Burned To The Ground (Demo)

from Secret Eve (Demos & Rarities) by Tinyfish

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A remastered demo recorded during the pre-production sessions for the self titled debut album, Tinyfish.

Musically, it's not really an iconic band track but the lyrics, which focus on the character weaknesses that we all possess, are surprisingly strong and the song was in part, worth including on that basis alone.

lyrics

The pretty face, the neat ensemble that can drive you to distraction
That silly song, you swim along onto a hook until you drown
The broken rhythm of a weakness that can poison you attention
The simple weight behind a thought that will contrive to bring you down

See, it's all around you
Raised by good thought
Burned to the ground
See, it will surround you
All that we've wrought
Burned to the ground

The journey home, is set in stone and quickly broken into pieces
The public life that holds a family is suddenly not there
The things that stick to you are turning into heresy and opinion
A tribe of names becomes the centre of a lie that leads nowhere

It makes you feel like you're not there
The weight you thought that you could bare

What kind of person hides the truth to make a knife out of the secret?
Who cuts the rope and tears the sail, that pulls the boat along?
A minutes silence for the act, that was thrown into the open
As after all it takes a lifetime to admit that we were wrong

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from Secret Eve (Demos & Rarities), released October 25, 2019
Words and music by Simon Godfrey

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Tinyfish Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tinyfish was formed in 2005 and released their eponymous debut album in 2006. It was their 2009 breakout album The Big Red Spark however, which gave the band wider acclaim. The band split in 2012.

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