[Intro]
You can’t just come into my garden in your football kit
And start asking questions about who lives here
Who’s asking?
[Verse 1]
It’s a memory of a café that you loved
But you didn’t have anyone to take there
They had a sushi counter and a counter that did pastries and mixed salads
In Hendon
I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old
I can’t change
[Chorus]
A lonely job for £45 a day
A lonely job for £32 a day
Just take it
Things are changing
[Verse 2]
Time to shut up old actors
Time to fix old pants
Time to get fed up
Telephone call comes through the wall
A sunny day with a grey sky
A wonky parking job for cheap chocolate mousse
[Chorus]
Things are changing
Things are changing
You
You foil beast!
You foil beast
You foil beast
[Outro]
Talk to me in the bath
‘ba dum’
A.L.C was written by Nicholas Buxton & Lewis Maynard & Tom Dowse & Florence Shaw.
A.L.C was produced by John Parish.
Dry Cleaning released A.L.C on Fri Apr 02 2021.
Florence Shaw:
It’s the only track where I wrote all the lyrics in lockdown—all the others were written over a much longer period of time. But that’s definitely the quickest I’ve ever written. It’s daydreaming about being in public and I suppose touches on a weird change of priorities that happened...