Westway

from Birds of America by Lake Ruth

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Out February 16th, 2018 on Feral Child Recordings (UK)

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lyrics

It was the wrong time
to rattle
round your door
a fateful night
pressed to decide
how to turn

Now they never will
discover
where you are
they waylaid life
forced out of sight
careful now

For the record
it wasn't
ever really up to you
the way forward
better unsaid
I know what to do

The thought of your
suffering
too much to bear
you can't follow me
but whatever you do
don't stay here

Looking in the rear view
it's all i see
the dim lit, long receding road
oh hurry now
don't change your mind there's no time
to spare

Circling the Westway
over the long
sprawl of the city below
foot to the floor
flying over in a blaze
of fire

then out
into the sea
to erase my whole world
in a moment of forfeit
that's what you meant to me

credits

from Birds of America, released February 16, 2018
Written and recorded by Lake Ruth
Mixed by Geoff Sanoff
Mastered by Shane Chaney
Additional production assistance by Jed Marshall / Cyborg Audio
Cover image: "The Birth Of Socialism" (detail) by Alan Mills, Jr.
© 2016 Alan Mills, Jr.
Used with permission of Amanda Harvey
Graphic design by Stephen Grasso
ⓒ ⓟ 2018 Lake Ruth

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Lake Ruth New York, New York

NYC's Lake Ruth was formed in 2015 by multi-instrumentalist Hewson Chen of The New Lines, drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck / Enon / SAVAK) and vocalist Allison Brice (The Eighteenth Day Of May, The Silver Abduction).

Their debut LP, Actual Entity, came out in 2016 on The Great Pop Supplement (UK). A second album, Birds of America, was released February 2018 on Feral Child (UK). ... more

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