Contrails

by Iron Islands

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We're donating all the money we make from this track for December and January to the charity, Mind. So don't be tight and go buy it - you can pay whatever you like for it and it's all going to a great cause! Have a fucking fantastic Christmas and we're really looking forward to seeing you in 2017.

Love from Mart, Al and Olly x x

lyrics

My suits become a second skin
Everyone I know left me to chase their dreams
Maybe I'm lost and far from content
Cos I spend all my time confined to these four walls

Watching on envious
I'm repeating history so oblivious
In the same clothes and with the same hair
If this is my life now, I'm not prepared

I'm scratching at the cracks around me
Can't face the task, you think defines me

My heart will never heal
Watching from the periphery
Loop back to find me
Follow me as my contrails

Moments lost in my memory
From where they sapped the strength from my being
You wake up in different zones
But I stare at clocks wishing with you I'd flown

I'm scratching at the cracks around me
Can't face the task, you think defines me

My heart will never heal
Watching from the periphery
Loop back to find me
Follow me as my contrails

It's done now
I've gone now
It's done now
I've gone now

My heart will never heal
Watching from the periphery
Loop back to find me
Follow me as my contrails

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released December 25, 2016
Music and words by Martin Andrew, Al Baker & Olly Brown
Produced by Sam Houselander at Red Bull and Form & Filter Studios
Artwork by James Spake

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Martin Andrew - Vox / Piano
Al Baker - Bass
Olly Brown - Drums

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