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The Fruit That You Knew

from Lo​-​Fi Disgrace by Laurence and the Slab Boys

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Words and Music by Reid
from the Lo-Fi Disgrace album

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I thought it was you when you came to the door
Though you would have been older when I knew you before
Did you drink wine with the philistines?
Did you stand the first round and the last?
Did you live in house, on a street in a town
Whose deeds that you carried in secret around?
Did you stand face to face with both luck and disgrace?
Did you pick another runner, smiling?

Sir, if the things that I mention are true
And the man that I’m thinking of is indeed you
Then you‘ll know of that fisherman on Saint Pierre
Please tell him I tried hard to meet him there
It’s hard to know what’s gone before us
But was your life like a song with no chorus?
Just four thankless verses and sentimental refrains
And no rhyme or reason to words it contained

Did you lift me so high that my nose bled?
Did I thank you with a great bang on the head?
When you put me back to the earth did I cry
And beg to go back on your shoulders and fly?
We look before then we look again
But all that we want is what we had back when
The saddest loss we were yet to find
Were all of the things we’d still leave behind

Did you give you’ve known for Maria?
Did you trade your whole kingdom for a girl and two rooms?
Did you watch her pick you daisies
Then the fruit that you knew would be your doom?
Did she grow to resent all the love that you gave?
Did she throw at you lipsticks and phones?
Did you stand your ground for as long as you could
Only cursing her once her near the end?
Did you realise with seconds to spare
That you were right to love her for all of those years?

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from Lo​-​Fi Disgrace, released May 28, 2012

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Laurence and the Slab Boys Glasgow, UK

Laurence and the Slab Boys make noisy dream-pop with teeth.

Their sound is a lyric-driven sonic- tapestry of fuzz-guitar, dulcet feedback and contorted, echo-soaked vocal harmonies.

Originally from Glasgow, formed in Berlin, and now based in Manchester.
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