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Track: Sad Eyes
Artist: Bat For Lashes
Album: Fur and Gold

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Name: Bat For Lashes
Spotify Genres: art pop, dream pop
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Bat For Lashes is a solo project of [a=Natasha Khan], born 25 October 1979, a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, currently based in Los Angeles. Born to a Pakistani father, part of the eminent family of squash-playing Khans, and an English mother, her early childhood was spent travelling the world following her father who trained the Pakistani squash team, summers in Pakistan, and the rest of the time in Hertfordshire. She had a strict religious upbringing until her parents separated when she was 11 years old. Khan graduated in film and music, whilst at university her experimental work was influenced by artists such as [a=Steve Reich] and [a=Susan Hiller], and she produced multi-media work centred on sound installations, animations and performance. She went on to work as a nursery school teacher, and it was during this period that she began writing the material for her first album. Bat For Lashes' music has been likened to the work of [a=Björk], [a=Cat Power], [a=Tori Amos], and especially [a=Kate Bush]. The debut single, "The Wizard", was released digitally through label Drowned In Sound and on 7-inch through Khan's own imprint, She Bear Records. Later signing to the record label [l=Echo] and releasing debut album "[Link]" on 11 September 2006. On 17 July 2007 "[Link]" was announced as one of the 12 albums nominated for the annual 2007 Mercury Music Prize. Despite being the favourite to win, at the ceremony held at London's Grovenor House on Tuesday 4 September 2007, when the winner was announced by [a=Jools Holland] at 10:15pm she lost out to rank outsiders [a=Klaxons]. Her live / touring / backing band has included: [a=Ben Christophers], [a=Charlotte Hatherley] and [a=Sarah Jones (3)].

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Release: Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
Year: 2007
Genres: Rock
Styles: Indie Rock, Experimental

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LYRICS

I don't like the things you don't say
Leaving it for such a long long time
Why do you show me those sad sad eyes
Each time you decide to pass on by
And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Autumns you know sad eyes
Makes me laugh and laugh and more
I'll have a bath or make the dinner and then I'll go wait for a long long time
But still you haven't passed my door

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

I can tell that you're lonely
But it seems now
There's nothing you want me to do
So I won't try to take the sadness from those eyes that I love
Leave it open for someone else to

And when you smile those sad eyes
Look sadder and sadder still

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the day

Trying to hold it together
Keep my love as light as a feather
Sad eyes baby it's been such a long time
Keep my heart breaking in the dark
Come and spend the day