1. |
Ocean Boy
02:28
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Under sing
Under the sink
Figure out
What to drink
Ocean boy
Sipping raw
Leaning in
To something more
I'll be the saturday
in your 3 day week
Who do you reek of
and what do you think?
Fake your birth
in the dirt
Eat nuts
in lectures
Eat the forks
in the road
Until you know
which way to go
We got your hat back
I've hooked it on your tree
What do you reek of
and who will you be?
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2. |
The Home Stretch II
03:23
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3. |
Making it Shtick
01:05
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Unity on 3
1 2 3 -
Unity!
Team and family on 3
Make it loud
123 -
Team and Family!
You got to make it quicker as well -
Team and Family!
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4. |
All Like That
02:46
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Was early for brunch
Wasted round lunch
Your family's fun
I can be this
It clouded over and then
you had me twitching by 10
And now I'm hid in the sunken garden
Why you guna be
All like that
All like what?
All like that.
Look east in the Spring
Look twice when I ring
Hang up on the call
when I'm breathing
Out on Zushi beach
out of my reach
new place on the old marina
Walking through the night
like I'm not quite there
There's a ladder on the rung right there, right?
Life's been good
That's just the sound of air
That's just me flicking dead leaves off the hood, like
Why you guna be
All like that
All like what?
All like that.
How you guna be
All like that
All like what?
All like that.
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5. |
Redemption Stadium
02:11
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Launching at the window
and I'm watching out for you
It's moths v goths
and God v Rod
This silent avenue
An influential shrub
sits in the garden
watching Faye
On the verge of something cuspy
I feel nothing
but the rain
You're standing very close to me
Talking about trees
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6. |
Silent Fam
02:40
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Light on landscape
self-immolation
on the bullet train
your attitude is rain
Thoughts soon turned to
kicking through the lean-to
Seemed kind of like a cry for death to me
but what do I see?
Silent fam
hitting the gas
Getting way out of town
But what do I see?
I got sandshakes
light on the new place
On the open plain
I forgot your name
Talk soon turned to
kicking through the lean-to
Seemed kind of like a cry for death to me
but what do I see?
Silent fam
hitting the gas
Getting way out of town
But what do I see?
If it moved you then,
could it move you now?
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Bilal faced the mountain
Shelly drained the fountain
He said pack a light heart
for this part
She said there ain't no mountain low enough
to get me down -
hike more, worry less
we're the ones that go next
He said nah
hike more, worry more!
I fear the outdoor door.
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8. |
Craven Arms
02:52
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Elly Formbury get out of the farm
You got to escape his craven arms
Hell it's time to hit it pretty hard
You got to escape those craven arms
You hid a chick in the unborn breeze
But that's not what I came to see
The farmer's dad looks dead to me
What went wrong when you chucked those seeds?
The crops at night are fit to freeze
The men who stop by leave their sleaze
Tired acres out in the breeze
This year cut you off at the knees
Agroculture, blades in leaves
Frozen chicks hid up your sleeve
Your tilling it, you're killing it
Your work is done -
time to look out for number one
Elly Formbury get out of the farm
You got to escape his craven arms
Hell it's time to hit it pretty hard
You got to escape those craven arms
190 seconds to get to the barn
25 seconds to understand the art
I got 30 stacks of charm
to get us through the winter part
Isn't it or wasn't it a fight for John
the farmer's help who loved your mum
Local lad slashed down by the lake
I'll help you avenge then cultivate
You're tilling it, you're killing it
Your work is done
Time to look after number one
Freeze it
Feeling it
Fix it to your arm -
run with me to the better part
Elly Formbury get out of the farm
You got to escape his craven arms
Hell it's time to hit it pretty hard
You got to escape those craven arms
Simon says their must be 50 ways
to leave your farmer in the haze
of later life
with early pain
dawn's light seeping into the brain
Agroculture blades in leaves
frozen dicks hid up your sleeve
Agroculture blades in leaves
kick his ass it's time to leave
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9. |
Life Not Lived
02:06
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10. |
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I can't stand my neighbour
I can't feel my face
See his beady eyes closed
Waiting in his happy place
No it's not and it's never been
No Pants November
I know I can get pretty mean
When your leaning on the fence
and talking to me
In my bright house
I can't see out
But he can see in
I stare out
and into the black -
just to the left of his grin
Yeah I guess
that face in the clouds
Looks a bit like me
Please just let me get out of the house -
I've got to go and weep
Man it's not and it's never been
No Pants November
I know I can get pretty mean
When your leaning on the fence
and talking to me
It's not your fault you were born this way
but
you have embraced it
I wanted a river for a neighbour -
you made me say it.
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The Home Stretch UK
The Home Stretch is from Birmingham UK, releasing music on Giant Manilow Records. The songs use guitars and synths to pitch
towards areas around Guided by Voices through to Boards of Canada, with stops in between.
“Dagnabbit - nice, nice album.” Charles Bissell, The Wrens
“Joyfully dark and atmospheric.” - This is Tmrw
"This is really good!" AC Newman, The New Pornographers
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