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Turn Your Back On The Crown

from The North EP by The Great Park

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TURN YOUR BACK ON THE CROWN

I WOULD ALWAYS LOSE IT ALL AT THE TRACK BUT SCRAPE ENOUGH TO MAKE MY WAY BACK I’VE BEEN GAMBLING FOR FOOD AND A BED IT’S NOT FUNNY AND THE ODDS ARE NOT FAIR AND WHEN THE FORTUNE TOOK FLIGHT WITH THE CROWS I CLIMBED TREES AND FOLLOWED THEM HOME AND I’M SO LUCKY TO HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR I GOT NO IDEA BUT I KNOW IT CAN’T LAST YOU SLEPT ON TRAINS WHEN WE FLED TO THE NORTH WE LEFT SWITZERLAND IN A HELL OF A STORM AND I DON’T KNOW WHEN I’LL EVER HEAD SOUTH I GOT A MONTH UNTIL THE MONEY RUNS OUT EVERY BED SMALLER THAN THE ONE BEFORE UNTIL IN KREUZBERG WE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR AND THESE THREE WEEKS WE’VE BEEN KEEPING SO CLOSE AND NOW THIS DISTANCE AND I WAKE LIKE A GHOST AND AS THE RAIN DROPPED THE RIVER GREW MEAN AND THE CHANNEL TOOK WILLOWS ON THE WING NO IT CARED NOT FOR THE PLACE OF A THING NOTHING IS FIXED AND IT’S ALL TO THE WIND BUT THERE’S A CROSSING THERE'S A BORDER AHEAD WE’LL RIDE BOATS AND I’LL TALK YOU TO DEATH AND IF THE CLOUDS KEEP ON CHUCKING IT DOWN WELL THE WATER RISES AND I'LL SHUT MY MOUTH DID YOU TALK TO THE GOATS AND TO THE SHEEP DID WE WALK OUT FOR AN HOUR TO THE SEA AND DO YOU FIND ME AT TIMES IN YOUR ROOM WHERE I DREAM OF YOUR FINE THIGHS IN BLOOM DID YOU CATCH ME HUMMING THESE NOTES DID YOU SAY THERE IS A MAN I COULD KNOW WELL YOU GRABBED ME AND WE RODE ALONG AND WE WROTE DOWN THE WORDS FOR THIS SONG RIDE AWAY FROM THE WINTER COLD TURN OVER HARD GROUND RUN THROUGH THE SUMMER FIELDS TURN YOUR BACK ON THE CROWN

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from The North EP, released September 25, 2016

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Stephen Burch. Problem folk, songs with words.

"Ein Singer-Songwriter ist immer auch Poet. Und Burch ist ein ganz besonderer." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

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