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Track: Things I've Been Telling Myself for Years
Artist: Elbow
Album: AUDIO VERTIGO

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elbow (official capitalization) is an alternative rock band from, Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Formed in 1990, originally called Mr. Soft (later shortened to Soft) and comprised of guitarist and back up vocalist Mark Potter, bassist Pete Turner and drummer Richard Jupp. Vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Guy Garvey was asked by Mark to join the band when they met at college (both were 16 at the time). Mark's brother keyboardist and back up vocalist Craig Potter joined soon afterwards. They changed their name to "elbow" in 1997 after Guy heard a character from a BBC TV Drama "The Singing Detective" say that the word "elbow" is the most sensual word in the English language, not for its definition, but for how it feels to say and how it looks on the page. They were also signed by [a=Island Records] in 1997, but due to a takeover and indie band jettison-attitude by [l=Universal] in 1998, their [a=Steve Osborne] produced debut album was scrapped. Only a self-issued (now) ultra rare E.P. and a compilation appearance of one of the songs document this period. In 2000 they put out their first release proper, an E.P. on a small indie label [l=Ugly Man Records] before they were eventually signed to Richard Branson's [l=V2] in 2001. Winner of the 2008 Mercury Prize (for best British album) for [i]The Seldom Seen Kid[/i]. Drummer Richard Jupp left the band of his own choice to pursue drum tutoring in 2016.

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Release: Elbow - Audio Vertigo
Year: 2024
Genres: Rock
Styles: Art Rock, Indie Rock

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LYRICS

Things I've been telling myself for years
I can read people
Yeah
Blushing peccadillos, twisted bents and buried fears
Things I've been telling myself for years

I'm the dashboard hula girl of nodding self-deception
Here's to never accepting slight adjustment or correction
Here's to a doting mother's voice
Assisting me in every choice
Saying chorister, binman or barrister
So lucky son to have you
Here's to walking in every room like ascending for an Oscar
Kissing hands and shaking babies, Blackpool rock impostor
A cannon loosed, a golden goose
Leo Sayer of the unsaid sooths
I'll fix you with a cosmic stare
I'll fix your life, go fix your hair
I dare you

Of course I'll live to 96 and fix the welfare state
I'll build a house with these two hands, my face above the gate
I haven't paid for cabs or beers, or met a cunt in twenty years
Like all that outrun poverty, all I have was coming to me
Things I've been telling myself for years

Oh, these things I've been telling myself for years
Things I've been telling myself for years