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Aches and Pay​-​ins

from Apothecaries by Fugitive Orchestra

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I wrote this song some time between 2008 and 2009, when the unavoidable influence of Newsnight and other such news broadcasts telling of the ubiquitous financial doom and gloom which had recently befallen the entire world took hold of me one evening.

I finished the song a few days later, as a lament and a critique of the state of the world's financial climate, and the somewhat shallow and vacuous culture of celebrities and 'reality' television.

lyrics

Broken bones and shattered thrones,
That tablet left a bitter taste.
Foreign lands and idle hands,
Inspiration running down the drain.

Don’t plead to your panderings to your social commentary wives.
Don’t make them plead in your factories and don’t make them wait in line.

Do you ever regret, the day you first met, your first pay-cheque?
Do you ever suspect, you might just get wet, standing under clouds in the rain?

Monetary obituaries,
Seem to, spill down the telephone line.

But don’t plead to your panderings to your social commentary whores.
Don’t make them bleed in your factories and don’t make them work a conveyor-belt line.

Do you ever suspect, you might just get wet, standing under clouds in the rain?
Do you ever regret, the day you first spent, your first pay-cheque?

And now it’s the news of the world.
And now it’s the news of the world.
And now it’s the news of the world.

credits

from Apothecaries, released October 7, 2012
Produced by Iain Reddy.
Mastered by Sam Hocking.

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Fugitive Orchestra Portsmouth, UK

Singer-Songwriter James Tattington began performing as Fugitive Orchestra after reading a passage in a J. G. Ballard novel.

Fusing together Beatboxing, Live-Looping and Guitar, Fugitive Orchestra makes music best described as Alternative Jazz-infused, Bluesy Hip-Pop; drawing inspiration from the likes of Andrew Bird, LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Kate Bush and the Blue Nile.
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