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    Side A

    This Bird
    Cowboy On A Bicycle
    Michael Afternoon
    Ladybird
    Jangleheart
    Blackcurrant Sky

    Side B

    Citrus Wood
    Listen
    Blank Wine
    I'll Sleep In April
    Turtle Rock
    Yes

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He’s a somewhere person rewinding
He lives upstairs away from the fresh air
In the set of a sitcom
Michael Afternoon at half past 3
Nervous breakdown then daytime TV
During his youth he made the local news
When half his family perished in a
sarcastic disaster out at sea
Half a bag of sugar’s what he needs
And then he’s overwhelmed
with all these thoughts that he’s got a disease
Spends most the time just powered by his sleep
Michael walks through rainclouds happily
Accepts their inevitability
Needs your spare change, thought he’d already paid
Now his pocket’s full of jam, needs to buy a ticket
to jump off the ferry
Half a bag of sugar’s what he needs
He’s hanging upside down over a viaduct of memories
He’s on the precipice
of a stormy life he thought he’d never see
He kind of knows it now
that nothing will turn out just like he needs
And he can’t understand
and turned his back on all reality
He feels it right deep down That
this wasn’t his life was meant to be

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from How Are You Coping With This Century?, released October 15, 2021
Written by Tom McConnell
Produced by Tom McConnell

Musicians:
Tom McConnell: lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitar (6 string), electric guitar (6 string), bass guitar, mellotron, synths, percussion, sound effects
Jan Simson: drums

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Novelty Island

Novelty Island is the surreal-pop project of Liverpool-based songwriter and producer, Tom McConnell. His albums 'How Are You Coping With This Century?' and 'Wallsend Weekend Television' have been supported by BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing, Absolute Radio, Shindig! and Mojo. Novelty Island have performed at Glastonbury and supported Sea Power, The Dream Machine and The Pale White around the UK. ... more

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