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Formicarium

from Formicarium by Nat Johnson

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Recorded on the first day of September, 2017.

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I was born into the summertime so I'd see September arriving
I crashed and clawed my way to 35
But that year I learned to walk quietly - now you will never hear me by scarce perceptible stream
I'll stare a pheasant right down from a couple of feet

Water don't move, it's the forces upon: gravity, sun and wind

See I've already gone (she's already gone)
Slipped away by the light of day (slipped away by the light of day)
To the Pinetum (to the Pinetum)
Where I've stashed all your stork-given babes

When I'm a giant I stroke the land, oh so very gently, my great hand
Over prickling treetops, green velvet hills
A spire, now chimney smoke, through my fingers spread wide
I wash my hands in the lake, rub the water in

Giants don't get a giant brain, just a heart that beats nice and slow

And now I have got the brawn (she has got the brawn)
To lift great boulders from the moor (boulders from the moor)
And drop them out of the dimming sky (out of the dimming sky)
On the dogs who live next door

And when I shrink back down (when she shrinks back down)
If I should shrink too small (if she should shrink too small)
Build me a formicarium (formicarium)
And keep me sheltered from the storm

Keep the river to the right (keep the river to the right)
If you're here, be here (to the bridge and back again)
Under willow we will sleep (under willow we will sleep)
On the cusp of severe (it's just that time of year)

Dead as the water, alive as the wind
(To the bridge and back again)
Dead as the water, alive as the wind
(To the bridge and back again)
Dead as the water, alive as the wind
Dead as the water

I am standing still (we are standing still)
At both ends of the lane (both ends of the lane)
Cos time stops when I run (time stops when we run)
To the bridge and back again (to the bridge and back again)

And you saw a solid thing (you saw a solid thing)
While I swam in the Hall
The theatre spins through space
As rockets fly above us all

credits

from Formicarium, track released September 22, 2017
Written by Nat Johnson
Recorded at 2Fly Studios, Sheffield, by Alan Smyth on 1st September 2017

Nat Johnson: guitar, vocal
Oliver Allchin: banjo
Hannah Cartledge: vocal, flute, percussion
Katherine Jackson: violin

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