Originally released on 7th May 2001, elbow’s debut album introduced tracks including ‘Red’, ‘Newborn’, ‘Powder Blue’ and ‘Scattered Black and Whites’, and was later shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.
To mark the anniversary, a selection of archive videos, live footage and clips from the long out-of-print ‘Asleep in the Back’ film are now being made available on the band’s official YouTube channel for the first time.
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Can’t stop thinking
I won’t stop drinking
I need that comfort
I don’t need discipline
Twilights tailing
I had self belief (They don’t compromise)
This has battered me
That’s my history
Hold this shaking frame
Pull this back together
What’s your story?
I want to listen.
I can’t fake pity.
I may not sympathise
Twy-lights tailing.
Try my lies for size
You might swallow them
While I fantasize
Try-my-lies-for-size.
Hold this shaking frame.
Pull this back together