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Nurse, oh nurse, this body is quickly growing thin.
The ears that heard laments of pipers, mountainside, are failing now.
The legs that walked through valleys deep are aided by a frame of steel now.
The eyes that looked upon the snow-capped mountain see such things no more.

The birdsong that once sounded loud is dulling into silence.
Take me back to Highland days, Lakeland loves and strolling in the Dales.
Back in time to when these two legs could carry me again.
Back to when this hand was holding out a wedding ring.

Because here in this room stand just pictures of a vista far away.
And strangers open-armed with gifts who's faces are just pleading to be known.

Stranger, oh stranger, you talk to me of days in your youth.
Of time spent in Yorkshire towns that once I'm sure I've called home.
And every story seems like it should be familiar to me.
Like the picture on the wall, of a smile looking back at me.

Because here in this room stand just pictures of a vista far away.
And strangers open-armed with gifts who's faces are just pleading to be known.
And home could be anywhere but this plain, white-walled room.
With these strangers, open armed, with gifts, pleading to be known.

Nurse, oh nurse, this memory is fading.

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from Where Would You Rather Be?, released July 31, 2020

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The Morning Shift London, UK

The Morning Shift are a SE London based indie-something seven-piece, who blend their influences of Belle and Sebastian, Nick Cave and The Beatles into a circus of sound that mixes the jangly guitars of late 90s indie music with the deep, warm soundscapes of Bad Seed-esque art rock. The band’s lyrics discuss life, love and loss, reveling in the melancholy and the everyday beauty of the mundane. ... more

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