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Bulwer Street Waltz [Runcorn Tapes demo]

from Song For Absent Friends by Benny Mayhem

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Recorded in late 2013, here's a break-neck raw-and-raucous version of "Bulwer Street Waltz" with (of all things) a piano breakdown!

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BULWER STREET WALTZ
[Runcorn Tapes demo]
(Ben Watson)

And I will tell you a tale of a Saturday night
That went on for months ‘cause it just felt so right
And when I look back on the things that were done
Some of it was dumb but was mostly just fun

I was just 21, I was far from my home
All I wanted to do was to be in The Zone
Seventeen years of institutions
Punishments lies and contradictions

‘Cause you’re told when you’re young that you can’t cross the line
But how else can you tell what is wrong and what’s right?
So I do not regret all the friends that I made
The ones I obeyed or the ones I betrayed

I fell in love on those hot summer nights
But it’s hard to be true when your mind’s on the white
Every gold coin has a queen on one side
Just like every cloud has a silver, white line

We were glared at in clubs
But we didn’t care
My only regret is that I didn’t dance.

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from Song For Absent Friends, released July 15, 2016
Produced by Benny Mayhem & Steve Correia.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Tringham in Runcorn UK; November 2013. Remixed 2016. Prepared for release by Steve Correia at Citrus Studios; March 2016.

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