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Marc Riley 🔊 (BBC 6 Music)

Music & lyrics © Chris Selman 2021 all rights reserved.
Recorded & mixed by Gary Hadfield at Blueprint Studios, Manchester, Sept/Oct 2021.
Mastered at Metropolis Studios, London, Jan 2022.
Performed by Tom Cartledge, Mateus Dandelo, Ewart Hodge, Chris Selman, Francesca Slattery, Curtis Thewlis-Johns and Simon Williams.

American Dreamer

Lyrics

YOU AND I CONSTRUCTED BY
THE MOST ALOOF AND DEVIOUS INTENTIONS
WE SEPARATE DIVIDE AND WARP
AND RECOGNISE NOT A SINGLE THING WE SEE
WELL I DO NOT YEARN FOR THEIR MOST EXCLUSIVE OF SUGGESTIONS
OR SUBMIT TO THE MASTERS THAT YOU SERVE
BE NOT SURPRISED BY THE LACK OF YOUR EXPOSURE TO DIVERSIONS
ALL THE WATERS NEVER DIVED IN OR DISTURBED
WE’RE ALL ANIMALS ON AN ISLAND
ALL THOSE BROKEN BRIDGES SUBMERGED FOR MILES
SUFFOCATING IN THESE WIDE AND OPEN PRISONS
OFFERED DREAM TICKETS BY THOSE WITH ALLIGATOR SMILES
THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF UGLY OUT THERE
BEQUEATHED AS BEAUTY ONE MIGHT SAY
BY CURATORS AND CLOSET DICTATORS
NOT A STITCH OF THEIR TAPESTRIES DARE STRAY
WELL I’VE MOST OF ALL EXCELLED AT
PRETENDING TO BE A PERSON
ALL MY LIFE NEARLY EACH AND EVERY DAY
IN THE PHARMACIES AND THE BEHEMOTHS OF THOSE
FACELESS INTERVENTIONS
TWAS THE RED PILL I ONLY EVER CHOSE TO TAKE
EVERYTHING WAS GO UNTIL IT STOPPED
YOU THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT UNTIL IT WAS NOT
I DO NOT STRIVE TO PURPOSELY BE SO OUT OF PLACE
WHILE I PRETEND TO BE A PERSON EACH AND EVERY DAY

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Buy 12" Vinyl / CD

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These are the lost stories and the hidden gems, much like The Captain himself!
He revels in the underground, the magical unseen, the mystical otherworldly-ness of realms often overlooked and consigned to the shadows.

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