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YOOF

from TOAST by Art Making Animals

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lyrics

Is it alright
Is it alright
If I just dance

Dance away

Is it alright
If I just dance

I just dance and you don’t talk
I just dance and you don’t talk

Is it alright if I just talk
And I just dance
And you don’t talk

Is it alright if I
Is it alright if I just talk
Is it alright if I
Is it alright if I just talk

I just dance and you don’t talk
Is alright if I just talk
I just dance and you don’t talk
Is it alright
I just dance and you don’t talk

These are great days we're living in
A prosperous age
Counterpoint is the key
Describing pain like the way I see you dance
Describing loss like a surfer on a wave
Thin lines are drawn
Like the contours of regret
What is lost if I say yes
Two losers agree
There are no winners
We’ll be sitting in the curved glass window of a pub
A clear indication that were no longer the cool club
Searching for meaning like the switch on a light
Quiet desperation
The worst of all kinds

But the YOOF are still out here
They come out to meet me before I forget what I came out for
Sadder than the eyes of the girl in the chip shop
Sadder than goodbyes of an old pair of flip flops
But were spineless on mass
Think of the ones they’ll lay to rest
The ones that speak fiercely as if each word was their last
The ones that do good with there every last breath
I'm not one of them
But I’m doing my best

Hello my brother
I’m sorry to burden you
But I don’t think you know the pain that I’m in
These are the words I couldn’t manage
These are the words that caused the damage

The boys behind the bar are more beautiful than art
But the toilets stink like piss
And the musics hit and miss

Its me or the ultimatums
You can’t have both

It's impossible not to love someone who brings you hot buttered toast

I’m a mother, life is tough, but I’m tougher
I’m a father, life is hard, but I’m harder
You hammer through life like a power drill
Screwing everything up
Everything in your way
But we don’t talk about it

Is it alright if I just talk

We were a double a-side
Two stamps with tiny perforations between
Life tore us apart and gave us a first class tongue lashing
I’m sick of rowing
And kowtowing
It feels like someone dragged a knife across my heart
Across my eyes
And then across my heart again
It feels like someone dragged a knife across my heart
Across my eyes
And then across my heart again
It feels like someone dragged a knife across my heart
Across my eyes
And then across my heart again

But now look at me shine

Hands up if you can see me
Hands up if you believe in me

And if talking is love
I could live right here in this hug

The YOOF are still out here
The YOOF are still out here
The YOOF are still out here
The YOOF are still out here

These are great days we're living in
A prosperous age
Counterpoint is the key

Then it's the latest conspiracy
In the post truth society
In Arcade Fire's age of anxiety
And then we embrace
And walk our separate ways
And in a moment of silence
I reflect on the conversations of today
And I find some peace
And connection
And I feel everything is OK

Cause if talking is love
I could live forever in that hug
And if dancing is love
I could dance forever in that club
And if listening is love
I can’t thank you enough x

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from TOAST, released January 12, 2023

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Art Making Animals Leeds, UK

Art Making Animals are Ben Denison and Mark Parrini.

We started “making noise with friends” over 20 years ago with a plan to write an album one song a year.

20 years of friendship later we have finally finished what we started.

Art Making Animals is about the joy of making music with close and trusted friends, and what a joy it has been.

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