The house across the street’s been playing your favourite song 
I tried to dance but my feet won’t fake it
You sense something’s off
I’m bored, are you too?
Am I bored of you?

A stolen glance
An open arm
A disco ball
Lights a weathered porch 
A tender touch
A crooked frame
Holds a washed out photo 
Of a teenage flame
A corded phone 
Left hanging low 
The flashing glow 
Of an answerphone 
A life lived full 
With tales so tall
I see it now 
At curtain call

The house across the street’s been playing your favourite song 
I tried to dance but my feet won’t fake it
You sense something’s off
I’m bored, are you too?
Am I bored of you?

You know, I haven’t slept in days
I reckon I should get that checked someday 
Those window panes show all the things I’m not 
“Sometimes it’s worse to stay than run”

The house across the street’s been playing your favourite song 
I tried to dance but my feet won’t fake it
You sense something’s off
I’m bored, are you too?
Am I bored of you?
  
Of you
Of you
Of you 
Aren’t you?

The House Across The Street- Slaney Bay

I’ve been so tired
Do you know why?
Could you read my mind? 
The truth’s been hard to chew 
That if it’s not you
Then our end is soon 

I know that if ever I fall
They’ll never mean as much as you 
I’d talk but the words feel too tall 
And I’ve never felt that much in me
I could love you better, better 
No, I would love you better, better 

With time, will it pass me by?
Just a glint in the eye
A tale shared like wine
Is it true
That to love you bruise?
And that’s what you choose
How does that feel good? 

I know that if ever I fall
They’ll never mean as much as you 
I’d talk but the words feel too tall
And I’ve never had that much in me
I know that if ever I fall 
They’ll never mean as much as you 
I’d talk but the words feel too tall 
Guess I've never seen that much in me 

I know that if ever I fall
They’ll never mean as much as you
I’d talk but the words feel too tall 
And I’ve never felt that much in me 
I could love you better, better
No, I would love you better

I Could Love You Better

I heard a man on the radio
It felt like something you would’ve said 
About how the government’s still lying to us 
And we’ll be working til we’re dead

I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But I’ve never meant it more
It’s bittersweet
But you can take your time, my friend
  
T-T-T-Time 

I saw a face reflected in the window
For a second, it was you
Your sister said you’re fine
You’re just inside all the time 
You should know, you still have nothing to prove 

There’s a tale that I read when I was young 
About how the people you love leave when their lessons are done 
Was it time for you to go? 
Do I just grow on my own? 
Stay still in the store
Like a kid, just waiting for your tannoy call

I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But I’ve never meant it more
It’s bittersweet
But you can take your time, my friend

I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But I’ve never meant it more
It’s bittersweet
But you can take your time, my friend 
Go ahead and take your time, my friend 
Go ahead and take your time, my friend 
Maybe with time, we’ll get there again

Take Your Time

I went and moved up North
And our song stopped playing on the radio
Bittersweet, kick in the teeth, kind of way to go 
Teenage tales written in late night texts
And washed out polaroids

Could it be that I’m getting older?
It’s just too fast to make my mind up
Can we stay here for just a moment?
I’ll meet you there when I feel bold enough 
If I feel bold enough

There’s tales of yours I’ll never hear
I guess comfort comes with being near
And I know I’m passive to my fears
But doesn’t fight just end in tears?

Will I still feel this when I’m older?
Or dust the doubt off of my shoulders?
It’s funny how you have the space to grow 
But I left myself at home

Could it be that I’m getting older?
It’s just too fast to make my mind up
Can we stay here for just a moment?
I’ll meet you there when I feel bold enough 
If I feel bold enough

The home that felt our kicks and scrapes
Pure love and shame
Tears, thrill and rage
The friends you’ve loved
Gone separate ways
From a street, to a train, to a thought away 
Bright eyes, your name, I'm lost on the way 
To write a life worth living,
Or just a page

Could it be that I’m getting older?
It’s just too fast to make my mind up
Can we stay here for just a moment?
I’ll meet you there when I feel bold enough 
If I feel bold enough

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?

Your eyes look as fragile as a thread
Was it something I said?
It’s just you’ve never said less

And I’ve been looking distantly ahead
Was it something I said?
I guess I’ve never said less
I could’ve been there

I should’ve been there
I could’ve been…

Better with my time
And further in my life
A better daughter
And a better friend, sometimes
It’s all I feel when the room becomes too bright
Metallic taste on my tongue with every bite

Better with my drive
And kinder in your eyes
A better daughter and a better friend, sometimes
You’re all I hear when the room becomes too quiet 
Metallic taste on your tongue from climbing heights

I should’ve been there
I could’ve been there
I should’ve been there
I could’ve been…

I switched off and lost my fight
We’re left with growing pains of rite
And I still think about that night
Too young to feel the weight of life 

I should’ve been there
I could’ve been there
I should’ve been there
I could’ve been...

