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Darling take a picture
Of this scene
See how the horizon
Bends up to the trees
And I don't even know what kind of trees these are
Growing up on the hill
Someone put a bench there
Head into the breeze
Over at the river
Hidden routes to sea
Darling please come closer
See how I'm a leaf
I never saw the point of sculptures
Never slept by the beach
I don't remember daddy
Sunken to his knees
And there's a certain point
Down by the sea
Where I hope that you would remember me
Darling take a picture
Frame it for me
I used to know your family tree
Now I just love thee
Spirits in the wintertime
Frostbite in the spring
If I wrote you a letter
Would you just let it ring?
And there's a certain point
Down by the sea
Where I hope that you would remember me
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The Ballad of Assistant
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I am happy to help
I only wanted to help
Could you need me?
Work is a waiting game.
Life is a kind of play.
Will you need me?
And when you sleep
will you ask me to
stay with you?
I’m so happy, so happy to help
but you need to need me to.
I’m so happy, so happy for you
but I need you to be happy too, it’s true.
I am happy to help
I only wanted to help
Is that helpful?
Because when you sleep
I want you to
stay with me
to stay with me?
I’m so happy, so happy it’s you
but you need to need me, too
I’m so happy, so happy for you
but I need to be happy too, I do, I do.
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Assistant Brighton And Hove, UK
Assistant formed in 2002 & made 2 LPs. Then they drifted out & in of each others’ lives, moved around, married, had kids, &
noticed that they missed each other.
In the first lockdown, after many years apart, Jonathan, Pete & Anne-So started writing songs again.
Their music has been likened to Velvet Underground, The Blue Orchids, Galaxie 500, Stereolab & Felt, which they find very flattering.
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Staggering lovely, tuneful indie rock. So nicely played and arranged.
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California (Remastered)
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The collaborative EP from two Seattle bands is an unexpected delight of dancey guitar rock with an appealingly tossed off vibe.
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