Name: paperback
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Description: A melodic mixture of neo-folk/pop-soul in a wonderfully warm, unexpected, yet familiar form.

paperback

by the bellow & the whale

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A melodic mixture of neo-folk/pop-soul in a wonderfully warm, unexpected, yet familiar form.

lyrics

Yellow light, coffee black
Thumb tucked in a well-worn paperback
name tag pinned, trousers pressed
late night shift behind the hotel desk

midnight riders fly by
ahh ahh ah ah ahhhh ahhhh
ahhh ah ah ah ahhh ahhh

Stretched his legs, felt his age
turned his eyes back to a dog-eared page
but the words they don’t sink in
so he starts the line over again

midnight riders fly by
ahh ahh ah ah ahhhhh
ah ah ah ahhh ahhhh

Quit his job and changed his plans
sayin I’m going to make something with my own two hands
Met a girl and moved down south
she turns the words when the won’t come out

when the words they won’t sink in
She starts the line over again

midnight riders fly by
ahh ahh ahh ahh ahhh ahhhh
ahhhh ahh ahh ahh ahhhh ahhh

The hammer and the anvil,
the forge and the flame,
Is it more than I can handle
Will you call my name?

Drop the hammer on the anvil
Light the forge with the flame
It’s all that I can handle
I’m making my own name

ahh ahh ahh ahhh ahhh ahhh
ah ahh ahh ahh ahhhh ahh

Yellow light, coffee black
thumb tucked in a well worn paperback
he let the words sink in
and started all over again

credits

released June 13, 2019
Vocals by Bianca Bernard Black & Julia Lee Norris (the bellow & the whale), Guitar by Julia Lee Norris, Keyboards & Synths by Kevin Ford, Drums By Jonathan Marks, Bass by B.

Engineered and Mixed by Kevin Ford (Fullerton Recording Studio; Chicago)
Mastered by Rollin Weary (Delux Recording Studio; Chicago)

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the bellow & the whale Chicago, Illinois

thebellowandthewhale.com

discography

the noise still lingers

Dec 2020
darkest hour

Mar 2020
stay

Nov 2019
plastic dinosaur

Sep 2019
ramblin

Aug 2019
paperback

Jun 2019

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