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How Will You Escape
03:34
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How Will You Escape
Words and music by Boo Hewerdine & Findlay Napier
Suspended from the gods you spin The rope’s about to break
Bound in danger locked and chained How will you escape?
In silence now the crowd look on They’re drawn into your fate Breath held they cannot see the lie How will you escape?
Harry Houdini
From here it’s clear to see
Though you broke through the ties that bind You were never free
You bow, they roar, the mob want more Impressed they cannot wait
They choose to leave the truth unpicked How will you escape?
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Princess Rosanna Drowned in the Clyde Words and music by Findlay Napier
Princess Rosanna graceful and tall
Was she pushed or did she fall
Didn’t make the front page just an inch or two inside Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Princess Rosanna so pale and so white Lies at peace ’neath the mortuary lights Bury her with blessings or cast her outside Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Underneath Jamaica Bridge wet paint runs down the wall Every stanchion, span and stone holds the key
The truth it floats right out to sea
Princess Rosanna flowers in the river The guy upstairs he’ll never forgive her Attention seeker washed up on the tide Princess Rosanna drowned in the Clyde
Underneath Jamaica Bridge wet paint runs down the wall Every stanchion, span and stone holds the key
It’s sprayed like a shout
It’s there to fuel the doubt
On the ebb the truth floats back from sea
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52 DES
04:34
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52DES
Words and music by Findlay Napier
So Des what’s with the personalized plate
What’s with the paint job, the alloys, on this council estate So Des is that number, which begins 52,
A badge for the crisis you’re driving into
Desmond we’re worried there’s bills to pay Desmond we’re worried what the neighbours say Desmond please don’t drive away
Des it never goes right when you’re up to those tricks Then you rust in a cell, set up on bricks
Please Des, don’t go back to your ways
The kids know you weren’t on your holidays
Desmond we’re worried there’s bills to pay Desmond we’re worried what the neighbours say Desmond please don’t drive away
Why Des it’s so blue, deep like a lake So out of place here a shiny mistake
Des they’d a warrant they kicked in the door Slashed all the furniture tore up the floor
Des the truth is you can’t help but stray
And your beautiful things always give you away
Desmond we’re worried there’s bills to pay Desmond we’re worried what the neighbours say Desmond please don’t drive away
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After the Last Bell Rings Words and music by Boo Hewerdine & Findlay Napier
After the last bell rings Will I be on my own Sleeping beneath the stars Nowhere to call home
A million lights above me When all I want is one Will I be on my own After the last bell rings
After the last bell rings
Where am I going to go
When all the chairs are stacked Caught in the undertow
Eyes in the bar room mirror Somehow seem to know Where am I going to go
After the last bell rings
Let it ring, let it ring Let it ring, let it ring
After the last bell rings Darling put your hand in mine Both of us are lost
Who knows what we’ll find Our pockets may be empty
All we’ve got is time
Darling put your hand in mine After the last bell rings
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Show Folk
05:09
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Show Folk
Words and music by Boo Hewerdine
I don’t why I never grew
The world too much for me
Fell in with clowns and acrobats Nothing else to be
I saw the limelight of New York I saw the Golden Mile
A life as memorabilia
I was here to make you smile
Show folk show folk
They’ll tell you that they love you Show folk show folk
It’s all that they can do
See love’s a ghost in every heart That has to dream alone
I used to watch confetti fall And fancy it my own
Jimmy Mac, head in the clouds Perhaps a little shy
He came to ask me if ‘I do’
A joy that made me cry
There were crowds that summer’s day We flickered in the news
The stage looks different from the wings Perhaps I always knew
I waved for each photographer They froze me for all time
The angel on my shoulder lied At least the lie was mine
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Findlay Napier Glasgow, UK
One of Scotland's finest songwriters. In 2021 he was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards and in 2018 he was the first solo act to be nominated for Live Act of the Year. Described as Micheal Marra meets Elvis Costello, a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright or a Scottish James Taylor this master storyteller's songs are full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire. ... more
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