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Horn If You're Honky

by Girlatones

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1.
One Chord Too Many 
We don't need a new one The first chord Has everything we need There’s one chord too many We could afford to lose one The first chord has Everything we need 
We’d like to keep it simple But we long To take you somewhere else It’s greed

 There’s one voice too many We don’t need a new one The first voice says everything we need 
There’s one chord too many We could afford to lose one The first chord Has everything we need We’d like to keep it simple 
But we long To take it somewhere else
 It’s greed We’d like to keep it simple But we long To take you somewhere else You see You struck a chord in my heart With the one at the very start
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3.
Bingo level humour 
Nobody laughs at my jokes 
I could clear a room 
 Quicker than most older folk Am I funny, am I funny little boy? Oh no Am I funny, am I funny little boy? Oh no Do you indulge me? 
Do you indulge me? Do you indulge me? 
No Bingo level humour Venues are clearing out quick I need some responses To help know what make you tic (tic toc tic toc tic toc) Am I funny, am I funny little boy? Oh no Am I funny, am I funny little boy? Oh no Do you indulge me? 
Do you indulge me? Do you indulge me? 
No.
4.
We can’t complain Even when it’s raining We can’t complain When it’s cold outside Can’t complain 'Cause I’ve got a couple of friends 
To take things off my mind We can’t complain 'Cause we have each other We can’t complain And you’re pretty nice Can’t complain 'Cause there are others With a whole lot less We can’t complain
 I don’t feel like we’d deserve it Can’t complain Getting up in the morning We can’t complain When it’s really dark Can’t complain 
At least I’ve got a reason 
 To get out of bed We can't complain That’s a lot more Than what others have We can't complain Can't complain Can’t complain When I’m feeling lonely Can’t complain 
Cause I’ll call you up Can’t complain 
I really can’t complain We can't complain
5.
To Sing 02:54
To sing, to sing There's nothing much more That I would prefer Than strumming a chord And sitting on the floor A chance for me to express myself I could float upstream Might need some help 
I’d call for you To say much more 
Than can be read A melody get’s in your head So sing a song 
 And make it true And fill with words That are as funny As they are blue To say much more 
Than can be read A melody get’s in your head It’ll keep you up 
 When you go to bed 
 You’ll think about the words And what they meant
6.
Something’s different For how long You’ve gotten a new sweater Acting strange Nearly gone You’ve been hiding for days 
 When you get to the end With them Maybe we can be friends again When you get to the end With them Maybe we could make sense of it No responses Anymore Not sure what happened there Here I am At your door You’ve set off for good When you get to the end With them Maybe we can be friends again When you get to the end With them Maybe we could make sense of it
7.
You’d take so long To forget about Too long to forget And I’d find it hard To talk about When they ask why you left Cause I’m Too young to forget Too in love to forget About you It’s been so fun To have you round Love the time that we’ve spent The weary days From staying up all night The best memories yet I’m Too young to forget Too in love to forget Too young to forget Too in love to forget About you Too dumb to forget Too in love to forget Too young to forget
 Too in love to forget About you
8.
Pop Stars 03:04
We’d get photographed With cigarettes Even though we hate The taste of them Because we’re gonna go far We’re going to be pop stars 
 We’ve never been good With the alphabet We can do without Most of it But we can play guitars And we’re going to be pop stars 
It can be hard To take When people don’t like your music And your dreams don’t come true It can be hard To take When people don’t like your music 
 But there’s nothing else That you can do 
 And you’ve really got to See it through We won’t get there Out of sheer luck
 We’re sick of all the bands Who don’t give a fuck We’re really working hard To make it as pop stars We just want to play guitars Someday we'll all be pop stars But we haven't gotten far
9.
Here’s the one about The saddest synth The saddest synth That ever lived He made a noise That would chill your core And freeze your joy Forever more He’d be walking Down the street Dogs would bark And traffic beep But if he came Close to me I’d open my arms And I’d let him be He could only play Minor chords
 But we hope that you’ll Adore him still Because a sad synth Still needs love And so do sad guitars He cut the sides of hair Off his head He was just trying to fit in with them Because a sad synth Still needs friends They get you through Until the end 
I introduced him To my friends They requested That he play Split Enz

10.
I’d like to be Entirely different from myself It’s not just me 
I know that others feel this way Introspection is our way 
If only we could see from Outside of ourselves I’d like to see The world through Someone else’s eyes I’d look at me I wonder how different I’d appear Another’s perspective Would make it clear Who I really am 
If only we could see from Outside of ourselves 
 Selfish ways What have we done What did we say? No one else is thinking about What we’ve said I’d like to be Comfortable with myself It’s not to be (it’s not for me) I know that others feel this way Cause introspection is the way That we view the world If only we could see from Outside of ourselves

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Lost And Lonesome (Aus/Oceania): lostandlonesome.bandcamp.com

Meritorio Records (EU/World):
meritoriorec.bandcamp.com

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Swoonsome Melbourne four-piece Girlatones are set to release their new album Horn if You're Honky, out March 20.

Following the unabashed garage pop of first album Fitting in Well (2017), Jesse Williams and crew have refined their DiY production chops and crafted an album that is rich in sonic layers and emotional depth, whilst remaining loose at the edges like all the best pop music.

First single, the piano-led ballad 'Get to the End', displayed a more melancholic, introspective side to Girlatones but the band struck back for second single, ‘We Respond to Love’ a one-minute-fifty-second slice of pop bliss that was described by blog Austin Town Hall as "shimmering like some of the best power-pop you’re likely to hear this day, or ever”.

Impending third single ‘Bingo Level Humour’ takes an altogether different path – one perhaps led by Paul McCartney and a parade of marching drummers, spouting quirky one-liners.

Elsewhere on the album, we hear some baroque strings on Jesse’s ode to solitary creativity ‘To Sing’, while instrumentation gets stripped back to a 12-string acoustic on the tender ‘2 Young 2 Forget’. But the big bubblegum feels are never far away, as heard on songs like ‘One Chord Too Many’, ‘Pop Stars’ and ‘The Saddest Synth’.

Regular gig-goers in Melbourne will have been hard-pressed to miss a Girlatones show in the past few years, the band playing regularly at pubs, clubs and small festivals, with band members also doing the rounds in other outfits like Traffik Island, Way Dynamic and Baby Blue. Not to mention one quarter of the band is Leah Senior whose beguiling folk tunes have been winning hearts all over Australia and overseas.

Horn if You're Honky by Girlatones is out March 20 on Lost And Lonesome in Australia and Meritorio Records of Spain.

- words from L&L bandcamp page :-)

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released March 20, 2020

Jesse Williams - Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Percussion Occasional Bass + Drums
Leah Senior - Guitar, Vocals
Tam Matlakowski - Bass, Vocals
Fabian Hunter - Drums, Percussion, Vocals

Daniel Tedford - Violin, Viola, Cello

Recorded by Jesse at Raglan St
Mixed/Mastered by Colin Leadbetter/Herecordsrecords

All songs written by Jesse Williams

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Girlatones Melbourne, Australia

Girlatones play their own brand of garage-pop injected with unique lyrical humour and sincerity, drawing you into their upbeat and inclusive world.

Jesse Williams - Vocals, Guitar, Piano

Leah Senior - Vocals, Guitar

Tam Matlakowski - Bass, Vocals

Fabian Hunter Shaw - Drums, Vocals
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