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Our Old Oblivion

from Close as a Slow Dance by Wasp Summer

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lyrics

He's standing there in his ragged Sunday best
Smiling like an undertaker in the wicked Old West
He is a maelstrom in my simple heart
But I cannot bear to be leaving though I know he'll Just hurt me more if I stay
Encourage his ways
He kills me, I swear, everyday

He's my Capital, my king, my everything
We have not spoken to my family since early last Spring
And what I have chosen feels hollow now
But there is a power in his strength and his pleading
He's leaning on the door and I'm captured in this room, in this cold, distant town

There is no place, in this state, that I could go.
He's got a lot of... friends... who'd tell him so,
But I've never made love so overpowering.
What am I afraid of?
Each way that I choose
I feel like I'm losing everything
This adventure is all over now

This pill I've hidden inside my cheek
Will be my last kiss for him if it doesn't put me to sleep.
He says, “My girl, all could be forgiven”
So come here, my darling, and kiss me by this neon light
I know we are both longing for
A taste of our old oblivion

credits

from Close as a Slow Dance, released May 4, 2012
Sam Wareing: Vox
Fabio Gallarati: El.Gtr, Backing Vocals
Stefano Caldonazzo: Drums
Paolo Zangara: Bass
Vicki Brown: Violin
Henry Hugo: Organ, Noises and Sounds, Piano

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Wasp Summer Berlin, Germany

After five years in Berlin, Europe’s grimy,
sleepless City of Fun, Wasp Summer makes
rock that is both agitated and dreamlike, offering grinding bass and taut drums
with spare, spaced-out guitar and
adventurous voice. The songs talk about resilience
and breaking with the past. ... more

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