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The North
album cover
The North was released on May 10, 2024 by Dinner For Wolves as a part of the album Let's Talk About Last Night... The End of the World - EP
May 10, 2024
LabelDinner For Wolves
LanguageEnglish
BPM141
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

I set foot on the soil of the North
That old familiar fear still haunts
A hatred rises & boils…
that shame inside me that I, I can’t overcome.
They ask me ‘Man, how was home?’
That home you speak of is a scar
Its spirit walks beside me,
Its prejudice defiles me,
Its history still bares its soul in all who know
I confess these feelings are my own
Ive been away so long, I know
Tellin’ stories to Nick & Bryan
Things they couldn’t understand
Tales of a broken man
Just tryin’…to get back home.
Now 44 years old
Still that boy in the schoolyard
Sure, I was my fathers son
But I was never that hard.
Now in a Glasgow haze,
Talking about those younger days
Trying to make sense of the senseless
this tragic comedy of ‘home’
It’s in our bones.
My school tie said that I’m one of ‘them’
A red rag to the flag-bearing hands
Im still called a cunt for the colours I wear
I just smile & say ‘why, why should I care?’
But I care…Truth is I care.
The farther away I feel
the deeper I can breathe
That overwhelming shame in these feelings I conceal.
My soul still pulls to the black lands that created me
But now my homes in the black sand
because here I can breathe.
Here I can breathe. Here I am me.
I Am Me
I set foot on the soil of the North.
Written by: Bryan Bell, Jessie Booth, Joe Walsh, Nicholas Douch
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