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Thank you for being my glue today
For keeping me together
It sounds like a pretty daft thing to say
But I can’t explain it any better
And sometimes I can be so thick as shit you know
Admit it yeah I really can
And its depressing as hell to be lost like this
I don’t really know where I am
And I started to write you a song before you slipped away
It was called Forever
And I’ve done myself some damage today
You are the wind, you are forever
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Growing Apart
05:01
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I'm sorry, for the way that you are feeling and
I'm sorry, for the weight that you are carrying
I'm sorry that it’s been so long
I'm sorry that I punched your dog
I'm sorry for the holding on, the moving out, the moving on and
I'm sorry for my body
I'm sorry for the way it makes you feel so weird and
I'm sorry that it got much harder than it first appeared
You choked me with a shopping bag; these were the best days I'd ever had
and it reminds me of when we got high and watched Last of the Summer Wine
and you said you would love to die after a full and funny life
and thats when I threw up on your trainers
Apologised 'I couldn't contain it'
You punched the walls, you were losing it
This isn't love, it's pigeon shit
You push me down, your mothers quilt
On more than that our drinks were spilt
and I'm sorry for my body
We're growing apart
We're losing ourselves
Touching from a distance
Trying to find a reason...
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My Head Is A Wasp Nest
03:11
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I can hear the foxes having sex outside my window
It reminds me of the pain of love that all of us most go through
It reminds me that I should just close my window
It reminds me that I’m still here on my own
My head is a wasp nest
Please don’t make this complicated
Life is full of contradictions
Please don’t make this complicated
Can you make it easy for me?
Dreamers die alone
Just trying to find a connection in an apathetic world
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Down In The Nettles
04:20
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Oh sister, what planet do you come from
Where you are confident and strong and you are already someone
But I’m a flower that is wilting, that has never seen the sun
And all my friends are feeling under the weather with me being under the weather
I’ll be down in the nettles, losing my mind and apologising for everything
Oh my close friend, where did you get your glasses
We set fire to the gastro pub and we held hands as it burnt up from the car park
And all you said was to just treat it like a game
I’ll be down in the nettles losing my mind and apologising for everything
I’ll be down the nettles spilling my drinks and lying to my friends about anything at all because answers are hard to come by
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Big Game
03:05
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First time I saw you, you were outside the launderette
Sucking the life out of a roll up cigarette
And for a moment you made me forget, about the passing of a family pet
For you I made myself vulnerable
For you I made myself gullible
I put the hope in hopeful
I put the fool in hopeful
Is it all a big game to you?
Your breath is cold but I needed a friend
I think I love you doing 80 on the country bend
Please can we turn the heavy metal down
I do not want to be the girl in trouble
I feel like I’m living in a Jack Reeves novel
I keep it inside, inside the bottle
You look like the man who gave those pills to my mother
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Soft
04:08
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My life has been taken out of my own hands,
By people in the street, by people I know I will never meet,
And I don't like talking about how I feel,
Because it's embarrassing if you feel anything that seems too real
I was just trying to find a mask; to mask it all
I don't want to ask; but I have to ask it all
Please don't kiss me in the street, I don't want them to see that i'm soft on the inside
And please don't hold me on the train, you know I hide my pain and I hide it on the inside
My life has been taken out of my own hands,
By people I already know,
And if they know me why don't they go and blow it all
And I don't like talking about how much my brain is burning,
because it's not cool to be seen to be learning from these things,
And it's not that i don't love the way I love myself, it's more that I just hate the way I do it,
And it's not that I don't love the way you love yourself, it's more the way it makes me doubt me more
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Young Professionals
04:40
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I was too busy learning how to dance and to dance like a man and not embarrass myself
I was too busy snogging the neck beards and not thinking of my career or where I need to be
All the young professionals are getting me down
All the young professionals have figured it out
I’ll never be like them
I struggle with everything
