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Morning Dancer

by Matthew And The Atlas

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    3rd MATA album, recorded and produced by Ali Chant at The Playpen studio in Bristol

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    3rd MATA album, recorded and produced by Ali Chant at The Playpen studio in Bristol

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1.
Pyres 03:41
Look in my mind I’m feeling like a drug That don’t hit me like it used to do I’m burning like a coal thrown down in the ocean Running out time when I look at you I’m hanging by a thread just trying to remember All the things you said that you needed to do I’m breaking like a wave strung on out on the water Holding on to anything that I can use to pull me through I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had I’m tired of the same emotion It’s humming like a dead line on the wire I’m drifting on a wave of cold delusion It’s all that I can do on the funeral pyre You could have been a wraith or maybe a brother The city light burns as you walk on by It’s burning like a cigarette out of the ashes Hanging on a breeze You see them break toward the sky I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had I’m hanging by a thread just trying to remember All the things you said that you needed to do I’m breaking like a wave strung on out on the water Holding on to anything that I can use to pull me through I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had I never really wanted you to know It’s not like I was just another darkened door Holding on to something that I never had
2.
Waging A War 04:28
Look through the window of the car that you stole Into the night yeah it felt right You were just dancing on your own I don’t know why You were just dancing on your own You woke yourself up in an empty car park Under a factory light yeah it felt right You were just dancing on your own I don’t know why You were just dancing on your own If you’re waging a war Just like when we were kids You were down on the floor But you were taller than you were before This feels the same every time you come around This feels the same Is it a handful of dust or another broken jaw In a life untold never to unfold You were just dancing on your own I don’t know why You were just dancing If you’re waging a war Just like when we were kids You were down on the floor But you were taller than you were before This feels the same every time you come around This feels the same
3.
Plaything 03:29
Give me reason to believe what I’m hearing Cause I gotta find another way to feel it You don’t have to be so unkind now You’re a passenger tied to your own crowd Rising up from the ground like a pale king Lifting up on a breeze like a birds wing Are we just another one if your playthings Hanging all our weight on a shoe string I’ve walked this street before One hundred times or more Hell I don’t know what for I’ve walked this street before I’ve walked this street before Now you see that I’m down and I’m using Gotta try and find another way of choosing Midnight came and it framed into vision A broken image of a life refusing So give me reason to believe what I’m hearing Cause I gotta find another way to feel it You don’t have to be so unkind now You’re a passenger tied to your own crowd I’ve walked this street before One hundred times or more Hell I don’t know what for I’ve walked this street before I’ve walked this street before I’ve walked this street before One hundred times or more Hell I don’t know what for I’ve walked this street before I’ve walked this street before One hundred times or more
4.
Low 03:20
Yes I’ve seen nothing Time to deliver On that gold touch You’ve been talking about Now everything is over Change ain’t come for you Now you’re losing And you’re out of luck So I get low But sometimes there’s a window Yeah I get low When it’s all we do Yeah I get low But sometimes there’s a window Yeah I get low When it’s all we do And all I hear are voices Dried from their whispers Then a silence of the purest white And there I see a darkness A vanishing flatness And portent of a deepening night So I get low But sometimes there’s a window Yeah I get low When it’s all we do Yeah I get low But sometimes there’s a window Yeah I get low When it’s all we do So I get low But sometimes there’s a window Yeah I get low When it’s all we do Yeah I get low
5.
I see a frozen moon hung above in the heart in June All of the fruit is hanging low I see a silhouette of crows High in the tower above the sun away from all the damage done The pillars shone with golden light bathed in the history of your might Is it all forgotte In the tower above the sun Is it all forgotten In the tower above the sun In the tower above the sun In the tower above… the sun Could it be afforded you the hollow man his way back through Or is it just the horizon an endless place you’re travel to High in the tower above the sun away from all the damage done The pillars shone with golden light bathed in the history of your might Is it all forgotten In the tower above the sun Is it all forgotten In the tower above the sun In the tower above the sun In the tower above… the sun I see a frozen moon hung above in the heart in June All of the fruit is hanging low yet I see a silhouette of crows
6.
