Limited Edition black vinyl version of our new album. Mastered by Grammy Award winning Lewis Hopkin. Colour sleeve and label. Designed by David Cuesta of Creative R&D. Limited to 300 copies.
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Limited Edition black vinyl version of our new album. Mastered by Grammy Award winning Lewis Hopkin. Colour sleeve and label. Designed by David Cuesta of Creative R&D. Limited to 300 copies.
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PLUS Limited Edition 40 page book with all lyrics from Boat Building album and introduction by Chris Redmond. Signed with personal message from Chris Redmond.
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Limited edition 50 page book with all lyrics from Boat Building album and introduction by Chris Redmond. Signed with personal message from Chris Redmond. Design and artwork by David Cuesta.
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lyrics
Tick box,
long form.
White wash,
wrong norm.
Categorical,
razor wire historical,
mythological talk
for do you belong?
Toads foot and raven wing.
Degenerate spirits, whispering.
Curses come in languages
we can’t understand.
Shape shifters,
black eyed
bearded drifters,
tongue clickers,
window lickers,
shirt lifters.
Oaths sworn
to another god,
or no god
or half god, half goat,
half here, half remote.
Tick fence climber,
tick young gun,
tick stowaway,
tick old timer,
tick gold digger,
dead ringer for trouble.
EMPIRE!
Built by other.
EMPIRE!
Strikes Black.
EMPIRE!
Votes leave.
EMPIRE!
Flat on back.
Open up, open up!
Shut down.
Empire send boats
or empire let drown.
Other on the boat,
Other, watch them float,
Other, out of reach,
Other, on the beach.
Little brother,
face down.
Open up, open up!
Little sister
sleeping rough.
NOT BY THE HAIRS ON MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN.
DON’T LET THEM IN!
DON’T LET THEM IN!
DON’T LET THEM IN!
Little sister and her cousin
missing now.
Tick
missing now.
Tick box,
another box,
box Other.
Tick box,
another box,
box Other.
Tick box,
another box,
box Other.
I just wanna break that box,
I wanna beat that box in,
I wanna tear that box up,
put the box in the bin,
cos I just want to tick
peace.
I want to tick wonder,
tick tender,
tick Mosque or Tinder,
tick fluid gender,
tick hand lender,
broken tick-box mender,
tick box rule bender,
render void.
Tick love,
tick green,
tick feminist,
tick gay,
tick any other way
than straight white, rich, male line.
Tick him, her, they,
tick non-binary,
tick brown, black, white,
defining Me,
You,
We,
who?
Shades?
Hues?
Keys.
Clues.
Body ladders.
Tooth of a Kenyan uncle,
eyes of a Nordic witch.
Love for God or beards or queers,
patch work,
each of us, one stitch.
Other, other, everywhere
and not a stop to
think.
‘Cos all we are is everyone.
All we’ve got is everything.
All of us,
just all of it
in the palms of our plans.
Sometimes a square peg does fit
in a round of applause.
When will we arrive?
When will we remember?
All we are is everyone,
and all we are is everything
and all of us and all of it
and all of us and all of it.
All we are is everyone,
and all we are is everything
and all of us and all of it
and all of us and all of it.
credits
from Boat Building,
released November 27, 2020
Words - Chris Redmond
Music - Riaan Vosloo, Arthur Lea, Patrick Davey, Chris Redmond
For over a decade Tongue Fu have built a cult following at their live shows where people expect the unexpected. Writer,
musician and founder, Chris Redmond, invites poets, comedians, storytellers and rappers to take risks, re-working material live with improvised soundtracks from fleet footed, genre-crunching musicians.
Previous collaborators include Kate Tempest, Soweto Kinch and Akala....more
An old friend of ours and a truly inspiring writer, performer and human. Kae could make a poem that changed your life out of the contents of your bins. Tongue Fu
