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British Sea Power
British Sea Power


Background information
Origin Kendal, England
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Years active 2000—present
Label(s) Rough Trade Records
Associated acts Brakes
Website Website
Members
Yan
Noble
Hamilton
Wood
Phil Summner
Abi Fry
Former members
Eamon



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British Sea Power Album


The Decline Of British Sea Power (06/02/2003)
06/02/2003
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Men Together Today (instrumental)
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Childhood Memories (bonus track)
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Men Together Today

[No lyrics]

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Apologies To Insect Life

Oh Fyodor you are the most attractive man
Oh Fyodor you are the most attractive man I know,
Your Russian heart is strong and has been bleeding for too long

Oh my Lassie, it's like bad acid
It's getting nasty, she knows

Gymnastic-whores-down-on-all-fours-with-septic-pores-from-fucked-up-
bores-I-would-like-to-give-you-more-my lassie

Oh my lassie, its like bad acid
It's getting nasty, she knows

She knows

Apologies to insect life, what I did was not very nice -
(Remaining words incomprehensible for now........)

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Who's a little Caesar
Taking all the world
Who's a little Caesar
Breaking all the records
Who's a little Caesar
Who's a little Caesar
Who's a little Caesar
Taking all the world
The universe is a record of everything you say and do
Who's a little Caesar
Who's a little Caesar
The universe is a record of everything you say and do

The north island isle is a mighty good isle
The north island isle is a mighty good isle
The north island isle…

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Where the ancient oak leaf clusters grew, the deaths head hawk moth flew,
Something wicked this way comes.
The swallow is depicted there along your fuselage,
Something wicked this way comes.

I'm not waiting for you.

It's breaking up and getting far away,
I used to know what I wanted to say.
Please remove that field grey coverall,
Your works of nature are unnatural.

Well the lake was clear as crystal, the best tea I ever had,
Something wicked this way comes.
It starts with love for foliage and ends in camouflage,
Something wicked this way comes.

I'm not waiting for you.

It's breaking up and getting far away,
I used to know what I wanted to say.
Please remove that field grey coverall,
Your works of nature are unnatural.

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Do you worry about your health
Do you watch it slowly change
And when you listen to yourself, does it feel like somebody else
And did you notice when you began to disappear
Was it slowly at first
Until there was nobody really there
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment

Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me

Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?

Did half of you pass away
What about the other half
Yeah what about the other half
Whatever!
We're all part of the same old bloody regime
With someone taking it out whilst you were putting it in
Increment by increment
Increment by increment
Increment by increment

Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me

Yeah remember me
Oh remember me
Will you remember me?

Oh remember me
Yeah remember me
Oh remember me

From the here and now to eternity
Will you remember me?

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Jesus fucking Christ, oh god no!

From the moment that you realise
Most of this Isn't real
To the moment that you decide
Shall we go out tonight
And we'll swim from these island shores
Till there's a fear of drowning
A little old fear of drowning
A little old fear of drowning

Oh little England
Tonight I'll swim
From my favourite island shore
And how long has it been
Since you have seen so beautifully
(So beautifully)

Ah

And all the money in the world
Won't help you now
The only way is down
And you know from way out here
There is a little fear
A little old fear of drowning
A little old fear of drowning
A little old fear of drowning

Oh little England
Tonight I'll swim
From my favourite island shore
And how long has it been
How long has it been

And how long has it been
Since you have seen so beautifully

Oh little England
Tonight I'll swim
From my favourite island shore
And how long has it been
Since you have seen so beautifully

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Since I find out that all of this
Is nothing more than emptiness
Filled with impermanence
A guided tour of your deepest fears
Designed to help you vision clear
We'll depart from here

And when the strangest feeling drifted over me
Oh we'll begin where you give in now baby dear

Thou art so misunderstood

I'll drink all day and play by night
Upon my casio, electric piano
Till in the darkness I see lights
No nor candelabra
But things from other stars

