The Big Spin is the second track on Forever Howlong. Initially debuted live as “The Lemons”, the song is led by keyboardist May Kershaw and features lyrics about a restrictive domestic life unwillingly enforced on a person through absurdist writing about finding solace in plants and a trip around th...
[Verse 1]
We chopped off your arms
Chopped off your beautiful purple hair
But we had to make room for the living, the living room
[Chorus]
But I think that the lemons might make a comeback this year
Maybe we'll get the beets to join us this time around the sun
You fetch the apples, I'll bake the pie, maybe we'll all fall out
Put on my boots, hop, skip or step on the thread
[Verse 2]
The thread linking our bodies with each other
Tangled like the roots of the ghost trunk
A new one could grow?
[Chorus]
But I think that the lemons might make a comeback this year
Maybe we'll get the beets to join us this time around the sun
You fetch the apples, I'll bake the pie, maybe we'll all fall out
Put on my boots, hop, skip or step on the thread
[Outro]
The purple thread linking my head to the root
We won't worry, it will grow
The Big Spin was written by May Kershaw & Georgia Ellery & Tyler Hyde & Lewis Evans & Charlie Wayne & Luke Mark.
The Big Spin was produced by James Ford.
Black-country-new-road released The Big Spin on Fri Apr 04 2025.
This was the first of the songs which we’re calling the Holy Trinity on the record, those songs being ‘The Big Spin’, ‘Besties’ and ‘Happy Birthday’, which all came together at a very similar time. May brought this song in. It was much more light-hearted and groovy, and it had this light feel that w...