Crabb - Colossal Sheets of Ice

from Waiting For Snow 2 by Waiting For Snow

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Despite lacking the equipment and skills, Crabb has a bloody good try at electronic music with the help of an untuneable nylon guitar, a fire-damaged casiotone MT-68, and lots and lots of illegal plug-ins.

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I'm as sombre as a colliery coat.
These tunes are a hundred years old.
I should be as joyful as a row of Christmas lights, but I'm too dumb not to think about you.

On long drives I'll analyse the winters past, 'til occupied with other things I can't resolve, like how robins predict the paths of old trucks on trunk roads on the last shift (heading home) and navigate deftly from branch to branch.

As I try to stay awake, glaciers shake and calve colossal sheets of ice.

Give me a little three-part harmony on a street at dusk, that's busy and lit tastefully, and I will sing along.

Angels are watching out on the roads, children are gathering snow.
So put on your winter coat - it's time to go home.

When we lost our feet on these frozen paths, it was so good just to hold each other up. There in the backlight, where the snow-filled clouds, dirty white, hold back the night.

Out at the edge of Antarctica, parts fall away, then they don't fit back together.

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from Waiting For Snow 2, released December 11, 2013
Written, performed and recorded by Crabb

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'Waiting For Snow' is a festive-themed compilation of home-recordings by a group of artists from the Midlands.

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