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    Side A
    PhilShanahan Soul
    Up De Flats
    Cruisin

    Side B
    Setting Son
    Stop The Lights
    Return

    Design by Oscar Torrans
    Photo of taken by Richard Kelly in Sheriff street flats in the 90s

    These songs are dedicated to the people of Sheriff Street flats and the North Wall Community

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    Cover photo of Leon Preston in Sheriff St flats by Ricko Kelly
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lyrics

Mind your little self, 'cause the world is scruffy

Look i know where to go to look i know where

Do you think about it often?
Do you think about packing up and escaping all your problems?
You know I do
I'm fed up with the system
I'm fed up doing the same thing I need something different
Wanna be my company? You know you do

Do you think you could handle it do you think you could
Do you think you could handle it do you think you could
Take this feeling?
Keeps me up all night, keeps me up all night

Just come into the night we'll stay until the suns up
We'll be getting higher escaping all our troubles now
Do you think you could handle it, do you think you could?
Cause look I know where to go to free all your feelings
Look I know where to go you don't need a reason
Lets go nowhere together lets go nowhere
I don't know oh I don't know

And in the morning I'm struggling I can't see the light
I feel like I'm broken 'cause somethings not right
Then the night time comes over, paints everything black
If they suss something different I just say I'm grand

I lost your face inside the haze in the smoke from your cigarette
They said it was a mistake
I don't believe them
They're all fucking liars
Lately I feel I'm struggling
I think my past losses are surfacing
Sometimes I wish I could reset me brain but I worry I'm boring without all the pain
Sick of the Thursday to Thursday
Home on a Monday never a good day
Sick of the cycles sick of the fighting
Sick of them telling me I'll be alright
They'll never know, they'll never know, don't let them know

Just come into the night we'll stay until the suns up
We'll be getting higher escaping all our troubles now
Do you think you could handle it, do you think you could?
Cause look I know where to go to free all your feelings
Look I know where to go you don't need a reason
Lets go nowhere together lets go nowhere
I don't know oh I don't know

And when we grow up we're wondering why we're not the same
It's the cyclical patterns in our DNA
I've seen so much stuff that I just can't un see
It's like my biggest strength could be the death of me

I don't believe them oh no no
I can see the flames up in your eyes
Oh no no
I can see the flames up in your eyes
I don't believe them oh no no
I can' see the flames up in your eyes

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from Up De Flats, released October 7, 2020

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