The City's Sleeping (live)
from Live at Spiritual by Tom Hyatt
-
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumCD in gatefold sleeve with a two-sided poster (36cm x 24cm), featuring the live photography of Todd MacDonald.
Includes unlimited streaming of Live at Spiritual via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 daysPurchasable with gift card£10 GBP or more
-
Buy the Full Digital Album
lyrics
All the people around you surround you, confound you
They are seem the same.
No one tries to speak you go for weeks with no squeak
From any strangers
And it’s all money this, money that, money chat
That’s a fact.
That’s the rate of the exchange ’round here.
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
See the sparks tear down the track,
Feel them flash as they shoot up your back
As you get on the train and mind the gap
Between old and new
Between them and you.
Hey there boy when you gonna/better/gotta
Start acting your age?
When you gonna give up the ghost?
You coast the most of all those little music games
When you gonna find a job/get a job/when you gonna stop
Try’n’a make a name on stage?
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
As you get out to the street
The night air’s alive and under your feet
There’s a pulsing of life, who knows you could meet
Someone like you!
And as your pushing through the crowds
It’s hot there to breathe and the music’s so loud
But through all the lights, the sights, the sounds
They’re looking at you
And not just right through…
They are seem the same.
No one tries to speak you go for weeks with no squeak
From any strangers
And it’s all money this, money that, money chat
That’s a fact.
That’s the rate of the exchange ’round here.
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
See the sparks tear down the track,
Feel them flash as they shoot up your back
As you get on the train and mind the gap
Between old and new
Between them and you.
Hey there boy when you gonna/better/gotta
Start acting your age?
When you gonna give up the ghost?
You coast the most of all those little music games
When you gonna find a job/get a job/when you gonna stop
Try’n’a make a name on stage?
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
As you get out to the street
The night air’s alive and under your feet
There’s a pulsing of life, who knows you could meet
Someone like you!
And as your pushing through the crowds
It’s hot there to breathe and the music’s so loud
But through all the lights, the sights, the sounds
They’re looking at you
And not just right through…
credits
from Live at Spiritual,
released February 26, 2017
license
all rights reserved
tags
about
Tom Hyatt Liverpool, UK
Polymathic artist, musician, scientist, STEAM educator, maker.
SciArt PhD candidate at LJMU’s School of Art
🎨🎵🧲📚📷
discography
-
Dec 2020 -
Jun 2018 -
Feb 2017
contact / help
Tom Hyatt recommends:
-
Tide Take Him
by Various Guises"I recorded and mixed this EP with Various Guises. Check out the 'Devil's Kitchen' in Bedlam Boys!"
go to album -
Foreign Domestic Policy
by Joe Innes & The Cavalcade"I sometimes perform with Joe as part of his Cavalcade, and recorded the piano on this album (and a proper wurly on 'Come To My Bar'!)"
go to album -
"I provided some piano for old friend Sam Falle's EP, along with some strange percussion in 'Witching Hour'."
go to album
If you like Tom Hyatt, you may also like:
-
Crypt Covers
by Hope and Social with Guestssupported by 4 fans who also own “The City's Sleeping (live)”
They really sound like they're having a ball letting their creativity run wild here. Sometimes when I listen to it I just marvel and laugh at how brilliant this album is. The variety of collaborating artists makes for an eclectic sound indeed. (Seriously, Dress You Up sounds NOTHING like H&S - in a really good way.) At the same time H&S are definitely the glue that holds this thing together, meaning the overall sound is not only eclectic, but solid and cohesive.
go to album -
Meet Me at the River
by Dawn LandesOn “Meet Me By the River,” Dawn Landes’s self-described “Nashville record,” buoyant country melodies settle deep into lush instrumentation.
go to album -
I Need to Start a Garden
by Haley Heynderickxfeatured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 10, 2018
go to album
