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Trick of the Light

by Wooden Arms

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    "Trick of the Light" is Wooden Arms 2nd record released on the 6th of October 2017. "Trick of the Light" marks a very different sonic foot going in a very different tonal direction. Moving away from the acoustic, folk orientated melodies of the first album “Tide” and instead focusing on darker, more contemporary sounds.

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    Track listing:
    Trick of the Light
    Restless
    Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
    Cole Porter
    Bells
    Lost In Your Own Home
    Burial
    Movie Stall
    Encrypted
    Brevity
    Yawning at the Apocalypse
    Milk Teeth

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1.
Brick on brick we build up To something that isn't there Fingers don't touch Oh such joy Oh tower of Babel It's all we are and nothing less If such things persist, so much more exists Well it's only a trick of the light That made you believe But what is left If you leave Such faith So pure Misconstrued as truth Is it that it should? Such faith So pure All you would ask Is it that it should Is it that it should It's just a trick of the light
2.
Restless 04:34
Down at the bottom of bank street There's a house, stands up all by itself With nothing to lean on You'll find nobody home cept the leaves the rain the dirt the howling wind sings a restless song Stuck in the heart of your homeland Is a knife, you cannot help but twist Though you don't know it yet And right in the eye of the hurricane There you stood you wept you brought out something pure and there you buried it (For anyone to find) Restless , endless, nameless, deathless, voiceless, deathless, restless restless Back in the garden of england They say deep in these hills there is a crown Which will bloom when it is needed And though they all think you're unstable You keep telling everyone the ravens have left the tower Did you finally lose your patience Restless , endless, nameless, deathless, voiceless, deathless, restless restless All these old buildings make us feel like children
3.
Wish I had something better to say to you Anything you want to hear? You keep telling me how nobody ever loves you I’m loving you right here You’re telling me everyone lets you down I wouldn’t ever let you down you know. And I, I’m terrified, I’ve lost you in twenty thousand streets under the sky And I, made a mistake and I’m sure you made one too We shouldn’t let love pass us by like we do And I, I’m terrified. I’ve lost you in twenty thousand streets under the sky
4.
Cole Porter 04:26
The black black waters Black waters of home Where rocks bathe treacherous In the sun In kindred silence The forest suffocates the path Climb darkling chasms To dawn at last She falls down the mountain Down the mountain when she comes And down down sinking She pulls the sun
5.
Bells 01:48
6.
I watched your arms like the roadmaps of England Don’t say that word, don’t say that word I was talking of fears I should have heard But you were speaking without moving a lip or a line connected at the seams turned inwards these folded paper wet cardboard dreams I would watch shadows of childhood demons come to scoop me up Talon crack, bible black, oyster shell snap and hoofs clatter on stained carpet What was left was weakened knees and a perpetual stutter I was threadbare and needle deep And lines of fabric seep into swollen flesh Left lying on linen I was listless in the evening and restless in the morning these sweat soaked sheets an agony left between the pleats and I fumbled through duvets cavernous collected cottons to find some relief And we’ll caw and claw, all night long Linger let hang each note of the song sung softly, but never sweetly this taste is idle upon my tongue too many fizzy drinks that incandescent toothbrush balanced delicately on the bathroom sink I am lost in my own home.
7.
Burial 05:38
Sometimes I sink Little by little Without pain No nor ability to think And with the dull lethargic consciousness of life And the presence of black wings furled around my bed at night Encroaching until the crisis of disease Restored me suddenly, perfectly, to life I am yours So it goes
8.
Movie Stall 03:43
You can’t, forget the sound, of his voice by the movie stall I noticed, if I am the future I know this, I’m not the best suitor
9.
Encrypted 03:12
You tried to hide yourself away In all the words you never say You always had to laugh the last Far too smart at least by half For the splintered mast To which you're lashed Because the sirens in the night Have us surrounded What do I Do with our history You, you broke into my heart Took me apart And the memory's no help Can't put myself (You broke me apart And I can't put myself) Together again Together again (Oooooooh) You love your independent ways And all the trouble that you save To make the journey out alone The journey back can wait although The broken code within your bones Says how can it be so How can it be so This just might all end in mystery
10.
Brevity 05:17
Why can't you speak clearly to me and say exactly what you mean you hide your words in polyphonic symphonies that seem to me to be absurd and would you take some time to listen to me , not everything needs to be said would you take some time to mull it over, some things are best in your head Oh brevity you never quite got the best of me Oh obscurity conceal me, please What can be said in a couple of words can be mistrued and I will not be dettered and if you take your time to think about it you would say the same you would say the same These words I choose well I will decide for what is left of a man but his own mind And i've made up mine for once in my life these words are mine, These words are mine. Oh brevity you never quite got the best of me Oh obscurity conceal me, please
11.
Milk Teeth 06:42
If we were mindless and senseless and born without names would you still call out for something more some small refrain A little piece to tide you through? Born into a dirth of sound An inauspicious town Where such success can become So suspicious Can a man not be judged By the sweat of his own brow When all is said and done What else is there to do? If it’s all so hopeless then why cry out for something more Our bodies mortal and finite never knowing what they’re actually good for We simper so many simple fools to pass away these easy days And when all is said and done what else is there to do What else is there to say when the sun burns down when the seas dry out what else is there to do? You’re milk teeth in an old skull It’s time to go

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released June 10, 2017

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Wooden Arms are a contemporary quintet from the UK who draw from Alternative, Classical, and Trip-Hop music.

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