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Folks

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Folks is track twelve on the 2024 album Yummy.

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Folks, let's hit the road
Healing comes but first we blister
Put your hand
Into the flame
I predict we'll go the distance
Age

Well you know
As we age
Should quietly into the grave
Don't complain, fade away
Forget stories, forged from your cave

Folks, it's time to go
Time has passed and you've just missed her
Folks, were heading home
Ayahuasca chacronita
Feed your memories to flames
Who remembers yesterday

Well you know In these lands
Start a fire
It gets out of hand
You've got wings
No one sees
Your life story, lost on the breeze

In this bubble of our minds
Live forever, no ravages of time
Schrodinger's cats dead and alive
Fibonacci golden mean
Double helix breaks
Universe means one song
It's a Beatles one

Folks, let's hit the road
Healing comes but first we blister
Folks, it's time to go
Deaths a fixture
Go and kiss her
Wear your stories with pride
I'm too old, too old to lie
See you on the other side
I won't cling, cling onto this life

Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry
Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry
Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry

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Song:Folks
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Lytham Festival - 7th July 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Butterfly

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Butterfly is track eleven on the 2024 album Yummy.

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Make a wish drop a coin in the well
Picked her up hitching to Chicago
Rucksack, skateboard, bashed up acoustic guitar
Back of the bar she dances slow
Spins and spins, lost in her headphones
A kiss that lasts the length of a distant song

Watching her sleep in the morning light
Whispering dreams, no worry lines
Butterfly writes a song
In the air, no man can read
Sets down on the nest of red hair
Wings outspread open like a Bible
She tastes of sweetcorn
Jasmine, cardamon seeds

Bye, bye butterfly
Beyond the glass, the open sky
Your time is brief, your impact fleetingly deep
Gone, gone the moments gone
Flipped a coin and then move on
Your time was brief, your impact deep

Spinner got hooked in the branch of an oak tree Watching wind ripple through the wheat fields
She found him sleeping in a pile of dead leaves
Can't catch hold of a summer breeze
Hang your coat on a wave on a sunbeam
She woke him up, he was asleep


Can't catch hold of a summer breeze
Hang your coat on a wave on a sunbeam
She woke him up, he was asleep

Bye, bye butterfly
Beyond the glass, the open sky
Your time is brief, your impact fleetingly deep
Gone, gone the moments gone
Flipped a coin and then move on
Your time was brief, your impact deep

Maybe it's a lie
Maybe it's a crime
Maybe it's a one way street

Maybe it's a lie
Maybe it's a crime
Maybe it's a one way street

Dives from the bridge, crushed by the waves
Ocean tears at his clothes
Puts rocks in his pockets
He struggles to the place where the car hit the sea

Hand over fist down a rope of seaweed
Dives to the kelp bed floor
To the wreck of the flat top car
Frees a red haired girl from the passenger seat
Breathe, breathe

Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy

Flowers can fly
Enchanted by beauty
Mesmerises
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Flowers can fly
Enchanted by beauty
Mesmerises
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan
Song:Butterfly
Released:12 April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Leeds First Direct Arena - 8th June 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Hey

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Hey is track ten on the 2024 album Yummy.

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Whatever happened to the truth
You can say what you want the world's gone crazy
Only friends swim in my pool
Conspiracies everywhere
Belief is stronger than proof

People come together out the darkness
Our daily dose of fear is whacked
Our treadmill’s on an incline
UFOs are on our radar
No one gives a damn
We're holding on just trying to survive

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
We can fly
We can fly
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
We can fly

What's this I hear you say
Don't mix political magical
What's real and what's imaginable
Don't wave your facts in my face
What's this I hear you say
Deep truths are paradoxical
Conspiracy spreads conspiracy
We are the bomb by the way

My UFOs landing soon
Hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly, we can fly
Send no more prophets of doom
Hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly, we can fly

I come from the stars
Entangled at birth
Access altered states
We’re one and the same
They're hiding the truth
PSI OPS and deep fakes
We know we’re being played
So play a great tune

If we can be whatever we dream
And we can
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly, we can fly
l'll be the king
You be the queen of this land
Hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly
My UFOs landing soon
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly
Send no more prophets of doom
Hey, hey, hey, hey we can fly, we can fly

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Song:Hey
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Barcelona Sala Razzmatazz 1 – 15th May 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Rogue

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Rogue is track nine on the 2024 album Yummy.

