Elbow - build a rocket boys!
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Album Review
Release date: 08 March 2011
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...
- Mar 2, 2011
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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
Elbow - Open Arms Lyrics
You're a law unto yourself
And we don't suffer dreamers
But neither should you walk the earth alone
Elbow - Dear Friends Lyrics
Dear friends
You are angels and drunks
You are magi






















