and out by three did you stay awake for me? Deep below the orange glow on cold bus station seats Dreams are only for the lonely and you’re stuck here with me yeah you’re stuck here with me
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Paint cracked skirting tear the curtain some uncertain hour Birds sing longing still found wanting Long grass trodden Torn dress sodden Some hope Door frame sighing swept glass flying done with crying out Homeward running birds sing longing still found wanting now Long grass trodden Torn dress sodden Some unnatural hour folded into the earth I’m out here
10.
The Gardener 01:45
I had hopes of amber skies I had hopes of garden lines Overstranded, lighthouse minded Quiet corner of my own I was born dead so I’m not scared Katie drew these tangled vines Silent fox howl, forest headed Hoping for garden lines

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released January 5, 2009

All songs © Rob Britton 2008
Recorded at Owl Hat Studios
Strings on 'Like Breaking Glass' arranged in part by Andrew Stanley

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Rob Britton London, UK

Just can't stop making albums, it seems! I am also in Luxembourg, Menaces, Laverne and Keith Top of the Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, so go and look at their pages. They're good!

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