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Yearlings

by Pensioner

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Intro 01:10
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Turn your collar to the wind my lover Wounds are healed by salty water Shiver inside as the cameras blind And the crowd leans closer For words that are sold, gilded in gold Soon the pain will be over Sickle-celled rhetoric from sancrosact columnists Won't reduce the growing list of copycat dramatists A shame for all, we've tried our best But I won't shed a tear Turn your collar to the wind my lover Wounds are healed by salty water Shiver inside as the cameras blind And the crowd leans closer We set fire to our binds and the smoke stung our eyes But we never looked back
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Given a thread I would try to sew A seam in skin-like bark And cast a web in the hollowed heart Of the silent and weeping widow, I can but beg Ashen tree, ashen tree Covered in rotting leaves I pray you buy these warts of me Selection left some oddities In stagnant pools from which we thieve The fittest parts for obsolete designs Move me softly, softly on Hardened earth and tempered fault Follow down
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Panic in the neutral zone Nonetheless we're dancing still A mournful air rises Fare thee well, au revoir Non omnis moriar Step out of the darkness We are your friends Don't come any closer We're nearing the end Turn down the lights man 'Cause this is the first spaceship I've been on It won't be the last Fanfare is rising, aquarian call Vultures are circling the crumbling walls Fare thee well (step out of the darkness)
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Answer the questions, ask none Ours' not to reason why, ours' but to do and die Make your peace then bid farewell Between the columned air, into the breach again Everything moans, everything moans On this peninsula the broken bodies lie I heard them crying in semaphore A hardened dialect built on a stiffening brogue Answer the questions, ask none Ours' not to reason why, ours' but to do and die Everything moans, everything moans On this peninsula the broken bodies lie Lexicon for a fourth word, substitute a first, win On this peninsula the broken bodies lie
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Like, Epic! 04:58
On golden sand, I make a chart Creating lines, the lines for all the rhymes Arrange the words and polaroids Before the tide abducts the clay and lime Found a cave, I'm sheltered and covered As mournful waves quickly claim another New-born for the tidal concord Go slow, dearest friend These tired bones will take a while to gather and hide Legs and paws rake in the deepest part For the shell that sings your lonely song In Prussian blue I find a heart With brushing strokes I wipe away the mind The geology of bitter rocks Topographies of all I left behind Carved a course in the tinted heather To illustrate the crooked, wilting tether That binds my mind, I head for home Go slow, dearest friend These tired bones will take a while to gather and hide Legs and paws rake in the deepest part
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Status Whoa 03:26
Leave your little lamp on, mother all the damp thoughts Till you feel the comfort a new dawn Filtering through the curtain of this old haunt Minutes go by Take stock of the washed up flotsam and detritus All the wormholes in the woodwork of this crooked manse Cover up the shame Listening to the old shortwave Distant echoes of a time when When we'd calm our hearts by gaslight As the cavalcade rumbles by Cower in the marrow of this moment The subtleties and nuances subside As morning crows Take stock of the washed up flotsam and detritus All the wormholes in the woodwork of this crooked manse Cover up the shame Constant cycles I tap the beat to a broken crotchet I tap the beat to ultimately Faultless hearts in lifeless husks I'll die before I know I've got miles to go before I sleep
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There were flashes in the distance We didn't pay them any heed Because it's better when the actors are invested in the scene Get thee to a furnace and remould This rusted hunk of copper into gold Hang fire, don't be so bold Wolves are scratching at your door And the voices in your head Are saying 'boy we're gonna get you, sell it to us dead' Get thee to a furnace and remould This rusted hunk of copper into gold Hang fire, don't be so bold Walk on, it's the obligation of the role
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I breathe once to tie my arms in knots And close the door on lonely days To impress, I tint the window pane But practice with the shutters drawn In haunted homes, I survive behind the damp walls And revel in the soliloquies and sad songs Of other souls cocooned within this cold void I sympathise with their constant need to belong Listen, listen, I want to hear the pipes of hell To supplement my thirst for fear and fellowship Listen, listen, I want to hear the words to ease These rusted joints so I can walk amongst mortal men I breathe once more to Tie these fragile arms And quietly leave the stage Leave the stage

about

Pensioner are an independent rock band from Dundee, Scotland. The band are: Ross Middlemiss (Vocals, Guitar), Mike Lennie (Vocals, Bass), Mark Keiller (Vocals, Percussion, Drums) and Callum Sutherland (Vocals, Guitar). Since forming in early 2009, they have already recorded and self-released their debut EP, a double a-side single and in May 2011 released their debut album 'Yearlings' on Olive Grove Records. They have also played all over Scotland with the likes of …And So I Watch You From Afar, The Twilight Sad, Tera Melos, Errors, LaFaro and The Phantom Band.

'Yearlings' featured in several 'Best Of' lists for 2011 including Vic Galloway's Top 50 and Jockrock's Top 25 whilst also being mentioned in The Herald's 'Highlights of 2011'.

The band did a live BBC Introducing session for Ally McCrae on BBC Radio 1 in Scotland, with a track also featuring on the BBC Introducing show UK-wide.

Highlights in 2010 included a successful showcase at GoNorth in Inverness, airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Scotland, Amazing Radio, Glasgow PodcART and Spain’s Cielo Liquido! Pensioner also recently featured on the ‘Bands to Watch in 2011' lists of Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) and Ally McCrae (BBC Radio 1).

Their debut album was recorded with the impressive Robin Sutherland (Laeto, Stapleton, Avast!) and has had airplay on BBC Radio 1/Scotland, Amazing Radio and a growing variety of podcasts including the BBC Radio Scotland Introducing Podcast.

The band are currently writing their second album.

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released May 2, 2011

"As unpredictable as it is brilliant, Pensioner already have a contender for album of the year" - Jim Gellatly (Scottish Sun)

“...full of angular rock classics” – Ally McCrae (BBC Radio 1)

"...raucous, fun-time calling card from Dundee noise-poppers" - Nicola Meighan (The Herald)

"The titles might suggest a band that don't take things too seriously; yet Yearlings is a deceptively accomplished record." - 4/5 Review, The Skinny (#2 in top 5 album of July 2011)

"...these are flighty songs in experienced hands" The Irish Times

"...an accomplished album they should be rightly proud of" - Muso's Guide

"...it’s absolutely important not to write-off Pensioner as anything less than one of the most exciting emerging groups in Scotland at the moment, and “Yearlings” is a fitting opening to this career." – Songs Heard On Fast Trains

"Pensioner exemplify the ever diminishing fissure between bliss and confusion on this glorious debut." – Glasgow PodcART

"The band, a four piece from Dundee in case you’re wondering, have crafted a hugely enjoyable rock record that will be difficult to pigeonhole." – The Tidal Wave of Indifference

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