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I wrote the words to this while I was out running in the East End of Glasgow.
52DES was a real number plate of a real dark blue BMW M sport. I had run up over Haghill, down over Duke Street and west along the Gallowgate and had seen the car parked outside a dodgy looking tenement building.
The last line came from every heist movie I have ever watched. There’s always some idiot who flashes their ill- gotten gains too soon. Like Lester Freamon says in The Wire, ‘Follow the money.’
I entered 52DES into the UK Songwriting Festival’s Burnsong competition in 2013 and it won me a week on the UK Songwriting Festival’s residential songwriting course. If this song does nothing more than introduce me to all the wonderful people I met that week I will be
very happy.

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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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from Very Interesting Extras, released February 15, 2016

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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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