I could've been there
I should've been there

Hot Glue

If you need to go, then you can go 
I’ve got your voice cemented in my bones 
And there’s still words that I wish I spoke, but you know I’ve always struggled with that tone 

Why does love mean loss? 
Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean…

There’s a word for you in every phrase I speak
Thank god, the apple never fell far from the family tree  
I saw a picture of your Mother, she looked just like me
I’ve heard with time it’s meant to hurt less, but that sentiment feels cheap 

Why does love mean loss? 
Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean loss? 
Can you love too much?
Why does love mean…

I’m channelling you in every breath that I take, and I lift my head up after every mistake
And I hope you’d be proud of me, yeah I know you’d be proud of me 
I’m channelling you in every step that I take, and I lift my head up after every mistake
And I hope you’d be proud of me, yeah I know you’d be proud of me 

Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean loss? 
Can you love too much?
Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean loss?
Why does love mean loss? 
Can you love too much?
Why does love mean…

Family Tree

I’m sat here in the bathroom, cooling down my burning skin
At some dead house party, telling myself lies about why I’m even here
Did I think I’d have fun? Did I think I’d jump the gun? 
Did I think you’d stay for a bit?
Am I drunk? Is it love? Is it something wedged in between?
Well, that sounds like me


Did I read you wrong? Are you moving on? 


I just met someone with your name, it didn’t suit them by the way 
A white lie and polite nod as I rearrange my exit path through the maze of a dimly lit hallway  In the clothes you said you liked yesterday 
Think you can guess the way I’ve felt
Look at my pupils, that’s a tell that my conversation always ends on you
Any person, any room, any tale I’ll tell for you 
While my friends pretend that they’re hearing something new 


Did I read you wrong? Are you moving on?



And now I can’t find my drink
An excuse comes with this, do you need another too?
Or ditch your friends, ditch mine too, twenty minutes til last tube 
And I only even came here to see you
Well, the kitchen feels airtight, the next stage of the night
Small talk with someone that I knew from school
Check my phone, see a text, it flickers quick, like a breath
Surging pang in my chest, you’ve left
Am I drunk? Is it love? Is it something wedged in between? 


Did I read you wrong? Are you moving on?
Did I think I’d have fun? Did I think I’d jump the gun?
Did I think you’d stay for a bit?
Am I drunk? Is it love?
Is it something wedged in between?
Or is it just me?

House Party

I’ve been in love with you for so long
That the word belongs to you, and no one else 
I’d bite my cheek, til it would bleed the way you want it to, darling
I thought I’d never feel this way for no one

My name’s never sounded the same
Like it gains meaning when you say it softly, baby 
I’d hate any person that you hate, on any single day, they’re no one 
Your image when I blink
Every time we drink, you’re the substance sinking in, slowly
I just can’t believe that everyone doesn’t see you this way

I’ve been in love with you for so long
That the word belongs to you, and no one else 
I’d bite my cheek, til it would bleed the way you want it to, darling
I thought I’d never feel this way for no one

I’ve been in love with you for so long
That the word belongs to you, and no one else 
I’d bite my cheek, til it would bleed the way you want it to, darling
I thought I’d never feel this way for no one
For no one, for no one
For no one, for no one else

No One Else

Move on, move on, move on

You know it’s time to move on
You’re stuck in fight or flight
With a heart that’s hurt for too long 
And you’ve lost friends, time and lovers
And there’ll still be others 
With words hiding under your tongue 
Look at you, all grown up
Bottled in everything that you want

You know it’s time to move on
You know it’s time to move on
You’re not a child
So dust off
What hurts you the most
Because you know it’s time to move on

A shy goodbye
Like a pin drop 
My will grows tired
Every lovesick step from your bus stop 
And you’ve lost friends, time and lovers
No loss like another’s
Gestures you learnt as your own  
Look at you…
All grown up!
Missed your chance with the one that you want

You know it’s time to move on
You know it’s time to move on
You’re not a child
So dust off
What hurts you the most 
Because you know it’s time to move on

Move on, move on, move on
Move on, move on, move on

Well, when you feel too much   
Does the room still spin? 
And are you
Half as happy
As you were as a kid? 
And did that second love come?
Was it worth the tears? 
And when you pace forwards
Is it fuelled by fear? 
It’s like I don’t know how to be human
Is it learnt from love
Or is it built in?  
Do your fate and needs still co-exist?
Guess I thought by now
I’d be over it

But, how can you grow
In a room on your own? 
And how can they help
If you don’t let them know? 
How can you grow
In a room on your own?
And how can they help
If you don’t let them know?

