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A Portrait of the Girl as a Coast Road

by Reichenbach Falls

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Second in an occasional series of Covid-19-era songs to raise money for the Anstruther foodbank. Partly recorded in the East Neuk of Fife, partly in Vienna by our old friend & collaborator Simon Lee (of Drive Moya - their debut record is out now on Noise Appeal & you should check it out).

lyrics

a small town, a violent element
let's get you out of here
you heard me say things that i wish that i never meant
you probably didn't want to hear

let's steal a hearse and go drive the perimeter
i have a theory of you in that dress
i made an equation of some heartbreaking elegance
it sings of the curve of your neck
it sings of the curve of your neck

a photo in a dresser-drawer
a girl in a lightning storm
how'm i going to get away from you now?
maybe i'm a minotaur
it's what they made these mazes for
how'm i going to get away from you now?

if i had a sister oh i know she'd have never let me
sail out into storm clouds like you
oh how i miss that sweet girl that i never met
her dark heart it beats in my breast

let's steal a police-car and sing along with the sirens
their hymns to your hairpin coast roads
their psalms to the secrets of your wild past and underwear
their prayers of your buried lost gold
their prayers of your buried lost gold

a photo in a dresser-drawer
a girl in a lightning storm
how'm I going to get away from you now?
maybe i'm a minotaur
it's what they made these mazes for
how'm i going to get away from you now?

credits

released April 15, 2020
words/music: reichenbach falls
abe davies: vox, acoustic guitar
simon lee: guitars & effects, drums, bass

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Reichenbach Falls UK

A folk-pop project currently based in Scotland and Canada and widely acclaimed in outlets including the Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Exclaim! and Music OMH.

Following the home-spun lockdown release 'the past may be dead but its nails still grow', 2024 will see the release of our first studio album in eight years, 'Wayfarer Beware', from which 'Back to Poet's Lake' is the first single.
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