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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Beautiful professionally manufactured limited edition CD of our fan-funded debut album album. Includes 16 page booklet featuring lyric sheets and artwork by Alex Mahood & Annie Mackin.

    Includes unlimited streaming of How To Make Time - ALBUM via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

When the horses on the roundabout,
cease to smile,
and the wind whips tarpaulin on,
the deck-chair piles,
and wet pebble-dash looks like skin,
of crocodiles,
I take a ride down by the sea,
take a ride on my trusty steed.

I grabbed life by the handlebars,
and it begged me to stop.
Rode it down the hill,
peddled hard right from the top.
My skin was greedy for the thrill,
of a million rain-drops.
My lungs they gorged on the gushing air,
my eyes like pin-balls darting everywhere.

Well I know,
the 7th wave is the biggest wave,
mother used to say.
But they will roll back,
into the sea the very same way.

I look up and see a thundercloud,
Swoop and rise.
But it’s the starlings from the pier,
I quickly realize,
as my front wheel buckles,
and sends me up into the skies,
and my face skids along wet concrete,
and gets overtaken by my feet.

Well I know,
the 7th wave is the biggest wave,
mother used to say.
But they will roll back,
into the sea the very same way.
The 7th wave is the biggest wave,
mother used to say.
But they will roll back,
into the sea the very same way.

And lying on the ground,
I see the 7th wave roll in.
Like an excited puppy,
tongue out clattering,
and tripping.
I see it as it makes its way,
up the beach; grasping.
And see it swallowed up by the sea,
so I set fire to my rusty steed.

Well I know,
the 7th wave is the biggest wave,
mother used to say.
But they will roll back,
into the sea the very same way.
The 7th wave is the biggest wave,
mother used to say.
But they will roll back,
into the sea the very same way.

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from How To Make Time - ALBUM, released August 26, 2013

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Gaoler's Daughter London, UK

Their 1st 3 self-released singles championed by Zane Lowe, Steve Lamacq & John Kennedy lead to invitations to play tour dates with Babyshambles, Graham Coxon and We Are Scientists amongst others as well as tour dates across europe. Following 3 hype machine number 1s the band released their fan-funded debut album. ‘How To Make Time’ is a uniquely dark view of London life.
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