All the young professionals
I was too busy trying not to be sick or to white out in the sink or to be myself
I was too busy being there for everyone and trying to be everyone and to say cool things
I am ready to give up
And I am ready to accept that I’ve had my time but its gone
And I am ready to live alone in the pressure to feel alright
And I am ready to live for the Friday and Saturday nights
I am ready to give up
I just wish I hadn’t asked you how much
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8. |
People
03:14
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Haywards Heath to Hampstead heath
Restless street, commuter’s teeth
Looking out, falling out
Looking down, feeling down
Be yourself, Be myself
Love yourself, Love myself
Mental health, Mental health
Mental health, Mental health
People make me feel something
What you said, go to bed
Empty head, empty head
Fear of crowds, fear and doubts
Feel left out, love left out
Drink enough, drink too much
Feeling rough, the feelings tough
Care too much, care too much
Care too much, you care too much
It’s all too much, its all too much
Hampstead Heath to Haywards Heath
Pulling teeth, painless dream,
Brush your teeth, go to sleep,
Dream of love, dream to cry,
Dream of love, dream to die
It’s alright, it’s alright
It’s alright, it’s alright
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Great White Shark
04:20
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Move to the city to become a real person
But you are far removed from feeling like a real person
And the strangers on the train, although you've seen them time again
Tried to keep it all inside but it all came out like rain
I don't know how we got here
I don't know how we're gonna get out of this one
And yes I made mistakes, but they were mine to make
Great white shark, in our mind
Tearing us apart from the inside
Missing home, so you call but it's five in the morning,
Thought he was hope and rolled all night on his lino flooring
And our angels got us wasted just to have a break from thinking
And we sat outside on the pavement, just needed a city to cry in
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Love Song
02:33
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Another night, another party
But I am silent, lost in some deep part of me
Necking strangers in stranger’s cars but the sky’s polluted and I am so far away
A song comes on that I used to love, I feel the past feel the joy it reminds me of
I need to explain, I need to break from the kiss
She said ‘Man, it wasn’t my choice, it was just a playlist’
Oh Venus de milo, hold me in your arms
We used to say we’d rather be alone
We used to say love is only in your head
We used to say love won’t save you in the end
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In The Club
04:06
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Ever since I was young I had an absent dad
So when grandad was gone that was all the men I had
I’m pregnant with rage, I’m going to blow up
Like when the hornets nest meets the lawn mower
He was nearly 91, he was bird song
When I look into myself, all I see that’s staring back is the one thing that one day might be the only thing I have
Turning into our parents
Shake my hair, move my body, lose myself to the sound
So much that I forgot that today we put grandad in the ground
In my tight jeans, I am Athena, in control of the sea
Use all my power to get with a lad one year younger than me
We danced until the dawn we were bird song
But in the morning, he’s gone, well there goes another one
I want to get drunk in the club
I want to make friends in the club
I want to take drugs in the club
I want to have sex in the club
Just like everybody does
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12. |
Tomorrow
06:38
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I said when I got to 20 I would stop pretending
Miming in my bedroom, try and make it come true
I’d know just how I feel and I’d make something that’s real
But I don’t know how I feel and I don’t even know what’s real
And no its not embarrassing playing air drums in the street because people are too wrapped in themselves to see those wrapped in dreams
And it makes me wish that my friend wasn’t dead and I want to run starkers in the supermarket, singing ‘I wish that I had done more’
But no it doesn’t need to be this way. And no there’s not always the right thing to say
And all these thoughts are spinning round in my head and I want to rip off my shirt in the shed
Let my face get wet and soak it in and dry
I just don’t want my grandad to die
But tomorrow I’m not going to be an actor because tomorrow I’m going to be a dancer.
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Safety jacket Brighton, UK
safetyjacket@outlook.com
Safety jacket is a band from Brighton formed in late 2019
when three best friends; George, Harvey and Joe, finally started playing music together. Their vulnerability, raw energy and the closeness of their friendship comes across in their live shows, through fragile and cathartic indie rock songs. They released their debut album 'Honey From The Wasp Nest' in August 2022
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