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Uploaded by on Feb 27, 2009

Elbow and the BBC Concert Orchestra performing Starlings


How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?
He'll have to go
So, too, the bunch he luncheons with
It's second on my list of things to do

At the top Is stopping by
Your place of work and acting like
I haven't dreamed of you and I
And marriage in an orange grove
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in
I'm stubborn, selfish and too old.

I sat you down and told you how
the truest love that's ever found
was for oneself
You pulled apart my theory
With a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes I guess I'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue
And nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
Find a man that needs you more than I

Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about
your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings

Darling is this love?

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  • @bytesback Me thinks you could be right!

  • @3eahor3e Excellent, best thing to be obsessed with.

  • Luv looking at your cute face Guy when you sing this, then I sigh with complete satisfaction.

  • @3eahor3e Methinks I see the pattern of obsession here :)

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  • @caseyx073 These guys are SO beyond Coldplay.

  • I want a man who makes me feel the way these lyrics of Mr Garvey's make me feel. "At the top Is stopping by

    Your place of work and acting like

    I haven't dreamed of you and I

    And marriage in an orange grove"'

    *sigh*

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  • I love the way the trumpet is used to represent the starlings (if you have seen a 'cloud of starlings' youll know exactly whats going on) and it wakes the listener up! May have had the hi fi on too loud and then got blown across the room by the brass :)

  • Still here luving it!

  • this is the difference between elbow and many other artists. they are AMAZING live.

  • This makes me cry! It is such a beautiful song. I am a bit pissed but I love it!

  • @bytesback Totally agree, thank's for uploading the songs to allow me to be here.

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