Just like Liberace
I will return to haunt you with peculiar piano riffs

So take it back, back to the start
Rip out your lily livered hearts
And hand them over in a vacuum sealed jar
I say I will not take half the risk
I will not walk half deceased
I believe bravery exists

And the strangest feeling drifted over me

Thou art so misunderstood

I'll drink all day and play by night
Upon my casio, electric piano
Till in the darkness I see lights
No nor candelabra
But things from other stars

I'll drink all day and play by night
Upon my casio, electric piano
Till in the darkness I see lights
No nor candelabra
But things from other stars

But things from other stars
But things from other stars

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Carry on inside of your heart
Under the brine you won't notice the dark
Can stone and steel and horses heels ever explain the way you feel
From Scapa flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide

Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality

Irrigate your heart until you know your complete
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
My soul she cried I thought you'd died amid fumes of formaldehyde
You have been gone for so long I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide

Oh the heavy water how it enfolds
The salt the spray the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality

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Welcoming the cool rain in of the astounding dawn
Watch the birds hovering over Narrow Moor
In deeper lines of deeper sleep, into the Tumuli
All the pretty machinery under the sky
For you have drunk all your beer go drown your empty selves
For then you will have lost it all the last of this Island

As you Blackout
Blackout again
My love

So bring it down, let it fall, into a drizzling bliss
Then we'll hyperventilate in the old forest
Then I will see all those things, things that can not be seen
For you have drunk all your beer, go drown your empty selves
For then you will have lost it all, the last of this island

As you Blackout
Blackout again
My love
Blackout again
My love.................

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Lately you seem like another language
Are you in trouble, are you in trouble again
And you know how they say
The past is a foreign country
How can we go there
How can we go where we once went

Have I been standing here for so long
Natura's found a way of telling you that it was going wrong

So which way
Do I go to get out of here
Avoiding land mines, and all the other stuff round here
Replacing Hercules with the heroic sounds of Formby
Remove the tunics touch, stood aside from the putch
Stood aside from history

Have I been standing here for so long
Natura's found a way of telling you that it was going wrong

Through the Kategaat, maybe Outer Java
Oh did you wonder if these days will stay true
All through the years, all through the dead scenes
All through the memories, across the memories, melodies, melodies

Have I been standing here for so long
Natura's found a way of telling you that it was going wrong

Do you like my megalithic rock?
Do you like my prehistoric Rock?
Do you like my teutonic Rock?
Do you like my hygienic rock?
Do you like my sterile rock?
Do you like my Megalithic Rock?

. . .


When wooden horses were in use
I would have built one
And left it for you

Yeah but I wanted to know
Yeah I wanted to know
How much are you?
How much are you?
How much are you?
How much are you?
Yeah I wanted to know
Yeah I wanted to know

Oh bring it in and let us see it
Oh let us see it
Oh bring it in and let us see it
Oh let us see it

Oh bring it in
And let us see it

A token heir means nowt in the hills
I swear I'm ready
Ready to kill

Yeah I wanted to know
Yeah I wanted to know

Oh bring it in and let us see it
Let us see it
Oh bring it in and let us see it
Let us see it

Oh bring it in
Oh bring it in
Bring it in
Bring it in

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Jesus the weather was so good today
But I believe a change is on the way
And a little electricity won't hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
Especially when we're all out of gas
And coal and oil, and steel and cash
But a little electricity wont hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
And your politeness it could kill
And it's more than likely that it will
First it was getting better now it's getting worser
And then it's getting wetter, now the ice age is complete
So everybody go...
God help us if the radiation leaks
God help us if nobody knows for weeks
But a little electricity won't hurt
And no a little electricity won't hurt
And your politeness it could kill
And it's more than likely that it will
First it was getting better now it's getting worser
And it's getting wetter better call the hearser
And can we move a little faster and go a little further
Move a little faster
Go and everybody go home
And everybody go that
And everybody go this
And everybody go that
And we go, and we go, and we go...

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