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Lewisham, 1940
03:22
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Radio goes dead
I’m frozen in my bed
Can hear the sound of guns
and engines overhead
Bombs are falling close
The walls begin to glow
My head is full of noise
as I start to taste the smoke
The nurses take me down
to a safer room below
Mummy I’m scared
I wanna come home
I wanna go to school
Mummy please come and get me
Come and get me
Please come and get me
There’s one just outside
I hear the nurses start to cry
Oh when they’re really near
You don’t hear them
You just feel it deep inside
Oh Mummy please just save me from this hell
Mummy I’m scared
Wanna come home to you
Wanna go to school
Mummy please come and get me
Come and get me
Please come and get me
Are you scared too Mum?
Are you alright?
Mummy are you still out there?
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Breathing Underwater
05:05
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Like a fist on the door when I’m half asleep
Like a tidal wave humming through the trees
This is not how my life is supposed to be
Breathing underwater
I’m pushing back the truth
I’m hiding things from you
Guess my love for anyone is like a forest floor
Just one eye through the letterbox when she’s at my door
In my home I can’t pretend I feel like I did before
Breathing underwater
I’m pushing back the truth
Breathing underwater
Look at what I have to lose
To protect myself from you
I will stand on your shore
So we can say we tried
But it your eyes
There’s no compromise
And we’re stuck before the dawn
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Coronation
04:58
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The London sunset feels cold
Coming through the drapes
A white-gloved jeweller greets her
and opens up the case
Feels the weight of her fate
Pressing through her skull
Walks to the mirror, lets out a shiver
Can't hide the repulse
There's a sight I hoped I'd never see
There's a sight I hoped I'd never see
It was him, he should have been king
But the crown's come for me
And I'm gone
There's a sight I hoped I'd never see
There's a sight I hoped I'd never see
It was him, he should have been king
But the crown's come for me
The crown's come for me
And I'm gone
A smile and a wave
I am just an empty space
Put the oil on my face
and I drain
I am the disguise
The painting we hide behind
Ideals that lead us all
Are not real
A boy stands quietly at her knee
as she tries the robes
When you die Mummy,
Will it be my go?
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Plastic Life
03:51
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Here with my TV
This show always comforts me
As I go to sleep
Though I still make plans
Watch time run through my hands like sand
I’m out so deep
I can taste you on my tongue
God knows I need someone
Spend weekends on my own
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Goes down to the bone
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Trying to make this house my home
Somehow it never feels right
Never felt so alone
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Living in a plastic life
I feel nothing at all
Come round I’ll let you paint my walls
Any colour you like
I can taste you on my tongue
God knows I need someone
Spend weekends on my own
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Goes down to the bone
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Trying to make this house my home
Somehow it never feels right
Never felt so alone
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
There’s something in my blood
That’s not getting used up
I don’t feel human
When I lie in my bed
Sometimes I feel half dead
Like your long lost friend
Come and touch me again
Spend weekends on my own
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Goes down to the bone
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
Trying to make this house my home
Somehow it never feels right
When you live alone
Muted feeling only grows
Guess I’m living in a plastic life
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Cri De Coeur
04:44
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The dog knows something's wrong
Scratching at her door
Doctor steps out the shock is visible
The amount she took was quite critical
Then her brother saunters in
Scrolling through his phone
He floats around and lands behind her bed
and helps her light a cigarette
He cracks a smile then laughs and says
Well you always were
A little attention seeker
Oh you can never frighten me
Oh you always were
A little attention seeker
Dressing up like some cheap pantomime dame
Coming home off your head on champagne
You've only got yourself to blame
You always were
A little attention seeker
Oh you can never frighten me
You always were
A little attention seeker
Oh you can never frighten me
You always were
A little attention seeker
I was just a little girl
Sat on the stairs waiting for my family to come home
At weekends they'd leave me on my own
And I said Daddy look at this drawing I've done'
He looked at me and said
I only ever wanted a son'
My brother
You stole the light from me, you took up all the light
My brother
Look what you've done to me, this is what you've done
My brother
You stole my light from me, all my life you've taken all the light
My brother
You stole my life from me
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Brand New
04:13
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Out on the swell
Trusted you the most
I showed you my darkness
Got too close
Now your words are brittle
Wish we'd met on dry land
You cut off emotion
With one confident hand
But tomorrow I'll wake up
Thought I'll still long for you
I'll feel the heat come through the blinds
And look out at the view
And it feels brand new
Won't stay just to breathe in
The dust from what we broke
No I'm not afraid
of the unknown
Tomorrow I'll wake up
Thought I'll still long for you
I'll feel the heat come through the blinds
And look out at the view
And it feels brand new
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Henry Bateman England, UK
Henry Bateman is a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist from Gloucestershire, currently based in
Leeds.
"Not so much a breath of fresh air - more a full force musical gale that
lifts you to places you didn't know existed. A very extraordinarily gifted
young man; one of the coming musical generation's front-runners in the
making" - John Drummond (Promoter for Brewery Blues, Cirencester)
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