Begin Again 04:19
Although I have tried to begin again Always in the dark oh the dark, the dark Wait there painted face why do you run from me Why do you leave it so just to slip away Shadow in the room why do you reach for me Why should I forget just to bury you I find you in the dark oh the dark the dark Although I have tried to begin again Sometimes I see him Just a shadow On the horizon On the Although I have tried to begin again Racing through the past like a hurricane Following the stars through the dark the dark Wait there painted face why do you run from me? Sometimes I see him Just a shadow On the horizon On the
7.
High Fire 04:18
I’m burning my clothes in the place that I saw you fall down I can tell you you’re right when it’s wrong and we just can’t change it I look to the place of our last embrace of the morning Maybe I’ll fail all the things that I wanted to believe in It was defined by a momentary lapse of emotion A smothering sight in that high fire light of the evening Remember we tried to forgive but there was nothing to discover Well maybe there’s a darkness following you behind There is a silence That I commandeer There is a space A space when you disappear There is a distance An a thin veneer There is a space A space that I commandeer But I’m still looking for you I keep crawling back through to the other side I thought that I saw you yesterday but my eyes lied You shone a light in the dark but it felt like warning So I look to the place of our last embrace of the morning There is a silence That I commandeer There is a space A space when you disappear There is a distance An a thin veneer There is a space A space that I commandeer
8.
I’m calling long distance Can you meet for me coffee Maybe some place new If we ever get lost Away from reality Away to a different view But I need a window Straight into the night Long after daylight has left the fight When my eyes turn to black And the city lights crack There’s no way of going back So go now with blood on your lips Looking for a different answer Eyes wide fall through the eclipse Toward the morning dancer Your voice on the phone A path to eternity Flooding the corridor We turn on the light When they wake in the night Their little voices sore I can see it I can feel it I could lose myself in this This glow brings a haze Of a misty parade And a memory always So go now with blood on your lips Looking for a different answer Eyes wide fall through the eclipse Toward the morning dancer I’m calling long distance Can you meet for me coffee Maybe some place new If we ever get lost Away from reality Away to a different view Your voice on the phone A path to eternity Flooding the corridor We turn on the light When they wake in the night Their little voices sore So go now with blood on your lips Looking for a different answer Eyes wide fall through the eclipse Toward the morning dancer
9.
Halo 04:35
Tell me I’m wrong I’ll give you all of the years that have gone Give you all of the years that have gone And I will come back to you We live in the sight Of a vast undiscovered night Of a vast undiscovered night That’s calling to you I can’t change I can’t call it what it is If it is what it is I don’t know Is it just a halo I thought it was at first Tell me I’m right It is a flame of unfiltered light It is a flame of unfiltered light That burns through you So give me the night There I can make it right You see cause there I can make it right And I will come back to you I can’t change I can’t call it what it is If it is what it is I don’t know Is it just a halo I thought it was at first
10.
White Bird 03:24
White bird in the morning on the edge of the sun Cold is the evening when the daylight is done I know that it’s hard to face it I know that it’s not the same Wild fire in the morning with a ghost by my side Wings made of ash now so strange to confide I know that it’s hard to face it I know that it’s not the same Is there something that I missed Beneath the viaduct While the humming birds gathered Gathered in the dusk Is there something that I missed Beneath the viaduct Am I hanging on a thread Strange glow into midnight as the fires dissipate Maybe you were right the fire will create I know that it’s hard to face it I know that it’s not the same Is there something that I missed Beneath the viaduct While the humming birds gathered Gathered in the dusk Is there something that I missed Beneath the viaduct Am I hanging on a thread Just to buy me luck

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released May 10, 2019

Produced and Mixed by Ali Chant at The Playpen, Bristol
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studio
Cover artwork by Ben Risk
Layout and Design by Russ Knowles

Songs written by Matt Hegarty

Alex Roberts: Electric, Acoustic & Baritone guitar, Vocals, Wurlitzer
Ali Chant: Electric guitar, Percussion, Synthesisers, Piano
Emma Gatrill: Synthesisers, Clarinet, Bass clarinet, Vocals, Piano, Vibraphone, Variophon, Hammer Dulcimer, Mellotron
Gavin Fitzjohn: Flugel horn, Alto sax, Tenor sax, Baritone sax, Trumpet
James Drohan: Drums, Percussion, Hammer Dulcimer
Matt Hegarty: Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Piano, Marxophone, Vibraphone, Hammer Dulcimer
Tommy Heap: Bass, Piano, Synthesisers, Vocals, Wurlitzer, Marxophone

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