You know it’s time to move on
You know it’s time to move on
You’re not a child
So dust off
What hurts you the most 
Because you know it’s time to move on
To move on
To move on
To move on
To move on

Move On

I’ll be tracking the plane site
To make sure it’s a safe flight
You’re moving away
And that’s fine with me
I say with gritted teeth 
It’s not gonna change, right?
When you’re sleeping on Eastern Time
I haven’t been laughing recently
I think you’re all I need

If it’s EST
Is there you and me?

The hands on the clock have never moved so slow 
As the hours ‘til you go 
How does a flickering black board 
Have the nerve to still say more
Than my emotional vertigo?
I can see your breath is bated 
I can sense the weight of “Why?” 
Growing desperate in my ego 
Are there seats still on standby? 
I can feel my lips are moving
But I don’t know what they’ll say
Something stupidly ambitious
If this flight just got delayed 
Are you fine?
Never mind
The bell chimes 
That’s a sign
You stand up
We lock eyes
Heavy sigh
Is it time
For goodbyes?

If it’s EST
Is there you and me?
If it’s EST
Is there you and me?

If it’s EST
Is there you and me?
If it’s EST
Is there you and me?
I’ll be tracking the plane site
To make sure it’s a safe flight
You’re moving away
It’s what you need
But it breaks my heart to see
Can we try in the next life?
I felt too much for one lifetime 
You’re moving away
And I’m proud to see
You got your dream of EST

I know it’s hard for you to try and guess everything I’m thinking
Is that what you’re thinking?
Can I make it youthfully tragic, enigmatic?
While I’m clinging onto the thought that it can’t beat me
But it nearly beat me

And my chest grows tight, when I know that I

I think I’ve felt this fall before
It’s sticking harder than I’d thought
I’ll call my friends, and let them down
And change my name, and leave my town
Then go get help, but lie about it all
Til you see the signs of the fall

I guess I’m still that kid with all her fears
I thought coming of age would come with a bit more patience
I didn’t know if I’d make it
Do I rely on the medication?
Internet sensations?
Dopamine-dependent temporary vacations from everything that I’m faking

And my chest grows tight, when I know that I

I think I’ve felt this fall before
It’s sticking harder than I’d thought
I’ll call my friends, and let them down
And change my name, and leave my town
Then go get help, but lie about it all
Til you see the signs of the fall

Has my ego become too bruised finding something to live and die for?
Know that I’ve still got more to prove, but there’s too much to care and fight for

And my chest grows tight, when I know that I

I think I’ve felt this fall before
It’s sticking harder than I’d thought
I’ll call my friends and let them down
And change my name, and leave my town
Then go get help, but lie about the reasons why I don’t come out
I’m scared to love and I’m scared to lose
And I’m scared of ageing for both me and you
And I’m all choked up, have I said too much?
Did I roam too far?
Will you pick me up?

The Fall

Fusing soft, introspective lyricism with effervescent, ear-worm riffage, South-West London based trio Slaney Bay have already cemented their place within the alt-indie landscape. The band consists of three childhood friends; Cait Whitley (vocals) Joel Martin (bass) & Will Nicola-Thompson (guitar). 

Fresh from a manic few months on the live circuit, including widely-acclaimed slots at The Great Escape and Dot To Dot, the band recently announced their forthcoming sophomore EP ‘Why Does Love Mean Loss?’ (due September) and shared the latest single ‘EST’. The bands gripping and unbridled energy is showcased throughout the track, marking the follow-up to cathartic first EP reveal ‘Move On’ and building on significant early press support (Billboard, The Independent, Dork, The Line Of Best Fit, Under The Radar) and several BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders) and BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq) spins.

Hotly tipped by likes of Dork (Hype List 2023) and Under The Radar (23 for 2023), the indie newcomers’ made quite the early impression on the release of their debut EP  ‘A Life Worth Living’ (Nov 2022), a coming-of-age diary in which they explore the hardships of growing up. Already making a name for themselves on the live circuit with notable support slots for Sinead O’Brien, Bleach Lab and Coach Party, the band are now gearing up for a busy 2023 with lots of new music and festivals.

“This band have got bangers!” (Jack Saunders, BBC Radio 1)

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