HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
Download link: https://bandspectra.bandcamp.com/track/human-reciprocator-feat-the-anchoress

I'M A TRAINED ORATOR
A SKILLED MANIPULATOR
I WAS BORN INTO THE RANKS
WHILE YOU WERE BRED FOR FOOD BANKS
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WANT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

I AM A NATURAL LEADER
YOU ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS
I SEE THEM SCRAPING ON THEIR KNEES
THEY RECOGNISE I’M THE ELITE 
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WORK FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I’M A PUBLIC SPEAKER
FORGIVE MY MISDEMEANOURS
MY MASCULINITY - A CRUTCH FOR MEDIOCRITY 
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO BEG FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

I AM A NATURAL LEADER
YOU ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS
SO DON’T LISTEN TO RUMOUR
(WELL DRESSED LIKE THAT WOULD YOU BELIEVE HER?)
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO REPENT FOR A THING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I HAVE ALL THE DATA
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
I HAVE FRIENDS IN SUCH HIGH PLACES
THAT MY PRIVILEGE ERASED IT
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO ANSWER FOR A THING IN MY LIFE

I CAN RADIATE IT
I WON’T RECIPROCATE IT
I WILL ASK OF YOU THE THINGS I’LL NEVER EVER EVER DO
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR

I'M A SKILLED ORATOR
A TRAINED MANIPULATOR
I SEE THEM FALLING AT MY FEET
THE MAN THE WOMEN WANT TO MEET
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO ASK FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

WHILE YOU WERE BRED FOR FOOD BANKS
I WAS BORN INTO THE RANKS
I SEE YOU SCRAPING ON YOUR KNEES
YOU RECOGNISE I’M THE ELITE 
NEVER EVER HAVE I EVER HAD TO WAIT FOR ANYTHING IN MY LIFE

HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
HUMAN RECIPROCATOR


Written by Robert Manning // Catherine Anne Davies
Performed by:
Robert Manning// Synethesizers, drum machine
Catherine Anne Davies// Vocals
Leo Abrahams// Guitar
Gary Alesbrook// Trumpet

Produced by Robert Manning, Catherine Anne Davies
Mixed by Dave Sanderson
Mastered by Andy Baldwin, Metropolis Studios, UK
Video Director// Callum Henderson @cal_lum
Single Art// J Rafalet @jrafalet

Band Spectra Feat. The Anchoress - Human Reciprocator

Put It All Back

Sun-kissed river drips a beacon of light 
I’ll bathe in its heat
Walk into the bright
From the cold
It’s just like I was told 
Look down at my hands 
Feel the heat
Know they’re mine 
Thoughts visit for a while
But they leave in due time 
Now I know
Life out the undertow

But if I knew myself better then it could’ve been love 
And if I worked a little harder then I wouldn’t need luck 
But is it ever worth the if?
The if...

Who knew feeling like a person could be this easy? 
22 with a gift for making it all seem wrong
Where did I ever go wrong?
I met myself for the first time here
Not much in common but I came with landing gear 
Oh, lock my body up here...

But if I knew myself better then it could’ve been love 
And if I worked a little harder then I wouldn’t need luck 
But is it ever worth the if?
The if...
The if!

I know I fall much harder than the others
It’ll feel like dirt when you chase a golden taste 
But you can make a mistake
I know I fall much harder than the others
It’ll feel like dirt when you chase a golden taste 
But you can make a mistake
I know I fall much harder than the others
It’ll feel like dirt when you chase a golden taste 
But I can make a mistake
I know I fall much harder than the others
It’ll feel like dirt when you chase a golden taste 
But I can make a mistake
I know I fall much harder than the others
It’ll feel like dirt when you chase a golden taste 
But I can make a mistake

What If?

Listening in the back seat
Window wiper sounds like 
fingers on guitar strings
The patterns of the rain
Wonder why it falls
Like that

Those were sad times   
It can't have just been me
When the car would idle 
I'd be disengaged
We'd all look out our windows 
Our individual pains

But the sound of the music 
Made it through the the space
The heavy air, the warp 
At the end of side A
A million miles away

And somewhere in the future
There’d be girls like Wendy and Lisa
That you could hope to get with
Maybe, one day, "good to meet ya!"
And they might introduce you
Help you pick out clothes that suit you
A million miles away
And in a future life

Far from family cars
Quietly in neutral
the silent isolation
Emotionless relations
A family like a stopped clock 
In a house that held its breath        

Pulled you in like smoke and 
Wrapped you up in fog
Made your heart so tired
The only thing you liked was
Staring out the window at the 
Patterns of the rain

Wendy And Lisa

Drop It

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I’ve been captured
By a powerful organisation in California
They caught me unawares

Now I’m caught I don’t know where
And time takes on a dull veneer of blue
Confused and astray
I made for easy prey

I’ve been captured
Now everywhere they lead me
by the hand
Some days I blame myself

But I really never stood a chance
Well organised, determined
and financed
They wore me down ‘til I was glad
To give them everything I had

Often I wake and
I don’t know where I am
Just waiting on the promise of release
I am made of sleep
Of memories and fragments
of an old dream

What value is this life
When your mind is not your own?
I’m never alone

from Some Things Are Like Other Things, released October 28, 2022 
Written by Jake Morley
Produced, engineered and mixed by Mattie Foulds
String arrangements by Kate St. John
Recorded at Castlesound Studio, Mixed at Caribou Recording
Mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studio

Mattie Foulds drums
Kevin McGuire double bass
Neill MacColl electric guitar
David Milligan piano
Seonaid Aitken 1st violin
Patsy Reid 2nd violin
Jane Atkins viola
Su-a Lee cello
Jake Morley lead vocals, acoustic guitar

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Some Things Are Like Other Things

Captured

But I Do

This will be the opening track of a mixtape coming out late 2023

Back to 95

Andrew Hartshorn Orchestra, Mikey J, written and produced by The Kintners. Mixed by Kelly Kintner

Put It All Back

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