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Special People EP

by Dan Lyons

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    The Special People EP is a little taste of what's to come in September when I finally get to let everyone hear the album I've been working on for so long. I holed up in Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate for three weeks last September with Chris Hayden in the producers chair. There are five songs on the EP, some old and some new, four are mine and one is a cover of The Velvet Underground. Margo Broom co-produced and mixed the title track, 'Gargoyle' is on there which was recorded and mixed by Harry Armstrong at Canterbury Christ church University and there are two rough cuts from the album sessions last September. The band and I are hitting the road in support of the release. Catch us at our headline shows in May.

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All the special people, where do they go? All the special people nobody knows All the special people standing in a line With a special feeling, everything is fine We don’t really mind the things they do that keep us here It’s just a matter of time ’til I can be with you my dear All the special people made for you and me All the special people they want us all to see All the special people what do they do? All the special people how I wish I knew We don’t really mind the things they do that keep us here It’s just a matter of time ’til I can be with you my dear We don’t need to see what they see In between their eyes there lies an ocean full of greed If you want to we can stop them filling up our heads If you don’t then we can wait around until we're dead All the special people standing in a line, all the special people… We don’t really mind the things they do that keep us here It’s just a matter of time ’til I can be with you my dear
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Gargoyle 04:03
New York City’s like a pop up book I stepped right in for another look Lest we forget, some are puppeteers Most are marionettes Gargoyle corner stone, he don’t feel no pain ‘coz he’s made of stone Gargoyle corner stone - like a fisherman, Hudson River’s frozen Gargoyle corner stone, he don’t feel no pain ‘coz he’s made of stone Gargoyle corner stone, O the weight of the world is upon his shoulders Through the concrete, English Rose She spends the whole week getting stoned Lest we forget, some are puppeteers Most are marionettes Gargoyle corner stone, he don’t feel no pain ‘coz he’s made of stone Gargoyle corner stone - like a fisherman, Hudson River’s frozen Gargoyle corner stone, he don’t feel no pain ‘coz he’s made of stone Gargoyle corner stone, O the weight of the world is upon his shoulders New York city’s like a pop up book I stepped right in for another look Lest we forget, some are puppeteers Most are marionettes
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Home 04:41
Home, I’ll be home, just give me a little while There’s just one thing you should know, I’m a living breathing child Home, I’ll be home so wait up by the window and I’ll call your name then vanish when the wind blows Home I’ll be home, so don’t worry about me, This place is dead, enclosed in lead  and I’m tired of being free There’s something going on round here, I think I’d rather die, There’s a monster in the ocean and a leper in the sky Let it go. You know I love you baby, you know it’s true, I wouldn’t last a second in your shoes. Yeah I love you girl, you know it’s true, but I wouldn’t last a second in your shoes, no. Let it go Home, I’ll be home, are you still hanging around here?  Coz I’m fed up and I’m growing up and I’m moving to Bel Air. There's a boy in the back of a supermarket holding Daddy’s hand, Theres a girl with a look, she’s an open book, and she’s foiled the master plan.  Home I’ll be home, is it too late to come? A boy with a broken backbone and a Mother for a Son. Let it go You know I love you honey, you know it’s true, I wouldn’t last a second in your shoes. Yeah you know I love you girl, you know it’s true, but I wouldn’t last a second in your shoes.  Let it go.
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Solider, this is what it looks like moved here just a year ago under seaside politics we find  it’s easy if you keep your friends close Damage done by Spitfire dog fights,  leaves piles of concrete dust. And the waves tell ancient stories  but they don’t have a clue about us. I close my eyes shut my mouth swallow my pride, move down south I close my eyes shut my mouth  swallow my pride, move down south Farewell! Technicolor sunset Goodbye! Miss america’s son, and the icons you all live with with their fingers on the idiot gun. Damage done by spitfire dogfights  leaves piles of concrete dust and the waves tell ancient stories but they don’t give a fuck about us I close my eyes shut my mouth, swallow my pride move down south I close my eyes shut my mouth, swallow my pride move down south Is it easier just to walk away? Is it all the same to  you?  Would you change your mind if I were to tell you nothing I said was true Would you leave?  Would You Leave?  Would You Leave? I close my eyes shut my mouth,  swallow my pride, move down south I close my eyes shut my mouth,  swallow my pride, move down south

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Special People EP is being released on 12" Vinyl on the 10th May.

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released May 10, 2019

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