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Brokeback
02:45
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We go full brokeback in your cadillac
Will you drive me home?
Oh no, i'll walk back
Go home and cry on a 4-track
I want you to come home
I apologise
I didn't think much past that first night
But i don't think you know
How hard it is to hear
Your voice-notes
And your videos when we're alone
Now we're alone
I don't think you know
Why i sing in the studios
With sun-blush, royal flush
I lose it again
I'm in a church hall
With the echoes
I remember choir boys
I remember the white noise
We all stand up and rejoice
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Harmonising, harmonising
At a funeral
And we go back to the church hall
Take off our robes and then we go home
I didn't know
I was too young to know
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Tennessee
04:34
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3. |
Down To You
04:55
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Personal Hell
04:45
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Everything’s in the archive
Let these sleeping dogs lie
With rising tides, we live our lives
And we try not to cry because he died
Was it worth it?
Was it an ego-death?
Was it worth it?
You admired my rings in the shop,
And I said thank you, my father picked them out
Saying he’s not here anymore
And I miss him a lot
But you are sad and insecure
But that don’t mean I can be tortured
With subtleties meaningless to everyone else
But me,
But honestly,
Was it worth it?
Was it an ego-death?
Was it worth it?
I understand that you are complicated
And I understand that you don’t understand grieving
And I understand that I can be frustrating
But it was an honour to be nominated
It was an honour to be nominated
I bet it was an honour to be nominated too
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Niall McDowell Belfast, UK
'It Was An Honour To Be Nominated' balances the maximal and minimal leanings of McDowell's songwriting; the spacey, sombre fingerpicking folk of 'Brokeback'; the full-blown country and western in 'Tennessee'; the 90s dream-pop in 'Down To You; the 60s crooning within 'Personal Hell'. All of this culminates in the title track, that stands as a fierce, earnest mission statement. ... more
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