Happiness (Without a Catch)

Lyrics, CDs and downloads are available at https://ringlefinchuk.bandcamp.com/album/tall-tales. 

Four years in the making and entirely self-produced, 'Tall Tales' is the first full-length album from London-based alternative folk band Ringlefinch. 

With dark-humoured, wittily introspective lyrics set to upbeat, offbeat earworm tunes and a strong folk-storytelling sensibility, 'Tall Tales' centres on themes of identity, exploring how we all tell ourselves stories of who we are to try and make sense of our place in the world. This sense of self-determination even extends to the production of the album - the band recorded and mixed it on equipment they built themselves.

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"Pomme De Lune"
Growing up in the Peak District in England, miles from the ocean, made Ringlefinch singer Andy a bit jealous of all the great shanties that coastal folks seemed to have. Derbyshire folk songs are grand and lovely, and have a sensibility all their own, but “Lowlands Away”? “Roll Alabama”? “Running Down To Cuba”? Anthems, one and all! Taking cues from Baron Munchausen to “Yellow Submarine”, "Pomme De Lune" is our stab at writing a shanty for the Pennines - an anti-sea-shanty, if you will. 

Featuring Alice Quayle on bassoon.

Song: Logan
Music: Ringlefinch
©&℗ Ringlefinch 2021, all rights reserved
Released on Folkroom Records

Pomme De Lune

Purchase the CD or digital version from the band's online store!: https://www.spgiraffestore.com/collections/music-albums/products/steam-powered-giraffe-the-vice-quadrant-cd

The band Steam Powered Giraffe's space opera album!

Join the robots on a cosmic adventure as they journey into space with this two hour long 2-disc space opera featuring new age, rock, pop, and folk genres, all on 28 tracks!

Check out the Vice Quadrant Companion Timeline!
A timeline made by the band that helps tell the story of The Vice Quadrant along with the album!: http://steampoweredgiraffe.com/index.php/vqtimeline/

The Vice Quadrant

Fire Fire

Jamesy Boy & The Screw Loose Zoo

Rhythm Kitchen (feat. D Smoke)

My Ugly - Cloudfodder

2 Bed, 2 Bath (and a Ghost)

Apocalypticism - Moon Walker

Shocking Plot Twist

Platonic Best Friend

30 Plan

Not Like That

Act III: Life and Death

Go Get Your Gun

Animal Attack!! 

Lyrics:
Dig your claws into my torso 
Wrap your mandible around my neck 
Rupture vital organs 
That bones were meant to protect 

Rip through precious tissue 
Offer no respect 
To essential bodily fluids 
That bones were meant to protect 

Grind your teeth together 
Until there's nothing left 
Not a single strand of muscle 
Nor a tiny band of flesh 

Clench your jawbone tighter 
Until my skeleton cracks 
I need to be the victim 
Of an animal attack 

May the taste ignite your appetite 
Feel the pounding in your chest 
Liberate your energy 
Connect to your unrest 

Once you cross the threshold 
There is no turning back 
Happily a victim 
Of an animal attack

Animal Attack

Hands up if life is getting stressful
And shout if you are saddened by the news
I need some tips to cope,
some data or some anecdotes,
'cause right now nothing's workin' for my blues

Sometimes I deal by playing music
and sometimes I relax by reading books
Sometimes I go downtown,
climb a tree and don't come down
and throw a bunch of pinecones at people

A crowd has formed around my tree,
just out of reach, and the police have
blocked the street on every side
But no one can climb it and
I think its 'cause they know I have
a pinecone here for everyone who tries

I yell: I'm gonna live to be a hundred
I'm gonna see them cure disease
Then I'm gonna watch them
go to war over the royalties so
if you need me, I'll be in the tree

If you need me, I'll be in the tree
There's several cameras pointed up into my tree
it seems the world's concerned with what I might do next…
Throwing pinecones at photographers
from up here in this conifer
like Tarzan getting scouted by the Mets

Yeah, I'm gonna live to be a thousand
Got robot arms and run on robot feet
Got robot legs and robot head
and my robot ass don't know it yet but
I'd be better off back in the tree

So if you need me, I'll be in the tree…

'Cause no one's asking what would drive me up this pine
Is it protest? Am I being paid to preach or advertise?
No, this non-deciduous decision was all mine
You can show a horse the ropes
but no, you cannot make him climb

And this tree's a makeshift metaphor and I prefer to think
I'm just a stressed out Christmas ornament
who needs some space to breathe
And if the camera crews and crowded streets
and dozens of police
are my endless pressures manifested down below my tree
Then this giant stack of pinecones…
They are the lame and immature ways I deal with them
But also how satisfying it is to do so...
To dome one... when they're not looking... yeah

I'm gonna live to be a million
Longer than the flowers, birds and bees
but if I start to come undone,
make like a tree and hug someone
Everybody needs a place to breathe
just recognize when it is time to leave

I'm probably gonna live forever
but should I die (and that may be preferred)
take me out and bury me
and plant a tree right over me
so I may help someone escape the world

Yeah, I may help someone escape the world

Pinecones

Shayfer James - Mercy Down

2 Bed, 2 Bath (and a Ghost)

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