Happy Families

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25mmHg Hello again HEIST. Viele Grüße von Johannes.

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Heist's first release since 2004's 'A Shopkeeper Will Not Appear'. Taken from the forthcoming album 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' (2021).

Allison Thomson - Vocals, Trumpet
Tony Oudot - Drums
Mike Targett - Vocals, keyboards, bass, guitars.

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Happy Families

Potts the Painter's son would have visions
new colours in his head, grand ambitions.
It's time to break away, see what you can be --
no matter what you say, however far you stray,
forever shall we play
Happy Families.

Great-grandfather's choices
Victorian voices
all of them echoing still,
echoing still.

Mrs Bunn the Baker's wife spurned her daughter
who'd struggled all her life to support her.
Still it's hard to turn away from all these sad things:
the struggle to belong,
or just to get along,
always choosing wrong...
Happy Families.

All of the pain,
all the searching in vain
all of it echoing still,
echoing still.

And so I stole away the Baker's daughter:
I didn't do the things that I oughta.
But luck was on my side.
Love was on my side.

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released October 25, 2020
Words and Music: Heist, 2020.

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