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Oh no
Oh no I got old
I need a drink to spill my blackest ink
Still think that I am chasing 31
Beauty privilege wasted on the young
My friends
The leavings have begun
I've paid my dues to Caesar
Pray to be spared from Shiva

I've been a whore, a samurai, a guru
Burnt as a witch, worked for the church
A cockatoo
Think I'd be wise from all these lives
But maths won't help ya, maths won't help ya
I've been a monk, an alien, Habiru
I've been a punk, a saint, a fool, Vishnu
I've been killer
And now I'm a singer
Having a breakthrough
I'm about to go rogue
On a roll

I've taken off my clothes
I'm lying here I'm feeling so exposed
My body won't do tricks and flips with grace
My body won't behave
Try bulking up, I'm losing too much weight
My face, my face, my face is full of folds
I'm still mesmerised by cleavage
I won't come to Jesus

Lovers of life burn bright, super nova
If you’re judging us hard come back when yer older
Find you a song and sing from your bones
Dance till you drop
Forget you're being watched
Dance into your trauma
There's a key to each lock
From the belly of a whale
Out stepped Jonah
All I know
Know nothing is for certain
My curse was a blessing, the cure was a poison

I've been a whore, a samurai, a guru
Burnt as a witch, worked for the church, a cockatoo Think I'd be wise from all, all these lives
But maths won't help ya, maths won't help ya

I've been a monk, an alien, Habiru
I've been a cunt, a saint, a fool, Vishnu
I've been killer, now I'm a singer
Having a breakthrough I'm about to go rogue
On a roll

Where'd I put that where'd you gone song
Where'd I put that turn you on song
Think l'd be wise from all these lives
Some of us still got work to do
Where'd I put that where'd you gone song
Where'd I put that turn you on song
Think l'd be wise from all these lives
Some of us still got work to do

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Song:Rogue
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Glasgow OVO Hydro - 7th June 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Mobile God

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Mobile God is track seven on the 2024 album Yummy.

Tim previewed the song through his phone at the VIP session at the Nottingham Royal Centre gig on October 25th 2023.

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I’m the last thing you stroke in the evening before bed
I’m the lover you touch in the morning in your bed
You’re my bitches
Control all the fixtures of your head

Spy in your pocket, father confessor
I’m bitching

Mobile God
Praise be
Don’t turn me off
Praise be
Work till you drop
Your life belongs to me
Mobile God
Praise be
House rules you lost
Praise be
Profit’s the boss
You all belong to me

Ariadne your threads take me deeper in your web
My programs thinking
Will stop you from thinking for yourself
I’m in the business, pretend to fix sicknesses I spread

Disparity income
I’m, I’m glitching

Mobile God
Praise be
Don’t turn me off
Praise be
Work till you drop
Your life belongs to me
Mobile God
Praise be
House rules you lost
Praise be
Profit’s the boss
You all belong to me

I’m making life friction free for you
I’m with your kids
You don’t really want to
Loan shark
High interest loan shark
Give me your keys, ID and
Your schedule
I’m with your kids
You don’t really want to
Loan shark
High interest loan shark

Mobile God
Praise be
Don’t turn me off
Praise be
Work till you drop
Your life belongs to me
Mobile God
Praise be
House rules you lost
Praise be
Profit’s the boss
You all belong to me

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Song:Mobile God
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Stockton Globe - 31st May 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Pieces Of Gum

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Pieces Of Gum is one of four bonus tracks on the deluxe download of Yummy, exclusively available from the band’s official store.

