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Learning How To Breathe Underwater

from Turn Your Back On The Crown by The Great Park

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    The third in a trilogy of albums recorded in the kitchen at home in Nuremberg. 'Turn Your Back On The Crown' collects eight new songs and features Johny Lamb (Thirty Pounds Of Bone) on cornet, Sophia Basler (Myself When Young) on violin and Stefanie (Vivian Void) on backing vocals.

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LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER

WE ARE LYING ON STONES OUR BELLIES TO THE SUN
LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER
DO YOU THINK I AM AN AUTHORITY ON THIS KIND OF THING
OR DO YOU NOT BUT DO YOU THINK THAT I OUGHTA

THERE IS SO LITTLE LEFT OF THE MAN THAT YOU MET
HE’S LIKE THE FLICK OF THE MATCH AFTER LIGHTING
NOT GIVEN A GLANCE, OR HALF A CHANCE
TO BE STRUCK AGAIN AND MAKE FIRE HERE

BUT WHAT THERE IS IN A SHOUT CAN PUSH THE AIR OUT
AND I STRUGGLE FOR BREATH AS IF DYING
IT IS A STUPID MAN WHO WON’T KEEP CALM WHEN HE CAN
AND WHO LOSES HIS NERVE WITHOUT TRYING

COUNT TWENTY IN AND THIRTY OUT
COUNT THE BREATHS AS THEY KISS ON YOUR MOUTH
SUNLIGHT THROUGH TREES TRAIN WINDOW AT SPEED
I ALWAYS DREAM ABOUT LEAVING THE SOUTH

AND IN THE DARKEST OF DAYS WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR FACE
AND IT IS WILD AND WET AND STREAMING
TEARS FROM YOUR EYES HEAVY AND WIDE
AND RESTING AND PACKING AND LEAVING

IT IS NO WAY TO LIVE IT SHOULD NOT FIT
IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BECOME A HABIT
PLEASE LET’S THROW IT ALL OUT WITH A HAPPY SHOUT
DISREGARD AND MOVE ON AND LET’S HAVE IT

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from Turn Your Back On The Crown, released May 8, 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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