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Your Vacant Eyes​/​One More Drink

by Penny Orchids

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There was a man who crossed a line He was once your Valentine Now he's nothing of the kind You could see him after dark Waiting in your local park On the train as you disembark He's a sodium light in an underpass A worm-eaten corpse under wood and grass A husk of a thing with vacant eyes Missing you with evil on his mind There was once a man who had been wronged A man who thought that he belonged Until a pain became prolonged You see, he answered to a call Now he's just a wrecking ball For a spirit that you can't forestall He's a sodium light in an underpass A worm-eaten corpse under wood and grass A husk of a thing with vacant eyes Missing you with evil on his mind
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We packed the Claire Celeste on a Friday Left harbour on December 31st With our cargo of gold, tobacco and rum Headed home with enough for our thirst We didn’t see the stranger til the island Was a speck flung back far behind the wind With his shock of blood red hair and immutable stare He didn’t speak as the dark clouds gathered in And as the waves tore up the sides like a tonne of dynamite And tore a grin through the side of the hull The crew hung on for life while the stranger took his knife And he strode the deck while whistling low He struck the captain right beneath the jawbone Who twisted as he fell to the floor Bloodied, limp, rolled off the side as we heard the masts collide As sailor followed cargo followed oar “Throw the bastard in after the captain” Hollered crewmen as the water upped and sprayed “Take a whip to his hide and a spear for his side So he’s a handhold as he’s thrown amongst the waves’” But no sooner had we spoke, the stranger jumped up on the bow Pulled an hourglass from under his coat And slammed it on the deck of that bloodied, splintered wreck And as we lay dumb he spoke “Carve my initials on a grain of sand And throw me out onto the wave Then watch my shadow crawl ashore like a miracle cure Has pulled me back from a watery grave "I told your captain he would have his cargo I swore to god that he would never drown But he was dead upon the deck with my knife in his neck You see my good side’s from the antlers down." And as the ship went down We were hypnotised (hypnotised) We were hypnotised (hypnotised) We were hypnotised (hypnotised) We were hypnotised (hypnotised) One more drink and I’ll be gone…

about

From the forthcoming album Worse Things

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released April 1, 2014

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Penny Orchids are:

Phil Whaite – saxophone and vocals

Tom Harrison – drums and percussion

Dominic Green – bass and vocals

Kate Dornan – piano and vocals

Sam Astley – lead vocals and guitar
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Also featuring:

Melissa Reardon – trumpet

The Ha'penny Orchids (Ciaran McNamee, Emmeline May, Kate Whaite) – chorus and percussion

Dave Draper & Pete Adams – shouty voices
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Your Vacant Eyes
Words by Dominic Green, music by Sam Astley & Dominic Green

One More Drink
Words & music by Sam Astley

Arranged by Penny Orchids

Recorded by Dave Draper at Tower Studios, Worcs, and by Sam Astley and Dominic Green at various locations in London.

Lead vocals recorded by Mark Allaway at Miloco, London.

Mixed and mastered by Dave Draper

Cover design by Phil Whaite using artwork by Rachel Freire & Sam Astley

Produced by Sam Astley and Dominic Green with Penny Orchids
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