written & recorded by matthew barton
guitar, keyboard & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1UrynW7QVs5rnLjB?si=FnSo0rg8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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Every time
Every time you see me
Every time you feel me
You know I'll be looking
Every day
Every day you feel you've had a raw deal
You know I'll be looking
But I know 
The seasons come and go
But don't forget

That I've been alone with
So many different kinds of light
And I will even still
Keep close that I was once a loaded gun
When I was young

Down the deepest well
You feel you are
But you will get out
The oceans, mountains, and the rivers
You will cross
You will get out
But you know
When you need loving
Time will slow
But keep going
If you dreams recede
I will dream your dream

Yeah you know that I've been alone with
So many different kinds of light
And I can even stand
To give you all the things I should have done
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young

When I Was Young

written & recorded by matthew barton
guitar, keyboard, dulcimer & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1Ury…g8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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You said the bad things stop at three
But things have come in threes for me since I was seventeen
Leave me something to believe
Let me dream
the mouldy kitchen wall
is my Carnegie Hall
Give me dusty paper roses
Been waiting really long
Can you tell me what wrong
Did I use up all my poses

And days will go
Swept in tornadoes like prairie houses
But we'll cling on
We'll sing and we'll fight and we'll cry
I'll fly like Judy Garland
Like Judy Garland
Way up high
Look at all my dreams
Broken seams
I'll climb out of the gutter
Never doubt that I will fly
I will rise like Judy
Pouring earlier each day
Worth it when they throw me that bouquet
I just want to be someone
Forget all the things that I should have done

And tears will fall
Blackening rivers like witches' fingers
A star is born
Humour me until I cry
I'll fly like Judy Garland
Like Judy Garland
Way up high
Look at all my dreams
Broken seams
I'll climb out of the gutter
Never doubt that I will fly
I will rise like Judy

Queen of England

Judy Garland

written & recorded by matthew barton
guitar, harmonium & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1Ury…g8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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Eve I regret if I led you on
Boys of Madonna, we know all along
But words are weapons
And I had no defences
It was all in my head, all in my wrist
All in the girls I never kissed

Men can be eagles, cold and awake
Simple as seagulls, down for the take
Are the real men puffing up imaginary feathers
But the men without wings- where do they go
If you see any nesting
Won't you let me know
Eve if we met again
What would we find
You said San Francisco was the time of your life
Keep it with mine
Waiting in line
On the day Prince died
On the day Prince died

I've looked out to water
Thinking bout things
The people around me
Making babies, building swings
The ocean rolling
I'm lone as a seabird
Well you call it freedom
I call your bluff
Is freedom a prison if you don't live enough

What's living enough baby? Living enough now?

It's snowing in April
I'm on my way home
I'll sing to the strings
Tease out the unknown
If I gave you a purple rose would you take it
It's not about you babe
It's not about me
It's trying to find meaning, a reason to be

Wanting and needing - brothers in arms
Knowing, believing – dangerous charms
If your voice is a choke, make it a shout
Break down the boys' club
Let them all out
Maybe it's better keep memories kind
You said San Francisco was the time of your life
Keep it with mine, waiting in line
On the day Prince died
On the day Prince died
On the day Prince died

Alcatraz

written & recorded by matthew barton
guitar, keyboard & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1Ury…g8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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You say you say you need a man
You need a man to take your troubles in hand
You only go for the good types
You only go for the ones that treat you right
Don't you think that's where you're going wrong
Don't you need a woman
Woman
Woman
Yeah, woman up

My barb is bigger than yours
My barb is harder than yours
My barb cuts deeper, deeper than yours

I'm a ghost, I'm a husk
I'm riding on a train
Gimme seven inches I'll be back in the game
I'm a bigger bitch than you catered for
Ever been a bitch that you hated more
It's all talk
Yeah it's all talk

I'm a warlord
Warlord
Come alive, come in my room
Come in now and I'll take you to the moon
My barb is bigger than yours
My barb is harder than yours
My barb cuts deeper, deeper than yours

Barb

written & recorded by matthew barton
autoharp & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1Ury…g8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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The Lady Jane days
You pass by inside
You never let the moonlight see you crying
Don't forget it won't go away

You said we've lived
On the day we'll die
Look out and see the dandelions flying
Or was it all just a dream

I would feel a little less
If I saw her in the cloisters
In a silken violet dress
If you hold her up to the light
She'll be out in the wind

