Name: "sugarplum fairy" by the black watch
Duration: 1 min 39 s
Description: from the new LP by the black watch, "sugarplum fairy, sugarplum fairy"

The chords and structure of this piece are loosely based of my other, non-orchestral piece of music titled Eternal Recurrence.

Eternal Recurrence - Orchestral Version

Planet Sunday - Dukes Of Knitwear

from the new LP by the black watch, "sugarplum fairy, sugarplum fairy"

"sugarplum fairy"

Written and performed by Duncan McCarthy - vocals, guitars, bass. Recorded and mixed at Bubblegum Towers, Glasgow from Jan - Mar 2017 by Lawrence 'Laz' McCluskey who played drums, bass, keyboards, slide and additional guitar. Some thanks due to Gregor Emond.

Video: https://youtu.be/WdeMjMyTu44

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Kamikaze, don't you want me
Won't you fuck me, blow and suck me.
Kamikaze, do or die me,
Oh Christ almighty, crucify me.

[Verse 2]
We tried to wash away your sins but that's just where the fun begins.
Can't you see how my heart runs wild, guess I'm mother nature's child.
Child, guess I'm mother nature's child

[Verse 3]
Well you picked me up and punched me out,
Ripped me up and tore me out,
Tripped me up and you spun me 'round,
Bitched me up and put me down.

[Chorus 1]
What the fuck are we gonna do 'coz I don't know if I love you
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me

And so it goes...

[Verse 5]
Kamikaze, you lied to me,
Push and shove me,
Never love me, 
Go on leave me, and deceive me, 
Oh go on hurt me, and desert me.

[Verse 6]
And go to him  you can't refuse,
Guess he wins, I guess I lose, 
Go to him if that's what you choose,
My Kamikaze torpedo blues.
Go to him and don't come back,
Hope you die in a park attack, 
Hope they take your passport and your shoes, 
My Kamikaze torpedo blues.

[Chorus 2]
Every time I think we're through, you come on like someone new.
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me

[Chorus 3]
I know all birds fly
I know all birds fly

[Chorus 4]
Kamikaze Girl
Kamikaze Girl
Kamikaze Girl
Kamikaze Girl 
[Repeats]

I know all birds fly
[Repeats]

By Duncan McCarthy, 1995

Kamikaze Girl

'For Mercy' was written and performed by Duncan McCarthy - vocal, guitar, bass, percussion. Lawrence 'Laz' McCluskey played drums, bass, percussion and recorded and mixed this demo at Bubblegum Towers, Glasgow June  2017. Some thanks due to Gregor Emond.

Video: https://youtu.be/ktrzROgOSQ0

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You took your cell and your clothes
And stood for a second in the doorway
You slipped your shoes on in the hall
They were blinking, you were gone
You called your boyfriend from a café
Said “You better not expect me home”
Turned your collar to the cold and rain
That boy made you feel old and insane 

[Chorus1]
No one goes quietly, no one knows quite like me
Your precious lord won’t set you free
No path as crossed as she
No hope so lost at sea 
Go crooked lord on bended knee 
For me  
For me  
For me  
For me  

[Verse 2]
It’s an anthem for doomed youth
A desecration of the truth
It’s a tale of sin and pride
That’ll make you run and hide

[Chorus 2]
No path as crossed as she
No hope so lost at sea 
Your thankless lord can let me be
No thief of Calvary
No soul as lost as me
Go crooked lord on bended knee 
For me  (For Mercy, for Mercy, for Mercy, and for me)
For me  (For Mercy, for Mercy, for Mercy, and for me)
For me  (For Mercy, for Mercy, for Mercy, and for me)
For me  (For Mercy, for Mercy, for Mercy, and for me)
For Mercy
For Mercy and for me.
For Mercy
For Mercy and for me.
Ahh for Mercy
For Mercy and for me.
For Mercy
Ahh for Mercy and for me.
No thief of Calvary
No hope so lost at sea 
Go crooked lord on bended knee 
No path as crossed as she
No soul as lost as me
Go crooked lord on bended knee 
For me  

By Duncan McCarthy, 2016

For Mercy

'Welcome a Sinner' was written by Duncan McCarthy and performed by Duncan McCarthy and Lawrence 'Laz' McCluskey. Duncan played acoustic, electric and 1st lead guitar, and sang lead and backing vocals; Lawrence played drums, bass, keyboards and 2nd lead guitar, he also sang backing vocals. It was recorded and mixed by Lawrence McCluskey at Bubblegum Towers, Aug/Sept 2017. Thanks due to Gregor Emond.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
There is a cloud sweeping across the sky
Much like the way you sweep your hair from your eye
And there is a word escaping upon your tongue
Just like a promise you won’t keep for too long
Because there was a blade, anointed, laid at your wrist
So disappointed you’d made a beautiful fist
It could not resist. 

