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Life Rafts

by The Cranes

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1.
The Archers, omnibus plays from the radio. The crunchy nut cornflakes, bloat and sink in the bowl that I chipped when I dropped it in the dark of the hallway of my third floor tenement flat. And you said Happy Birthday, but it's the wrong time of year. Well I guess it's the thought that counts. Merry Christmas. The CD, I'd listen to while I would drive down back roads. near my home town when I was in Highschool, Doesn't seem to resonate with me this year. Maybe by the spring it will. And you said Merry Christmas, but it's the wrong time of year. Well I guess it's the thought that counts. Happy Birthday. I saw the northern lights, over central Scotland last night. It reminded me there's a pull that's invisible to you, and me, and everybody.
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I want to walk and get lost I want to keep us moving because I know this frost and it will move up your leg from your toes so fast if you let it I want to keep you with me If you'd fall on me like these brown leaves then I'd scoop you up and carry you home in my front pocket Because that moment's over and it's not for coming back Staying in the same place makes your muscles fade away My hands might not be warm, but I started in the thaw It got too cold outside to sit here on this wall If autumn's setting in let's not call this a fall and all your grey matter won't matter at all Here from under bare trees I can hear the sound of bare knees on knees and I've never been sure of to whom they belong They'll soon be covered up for insulation but with any luck There will come a time when they will meet again Because that moment's over and it's not for coming back Staying in the same place makes your muscles fade away My hands might not be warm, but I started in the thaw It got too cold outside to sit here on this wall If autumn's setting in, let's not call this a fall and all your grey matter won't matter at all
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Always desolation hanging over me Because there's not a lot to see and not a lot to do when you're alone at sea The wind is too strong; the saltwater and rain If you're by yourself and you're drifting off you should know we've all felt that way Just take it ten years, ten years at a time Baby go slow, but don't stop being mine Ten years inside your own mind The clocks go backwards, the clocks go backwards sometimes Have you ever felt like only you exist? And I don't just mean in some Descartian (Cartesian) sense, no philosophical twists It's when there's no person who you can relate to And those other people well they're just not real, at least that might as well be true Just take it ten years, ten years at a time Baby go slow, but don't stop being mine Ten years inside your own mind The clocks go backwards, the clocks go backwards sometimes And as your ship fills up with water Jump from the life raft to the rocks After mothers, sons and daughters There's no room

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All songs written and performed by Allan Macneil, Magnus Woods, Andrew Rodger, and Steve McKinnon

Recorded by Dave Robertson

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released December 9, 2014

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