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Let's Build An Airport

from Let's Build An Airport [EP] by Matt Blick

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Let’s build an airport and let’s fly away
If we put our minds to it we could finish today
These people round here are as deep as the clouds
And they don’t understand anything that isn’t glued to the ground

But we’re rootless and artless and freer than birds
Let’s not march to the abattoir just like the rest of the herd.
Forget Stansted, forget JFK.
There’s a whole world of difference between a runway
And running away.
We’re not running away…

Doesn’t the sunset attract you? Don’t the horizon look grand?
Couldn’t you just catch that burning ball in the fist of one hand?
I’ll clear you for take off and you can clear me
Then we’ll cross every ocean and be back for our tea

Let’s build an airport and let’s fly away
If we put our minds to it we could finish today
These people round here are as deep as the clouds
And they don’t understand anything that isn’t glued to the ground

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from Let's Build An Airport [EP], released March 18, 2013
Let's Build An Airport

Written and arranged by Matt Blick

Matt Blick - Vocals, Guitar, Synth, Sound FX
Helen Maddison - Theremin
Rachel McClean - Cello
Martin Cheesman - Piano
Mark Nelson - Backing Vocals

Produced and engineered by Mark Nelson at Old Library Studios, Mansfield, UK
Mixed by Mark Nelson at Mayfair Studios, Mansfield, UK
Mastered by JP Braddock at www.formationaudio.co.uk
Cover Art by Simon J. Curd at www.simonjcurd.com

Samples

Lancaster Bomber Crew Raid over Stettin, Germany (April 20, 1943)

Lancaster Bomber Crew Raid over Berlin – Sep 3 1943
 - stelzriede.com
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bomber pass by 1 and 2 - www.therecordist.com/free-sfx
Lancaster Bomber - confusion_music from www.freesound.org
Spitfire Mk 19 (Griffon engine) - Genghis Attenborough from www.freesound.org

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Matt Blick Nottingham, UK

Songwriter/singer from Nottingham, UK. Like early inspiration Billy Bragg, Matt sings in his real accent and plays electric guitar (there’s more tuba than acoustic guitar on his songs). He plays like someone who spent more time in mosh pits than coffee shops and sings about faith and doubt, love and loss, airports and abattoirs. ... more

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