Elbow - Adriana Again
Today marks 25 years since the release of ‘Asleep in the Back’.

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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The Stops

I can’t undo the day
It won’t go under the rug
I pull out the stops
And you pull the plug

These are sober days and I know it can’t be
But I’ll miss you the way you miss the sea

Don’t look down
Keep staring like you’ve never seen the stars
If you need me to remind you who you are
Little blossom there’s the shiniest soul
Just behind those eyes

‘No longer my affair’
Well I can’t go there just yet
So I’ve come to love and trust those friends
That are holding your net

Falling off used to mean
Maybe grazing a knee
And I’ll miss you the way you miss the sea

Don’t look down
Keep staring like you’ve never seen the stars
If you need me to remind you who you are
Little blossom there’s the shiniest soul
Just behind these eyes

While I won’t second guess
What you’re thinking of me
I will miss you the way you miss the sea