Lady Jane Days

written & recorded by matthew barton
keyboard, autoharp, guitar, harmonium & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1UrynW7QVs5rnLjB?si=FnSo0rg8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew
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Looking out of the windows
can't you see the burning
The city is engulfed in flames
a rusted wire turning
We have made peace with decay
back turned on destruction
What will you do on the final day
when you're left with no instruction
Will you cry, will you shout
Will you booze it up
Will you starve because the shops are shut
Everyone has gone away
jumped in the river, been burned today
Call me the Queen of England
Keeper of the changing time
Well the end may be nigh and the bells may chime
but trust me, we'll all be fine
Fine
Dance a while til your feet they bleed
Build a rhythm from the fetid bones
you may not have built the rotting graves
but you didn't help to clear the putrid stones
The judges' chairs are made of skin
Jimmy got a key to get an eyeball ring
We are the scar on England's name
Sold by the pound to the hunted game
Well it's all gone wrong, it's all a flood
The flaying skin, the taste of blood
the screaming on the final day
will deafen the dying who kneel to pray
The trees are black and the sky is red
It's a plague, it's a hell of living dead
Who will come to take us away
When we're left the people who make us stay

Call me the Queen of England
Looking out at the lost mine
Well the end is high and the bells they chime
But trust me we'll all be fine
Fine

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down 
Watch it burn
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down 
Watch it burn

Queen Of England

written & recorded by matthew barton
guitar, keyboard, harmonium, harmonica & vocals: matthew barton
mastered by: sam wain

from 'queen of england', available at matthewbarton.bandcamp.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/3XuM2a1UrynW7QVs5rnLjB?si=FnSo0rg8QjqiHfgoMCa1Ew

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You and me and a dog
Fighting over who would be 
The first man in space
But you and that dog
You left
Your captain bereft
Now I am playing 
In a lonely place

I need-
I need you now

Is he really going out with him?
Is he really going out with him?
Yeah there may have been
some out and in
but there ain't anymore
Is it revelry or devilry
I'm bringin' through my open door

I need
I need your love
I'm cruising
I'm going cruising

Make me a daisy chain
I'll make me a wish
bring back my sailor
Matt, don't blow it
Get your ass back from Australia
Your ass back from Australia
Your ass back from Australia
Your ass back from Australia
Now
Well you and the dog came back
We're making a lovers' pact
Well we are tied like cyanide
to a Christie crime
Getting off on a Nabokovian pantomime

We need
We need our love
We're cruising, we're cruising
We need
We need our love
We're cruising, we're cruising

Cruising

"A Peaceful Killing" is taken from the motion picture "I AM NORMAN." by Arron Blake and Darius Shu.

Lyrics by Darius Shu & Matthew Barton
Music & Production by Matthew Barton
Mixed and Mastered by Sam Wain

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Watch the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLHYawiY_oA
Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/79ggNmec2BPLoGQSov3dbt

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A Peaceful Killing

A Peaceful Killing (Matthew Barton & Darius Shu)

Pull Up To The Bumper

Queen of England is available on digital and cassette via matthewbarton.bandcamp.com and knifepunchrecords.com. The project has been supported with radio play on BBC Introducing this summer.

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"The music is stripped to its essentials: percussion, voice, and single-note keyboard lines lifted from the Pac-Man console wedged into the dustiest corner of an abandoned arcade" - Reverb Raccoon

"There is tender anguish writ large here, spliced together with a vulnerability heralding the arrival of a singular musical talent" - Further.

"Barton has a really good voice, he’s different, he plays a lot of instruments, records in his own studio, he’s experimental – who does that remind you of?  Dare I say…shades of the late great purple man himself – Prince" - The Music Files

"Suave '50s rock plays out with a sneering bass-hook to start... [it] sounds dirty and mischievous from the jump" - Velvet Independent

"Similarly to [Morrissey, Nick Cave, and Tom Waits], his storytelling is always at the forefront led by his memorable vocals" - Diana Listens

"[Ingenious] musical experimentation, as Barton combines sinister high points with delirious ‘crooner’ vocal lows" - Becky and the Bands

"[Unique] blend of bedroom pop/lo-fi goodness" - AAA Backstage

"A mesmerising, longing, stripped-back hail to 1960s girl-groups" - Turtle Tempo

enquiries: thembarton@gmail.com

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