The Broken Family DaySaver
by Ben Calvert & The Swifts
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A Bear In The Woods
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Kids
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Kids Go Free
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The Theme From Wonderboy
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Easter
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Fly No More
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The Poppers Song
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Flee
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Impossible Summer
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about
“Although Ben Calvert has a folk heart, it is a folk heart which has been broken on indie dancefloors to the sounds of Blur and The Smiths. An accomplished piece of art.”
Indie mp3.co.uk
“A booty bag of avid odes to poppers, kids and wonderboys; he’s an understated emancipator of lyrical wisdom.”
Louis Pattinson, Plan-B.
“Haunting, heart-bruising tales bitterly stumble into each other as if played by a meth-ed up, homeless Johnny Marr. The dark humour and stark honesty of Ben Calvert is paralysing, and charmingly so.”
The Fly.
Indie mp3.co.uk
“A booty bag of avid odes to poppers, kids and wonderboys; he’s an understated emancipator of lyrical wisdom.”
Louis Pattinson, Plan-B.
“Haunting, heart-bruising tales bitterly stumble into each other as if played by a meth-ed up, homeless Johnny Marr. The dark humour and stark honesty of Ben Calvert is paralysing, and charmingly so.”
The Fly.
credits
released 07 July 2008
Recorded by Dan Hoffman at The Bridge and
Dave McCabe at Muthers.
Mastered by Simon Fox at The Institute Den
Artwork/Layout by Adam Williams at sleepy.me.uk
Photography by Ben Calvert, except cupid image
Cupid Image courtesy of Jaques Sabourin.
Recorded by Dan Hoffman at The Bridge and
Dave McCabe at Muthers.
Mastered by Simon Fox at The Institute Den
Artwork/Layout by Adam Williams at sleepy.me.uk
Photography by Ben Calvert, except cupid image
Cupid Image courtesy of Jaques Sabourin.
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Ben Calvert & The Swifts’ psychedelic circus alt-folk first saw the light of day in front of a few hundred avid ears and ... more eyes when they opened the main stage of Moseley Folk Festival in the Autumn sun last September. Since then they have played a sell-out show as support to The Jeffrey Lewis, and opened for Erland & The Carnival, as well as playing to a packed out Birmingham Symphony Hall. less
discography
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Jul 2008 -
Oct 2003 -
Jul 2003 -
Apr 2001
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- Track Name: A Bear In The Woods
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I hope you're feeling very warm and loved tonight
There's an aching fear that's killing me he's there tonight
In my head there's been a switch
Now there's a constant nagging itch
I hope you're feeling very warm tonight
I hope you feel that there is hope for you tonight
The children missing both and harmony tonight
There's a feeling in my head
That nothing has been said
I hope you're feeling very warm tonight
And what becomes of the broken hearted?
And what becomes of this thing you've started - Track Name: The Creatures of Simplicity
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The creatures gathered round
I hung her from the strongest tree
You see the death of love
My girl has turned to enemy
The forest floor it dropped away
And then I felt so free
The creatures of simplicity
They lapped it up, applauded me!
Please change your mind
'Cause this scene it ain't fine
Why so unkind?
Angel please be mine
And then the children stand
Their mother dead by daddy's hands
The seeds of hate she sowed so free
So damn her for eternity
Nothing was ever said how she felt
And how my heart lay heavy with uncertainty
So damn her twice eternally
Then they buried her
Four hundred flowers
One for every day she tortured me
Ignoring basic simple needs
Then they washed thier hands
The creatures looked on quizically
And talked about how love should be:
Forever-All eternity. - Track Name: Kids
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I have a gift for a wish
I wrote a song for kids
Remember carousels and bicycles that skid?
I wrote a song for kids
I read my stars today
'Cause they won't go away
Remember cartoons and aeroplanes that live?
I wrote a song for kids
Who's got more to give?
Make love and kids
Remember aerosols and things you should not sniff
And pass it on to the kids
Remember playgrounds and girls you could not kiss
Then remember kids
And be in love with almost everyone - Track Name: Kids Go Free
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Drive me slowly through the city
Where the lights are free-totally
Silver and blue behemoth don't like you
But who cares? Shops are there
Just because it's gone don't let it go
Just because they've stopped the traffic's flow
Drive me quickly to the country
where the fields meet the sea-So lovely
Drown me with your inflatable thing
Cross off the strange flotation toy warning
Just because it's gone don't let it go
Just because you're down don't let it show
Kick me gently with your new horses
That run free in town and country
Unfettered and unhung by their own mortality
They run free
Just because it's gone don't let it show
Just because your down don't let it show
Take me back to 1980 where the kids go free. - Track Name: The Theme From Wonderboy
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Sunlight won't penetrate this window today
Am I Wonderboy?
Blinds drawn. Pixalated porn fixation.
