Elbow - build a rocket boys!

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Album Review

Release date: 08 March 2011

Elbow - build a rocket boys!

Album Review: Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! (Fiction/Polydor)

Touching, inventive and teeming with goodwill

Specificity in art is a sign of bravery. Anyone who obfuscates what they mean (either for lack of something to say or for fear of being taken to task) is not only a coward but probably not worthy of the tag ‘artist’ in the first place. This is one of many small but important details that inform Elbow ’s fifth album and place them in a different league to other purveyors of ‘emotional...

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Elbow - build a rocket boys! Lyrics

Elbow - Lippy Kids Lyrics

Lippy kids on the corner again
Lippy kids on the corner begin
Settling like crows
Though I never perfected the simian stroll

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Elbow - The Birds Lyrics

The birds are the keepers of our secret
As they saw us where we lay
In the deepest grass of springtime
In a reckless guilty haze

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Elbow - With Love Lyrics

Best intentions bring joyless droughts
Pack your hacksaw come push me out
When your dentures prevent your smile
These adventures will fill your eyes

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Elbow - Neat Little Rows Lyrics

My high priestess folded neatly
Back in your box, oh Lord
Called the song, he sang so sweetly
Back in your box, oh Lord

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Elbow - Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl Lyrics

I have a drop-leaf window
With cats and broken yards
Sunflowers and paint cans
And stolen shopping carts

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Elbow - The Night Will Always Win Lyrics

I throw this to the wind
But what if I was right
Well, did you trust your noble dreams
And gentle expectations to the mercy of the night?

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Elbow - High Ideals Lyrics

There's a ladder tear in my high ideals
Like I took a chair on the battlefield
And any noble friend that was burning in my chest
Is acid in my belly at the very best

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Elbow - The River Lyrics

I walked with the river in kind of a dream
Hand in hand, the all knowing river and me
To the clamor of rushes and deeply barren trees
A drunk making blossom, the blush to be seen

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Elbow - Open Arms Lyrics

You're a law unto yourself
And we don't suffer dreamers
But neither should you walk the earth alone

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Elbow - Dear Friends Lyrics

Dear friends
You are angels and drunks
You are magi

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