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The Smallest Act Of Love

from Selections From 'Writing Home' by London Fields

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"Originally written c.1992 and recorded on cassette 4-track using a 'Spec-Drum' machine, and a program written in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum to provide the tiny 'machine-gun' synth blips behind it. This version recorded in Penrhyn Bay c.1997 with Ivan, but retaining the ZX Spectrum sounds from the original 4-track recording. The harmonica was stolen from Banks' music shop in York, because they'd refused to pay my uniform allowance for the year I worked there." - Huw.

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This is how it will end
Tell the taxi to take me home
I know what you're thinking, baby
But it's getting very close
We'll give away our money
And lie in bed all day
And earth and heaven
Leeds and London
All shall flee away

When all our thoughts are rhetoric
No wonder we go mad
I'm going down the Pleasure Beach
And never coming back

An aeroplane falls from the sky
Carrying your precious life
And in the fire, death and fear
This day was never ours, my dear
But all the special things you kept
The sickness and the cigarettes
All the drugs and therapy
Fly free

When all our thoughts are rhetoric
No wonder we go mad
I'm going down the Pleasure Beach
And never coming back

Lots on blood and lots of crap
Lots of everything in fact
In such a small suburban room
All the days fold into one
But the time it took to sing these lines
Was time spent with you on my mind
I think about you all the time

When all our thoughts are rhetoric
No wonder we go mad
I'm going down the Pleasure Beach
And never coming back

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from Selections From 'Writing Home', released June 6, 1996
Written by Huw.

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London Fields Worcester, UK

A short-lived recording alias for Huw Darling (of the Chickpea Darlings), used for a year or so in the mid-1990's before developing into The Spanish Amanda. One CDR album and many, many odd tracks recorded - mostly now lost. Thanks for visiting; if you enjoy the London Fields songs, you might like The Spanish Amanda and the Chickpea Darlings too. ... more

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