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Drop Damage (feat. National Mammal)

Credits

James Wickens
lead vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
Jake Ratiner
bass, lead synth, backup vocals
Julian Cassanetti
drums, piano, tambourine, synth bells, background vocals
Ben Brown
euphonium
Emma Jayne
vocals
Maestro Bliss
vocals

Video: “Colored Paper” by Julian Cassanetti
Animations by Michelle Granich
Mixed by Julian Cassanetti
Mastered by Julian Cassanetti

Lyrics

Have mercy, memory, 
Nearly skinned your knee
Ambulating like a madman

(These) lucky numbers
Never rhyme, 
Never show on time,
Never know which one’s 
The real one.

So, safely wrapped in safety foam,
Never leaving home,
I bet there’s nothing out there,
No how.

And no tears
For the runaway dog,
Head gone
In that photograph fog
Long-lost  
Like a never-was song

Dry sockets and, 
Drop damage
And,
When no one is at home,
You never leave this boat,
There’re tigers in the ether

Birds 
Screaming overhead,
An exacting mess,
Grey cosmic murmuration

 And no tears
For the runaway dog,
Long-lost 
In that photograph fog,
Head gone
Like a never-was song
You give up
Or you drag it along

Dry sockets and
Drop damage,
Dry sockets and
Drop damage,
Dry sockets and
Drop damage,
Dry sockets 

No words left in your throat,
No water in your moat,
No hilltops left to defend

Break it, buy it,
Move along, 
You’re running out of wrongs, 
There’s no more new decisions
 
And no tears
For the runaway dog,
Head gone
In that photograph fog,
You give up
Like a never-was song, 
Long-lost
Like a runaway dog



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