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Cue The Tears

from Heart​-​Shaped Scars by Dot Allison

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lyrics

Love we were broken
Leaf skeleton frail
Just memory needles
To stitch up the sails
Love scars imbue me
Waves out of phase
Crackling Pylons
Silence no trace…

The tree in our heart
Remained in dark
Where seeds cannot grow

I shut out the pain
I thought I was made
Shut out the rain
As you cast me her shade
I didn’t look back
I started to run
Perhaps we just
Did we shut out the sun?
Did we shut out the sun?
Prised apart by two guns
Did we shut out the sun?
Did we shut out the sun? (cue the tears)
Did we shut out the sun? (cue the tears)
Prized apart by two guns (cue the tears)
Did we shut out the sun? (cue the tears)

We were so fallen
Leaf skeleton pale
With just these blunt needles
To stitch our torn sails
Love reigns down on us
Words that lost face
Deadening silence
Feigning as grace

The tree in your heart
Remained in the dark
Where seeds cannot grow…

I shut out the pain
I thought I was made
I shut out the rain
As you cast me her shade
I didn’t look back
I started to run
But with us perhaps we
Did we shut out the sun?
Did we shut out the sun?
Cue the tears
Cue the tears
Cue the tears
Cue the tears….

credits

from Heart​-​Shaped Scars, released July 30, 2021
Words - Dot Allison
Music - Dot Allison and Homay Schmitz
Published by Air-Edel Associates Ltd and Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd

Vocals, Mellotron, Keyboards, Hubble Kalimba, Phone-Home Xylophone, Shruti Box, Harmonica, Glockenspiel - Dot Allison
Piano - Homay Schmitz
Guitar - Jenn Butterworth
Drums - Lauren Macdonald
Bass - May Halyburton
Cello - Sarah McWhinney

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Dot Allison Edinburgh, UK

Since her debut solo album Afterglow in 1999, Dot Allison has strived to keep the listener on a journey – and herself too.

She revolts against what she has done before, to evolve and not just occupy the same space.

Her forthcoming, and most illuminating album to date 'Heart-Shaped Scars is out now via SA Recordings.
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