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Keening (demo Oct 2010)

by Paper Beat Scissors

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This song is about a burning desire to be present, and my own frustrations at feeling, too often, mentally absent, though my body is there: "barely in this chair at all"...

This is the original demo we used as a reference for the version on the 2012 self-titled album.

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Keening like some awful voice
Wordless and without a choice
Whipping around buildings, disturbing the pigeons where they sleep

Barely in this chair at all
Nod and smile and wait to go
Water your thoughts down, pass them around, watch them tumble around

Your words are moving, in and out
Your images moving in and out

Leave your shoes on the stairs
Crack the window
New socks are kissing floorboards, breeze-blown hair tickles ears

Roll your eyes and then you go
What was I supposed to know?
Water your thoughts down, pass them around, watch them tumble around

Your words are moving, in and out
Your images moving in and out

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released June 18, 2020

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Paper Beat Scissors Montreal, Québec

Musical monstrosity deposited in Montreal, Quebec after the first years in Burnley, England.

Tim Crabtree’s haunting voice burns at the centre of the Paper Beat Scissors sound with an honesty and rawness that skirts discomfort.
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