All songs written and performed by Annie Booth & Chris McCrory.

Produced, recorded & mixed by Chris McCrory at Hermitage Works Studios, London and in The West End (of Paisley.)
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio.
Additional engineering by Nathan Ridley.

Artwork by Caio Wheelhouse.

Single released by Last Night From Glasgow on 30th October 2020.

Clean Living

GRACE GILLESPIE - Hoppers

Once for the waking and twice for the taking
I see we’ve opened up the third bottle now
Four broken tiles on the rooftop overlooked
And by the fifth bend I knew I had been misunderstood
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly
 
But I thought you were my angel
I thought you were my angel
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies
 
Six times a lady in my seventh day dress
I see eight flames flicker on the cool chimney breast
Nine o’clock sharp I hear the smash of broken glass
And pick the ten shards sticking from my half-warm heart
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly

But I thought you were a devil
I thought you were a devil
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies
 
So bye bye, baby, bye bye
I am just a fly, I’ll be buzzing ‘til I die
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
You are just a hopper, you are too afraid to fly

But I thought you were my angel
I thought you were my angel
In my half-light half-night eyes
We live by the same lies

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

Hoppers

http://penfriend.rocks

I can’t do much of anything when I’m feeling down, let alone write a song about it, but one day in 2019 when I was trudging my way back, I made an attempt to leave a breadcrumb trail for my future self. 

"The Only Way Out Is Through" is my attempt to trap the "shapeless forces" that "pull at me", making them solid by assigning words to them, reducing their power and size to something I might feasibly be able to overcome. The aspirational sentiment that “resistance is crucial, forgiveness is beautiful” is one I find very hard to enact in the moment, but something I can at least continue to strive for. 

Ironically, this song is being released during my lowest fortnight of the last 12 months, so the safety line of lyrics I knotted inside the music is a helpful reminder of brighter days. 

The choice to release music in a universally dark time isn’t one I take lightly. “The Only Way Out Is Through” is the most resonant and useful piece of music I have to offer right now, a rescue raft for whoever needs one. 

That’s what this song is for me.

LYRICS 

Gotta get out of this 
Making a meal of distress 
Fatalistic to the bone 
Thunderclouds in every home 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

Gotta get out of this 
Drowning in yesterday's tears 
Intimate conspiracies 
Shapeless forces pull at me 
Gotta get out of this 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart 
I never meant to wish on a falling star 
But I won't let it go 

Denial take me away 
Pretend like I'm not the queen of stretching the days 
In all the wrong ways - til they break 
Denial take me away 
I crave your sweet mistakes but 
Resistance is crucial 
Forgiveness is beautiful 

The only way out is through 
Not gonna lose my heart - I never meant to 
The only way out is through

CREDITS
released September 8, 2020 
Written, produced, performed and engineered by Laura Kidd. Mixed by Dan Austin. Drums by Max Saidi.

The Only Way Out Is Through

Hot Money

Pretense

Take Me To A Place

'Old Flaw'
Track n.4 from The Actions' new album 'Flourish', out now via Niteo Records.
Stream | Buy 'Flourish' here:
https://theactions.fanlink.to/flourish

Song by Marta Argenio | Maurizio Stellato
Produced by The Actions
Recorded at Crash Site Studios, Bristol
Engineered by Stu Matthews at Invada Studios, Bristol
Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering, Bristol 
Album Artwork Photography by Vaskar S. Kayastha
Graphics by M-Star Design

℗&© Argenio | Stellato/Niteo Records 2021
theactions.uk

Flourish

Old Flaw

Track 11 of 12 

A crippled space laboratory falls rapidly towards the Earth...

We're Losing The Will To Survive (The Skylab Disaster)

Need A Ride

Daydream

MESADORM
Management - daisy@babylegsrecords.com

Take Me To A Place

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