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I'm Going Mining

from Close as a Slow Dance by Wasp Summer

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lyrics

I’ve got this picture of you, six years old
In your spiderman costume down the shops with your sister.
Where’s that unself-conscious face now?
I read a letter from an older man
He had longer hair, but he wrote in your hand.
Said he loved to make love and could talk through all the hard stuff

You rest gentle on my mind but you’re insubstantial in my hand.
Come on lover, where’s your spine?
Where oh where oh where’s my man?

No stories, no answers, no feelings
No nothing in your eyes

I’m going mining.
I’m going mining.
Mining, finding your ruby heart
Your ruby heart

30 records from this man
In his hot pinstripe, with his hand in the small of my back
And feeding me at our favourite restaurant
This other man, he chases me
On our bicycles through the dark back streets
And rides through the night when I need him

Is there nothing on your mind?
I’m unnerved by your gentle, distant eyes
You’re physically present
But you’re not here

Love, but not in love
Please give me something to go on

I’m going mining.
I’m going mining.
Mining, finding your ruby heart
Your ruby heart

credits

from Close as a Slow Dance, released May 4, 2012
Sam Wareing: Vox, add Vocals
Fabio Gallarati: Bass, Dobro, Backing Vocals
Stefano Caldonazzo: Drums, Backing Vocals
Vicki Brown: Violin
Henry Hugo: El. Gtr, Banjo, Organ, Ac. Gtr, Backing Vocals

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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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