Am I Wonderboy?
Steeples and cripples and factories that whistle
The flowers and bowers
Sister McNicholls
Wreathes and the hollies
The depth of the snow
The depths of my follies
The clock that's set wrong
Everyone will go
Stuart may still go
Brian may still go
Rheeston may still go
And everything will go
I'm meant to be Wonderboy
I won't penetrate anyone today. - Track Name: Easter
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I woke up late and took a walk around the lake
I'm thinking of the blindness that will come with age
I'm seeing good things
I'm seeing bad things
Who's gonna make me great today?
The village in the city breeds bohemians
So churn them up 'cause all I'm seeing is the dumb
Who's saying good things?
Who's saying bad things?
Who's saying nothing much today?
What's the use in knowing anyway?
So float me higher than the curb upon the street
'Cause all I'm feeling is the earth beneath my feet
Who's feeling good things?
Who's feeling bad things?
I'm feeling tired of me today. - Track Name: Fly No More
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Its plain to see I'll fly no more
I'm disabled in a love at war
Your missile sweet has shot me down
I'm crawling now on firmer ground
God guide me sweet and guide me true
'Cause guiding is all I ever do
These awkward words are quite absurd
And all my rights have now gone wrong
A lovely mess you've made of my life
There are plastic toys in a big brick house
We can't share it so I'm thrown out
I'm doing all the best I can
But love for you is temporal
A lovely mess you've made for my girl
There's a boy with you and a boy upstairs
This boy is old who you've turned to air
A heavy heart and an empty bed
You were never here and nothing was ever said
A lovely mess you've made for your boy
I'm too undone to be upset
I'm choking on a Nicorette
A lovely mess you've made of my life. - Track Name: The Poppers Song
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In a bottle, in an adult shop
Nervous laughter public place
Bloodshot eyes a different face
Heart is racing in my throat
All the words I never wrote
I don't wanna die without perfect eyes
It's a chemical, solvent chemical
With someone or on your own
With someone you've taken home
Contact from a magazine
Naughtiness is never clean
I don't wanna die kissing your face
I don't wanna die sniffing chemicals
Thousand thoughts run through my head
In my blood and in my bed
My teenager fantasy
One for you and one for me
Top class porn queen just turned 19
You will, you won't, you do, you don't
I love having this rush
I love being in lust
It's a chemical-pornographic chemical - Track Name: The Broken Family DaySaver
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So have it your way
I'll see them when you want
If only for an hour or two
We could all spend time together
That's not what you want
You'd rather let decay
What we all had together
In your own hateful way
The Broken Family DaySaver oh please save us now
I go on day trips with my two
I do not know what else to do
'Daddy cries when he's happy as well as when he's sad'
An empty message to try to push through.
The Broken Family DaySaver will not save us now
And will my same wish made with different coins Thrown into wishing wells, wishing streams
Wishing pools on days out save this family? No.
You go on walks with him and them
They're dropped round her and
They're telling me of him
When they're with me I know that you're with him
Jesus saves when he knows where to begin
The Broken Family DaySaver cannot save us now - Track Name: Flee
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This is a sad old song
But it runs at a fair old pace
By the time you've worked this out
You'll be on your next train
And what of children that are badly planned?
Upon that fateful night
I should have cum in my own hand
Fair grow the ones that know how to harm hearts
Old grow the ones that have to flee with their lives
I met another one on the bus to Preston
He was going further north
'Cause he had to feed a horse
And as he rattled on he stole my sleep from me
He made me think of you and the ones I cannot keep
Fair grow the ones that know how to harm hearts
Old grow the ones that have to flee with their lives
All's quiet in the north-west sky
All's quiet so just don't ask why I've had to flee
This is an old, old song
And it runs at a fair old pace
By the time you've worked me out
I'll be on my next train
And you'll wave me on - Track Name: Impossible Summer
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You've got to be so strong to face the new day
You've got to be so weak that you can't last
you've got to be so tough to swear at Jesus
'Cause Jesus knows that you ain't gonna last
Those of you awaking in the new day
Often find the strength to keep things clear
Now that I'm awaking in the darkness
By the dusk the choice is very clear
I want to wake in the light this impossible summer
I want to wake just to find
Recompense with their mother
Who is fine
What do children think of in the new day
When they find that I'm no longer there?
Where do both those children find the new words
Picking them like shapes out of the hot stifling air?
I want to be with you and the kids
When you climb sand dunes
I want to wake just in time
When you arrive in the morning
I'm not fine - Track Name: Please Help Me Think With My Mind This Time
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Please help me think with my mind this time
Not my cock, not my heart, but my mind this time
I had a girl
With a girl that I should have just fucked one time
A little girl she blew my world
I should have just fucked one time
I know there is trouble ahead
I know we can't share the same bed again
