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Break The Day

from Ramshackle Heart by Lach

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Lach: "This was an old song of mine. It's basically about the feeling I'd sometimes get walking into Antihoot or similar songwriter music hang-outs. I'd only played it out acoustically a few times because I knew it was a Clash/reggae feel and needed the bass and drums. Ben and Caz did a great job giving me that shuffle and then the atmospherics of the doubled melodica and bullwhips just seemed natural to round out the zombie-cowboy stylee of the whole thing. Probably wouldn't hurt to have had a lonesome train whistle trail out but you'll have to use yr imagination for that one. Listen for the rattler popping up to compliment the death and danger images as the tune tumbles along." - Lach

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Break The Day

Me and myself walked into the whiskey bar
Five thousand faces I thought I saw
Five thousand faces all staring at me
Ten thousand eyes and everyone could see that
I had come just to talk to them
Well, didn't I have a minute?
Didn't I have a pen?
Don't I have a light?
No, but I'm on fire from everybody looking like the holy choir

Get a move on
Take me away
Saddle at sunrise
And break the day

This here face don't got to many wrinkles
Though some say it's a long, hard road
I guess I'm just young, I guess, I don't know
I guess, I never done what I was told
Still, everyone is getting old and
I'm not getting younger, I'm getting faint
from everybody trying so hard to be everything they ain't

Get a move on
Take me away
Saddle at sunrise
And break the day

Well, I'm all alone in the graveyard dawn
Five thousand cattle are moving on
I heard them coming I had my ear to the ground
The din of their gossip made an awful sound
I finished up my Jack and gathered up my toys
I headed on back far from the cowboys
Far from the safety of the stagecoach ring
Out to the prairie where the eagle sings

Get a move on
Take me away
Saddle at sunrise
and break the day

Saddle at sunrise
and break the day

credits

from Ramshackle Heart, released February 14, 2013
Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Melodica, Rattle, Whips

Ben Hall - Bass

Caroline Banks - Drums

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis
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