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Better Shape

by George Gadd

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1.
Milhouse 03:20
Most days I wake up by the light of the moon with nothing to hold but this song in my head and a bottle of empty regrets. Some mornings wake up with nothing to prove. I’ll swing at air but in this end i’ll always lose. i’m on the brink of a breakthrough (with you) I’m throwing stones at every glass house that I can find But I won’t stick around to sweep the glass up I’m running on empty calories and table scraps, room temperature beer in-between naps and i’m carving out each day into the wall. I will stop before I stall I’m burning every bridge that I have ever crossed But I won’t stick around to watch the fire stop
2.
Runaway 03:31
I woke up a hundred miles from my hometown alone jumping trains to see how far i’d get coasting down the carriageway of my recovery catching every pothole on the way darling you could be my runaway you are my restless dream cotton candy beauty queen, my teenage fantasy was deconstructed right infront of me glassy eyed from constant nights and whisky on my breath you said never mind the distance babe and never mind the mess with the night on your side and an old 45
3.
I left the city through a tin can in a fevered state burrowed beneath bypasses and dual carriageways found an old abandoned house with a fresh warm bed to a home and a family with a clear, cool head like a dog-eared page with a tea stained drip it’s a tourist trap outlined in the script go tell fair tuck that he don’t exist and that global warming is some old wives myth but if you really missed the east then you would call and if you really missed those early morning sprawls and if you weren’t fixed on finding a better way, i suppose there’s one more chance tell me if you need me, in the morning i’ll be near kill the bought time with a biro and a melody bury the bodies outside of the city if it don’t exist, then it ain’t for me tell each beckoning canyon in the long dead seas
4.
Sycamore 02:52
powder blue, your eyes dart round the room golden by the bar light and the night fractured dawn, cutting through the storm a kite caught up in an old oak tree for weeks i pull and it’s free paralysed, the apple of my eye was shot and split, left rotten on the ground and sycamore, you’re always standing tall settled by the storm that calms your mind but i can just climb darling i’ll climb breaking into better shape, i left you how am i supposed to find my way out? but darling, i’m fine
5.
Sweet Tea 02:43
Sketched out your name in the fog of my mirror as I scrubbed out each sin, it was clear that all the scattered light had frozen in time leaving patterns and shapes in my mind and whisky cures wounds that time cannot heal i’ve been kicked down by words just as strong but a woman like you, can take all my youth leave me broken and bruised in the head you’re the smoke on my shirt and the blood in my teeth i will try to be me but I scaled your gate trying to reclaim my soul we were kids when I kicked it to you but i wasn’t so sly and you saw me hide throwing fruit at me in the stocks you’re the smoke on my shirt and the blood in my teeth i will try to be better for you and me

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released January 19, 2017

Lyrics and Music by George Gadd

Bass/Synths: Dan Hess
Drums: Elliott Caen

Vocals and guitar on Milhouse: John Jeacock (Merrick's Tusk)
Additional vocals on Runaway & Sweet Tea: Ellie Keegan
Additional vocals on Exit Strategy: Tilly Currer

Gang vocals on Runaway: Paddy Craig, Clara Cullen, Andreas Perez, Sophie Thompson-Smith, Harambe

Thanks to Barlow at Under The Bridge Records, Alex at Safe & Clean, Phil at JT and the chaps from LB.

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