Welcome back to another #MusicMonday! I can’t believe we have reached the half year mark since I started this feature! I hope you’ve enjoyed my choices! I’ve enjoyed presenting you with a taste of my playlist. It’s the brainchild of Drew from The Tattooed Book Geek, but my inspiration comes from the lovely Claire from A Knight’s Reads. Every Monday, I choose a song to share with you. The Spotify playlist is here and it will be updated as I go along.

Tonight, I am going to the album launch for Maximo Park’s new album, and I’m really looking forward to it! They’ve got some really underrated tracks so I struggled to choose today’s offering, but eventually I thought I should keep the bookish theme going somehow, however tenuously!

Maximo Park: Books From Boxes

Night falls
And towns become circuit boards
We can beat the sun as long as we keep moving

From the air
Stadium lights stand out like flares
And all I know is that you’re sat here right next to me

We rarely see
Warning signs in the air we breathe
Right now I feel each and every fragment

This paper trail leads right back to you…
You say you need me to step outside

You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar
In the long run, you said you knew that this would happen

This is something new
But it turns out it was borrowed, too
“why does every letdown have to be so thin?”

Rain explodes
At the moment that the cab door closed
I feel the weight upon your kiss; ambiguous

You have to leave. I appreciate that
But I hate when conversation slips out of our grasp

You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar
In the long run, you said you knew that this would happen

Two bodies in motion
This is a matter of fact
It wasn’t built to last

You spent the evening unpacking books from boxes
You passed me up so as not to break a promise
Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar
In the long run, you said you knew that this would happen

The pounding rain continued it’s bleak fall
And we decided just to write after all.

Writer(s): Archis Tiku, Lukas James Wooller, Duncan Robert Lloyd, Paul Anthony Smith, Thomas Alexander English

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Until next time!