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  1. GOLDEN SQUARE

From the recording The Friday Songs

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This is song 7 in our totally manic Friday Song series, in which we release a brand new song each and every Friday evening throughout 2012 that we've written during the week in question, inspired by ideas sent in by you, the public. The latest in the series, Golden Square, was inspired by an idea sent in by a fellow resident of our adopted home city of London, who asked to remain nameless. The person in question told of their dreams to escape the madness of London to somewhere beautiful, after a break-up caused largely by the hectic pace of the city. We adore London, actually, but agree it is cool to be elsewhere at times, and we feel slightly fraudulent singing such a song from somewhere that is indeed beautiful - Cape Town - where we are currently writing, recording, tweaking our album, gaining inspiration, and when there is a spare 5 minutes, resting.

Lyrics

The colour will leave Golden Square
London sinks in self pity
While all the eyes are elsewhere
We’ll drown in this city

In this cruel January
So heartlessly urban
The clamour between you and me
We wash down with Bourbon

Ba ba da ba da
The city spins around us
Who’ll get to that finish line first?
Ba ba da ba da
The buzz we fall for
What’s it all for?
I wish I could be somewhere beautiful

What might he be to that girl?
Soulmates now realised
Or just some online referral
Away from their real lives

We know, and they only guess
And now glass and concrete
Are holding us under duress
Till their version is complete