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Hauntings

by Year Without a Summer

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Spoopy! 03:31
Since the spring I've been hanging round Don't go to bed and I can't go out Just aground on the same old ground See if that stupid cat comes round I find I'm drawn to focusing on negatives Live on cereal and preservatives Not enough highlights from dawn to twilight Too much blue light, not enough true light Don't get me started on the endless scroll The ghouls swarming to the grassy knoll So much vitriol, so little soul IT ALL SEEMS SO RUTHLESS And now the truth is I feel spooky! in the dead of night My reflection is in black and white Yeah I'm spooky! Got a head full of sewage I dream in stock footage I'm losing touch with reality Finger off the pulse of who really likes me A disclaimer if you want to know me Is that I'm creaky, I'm kooky, I'm altogether spooky I feel the walls closing in on me My cross words not as hard as they appear to be I'm less cryptic More like a cryptid Feel like my next trick is Being shown where the crypt is I feel myself trying to draw out the evenings As if a late night is not just self-defeating I wonder why my weeks are passing me by It's not even like I'm getting high I'm feeling low but there's nowhere to climb Nothing matters and nobody minds All these circles we go round in lines Are driving me loopy And it occurs to me I feel spooky! in the dead of night My reflection is in black and white Yeah I'm spooky! Got a head full of sewage I dream in stock footage I'm losing touch with reality Finger off the pulse of who really likes me My disclaimer if you want to know me Is that I'm creaky, I'm kooky, I'm deeply fucking spooky I don't understand who I am anymore - I'm probably just spooky This is not a metaphor - I'm probably just spooky Less sensational, more sensationalist - probably cause I'm spooky Why am I so listless? Maybe I should make me a list - it starts with that I'm spooky Yeah I'm spooky!!! in the dead of night My reflection is in black and white Yeah I'm spooky! Got a head full of sewage I dream in stock footage Yeah I'm spooky-
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I guess it's daunting Not knowing which house you'll be haunting, But that still won't excuse The shabby ruse That you are courting. You say "it's not for us, This normal life, this verse and chorus." But you don't want to sleep on the fly-tipped mattress in the forest. It's exhaustion from the dread and the pain Where every single day is the same Insurmountable odds again It's the dread that's completely mundane. I'll give you credit You would regret it once you'd said it But we can't fix it in post-production or leave it off the edit. It's frustrating A life of constant hesitating But the plane to Tahiti could be hijacked while you're still waiting. It's the little things that give you hope, It's the knot tied at the end of the rope, But like Anna at the front of the train, You have to make the leap to make the change.
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A butterfly Flaps its wings in Paraguay And it causes a monsoon in Spain I use deodorant And ostriches and rodents Are consumed in a New Zealand flame I blame myself for my carbon footprint But I spend my time thinking of baser instincts Coz everything, everything, tells me that I've made a mistake I could write about systemic brutality, children trapped in a cage I could write that racism is a mindset every day we struggle to escape But, at 3am, regimes And the media machine Isn't what I contemplate Coz everything, everything, everything tells me that I've made a mistake I could have like 20 kids, live up a mountain and swim in a Peruvian lake Or say "sure, one more whisky won't kill me" and end up dead of booze intake I could learn to be less self-centred Dismantle power structures at their epicentre But everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything tells me that I've made a mistake No matter what pages you have to turn No matter what bridges you have to burn When you learn the lesson you need to learn Then the sun will shine Yeah the sun will shine on you No matter what places you have to leave No matter what dumb shit you believed When you want to make the world a better place and that's what you achieve Then the sun will shine Yeah the sun will shine on you When you're all out of fucks to give When they forget, but you don't forgive When you figure out what you need to do to live the life you want to live Then the sun will shine Yeah the sun will shine on you.

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Written and recorded in separate houses during the 2021 Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, using entirely acoustic instruments.

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released September 9, 2021

Bill Cameron: tenor sax and bass clarinet.
Emma Cwyps Cooper: flute.
Chloe Lynch: drums, percussion and handclaps.
Melissa Reardon: trumpet.
Joe Wilson: vocals, guitar, bass, glockenspiel and percussion.

Written, produced and mixed by Joe Wilson.
Recorded by the cast and Micky Ciccone.
Art by Dikira art.

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Year Without a Summer Coventry, UK

Beach-shack post-punk. Solo play in the bedroom. Sailed from St Annes, washed up in Coventry. Interests include apocalypse survival, false memories, moths.

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