submissions
| First Aid Kit – This Old Routine Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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In an live concert she mentions that the song is simply about a couple that has been married a long time that fall into the old routines and forget about why they fell in love and got married in the first place. It is an incredible song |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – I Wish It Would Snow Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick
"This isn’t me, I love my job most days. But sometimes we wake and wish the covers were drifts to dissolve beneath, with our warm snoozy loved ones. Stupid fantasies don’t leave as we age, I’m glad to say." |
submissions
| Kitchens of Distinction – No Longer Elastic Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick
"Don’t get old. It really is the only advice I can give as a Doctor. Alongside Patti Smith’s ‘Take care of your teeth’. I followed neither and now look at me. This is Pascal’s favourite song." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Wolves/Crows Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick
"This started out at almost twice the speed until Julian slowed it right down to its murky crawl. It’s an adaptation of the 'Picture of Dorian Grey' idea, that you can pour your woes and demons into a suitable vessel to avoid the ravages of ageing. This time the poor tree gets it. That is until the tree wreaks revenge by calling on the wolves and crows." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Japan to Jupiter Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick
"In this unexpected year of Bowie a song of ‘70s memory. Curled up with Young Americans, staring at the sleeve, wondering how to make my hair redder, wavier? How to smoke a cigarette like that? Of twisting hands into the Die Brücke-inspired shapes thrown on the cover of “Heroes”. Of miming to ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ in yr Mama’s earrings. Dressing up to go out. Glamour, Glitter, Fashion, Fame. Our outlandish, urgent, queer youth. So, thank you very much for being out there for us in the ‘70s, David. It was a scream." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Photographing Rain Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick
"A piano song but one with over 50 tracks of guitars from Julian sound-tracking a journey through hell. As for the lyric, do you remember the photograph of two Iranian men hanging from cranes, allegedly executed for loving each other? Well bear that in mind as you listen. What Gay Pride? What Equality? The fight for Equality is not over and there are NEVER enough songs to sing this. See also the Perfume Genius song 'All Waters'. The wall of singers at the end include the Kitchenettes: David McAlmont, Kenny Clay, Rob Martin, Hormoz Ahmadazeh and Guy Davies. They also sing on other songs. The main drums on this track were provided by Patrick Hannan ex The Sundays. This is Julian’s favourite song." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Disappeared Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From patrick:
"A complex cluster of chords throwing up an aching plea for one’s love to explain exactly what they were doing last night, when they didn’t come home. Would really have suited Scott Walker circa 1969, I feel. Oh, if that voice was available to pilfer." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Extravagance Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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From Patrick:
"There are always those who live extraordinary lives providing inspiration for otherness in our own. This monstrous beast of music, a piece KOD originally messed about with in 1996 but which did not come to fruition, suggested that I document/honour the most extraordinary life. Enter the Marchesa Luisa Casati - wildly wealthy, wildly artful, a wild muse to Man Ray/Augustus John/Cecil Beaton etc. Look her up. Read the biography “Infinite Variety”. See her gravestone in Brompton Cemetery, London." |
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| Kitchens of Distinction – Oak Tree Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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lyrics from Patrick with the following:
"I always like to write a swinging waltz. Or in this case a 6/8 song. Annoying for drummers, great for the lyricist as it’s easier to rhyme in this meter. The lyric describes the life of a relationship, from it’s lustful commencement in the horny outdoors, through the travails of ill health (mirroring my own) through to a decision for the healthy partner not to leave his ill man alone. During the middle 8 the ill man dies, leaving the healthy partner with the task of scattering his love’s ashes. “Don’t write gay lyrics” said the record companies back in the ‘90s as “you’ll be marginalized.” Has anything changed I wonder? Didn’t stop me then, wont stop me now. Dan’s favourite song." |
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