The new single from @modernwoman5633
Out now on End of the Road Records
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Produced and mixed by Oli Barton-Wood
Mastered by Jason Mitchell
Written by Sophie Harris
With additional arrangements by Adam Blackhurst, Juan Brint-Gutierrez and David Denyer
Lyrics
Kevin lived up near that red suburban Subaru that had broken down.
His mother made him come round with homemade German food for mine.
That’s how it began.
Summer was spread out, thick with possibilities.
So when his father was busy
We’d lie near the open window
While Julie played piano in C.
He was everything. I thought he was the North’s answer to Christ.
He wanted to be mascotted on teatowels,
tattooed on bodies, face in pixels.
The dead Englishmen, we know their names
He’d say what he wanted to be
Whereas I wanted to lie a floor above them
While Julie played piano in C.
Father blocked out the sun,
So the plants were always wilted,
and the curtains hung rank and sad,
no touch!
And outside tarmac would gape open like thousands of tiny mouths
Even they got to taste Kevin’s flashing gaps of skin.
And I was scared,
That his father would come in
That his father would come in
That his father would come in
We used to write dirty words on paper stolen from his father’s office.
I would scrunch them up,
put them in a plant pot
or an empty tree branch socket.
I thought one day the police might come down
for that red Subaru
What if they find them /and arrest me / take me but never you?’
They’d never take him
Little pebbles tied with string
Locks of hair, fingernails
Forgotten cocoons in tupperwares,
Gossamer rings.
This was a household of men
if that’s what you call one of a shy woman
though everything was made pale pink
baby shoes, linen, the inside of his cheek
Fathers voice gave grief to strangers
Fathers voice made mothers grieve
Fathers voice made little lines round his wife’s eyes with his words
tell her to stop
Tell her to stop
Tell to stop
Tell her to stop
That his father would come in
He’d go around, tell her to stop
when Julie next-door would play
He’d close all the doors and the windows
say about a spoiled Sunday
So we’d sneak upstairs all quiet whenever
She played Abide with Me,
We’d go upstairs
when the walls began to be
flayed by her piano in C.
Which of us left the other
Undressed, animal-free
I don’t remember a particular
Split
His father kept talking
And talked into his head
Said men should only be gentle when they’re in their women’s beds
Ah
Glass bottles on a road
A fight down at a disco
Blood leaking from a trainer
A smashed Subaru window
But in my mind, sometimes
meet near the open window
his father is out
(his mother finally left him)
While Julie plays Abide with Me
While Julie plays piano in C.
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