Features backing vocals from Eimear Harper.

Lyrics:
Shook awake like a force of habit
Staring straight up at the roof
Check on my phone, I'm a late white rabbit
And the blood in my brain is the proof
Oh my friend, I don't know how to say
There's something gone wrong with me
Still you know, I don't need to say it
You just smile and you set me free

You held my hand in the dark that night
Lying on Mollie's lawn
You held my hand in my wind and rain
O Dayna, O Dayna
You never told me not to shake and cry
Drunk and stupid and wrong
You held my hand and I whispered again
O Dayna, O Dayna

Take a train from Heuston Station
And the seat pushes into my legs
Send you a text just to reassure you
That I did not fall asleep and forget
Cause you know that I got my issues
I'm working on a couple as well
But you my friend are perfect person
And everyone who knows you can tell

You held my hand in the dark that night
Lying on Mollie's lawn
You held my hand in my wind and rain
O Dayna, O Dayna
You never told me not to shake and cry
Drunk and stupid and wrong
You held my hand and I whispered again
O Dayna, O Dayna

Now we're drinking rain
Until you're back again
We're drinking rain
Maybe I'll see you in the summer
In the summer, maybe I'll see you
In the summer, in the summer

Braaaiiins EP

Drinking Rain

i call my girl daddy

Rooftop Lullaby(For Jake)

there's no one here to love you

how to remind you that it has been 7 years                
since the day that we discovered one another in the sphere
to think you could have always stayed a stranger sounds insane               
when i know you like a brother, i know more than just a name

the first time i came to see you i was scared i’d let you down
but you met me at the airport and the sound, the sound, the sound
we talked about our favourite artists and our schooling systems
we talked and talked for hours, both of us just listening

and oh i feel it in my knuckles
i feel it in my knees,
we were always meant to meet 
and toby, back across the sea, 
i promise i will be there 

and at my first concert, before the band came on to stage
they played our song over the speakers, i cried because you were miles and miles away
and yet i felt you there right beside me as i sang
now every time the melody rings out i see you the whole time.

in the wicklow mountains i belong with all these souls
and there down by my feet are jack and toby, on the floor
“this bitch is pissed as a fart” jack says, erin and rían snort
i’m full of serotonin, drunk on the dancing from before

i peek a glance
i never knew before tonight the feeling of dancing like this
i’m spinning more
never knew that i could feel so free and loved when we’re dancing, 
we’ve always been dancing

toby

Friar Lawrence: words and viola
Kyle Thornton: guitar
Tobias Barry: piano, synth, vocal FX, FX automation, mastering

a love song for you ft. Tobias Barry & Nerves

For the nomadic dreamers, diasporic believers, place makers and boundary breakers.

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Drinking Rain

Tobias

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