you held up your arms

from it's been a long year EP by JAMES P HONEY

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every vinyl is collaged, stamped, numbered and sewn using my mum’s old machine. riso printed insert and lyrics sewn onto discarded old vinyl covers. DIY por vida x

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every CD is hand numbered, hand stamped and completely individual. sewn onto cartridge paper with blue thread are 250 unique salvaged old b&w photos that i got from deptford junk market (some are dated as old as 1918). making these took me absolutely ages. i doubt i'll ever do anything as ridiculously time consuming as this ever again. done.

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you held up your arms - arms - held up your arms like branches on a tree
the trees roots they were your feet - deep in the ground
and yes it was me - me - yes it was me who came into this world broken
but no more broken than the rest of you look around

and how’d you like the sound of the swarm howling on the wind just off your shore
and i will be the one calling your parade a nameless piece of filth

so many town - towns - so many towns down beside the water
towns with marvellous market places faithless faceless cold mayors
so i pose a toast - toast - i pose a toast to those guilty ancestors
big bellied butchers and lily-livered old fools

one hardly likes the way their turning all the buildings into morgues or could it be the way the abattoir is slowly draining men
and when a candle shivers on the edge of where the breeze has been its really just a sinner making plans towards a win

see i liked you more - more - i liked you more when you were poor and silly
and i feel sure you like yourself more too - back then
when you held up your arms - arms - held up your arms like branches on a tree
the trees roots they were your feet - deep in the ground

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from it's been a long year EP, released September 1, 2017

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