Song of the Day (The Chain): The Delgados – Pull The Wires From The Wall

Day 9. Mogwai’s early material, including Come On Die Young, was released on the excellent Chemikal Underground record label. The label was set up & run by the dream, Alt Rock band, The Delgados. Although they never saw the same levels of success as fellow Chemikal artists, The Delgados did manage to gather a fair cult following.

Pull The Wires From The Wall is taken from The Delgados excellent sophomore album Peloton. This album came out the year I turned 16 & therefore was a pretty big deal in the development of my musical tastes. A band with two singers, the main vocals on Pull The Wires From The Wall are performed & written by guitarist Emma Pollock.

Creeping round my house at dawn
I’ll keep my curtains closed
If you’re feeling fond of feeling wrong
Fully clothed
For a second time you’re on my mind
Planted on this still
You forget I do not pay in kind
Kind’s not there 
For the eyes to see through
All that I do

For instance I don’t have to try
I’m falling over all the right lines
We only have to leave this last
Resist all falling at the wrong times

Safe in knowledge, safe in college
I know all there is to know
To have never stepped outside this ring
Fools they flow
For the self-assured I have no cure
I only wish I was
As my entertaining thoughts grow fewer
Stills my causeFor the eyes to see through
All that I doFor instance I don’t have to try
I’m falling over all the right lines
We only have to leave this last
Resist all falling at the wrong times

For the accent, for the day (don’t walk just swim)
For the incidents they’ll happen and they’ll happen anyway (it’s gonna pass)
When you leave here, leave this way (one last request)
You are far enough to be impressed
But not so far to be depressed
Drink your souvenirs and go your way
For instance I don’t have to try
I’m falling over all the right lines
We only have to leave this last
Resist all falling at the wrong times
For instance I don’t have to try
I’m falling over all the right lines
We only have to leave this last
Resist all falling at the wrong times.

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