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lyrics

Meet me at St. Nicholas
among the oaks behind the church
that sway like pig-tailed girls as summer wind whistles
around your bare-skin knees and the forsythia leaves

In the shade, lay with me
tickled by the feather reed
That's where the trees grow old under the ivy's hold
As you in my two arms, equally safe from harm

And in a hazy daydream our bodies married the stream
and we broke down into pebbles and silt
The water ran from the fields, until the oceans we filled
and found the seabed the comfiest quilt

There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats
in rows from transept to chancel to nave
And when their anger had paused I turned and answered their calls
with "You're just audience, I'm the applause”

We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children
With lilies bunched in our hands
We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon
tells wife to cancel her plans

Take a body to water
take a body to tundra
Just take me with you as well

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from Hello Sadness (Remastered), released November 15, 2021
All songs by Tom and Gareth
Arranged and performed by Los Campesinos!
All songs published by Nettwerk One Music.

On these recordings, Los Campesinos! were Tom, Gareth, Neil, Kim, Jason, Ellen and Rob.
With Harriet Coleman - Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by John Goodmanson.
Recorded at MusicLan Studios, Girona, Spain (Assistant Engineering by Jose Luis Molero) in April 2011
Mixed at ElectroKitty, Seattle, USA & at John's House, Seattle, USA (Additional Engineering by Eric Corson)

String Arrangements by Harriet Coleman (Recorded by Andrew Lewis at Cardiff Music Studio, Cardiff, Wales)
Brass Arrangements by Tom and Jherek Bischoff (Recorded at Eric's house, Seattle, USA)

Benjamin Kaminski - Viola
Jimmy Ottley - Cello
Samantha Boshnack -Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Nelson Bell - Trombone and Tuba
Jherek Bischoff - Double Bass and Good Vibes

Mastered by Simon Francis

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