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lyrics

When I get home from school my Dad’s already into it
Wearing a white singlet, the word ‘Swag’ written ‘cross it
The letters they are printed ‘cross a sexy girls’ breasts
And I think about the girl before I get into bed

My Mum works in a nursing home she says she needs a drink
From her nights spent cleaning up 90-year-old shit
She says ‘Do you think I could go on Love Island, seriously?’
I say ‘Mum, you are not sexy enough for tv’

I walk up to the quarry
A flurry
Of ground pigeons move
From under my feet
Like the arrival
Of sudden bad news
The world splits in two

I love the summers you can play football ‘til after 10
A yellow moon rises above the terraces
Sometimes the bigger boys think they can really take the piss
But once they’ve played against me they no longer think like this

Everyone says that we’ve
Not had a summer
Like this
Since the last really hot
Summer
Of ‘76
The dog pants and licks

A grey heron
Staring
At fish down there by the canal
To me
It feels special
To everyone else it’s banal

Sometimes I
Think I’m
The only person who can see it
That it might be a
Ghost, or a
Phantom, an ancestral spirit
Paying a visit

Everything that will happen
Has already happened

We’ve been learning ‘bout reincarnation
In a past life I was a raven

My grandfather thinks there should be a war
And that is what wars are for

credits

from I Felt The Valley Lifting, released September 10, 2021
The Colne Valley Players:
MohammadReza Beladi – dammam (drum), ney (flute) and neyanban (Iranian bagpipes)
George Harrington – drum kit
Julia Morgan – tin whistle, flute and backing vocals
Chris Ruffoni – bass, trumpets, piano and backing vocals
Sarah Tym – violin and Northumbrian bagpipes

Special guests:
‘Evil’ Graham Lee – Lap and pedal steel on Strange Fish and Pole Moor
Ada Martin – drone violin on Town Gossip

Engineered and mixed by Colin Elliot at Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield
Mastered by Duncan Cowell, Sound Mastering, London

Design and cover photo by Cameron Emerson-Elliott

Special thanks to the University of Huddersfield for supporting and funding this recording.

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Toby Martin Sydney, Australia

Toby Martin is a singer-songwriter from Sydney/Gadigal Australia, inspired by British Isles folk music and fuzzed out indie rock.

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