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If You Break It

from Blang! by Lach

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SONG NOTES: A love song, but not to any particular girl, rather to the spirit of music and the joy of love itself.

STUDIO NOTES: At the end the of the last session, I asked the band to try this song which had never quite worked in rehearsal. We got it in two takes. George came up with the organ part on his own, and its simple beauty captured the mood of the piece.

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If You Break It

It must have been her eyes
All sparkly blue like a magic cat
Caught and cornered

Maybe it was her hair
All shiny like a secret ink
Smuggled from Lebanon

Might have been her body
All quiet like before a storm
Off the coast of Haiti
It was something like fire burning in my bones
A feeling of never again being alone
But I guess a dream like that can never be owned
I read, once, if you break it, it's sold

Might have been the sky
All blue as Beethoven
Deaf to earthly cares
Could've been the air
All sparkly with lightning
As she danced about

I don't know I can't put my finger on it
All elusive like a mystery
With the solution torn out
But it was something like a fire burning in my bones
A feeling of never again being alone
But I guess a dream like that can never be owned
I read, once, if you break it, it's sold

©1998 Lach

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from Blang!, released November 11, 2013
Lach - Guitar, Vocals
Geoff Notkin - Bass
Percussion - Billy Ficca
Organ - George Usher

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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

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