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Harry Has No Place

from Still Desperate by Barabajagal

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about

This started as a word game, to write a set of lyrics where every couplet starts with the same word. When I showed this to people they were put off by how hard it was to find a rhythm or beat in it. So I wrote a song with a super obvious rhythm around these lyrics cos screw them.

lyrics

Well trodden boots stamping
Well sodden feet up and down on the spot
Raincoat help keeps away
Raindrops that drop and then stay.

Torn weathered jeans he is
Torn whether or not are holding him down

He's a trivial man
On a lineal track
No one said anything
Bout ever looking back
Bus replacement's broken down
For a train that came late
Stuck in another town
Harry has no place.

Sore eyes ache bitterly
Sore from screens staring at him all day long
Glare fixed into the gloom
Glaring strongly at what looms.

Lightly breathe out as the
Lights come done faster and faster still.

He's a trivial man
On a lineal track
No one said anything
Bout ever looking back
Bus replacement's broken down
For a train that came late
Stuck in another town
Harry has no place.

A comfortable room with a firelit glow,
Seems so far from the world you know.
There's never a time to feel more at ease
When everything can be let go.

Well trodden boots stamping
Well sodden feet up and down on the spot
Raincoat help keeps away
Raindrops that drop and then stay.

Steel lined monstrosities
Steely eyed nihilist philosophies.

He's a trivial man
On a lineal track
No one said anything
Bout ever looking back
Bus replacement's broken down
For a train that came late
Stuck in another town
Harry has no place.

Bus replacement's broken down
For a train that came late
Stuck in another town
Harry has no place.

credits

from Still Desperate, released November 21, 2015
All instruments, vocals & production - David Cooper
Except
Bass - Mason Thorburn

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Barabajagal Dunedin, New Zealand

Barabajagal are a band who make music.

It's pretty ok stuff really.

It's rooted in psychedelia but incorporates so many genres that it doesn't really seem too definable. But it's ok with that.

Despite being a kiwi band the songwriter is actually rather English, so whenever he sings you'd be hard pressed to go "wow, those kiwis huh". Still, New Zealand-ish.

Pronounced Bah-Rabba-Jaggle.
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