[Verse 1]
There is a bird strayin’ to the path of the sun
It quit its preyin’ just to laugh at what we had done
And there is a name pressed tight to your lips
Unrepentant refrain beneath a halo that slips
And we watched the ocean breakin’ over the shore
Feelin’ so broken we couldn’t break anymore.

[Chorus 1]
You will change 
You will change
What now feels familiar will one day seem strange
You will change 
You will change
You will welcome a sinner
And put on their chain
Faithless love in your vein
In your vein.

[Voice for follow on trumpet]
Bah burrah bub bub bah baha 
burrah bub bub bah baha
burrah bub bub bah bah
Bah Bah 
Bah burrah bub bub bah baha
burrah bub bub bah baha
burrah bub bub bah bah

[Chorus 2]
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sinner and put on their chains
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sinner and put on their chains
[Added voice]
Welcome a sin  
Welcome a sin  
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sin
Welcome a sinner and put on their chain
Faithless love in your vein.

By Duncan McCarthy, 2016

Welcome A Sinner

Audrey

Levitating Love Song written by Duncan McCarthy. Performed by Duncan MCarthy and Lawrence McCluskey, October 2018. Duncan sang lead and backing vocal, played rhythm and lead guitars and some keyboards. Lawrence played bass guitar, drums, slide guitar, keyboards and congas - and sang some backing vocals too. Recorded and mixed at Bubblegum Towers Glasgow, 2018.

Video: https://youtu.be/mgVO7PR0hBI 

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
In your eye I've seen everything
The sidewalk and the city walls
In your sigh I've heard everything
The tram lines and the box cars call

[Chorus 1]
But if we think about it too long it'll be gone (Oooh ooh)
If we think about it's a levitating love song (Oooh ooh)

Baaah..
Bah rah bah rah bah bah aah...
(Oooh ooh)
(Oooh ooh)

[Verse 2]
It's a love that's just waitin' (Let your love, levitate me)
Just levitatin' in the air (Let your love, levitate me)
It's a love that hangs upon your mouth, your eyes, your hair 
It's a love that's shaking the barley and the trees (Getting wild, setting free)
It's a love that's taking me to my bended knees (Getting wild, setting free)

[Chorus 1]
But if we think about it too long it'll be gone (Oooh ooh)
If we think about it's a levitating love song (Oooh ooh)

(Child born of the wild corn)

Baaah..
Bah rah bah rah bah bah aah...
Baaah..
Bah rah bah rah bah bah aah......

[Verse 3]
High line baby like a honey bee, levitate your love to me
 (Le-vi-ta-ting Love Song)
High line baby like a honey bee, levitate your love to me
(Le-vi-ta-ting Love Song) (Oooh ooh)
High line baby like a refugee, resurrect your life for me
(Levitatin', Levitating Love Song) (Oooh ooh)
I ain't ever gonna let it be, levitate your love to me
(Levitatin', Levitating Love Song) (Oooh ooh)

Love to me

By Duncan McCarthy, 2018

Levitating Love Song

Welcome back to LLW, this month we speak to author Lucy Jago about her new novel A Net For Small Fishes, which examines two real life women who were at the centre of a 16th century English scandal. We speak to Lucy about her wealth of historical research, recentering female narratives and why tearing War and Peace in half is the way to finally get round to reading it. 
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Stay safe and well everyone, and we’ll see next month!

LLW: Interview with Lucy Jago, author of A Net For Small Fishes, plus a deep dive into Bridgerton

Los Angeles dream pop indie pop band the black watch has made 17 LPs of guitar-driven, highly poetic, mid-period Beatles-influenced music that has been compared to The Velvet Underground in a fight with The Soft Boys; and featured in such magazines as Rolling Stone, The Big Takeover, Magnet, Popmatters, USA Today, and many many others.

"sugarplum fairy"

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