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Admiral Fallow — Subbuteo
Album: Boots Met My Face
Avg rating:
6.1

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Total ratings: 220









Released: 2011
Length: 4:54
Plays (last 30 days): 0
Hello, my chum
It's me and I'm banging on your door
It's been far too long
Since we set the leaves alight down on the floor

I've returned for a while
To the concrete that once claimed my knees
And the stones my hands owned
As I sent them toward windows and trees

Towering trees
Towering trees

There are bangers in the wheely bins
Lazer pens shone through the glass
And BB after BB fired
From behind the wall beyond the grass

And though boots met my face
And knuckles cracked me black as coal
I care not for the mindless
Who poked fear at my sorry soul

My soul
My soul

And I miss the rain on the roof
Pitstop paths and whistling streams
I miss the Coldstream chips
The red subbuteo team painted green

Built on back fields,
It seemed a thorn in my child side
Instead became a grit-soaked playground
Where the propers and the poor collide

Oh, it might sound dull
But dull's sometimes all we have
Yeah, it might sound dull
But dull's all we ever have

Sometimes I talk with the meter
Of a bingo caller's east-end drawl
Who cares; we're all just trying to float
While everything seems set to fall

So hard
So hard
Comments (25)add comment
I had to down another couple pints of ale before rating this as Marginal. {#Drunk}
Not my cup of ale. 
Yikes! This is so much worse than their other music.
Pretty chords... for the first 32 bars...
Really nice.

Make it stop!!!!

 ScottishWillie wrote:
 ch83575 wrote:
I dig the accent.

 
Come round to my house and you’ll get to dig it all the time. As to whether you’ll understand it is another matter.

 
{#Roflol}

Where yer man's describing in the song sounds rougher than a scabby dog's arse (and that's rough!). According to Wikipedia:

"The album title comes from a line in "Subbuteo" which references an incident when Abbott was beaten up at the age of 15 in his home town of Edinburgh."

So I'm guessing he's singing about somewhere like Sighthill or Wester Hailes, which are not renowned for being des res districts...

For younger/non-UK listeners, Subbuteo is the name of a table football game which was very popular back in the 70s.
Great lyrics!
Scottish quality
 MassivRuss wrote:
Mumford? hello? Mumford? Is there a Mumford here?

 
Nope - Frightened Rabbit... another Scots group where you can really hear their accent.
 rdo wrote:
This is a bit jarring at first, it will take some getting used to.  However I am quite intrigued. {#Jump}

 
Amazing how music can move you.  This started as a 1 in my house, but it is really grabbing me today.  Poignant stuff.


Mumford? hello? Mumford? Is there a Mumford here?
This is a bit jarring at first, it will take some getting used to.  However I am quite intrigued. {#Jump}
 ScottishWillie wrote:
 ch83575 wrote:
I dig the accent.

 
Come round to my house and you’ll get to dig it all the time. As to whether you’ll understand it is another matter.

 
Love a Scottish accent, it's the reason I told my wife that we can never travel to Scotland.  Unless of course she's tired of me...
Sounds like Frightened Rabbit... that's a good thing.
Lovely
 
uh.....what?  
Another band I've never heard of that I've discovered on RP and like.  Good play...
Made me stop and find out who it is -  that is usually a good sign.
Nice, sweet, lovely burr. 
I dig the woodwinds.
 ch83575 wrote:
I dig the accent.

 
Come round to my house and you’ll get to dig it all the time. As to whether you’ll understand it is another matter.
Great to hear these guys on RP!
Admiral Golgol Bordello?
I dig the accent.

This song is good for the ears...