Tin (The Manhole) by Everything Everything
Tin (The Manhole) by Everything Everything

Tin (The Manhole)

Everything Everything * Track #11 On Man Alive

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Tin (The Manhole) by Everything Everything

Release Date
Mon Aug 23 2010
Produced by
Jonathan Higgs & David Kosten
Writed by
Alex Robertshaw & Michael Spearman & Jeremy Pritchard & Jonathan Higgs
About

“Tin (The Manhole)” stars a red fox struggling to survive alongside dangerous and incomprehensible human machinery. It is one of Everything Everything’s many songs about unease with technology and one of their earliest to show a deep reverence for nature.

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Tin (The Manhole) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'll be the fox by the road, I am
Enormous and evolved
A predatory mass, in the dark I am unseen
Me dripping oil from my tail and my
Eyes are through the fumes
Yellow as the arc of imagined LEDs

[Verse 2]
I leave a path in the snow, little
Rainbow diesel paws
I devour the smoke that erupts from all exhaust
I make a dash for the median
There's a banshee searing past
And everything is light and it's noise and I reach the grass

[Verse 3]
My eyes are wide and my teeth dropping
Straight out of my skull
They clatter on the road anatomically displayed
I am as lithe as a vine as I
Whisper up the verge
And I am almost up to the shoulders of a horse

[Bridge]
Little sea anemone, pool of rocks
Why'd you see an enemy I cannot?
Could there be a more heavenly artefact
As pure as that?
A little sea anemone, pool of rocks
Why'd you see an enemy I cannot?
Could there be a more heavenly artefact
As pure as that?
A little sea anemone, pool of rocks
Why'd you see an enemy I cannot?
Could there be a more heavenly artefact
As pure as that?
A little sea anemone, pool of rocks
Why'd you see an enemy I cannot?

[Verse 4]
I sleep a while in the dark of a
Warehouse by the sea
I am now as giant as the sun I used to love
My limbs are shoots springing forth, I am
Impossible and black
And I can feel the gravity rushing into me

[Verse 5]
I feel a pull on my fur and a
A hundred tiny hands
I can feel the men and the women clamber on
They will embrace me tonight as a
A father and a son
And I will carry homo sapiens through the night

[Outro]
I can not imagine the things they did to you
I can not imagine the way it feels for you
I can feel the gravity rushing into me
I am but a hole in the fabric of the scene
I was but a drop in the ocean all along

Tin (The Manhole) Q&A

Who wrote Tin (The Manhole)'s ?

Tin (The Manhole) was written by Alex Robertshaw & Michael Spearman & Jeremy Pritchard & Jonathan Higgs.

Who produced Tin (The Manhole)'s ?

Tin (The Manhole) was produced by Jonathan Higgs & David Kosten.

When did Everything Everything release Tin (The Manhole)?

Everything Everything released Tin (The Manhole) on Mon Aug 23 2010.

What did Everything Everything say about "Tin (The Manhole)"?

Bassist Jeremy Pritchard was interviewed by Hey Man Check My Band and said:

[The artwork is] simply a reference to one of the songs on the record, “Tin (The Manhole)”. The lyrics revolve around the vulnerability of a fox on a motorway. That song’s special for us.

The idea is just the juxtaposition...

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