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“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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[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) was written by Alex Robertshaw & Michael Spearman & Jeremy Pritchard & Jonathan Higgs.
Tin (The Manhole) was produced by Jonathan Higgs & David Kosten.
Everything Everything released Tin (The Manhole) on Mon Aug 23 2010.
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...