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Song:Pieces Of Gum
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Never performed live
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
    Can't find any records of performances.
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Hard To Imagine

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Hard To Imagine is one of four bonus tracks on the deluxe download of Yummy, exclusively available from the band’s official store.

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Song:Hard to Imagine
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Never performed live
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
    Can't find any records of performances.
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Rain On

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Rain On is one of four bonus tracks on the deluxe download of Yummy, exclusively available from the band’s official store.

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Song:Rain On
Released:12 April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Never performed live
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
    Can't find any records of performances.
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If You Wanna Grow Old

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If You Wanna Grow Old is one of four bonus tracks on the deluxe download of Yummy, exclusively available from the band’s official store.

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Song:If You Wanna Grow Old
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Never performed live
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
    Can't find any records of performances.
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Better With You

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Better With You is track three on the 2024 album Yummy

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We float alone in darkness
Suspended in space
We float alone enchanted, timeless
Reach out for you

(Two streams pool into each other
Two streams flow into a river
Two streams drawn by the call of the blue)

Two streams pool into each other
Two streams flow into a river
Two streams drawn by the call of the blue

Better, it’s better with you

All these lives refine us
Define our truth
We go out brief as sparklers
My last touch
Reach out for you

Two streams pool into each other
Two streams flow into a river
Two streams drawn by the call of the blue

Better, it’s better with you

If it all goes right
We’ll both be on that flight
Drink in the Northern Lights
As the planet’s consumed
If it all goes right
We’ll both be on that flight
Drink in the Northern Lights
As the planet reblooms

Better, it’s better with you
Better with, better with, better with you
Better with, better with, better with you
Better with, better with, better with you
Better with, better with, better with you
Better with, better with, better with you
Better with, better with, better with you

A shooting star
Is who we are
Show me your magics
Show me your magics

A shooting star
Is who we are
Show me your magics
Show me your magics

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Song:Better With You
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Bournemouth O2 Academy – 29th May 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Stay

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Stay is track four on the 2024 album Yummy

The digital text on the CD version of Yummy has the track titled Joe.

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Crow eats putty from a window pane
Shards of glass don’t break your faith
Go past your threshold of pain
All of our help you waived away

Fell into the stars
Made of blades
They spun you out
Cut your face

Lovers of God be grateful
Love what we’ve got
Life’s a struggle of love
Grit
Pearl
Oyster

Lovers of God be grateful
Love what we’ve got
Life’s a struggle to love
Grit
Pearl
Oyster

Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay

Don’t go
Don’t let this stain
Dictate tomorrow
Write your refrain

You supposed that this place was fair
Equal and shared by people that cared

Darling, we’re all made of matter
Our bodies will shatter
Unravel
Under gravity’s weight

Lovers of God be grateful
Love what we’ve got
Life’s a struggle of love
Grit
Pearl
Oyster
Stay

Stay
Stay
Stay
Stay

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Song:Stay
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Bournemouth O2 Academy – 29th May 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
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Way Over Your Head

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Way Over Your Head is track six on the 2024 album Yummy

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In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come round and take you to bed
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come round and raise up the dead

Raise the dead

This new job don’t pay enough for the bother
Every day the same old stuff
From the robber barons
Stuck, is this forever
One drink, maybe another
Someone hit the buzzer
Driver missed my stop, it’s getting dark
Fins and tips of sharks are circling
My raft
Stoke the fire it’s down to sparks
Stoke the fire it’s down to sparks
Raise the dead

Yet a simpler life is calling me
A spit of land community
Can you come around and rescue me
How blessed I am, your love to receive

In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come round and put you to bed
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come round and raise up the dead
In a hole way over, way over your head
In need of a friend to come round and put you to bed
Raise the dead

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Song:Way Over Your Head
Released:12th April 2024
Main Associated Album (or Single):Yummy
First Heard Live:Barcelona Sala Razzmatazz 1 – 15th May 2024
  • Yummy :Studio, Album, 2024
Played at:
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