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Heaven Knows Magnolia

by By The Sea

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1.
ESP 02:55
Underneath Orion fires, walk the Earth until you’re tired, find yourself some warmer climate, and sleep until the crowds get quiet, I can see out to the furthest storm, I push away to the welcome and warm, stick together, in the ether, where silence is sworn, no words are born, where silence is sworn nothing was born, all is known, nothing is taught, no wicked tongue, nothing is bought, think it softly, it looks much sweeter, always in spring, no wars are fought, always in spring nothing was fought.
2.
On and on, into the beyond, through fields and fields of sycamores, everything felt real, nothing’s as it seems, split seams, never share your dreams, it’s too hard to try and understand just what the sequence means, cut loose, if Heaven knows we’re here then what’s the use, if Heaven knows we’re here then what’s the use, if Heaven knows we’re here then what’s to lose,
3.
Desire Paths 02:30
4.
I know there’s something wrong, I can feel it coming on, I think we’re going down, well there’s too much trouble now, if you take what’s sacred, don’t you go and break it, if you think that you’ve made it, you’ve only started fading, I need a crystal clear song, shall we put on How I Long, just something to see us through, ‘cause it makes me think of you, if you take what’s sacred, don’t you go and break it, if you think that you’ve made it, you’ve only started fading, let’s find a place to fall in, it’s always Sunday morning, And I think that we could break out, and the sun won’t ever fade out
5.
It gets hard when I feel tired, if you’re a cakewalk I'm a mile, I can’t believe i'm seeing stars, there’s a constellation in your smile.
6.
Show me two minds, interweaved and intertwined, I think I’ve found it and there’s nothing like it, I’ve seen your spirit floating down a see-through lane, but I can’t reach it, even when I lean in, tell God that I can’t sleep, without a phantom for some company.
7.
My sweetness still says, there’s life in you yet, I love you the most, well time is a ghost, there’s something above, we’ve misunderstood, if you leave me behind, just give me a sign, I’m too tired to be woken up, I need a certain charm or just some good luck, I got a fire burning from everything, but there’s no danger fall asleep again, I kissed my curtains when I got back home, well there’s no feeling like being alone,
8.
Carl's UFO 03:07
Under the neon sign, my desert darling whispered, something along the lines, stay looking up or you’ll miss it,
9.
spin me ‘round I’m upside down, and keep me turning inside out, ‘cause i can’t see and I can’t breathe, it’s only time with you and me.
10.
Mt Pleasant 03:24
I’d always like to say I’d believe you, even if you say you’re not there, but something seems wrong with the air, and I can’t see when you seem so seamless, I’m always on time I'll never deceive you, but there’s something strange, it seems you’re stuck in that place, and when I get there I can’t see you, I just tell myself that maybe it’s ‘cause you’re not normal, I’ll climb a mountain for you and fall back into the water, I’ll walk the same old pavements to greet, but there’s only ever flowers there, what was it that you did to your hair, ‘cause you don’t seem familiar to me, I feel I'm slipping under but i can’t remember, I think I've got something to take, they said ‘it doesn’t have to be this way, even the hopeless can almost change’, I just tell myself that maybe it’s ‘cause you’re not normal, I’ll climb a mountain for you and fall back into the water.
11.
Give me something to come round, I think it’s ‘cause I'm feeling down, and if you say i say i couldn’t stay, i couldn’t stay anyway, I’ve nothing left to give away, I’ve only bits of spare strange, I come and go and waves of sound, I think I've got The Let Downs, so i’m staying in just for fun, I’m staring into the sun, I'm flying just above the ground, I think I’ll walk into town, wishing’s just not the same, when you can do it your own way, I come and go in waves of sound, I think I've got The Let Downs, Emily was just a way, for me to have my own say, when dying’s not for the found, I think I need to float on down, I know I'm not the only one, to miss someone in a song, I come and go in waves of sound, I think I've got The Let Downs.

about

By The Sea come from the lineage of firework pop, bursts of colour and squeeze-your-hand intense love aligned with grey skies & work things.
Recall the first time you heard The Chills’ ‘Pink Frost’ or Television Personalities’ How I Learned To Live The Bomb’?
That’s the encounter.

Liam Power formed By The Sea in 2011, the band’s debut single Waltz Away coming out on The Great Pop Supplement label that year. In November 2012 the band released their self-titled album through Dell’Orso and GPS. The NME noted how there was “a beautifully bruised element to this Wirral act’s debut from the subdued, morbid production to Liam Power’s heroically battle-weary vocals”.

They have also often been tagged for their kitchen-sink dramas though they’re more akin to something like ‘Wish You Were Here’, both funny and dark without being maudlin. There’s an end of pier melancholy to By The Sea records though, something more than a scribble of sentiment on a souvenir postcard.

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released November 4, 2022

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