A NUMBER OF YOUNG LOVERS

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From a live show by A Number of Young Lovers recorded in the living room of 4A Hartington Rd, Brighton, UK.  This song begins with birth and then tracks back through evolutionary stages…  Also, I’d just started a new job with an old friend of mine.  I hadn’t seen him since primary school and he had grown up to look almost exactly like Rod Stewart.

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I was born…

I was born

a swimmer.

Before I was born

I was a swimmer.

I’m a whale who walked right into your heart.

I’m a monkey filled with opinions on art.

I’m a swimmer,

oh.

Urine stings my leg.

Your best friend from school

grows up to look like Rod Stewart.

Rod Stewart,

yeah.

A good sleep is not one in a courtroom.

I was born with water and a cord on.

A good sleep is not one in a courtroom.

I was born with water and a cord on.

Let’s roll around in our underwear.

I was born without whiskers and hair.

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Some of my favourite things: America, astronomy, books, bizarre natural phenomenon, Disney, Hawaii, Japan, Kitsch, maps, menswear, nauticality, New Sincerity, obscure sorrows, strange stories from history, the South Pole, zoology. My name is Matthew Hamblion and I am a writer and musician living in Brighton, England.

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