True North

from Still Cool [EP] by Dead Modern

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lyrics

True North

You came over
On a Friday.
It’d been a weird day
And I was half cut.
We talked about him
And his lyrics
And what he had done
And how he did it.
He drank where we drank,
He sung where we sung;
One degree of separation.
So put on the four-track
And listen to them,
The younger us:
Those setting sons.

Ten years older
But none the wiser.
The same old blue jeans,
The same old pipe dreams
Like:
Is it too late now
To pack our jobs in?
Let’s move to Berlin
And grow our hair out
And start a punk band,
Play some basement shows,
And sell some records
Finally.
We can hang in Das Gift,
Maybe work a few shifts,
Rent a place in Kreuzberg,
Live an endless summer.

We’ll never do that.
We’ll never be that.
But that’s alright, man:
You know I love you.
But it’s too important,
It’s far too easy
To leave the things we need to hear unsaid.
So:
When the sun falls
On the Ship Inn
And we’re together -
All of us -
That is True North.
That is daybreak.
The endless summer,
The lingering heartache fades.

credits

from Still Cool [EP], released November 26, 2021
Jamie Clapton: drums / percussion
Nicholas McManus: lyrics / vocals / synthesizers / guitars
Jordan Russell-Hall: bass / synthesizers / glockenspiel
David Thomson: guitars

Additional musicians:

Cameron Thomson-Duncan: trumpet
Andy Miller: ambience

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Dead Modern Glasgow, UK

Nostalgic synth miserablism from the Central Belt of Scotland. Overly-long songs.
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