© Copyright Kit Richardson 2013

Written, arranged and performed by Kit Richardson.  Except guitar written and performed by Sam Simon-Norris.  Strings performed by Alison Andrews, Kate Coggins and Tristan Horne.  Produced by Dan Cox and Kit Richardson.  Mixed by Dan Cox.  Mastered by Matt Colton and Dan Cox.

LYRICS :

All heart no brains
Doctors don't know what to say
A little bag of bones in pounds and ounces
3 days no change
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Still this little girl seems safe as houses
So she's scooped up, so tight
Taxi through the night
Sound of voices ringing out behind her
"Poor mite, some plight
How could someone bring a child
into this big bad world
with nothing to survive it?"
One day, cold grey,
20 years, nothing to say
and suddenly her throat is
rid of all the silence   
When she spoke they
Expected her to choke
On consonants and vowels
but she was clear as daylight
Hands reached out
She shook their bodies to the ground
'how did you let violence
get so deep inside you?
Fighting makes peace
You sell cures to your own diseased
Love is a footnote
Don't let hate define you'

But it's too late now
You're being drowned out by sacred cows
We tied ourselves up with our own rope
Nobody wants your new brand of hope
And we do just fine
The pills are getting cheaper all the time
You come along with your big ideas
Trying to open our eyes
But we don't really wanna be untied

All heart no brains
Fought the good fight but in vain
Her jacket's faded 
and her skin is frozen
Stood in the rain
outside a pharmacy chain
telling customers
what they need's inside them
She's gotten hoarse
Polemic lost it's force
her voice gets drowned out
by war and untruth
but when it all dies down
you'll hear the faintest of sounds
'It is alright and you have all been lied to'

All Heart No Brains

Originally written by Neil Finn.

Lyrics :
No time no place to talk about the weather 
Promise of love is hard to ignore 
You said the chance wasn't getting any better 
Labour of love is ours to endure 
The highest branch on the apple tree 
It was my favourite place to be 
I could hear them braking free 
But they could not see me 
I will run for shelter 
Endless summer lift the curse 
It feels like nothing matters 
In our private universe 
I have all I want is that simple enough 
A whole lot more I'm thinking of 
Every night about six o'clock 
The birds come back to the barn to talk 
They talk to me, birds talk to me 
If I go down on my knees 
I will run for shelter 
Endless summer lift the curse 
It feels like nothing matters 
In our private universe 
And it's a pleasure that I have known 
And it's a treasure that I have gained 
And it's a pleasure that I have known

Private Universe (Crowded House cover)

Lyrics :

These few weeks there's been a quiet storm,
Something shivering in my covers,
And I find nothing seems to keep me warm,
In the absence of another.

Thunder drumming from inside my chest,
Rainclouds filling up the cupboards,
All the lovers I had laid to rest,
All their fingers through the floorboards.

Too deep,
Too deep to dream,
Everything
Tastes of grenadine,
And failed attempts
at archery,
Land arrows at my feet.

I'm still trying to get myself dressed,
I'm still lying to my mother,
Toothless grinning at your new success,
Picking teeth out of the gutter.

Tell me, how'd you keep yourself from falling down?
Does your blood thicken into mortar?
Do you lay your mattress on a river bed,
And keep your head above the water?

I long
for underwhelming love.
A ride,
Without a ticket stub...
I've had
I said, I've had enough
Come by, pick up your stuff.

(She kept her songs,
They kept so little space.
The colours pleased her.
One bleached from lying in a sunny place,
One marked in circles by a vase of water.
One mended when a tidy fit had seized her,
and coloured by her daughter.
So they had waited,
Til in widowhood she found them,
Looking for something else.)


How to Breathe Underwater

New single, All Heart No Brains, out on Cool for Cats.  Download for free here : http://coolforcatsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-heart-no-brains

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