Similar to 2020’s The Night Chancers, Baxter Dury inhabits a new character for Allbarone; a pale yellow shirt with a beige overcoat being his distinctive outfit in Allbarone’s cover art and music videos.
Lyrically, Dury’s signature spoken-word delivery introduces this new character as a pickup arti...
[Intro]
Allbarone
Allbarone
Allbarone
[Chorus]
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
[Post-Chorus]
There's a fragment of love
Left in a tattooed soul
Before I'd even met you
I booked a hotel
[Verse 1]
When you texted and suggested that we should hang
Hope grew from the moment when you held my hand
We cuddled and we giggled and we laughed and we yawned
And reached into the darkness where my heart once belonged
[Pre-Chorus]
There's a fragment of love
Left in a tattooed soul
Before I'd even met you
I booked a hotel
That night in Albarone I sat in the rain
I thought about all those promises made
[Chorus]
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone (Allbarone)
[Verse 2]
There's a bitter light on the Piccadilly line
Everyone can see where I was crying
I told you I was a writer, you smuggled a grin
You left me hanging an empty horizon
[Post-Chorus]
That night in Albarone, I sat in the rain
Thought about all those promises made
There's a fragment of love left in a tattooed soul
Before I'd even met you
I booked a hotel
That night in Albarone, I sat in the rain
Thought about all those promises made
[Chorus]
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
[Post-Chorus]
There's a fragment of love
There's a fragment of love
There's a fragment of love
There's a fragment of love
[Pre-Chorus]
There's a fragment of love left in a tattooed soul
Before I'd even met you
I booked a hotel
That night in Allbarone, I sat in the rain
Thought about all those promises made
[Chorus]
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone
Answer the texts, answer the phone
Tell me if you're coming to Allbarone (Allbarone)
Allbarone was written by Baxter Dury & Paul Epworth.
Allbarone was produced by Paul Epworth.
Baxter Dury released Allbarone on Tue May 06 2025.
Baxter Dury:
This is the first track that Paul Epworth and I made and it quickly established why it was a good idea that we were working together. It’s a song about sitting in the rain outside an All Bar One contemplating why what just happened, happened in the way it did.
— via When the Horn Blow...