Moon Under Water is a slow-moving juggernaut, hulking its way home like it’s had ten pints and missed the last bus. ‘Parklife’ for the modern mash-head, Looby pictures a middle-aged dB still playing playing pubs and trying to make it. Tarbuck plays the older patron, propping up the bar and spouting aphorisms like a dripping ale tap. The song is a fall down the stairs into madness, ending in a brass section bar brawl, showing that it truly is better to burn out than fade away.
lyrics
Middle aged in a booth
Oh shit, I wasted my youth
I used to bite off and chew
But know I’m long in the tooth
Tryna use a computer
But this shit’s from the future
Taking ages to boot up
And it’s ageist to boot
Who’d have thought of all my phases
Spitting bars hasn’t faded
But it’s hard when your aged
58 playing basements
Some say it’s better to burn out than fade
But if my age tells me anything
It’s that any day I’ll make it
It’s better to burn out than fade away
Don’t forget to quit before you’re all grey
And if it turns out you’re here to stay
Every dog will have his day
Cause I've been burning the candle at both ends
Flew off the handle, I was all scandals and no friends
Twenty grand in the hole live at home for the low rent
But I know my bands going platinum where this road ends
I went from getting toasted with the most of my peers
To eating Sunday roasts at Mum's watching reruns of Coast
I sold my soul and my best years to warm beers at the watering hole
Who said they hope to die before they get old?
credits
from dB,
released May 7, 2021
mc - lewis withey
vox - dan tarbuck
trumpets - seb skelly, joe prescott
saxes - jake heath, adam mcloughlin
trombone - jasper rose
bass (sousa) - michael ruddlesden
bass guitar - dan johnson
drums - jack tann
dj - dubba dutch
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