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I'd bought a baritone ukulele from Wales and this song just fell out of it. Horrible sounding instrument. Doesn't feature anywhere else on the album for a good reason. Must get a good quality one someday...
Great banjo part for Julian Guy - reminds me of the Hitchhikers guide theme - & superb restrained organ playing from Mathias Schubert.

lyrics

Calling your attention to the ending of the sea
Down where all the gaping dragons be
daily I'll be waiting at the far end of the beach
If you're scared of my attention don't be

Leave your careless brooding & your sentimental heart
your lover & the keys to your car
In your coral necklace & your birthday finery
You'll have my attention you'll be...

Calling from the masthead, a golden figurine
Tempting all the sailors from the social submarines

We are gold colombines with a voice for our times
We are two weeks away from the find of the age

We'll beat up all the skeletons like jason and his crew
We'll listen to the sea & know the truth
Your politicians taught me that a man is never free
They set this bomb ticking in me

We'll run it all like clockwork, we'll do it right as rain
We'll be the irrigation to the outward lying plains

We are gold colombines with a voice for our times
We are two weeks away from the find of the age

If the crowning of my vision is a longing to be free
I'll turn out to be lousy company
& should I found my kingdom on camaraderie
A mob will drive me back into the sea

Take greyhounds to my funeral & stand right at the back
Applaud them as they throw in lime & tie me in a sack

We are gold colombines with a voice for our times
We are two weeks away from the find of the age

credits

from Headquarter Café, released July 1, 2015
Headquarter café credits...

Barton Hartshorn – Lead vocals, Ukulele, Piano & keys, Guitar, Bass, Drums & Percussion.
Adele Parker – Vocals and backing vocals.
Dr Vince – Bass on A plague of UFOs upon you, Safe from your danger,
Hello Mr Moon, I am collapse & The Outer sound. Also Fender Rhodes on
A plague of UFOs upon you & keys on Hello Mr Moon.
Shinobi – Drums on Hello Mr Moon.
Julien Guy – Banjo on Hegira.
Mathias Schubert – Organ on Hegira.
Nietzche Cave – Piano on Could it be true?
Xavier Lapeyroux – Double bass on Brought up in the letdown.
David Lewis – Trumpet and Horn. Also organ on The Outer sound.
Bobby Rangell – Saxophone and flute.
Noémie Poumet – 1st Violin.
Laure Boissinot – 2nd Violin.
Celia Boudot – Cello.
Mimi Sunnerstam – Cello on I am collapse.

String and Brass arrangements by Guy Folligrey.

Recorded and mixed at Headquarters by Barton Hartshorn & Guy Folligrey.
Additional recording done at Le Poisson Barbu by Léonard Mule
& Musicopré by Thomas Demarle.

Mastered at Translab Paris by Benjamin Joubert.

All songs by Barton Hartshorn except:
Safe from your Danger – B.Hartshorn/Dr Vince/Shinobi

Artwork Photography by Steve Roberts

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