The 2nd Wave is Sometimes Bigger - Lyrics

Don't loose the one thing she likes about you
Soul secret weaknesses hidden from view
Passing clouds that reveal a grey sky
A fog that lifts to give in to your rain

If she vanishes into thin air
Your brave face will show me she was never there
The storm that brews will be scarcely concealed
by dead thick skin all your secrets revealed

Your heart lies deaf to your denial
False protection paralyses

Why Did It Not Rain On Me?

Regular readers will know Klak Tik love the rain, however I'm not sure we've posted about it recently, so, to see in 2013 here is a gif I created during my visit to the Rain Room.

For those not familiar with this installation, the Rain Room was created by Random International and resides at the Barbican Centre in London.

Don't be put off by the 2 hour wait, visit and frolic in a wonderfully relaxing man made weather system.

John

Reborn - Lyrics

We've had a few people asking us for the lyrics for our new single 'Reborn'.
So here they are:


I thought I knew at least,
What freedom really means
A job that I hate
Work everyday
I could be wrong

I tried my best to tame
The wilderness inside
Every thought
Not thought out
I pretend to be over

Now I've finally woken up
To the beauty of the world
Through a love song
Through a love song that I heard
From the rivers and the birds

In the end it was the sounds
I found city life too loud
So away I walked
Through the urban sprawl
Ears to the ground
Trying to find myself some peace of mind

Now I've finally woken up
To the beauty of the world
Through a love song
Through a love song that I heard
From the rivers and the birds

Return to the Sky

I woke up in the middle of the night with the Hitchcock style backwards scream. At first I couldn't remember what I had been dreaming, but then I turned and saw the book next to me. Ah yes, the horrors of the Kaiten. The manned suicide torpedo as described by David Mitchell in the excellent novel Number9Dream.

Towards the end of WW2 the Japanese were losing the war, so in what one can only describe as utter desperation they established the Japanese Special Attack Units, which basically consisted of 18-20 year-old men/boys who volunteered (!) for suicide missions.
The Kaiten was the underwater equivalent of the kamikaze plane. Kaiten translates literally as 'Return to the sky'.
The concept was simple. Place a mentally stable (important) young man inside a 9 meter torpedo and lock it from the outside. Deploy it from a submarine and let the young man steer the torpedo of death right into the side of a ship thus detonating the 300kg warhead and doing some serious damage.

Imagine that. What a nightmare.

Reborn

We're pleased to announce our new single Reborn is out now!

It's from our forthcoming album, which is out in March, we'll have more details soon. But for now buy Reborn from iTunes.

London, how you can suck them in and spit them out

Some close friends and fellow musicians told me the sad news today that they have decided to pull the plug on London. They have been here for several years, since the turned 20 pretty much, and have been writing/recording and gigging their music ever since. To really have a go, like so many others here, they chose to work low commitment, flexible low-paid jobs. The kind you fucking hate, but that leave you in no doubt as to why you 'chose' them in the first place. A means to an end in the strongest sense of the word.

So what is the end then? To get to be part of London's incredibly vibrant music scene where, despite the staggering number of ground-breaking class acts, everyone gets to play to decent-sized, attentive crowds of die hard music lovers, right?

Deutschland, wir sind auf dem Weg!

We are really excited, Must We Find a Winner is (finally) being released in Germany on the 30th of March!

A few blogs have already posted some bits about us.

Check it out if you speak German or let you yourself be impressed with google translate!

www.ohfancy.de
http://itstoolong.com
http://dasklienicum.blogspot.com

I will post reviews if/when we get some. Also, we will hopefully come and play a few shows in Germany with a few months, so watch this space!
This is what we would like our journey to feel like.