Johnny Flynn - The Wrote and The Writ.

Johnny Flynn at PureGroove instore,
30th of October 2008.

have to admit, im in love with him :)


lyrics;
They're taking pictures of the man from God
I hope his cassock's clean
The burden of being our holy fellas
Your halo'd better gleam, better gleam
What of all those wayward priests?
The ones who like to drink
Do you suppose they'd swap their blood for wine
Like you swapped yours for ink, for ink
You wrote me oh so many letters
And all of them seemed true
Promises look good on paper
Especially from you, from you
The weight of all those willing words
I carried all alone
You wouldn't put your pen to bed
When we hadn't found our own, our own
Your sentences rose high at night
And circled round my head
The circle's since been broken
Like the priest before me is breaking bread
I'm being asked to drink the blood of Christ
And soon I'll eat his flesh
I'm alone again before the altar
Shedding all my old regrets
The last of which I'll tell you now
As it flies down the sink
I never knew a part of you
You didn't set in ink, in ink
The letters that you left behind
No longer shall I read
Your blood's between the pages
And I can't stand to see you bleed
And I'll soon forget what was never there
Your words are ash and dust
All that's left is the song I've sung
The breath I've taken and the one I must
If you're born with a love for the wrote and the writ
People of letters your warning stands clear
Pay heed to your heart and not to your wit
Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear



YEAH BTW OFF A LYRICS SITE SO NOT MY FAULT IF WRONG (H)

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[LilyashnAeralvr]

I was so bummed. I couldn't find his album anywhere while I was in London. But he's releasing a new EP or something in October apparently. So I'll just wait until then, and then get them both.

[boylelaura]

if you go on his myspace i'm pretty sure you can buy most of his songs online :) and yeah he's releasing a new album pretty soon. i only saw him a couple weeks ago and he played pretty much all new material. it was pretty amazing :)

[IStoleYourPotatoes]

An educated, talented young man with taste, class and something to say. How refreshing!

[IStoleYourPotatoes]

You don't know me. I was trying to give someone a sincere compliment. I don't see where I said that anyone else doesn't have something to say. I just said HE does on top of everything else he has going for him. Jeez! I really shouldn't have even replied to your post it is so ridiculous.

[RRsuchtdenSupeRRstar]

@IHAVEABIGDOGGY oh man.. german hip hop is much more disgusting. well, some kind of it like bushido and all the stuff. fettes brot - good hip hop ;)

[marcreevesmusic]

one of my favourite songs of his! He is definitely one of the best artists around right now! I make similar music if anyone's interested in checking out some new music :)

[IHAVEABIGDOGGY]

Nice, my style of music. It's good to listen to, for I'm being drowned by the persistent age of American Hip-Hop here.

[balletmadlucy]

i think iv fallen in love with him

[plasticinemonster]

@LilyashnAeralvr if you're looking in London Rough Trade has the album, this probably isn't helpful any more though

[KateRage00]

You just HAVE to love him (:

[joshua2443]

He needs to play in London again.

[ah19912]

dude they don't mean class as in 'upper class' (i.e they're not saying 'someone from the lower class will never be talented') they mean: he has class, i.e he holds his head high. Anyone can do that, you don't have to be born into a family to have class. Calm down mate :)

[crankthetoto]

yeah i agree!

[AaronBenJoseph]

no they were saying he has class and talent AND has something to say which always ends well :) quite often people with talent have noting to say and it gets wasted