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Stick To The Road

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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STICK TO THE ROAD

THE MOMENT I WAKE UP THE SHADOWS THEY TAKE UP
THE MORNING LIGHT FIGHTS BUT IT WON’T BEAT THE DARK
AND THE WINTER WIND BLOWS AND THE WINDOWS WON’T CLOSE
AND THIS IS ONLY NOVEMBER THIS IS JUST THE START OF IT ALL

SO YOU WROTE ABOUT ME COMING AND I SPOKE ABOUT RUNNING
AWAY TO YOUR BOAT WHERE IT WAITS IN THE DRY DOCK
AND IT’S SAD TO SEE THE HULL BENEATH
WHERE THERE COULD BE WAVES AND FISHES AND MYSTERY

BLUEY-GREEN WATER HISSING WITH BUBBLES
THE WEIGHT OF THE FATHOMS PRESSING DOWN FROM ABOVE US
AND COLDER THAN DEATH AND WIDER THAN SKY
NO PLACE FOR US BROTHER WE BETTER STAY DRY

STICK TO THE ROAD BEWARE OF THE MOON
THEY’LL FIND YOU IN PIECES IF YOU DON’T GET HOME SOON

BUT I COULD LIVE IN THE HARBOUR WATCHING THE CARGO
DREAMING UP STORIES OF SAILORS AND STOWAWAYS
STINKING OF GIN AND HAPPY AND THIN
AND NEVER AGAIN SPEAK ABOUT GOING AWAY

JUST SET UP MY CHAIR MY STASH ON THE TABLE 
MY WRITE IT ALL DOWN BOOK MY LIES AND MY FABLES
THE LIST OF LOVERS I NEVER MET IN THE DAYLIGHT
UNDER DARK COVERS IT WAS LUST AT FIRST SIGHT

STICK TO THE ROAD BEWARE OF THE MOON
THEY’LL FIND YOU IN PIECES IF YOU DON’T GET HOME SOON

THERE IS A PATH FROM THE CLIFF EDGE GOES TO THE SEA
IT RUNS STRAIGHT DOWN - IT’S QUICK BUT IT’S STEEP
AND YOU CALL IT A SHORT CUT BUT I CALL IT A LEAP
IT WILL CUT IT SHORT SURE BUT IT’S NOT FOR ME

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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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