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No 1 Son

from Husbands by Pale Fire

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lyrics

Stand and watch the river rushing by
Filled with Friday fish and fading light
It flows from the spilled table salt of the suburbs to the sea
Washes over everyone asleep in the final country

Reading writers that take it way too far
Subsumed into their terrified white hearts
Afternoons are lost in pornographic reverie
Underwriting hesitation marks if you're unhappy you'll be free

They are on their way to absence
And they sleep in bedrooms bathed in blue
Running out of roads that rise to meet them
And lies to see them through

You go out and run til you are thin
Baptised by sweat, absolved of sin
No.1 son in a war zone turning twenty one
Curled up like a question mark sat on the tip of someone's tongue

He is on his way to absence
And he sleeps in bedrooms bathed in blue
Running out of roads that rise to meet him
And lies to see him through

Do you see red the way we all see red
And read the writings on the wall?
A chipped tooth, a ragnail nostalgia
Empty as a drum
A rusted horizon line
The slow fade of love one day at a time

We are on our way to absence
And we sleep in bedrooms bathed in blue
Running out of roads that rise to meet us
And lies to see us through

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from Husbands, released September 4, 2020

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Pale Fire Glasgow, UK

Pale Fire were formed in Airdrie and Coatbridge in 2011 by a group of bedroom musicians who had attended school together.

Pale Fire make pop music for those people who feel pressure to put away childish things. The music reckons with unfashionable subject matter: the demands of adulthood. It recognises the need to honour your responsibilities while keeping alive your essential self. ... more

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