Beautiful, love this one Addie :) 'a halistone of uknown culture and unspent years'

Spend Some Time November

New Skin (Acoustic) is the second single taken from Scott Matthews new album, Restless Lullabies due for release 28th April 2023.

Scott Matthews - New Skin (Acoustic)

You have travelled second class 
on a British Rail train that goes too fast
through a grimey landscape of back-to-backs, 
derelict factories & chimney stacks.
You came to this town, you came to this town.

You've turned up all on your own 
with a diamond ring on the telephone.
Your best friend's waiting outside in the car
although the bus only takes a quarter of an hour.
You came to this town, you came to this town.

You've turned up out of the blue
without so much as a how do you do.
How do we recover all of the years?
We share a few laughs, we share a few beers.
You came to this town, you came to this town.

You conjure old memories
like the lady of love walking through the trees.
Do you remember a room full of stuff?
Do you remember a house full of love?
You came to this town, you came to this town.

You've told me about your life.
What you're doing in the nine-to-five.
Part-time work in a luxury store.
You know there's more to things,
you know there's more, there's more, there's more.
You came to this town, you came to this town.

this town

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green grass.mp3

hail

boulevard du temple

From the Spanish expression, “Más raro que un perro verde”  (Stranger than a green dog)

perro verde

Up went the ball from the hurley-peaked hill brow 
- I know what a hurley is now - 
Slow motion in my Grandad’s wing mirror, up and out of view, 
I whip-pan to the sunroof and it’s double-speed on the way down. 

I love at the football when, naivety waived, 
me and half the lower-upper tier clutch skyward, 
rising and falling to the ball’s arc as it’s lumped clear, umpteen rows away. 
And we’re all thinking
        He meant that for me, bless him.

Conversely this sliotar, that’s what the ball’s called now,
now that it’s coming down, 
has me cowering.

Grandad and his DeLorean-doored Honda. 
It’s like Back To The Future but we’re in Ballycastle.
Me and a hailstone of unknown culture and unspent years, 
some fifteen or so, some half a lifetime ago.

Granny wants to cut my hair not long before I’m balding, but who’s to know. 
I’m scared but still steal her rollies. She swears the river’s Guinness. 
My big brother can’t get served. 

And I wonder if that sliotar ever came down, 
or another wonder-stricken stranger felt the sound
I must have missed, as it nearly-missed. And Grandad didn’t flinch.

Ballycastle

The Tiger And The Butterfly - Green Walker

Waxo - Still Can't Sleep (underthebedproductions)

Adam Jackson-Nocher (guitar/vocals/drums) & Donal Sweeney (instrumentation). 

All songs written by adamjn, apart from Good Ale (traditional), The Final Trawl (by Archie Fisher), I Don't Wanna Know (by John Martyn), Place To Be (by Nick Drake), Nobody's Fault But Mine (traditional), The Broom O' The Cowdenknowes (Archie Fisher/traditional).

Produced by Donal Sweeney (home demos by adamjn).

Adam & Peter Hayes: www.soundcloud.com/adam_and_pete

Sketchbook: www.vimeo.com/adamjn

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