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Tongue In Cheek

from Tall Tales by Ringlefinch

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What would happen if a lizard’s tail kept growing when it fell off? If it grew a new lizard, how different would it be from the original? Playing with ideas borrowed from surrealist metaphysics, this song explores the heavy silence that follows saying something you immediately regret to someone you love. As the silence takes on a life of its own, so do your words, and meaning itself becomes something plastic, malleable, weird.

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A stray word escapes, like an angry bee
It buzzes around, kind of spitefully
I bat it away - it settles down to wait
Like the days-old fish
Going stale
On her plate

And she said, "I'm full of questions,
Questions and sushi,
The sushi we made last week."
"That's fine," I replied, as her smile broke out wide,
"I could tell you were tongue in cheek"

The silence unfolds, like a dirty sheet
Left over from when we stayed in bed for a week
So we fold it up, and we stow it away
Such a stress and a fuss
For a word
Gone astray

And she said, "I'm full of questions,
Questions and sushi,
The sushi we made last week."
"That's fine," I replied, as her smile broke out wide,
"I could tell you were tongue in cheek,
Tongue in cheek"

And she said, "I dream in metaphors,
Metaphors and 'pataphors,
They haunt me when I am weak."
"That's fine," I replied, like a ghost by her side
"I could tell you were tongue in cheek,
Tongue in cheek."

[Lyrics © Andy Logan]

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from Tall Tales, released June 25, 2021
Song: Logan
Music: Ringlefinch

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Ringlefinch London, UK

A core part of the scene built around boutique label Folkroom Records, London-based alternative folk seven-piece Ringlefinch have been described as "Like Bellowhead before them... just one appearance on ‘Later With’ away from becoming nationwide favourites".

They release debut album 'Tall Tales' on Folkroom Records on 25th June 2021. ... more

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