Canterbury

Lyrics:
Peace and Quiet – Fire all you like, have you seen my defences? My sleep is short, but my dreams are extensive. I’m on a line between smiles and sleep/steep frowns. Put me in the light and we’ll freeze up this melt down. I’ve been walking on the tips of my legs but it won’t be staying like that for long. We’ll be stamping over boundaries in no time, a silence would indicate that something is wrong. We’re driven up the walls by peace and quiet. We’re into changing those who read ‘old classics’. We’re up for striking while the iron’s heated, and we’ve got nothing to lose, so we’ll climb and we’ll rise. You should be still, its just mouths that are moving, not for the talk, for the smiling and breathing. Find direction, find less excuses, lose connection, find a solution. My rule of thumb: Not to read well-thumbed pages.

Eleven, Twelve – We don’t live we’re tired with aching muscles. We don’t live we’re tied up; they’ve tied us up to strings. I’ve come full circle in my head it doesn’t seem that detailed. We don’t live we’re tired; we’re always sleeping. We don’t live we’re tied up, well here we go again. On the run and I’m tired but I’m restless. It’s catching up I can feel it when the wind blows. Maybe all that I need is to surrender and feel some burn from the fire in the unknown. Now my love, it’s time to grow old a rich man. Now my dear, come if you want on an adventure. They don’t live they’re tired with angry voices. They don’t live they’re tied up; they’d cut them if they ran. I’m wasting time, that’s all I have, so it’s more like I’m wasting life. They don’t live they’re tired; I’ve seen them sleeping. Just wake up, wake up, you’re living in a dream. I’m the seeds that will one day be a jungle, I’m the clouds that will one day bring you thunder, I’m a ghost, you’re the house that I’m haunting, you’re the flame, I’m the fire in the unknown.

Diver – Nothing but air’s in the way and it feels like that’s already below me now. I would come down, but you should come up. You should see this view from up here seems endless now. So I’m straight out of the sunset baby and you’re falling behind, but I’ll keep you in mind while I run. There’s no use trying to catch me up but you’ll be in my mind every time I look back at the sun. The things I’m forbidden to see have been moved into the light that seems to surround me now. I’m on fire when I’m in the sky, if you hold on I’ll teach you to fly, but I could burn us alive. It’s getting crowded round here but I feel like a deep-sea diver. So I’ll swim back into the emptiness where I think I’ll spend some time.

Accident – All the silence in the void that has become of his broken mind, alone, when what’s outside is scattered far and spread out wide

Ambulance – Watch a line on a screen, watch me fade I’m fast asleep, watching a number drop too low. Close the wounds, shut the door, I can’t help you anymore. I’ll drive fast, but you’re dying faster. And you’ll keep us guessing way into the morning. Your life is an off switch away. Am I going to get out? It’s not safe here for me. I could practice this every day, but hurricanes they make things change. Eyes have died; blood has dried on him. Close the wounds shut the door I can’t help you anymore. I’ll drive fast, but you’re dying faster. There’s not very long to go now. I wish there was more that I could do for you now.

Hospital – I can’t breath a whisper, which is why this room’s so loud. I can’t make my bed, but I’m made to lie in it alone, and maybe you’ll come here to visit and you can sit and watch me sleep. We can talk of what you will, but I’ll miss the point because all I have are dreams saying: I’ve been asleep with the lights on for days on end now and I should have listened to someone who could see this happening. Won’t you mend my broken head? If I wake up will your face fill this room? I can’t make it out yet, but your voice sounds sweeter than it ever did. Did I just hear you leaving? Or have I been alone a while? Maybe you’ll come here to visit, and your luck just might be in. But it would be false hope if any, and I wouldn’t want to waste your time. Plugged into machines at the side of the bed, woke up from a dream, could have sworn I was dead. How long has it been? Because I miss you to death. A miracle or so they said.

Take Me Out Of The Wall – I’m sick of my gas mask, sick of the morphine, take me out of the wall. I’m sick of the metal, sick of the oil that’s pumping through my veins. Where is the daylight? Where is the sunshine? Just fake light on this ward. Where is the night time? Where is the moonlight? Take me out of the wall. Sudden shock sets in and whispers “deny” in his ear. Help me doctor, I don’t like what’s going on. I come in and out now, and is that blood I feel creeping down the back of my neck? I looked in the mirror, even my reflection managed to catch this cold. It’s dark; I can’t see what’s bleeding. Don’t be stupid it’s your own face you’re seeing.

Got To Believe – I’ve got to believe in the life that I’m finding is closing me in to this cage where I’m standing. I plan to get out while the suns in my eye-line, but all of a sudden these things just keep holding me back.

Set You Right – Hey hey hey, there’s something going on tonight, we’ve got our dancers and our drumsticks on both left and right, because there’s new blood in town, fresh meat. We’re all salt and pepper now. Don’t be scared, we think you’ll settle in just fine. Yeah we all know that you will settle in just fine. Hey hey hey, we’ll take you in and set you right, no one is looking for you anymore because that was us. Full time eyewitnesses, we don’t sleep. Oh you’re fine, safe from danger now. Now there’s one more of us now we can do this all night long. Now there’s a team of us now we can do this all night long.

Friends? We’re More Like A Gang – You say your life’s run out; taken all it can take. We will fashion you a place, that will spoon-feed it right back to you. Hell was getting way too close so we ran away. We needed to find a place to go, and we did, oh we did. When you’re lucky to be alive hell’s not the place you want to spend your time in. You better run away and hide because this old place is making hell look friendly. We didn’t come here no we didn’t plan to, we ended up here. Now we’re the crew on a ship that’s sailing somewhere, nowhere. You say you’ve outrun life; it would have a job catching up. We will offer you this place and we will put our eyes right into you. He asked us what’s the point in going back to them when all you’re doing is getting hurt? He followed stick around a sing, stick around and sing with me.

Home Time – I’ve never had something mess me up like this. It changed everything, my surroundings. The world came falling and my face went with it. You were a sunset, I was a hurricane. I can’t ever remember missing you like this. I changed everything, I abandoned you. I pushed the button to trigger the end of the world. You are a sunset, and I was a hurricane. Say what you want, but I’m still fine. Change the world? Not before I lose my mind. Say what you want, but it’s still me. Changed for sure, but nothing’s holding me back. All the words in my mouth couldn’t tell you about this. Letter by letter they’re pulling out my insides. I take back everything. I brought along the cloud to rain on your parade. For once I was tall; bigger than all of them, I was a man, you should have seen me. And for all this time I’ve had my eyes shut to arms that are open.

The Donators:

Harry Austin, Christine Carpentiers, Alasdair Smith, Stephanie Montague, Anna Guaniec, Claire Howes, Siobhan Johnston, Harry Norton, Vikkie Carpenter, Daniel Johnson, John Glendinning, Chloe Chaplin, Zoe Dear, Andy Reilly, Ross Darroch, Katie Graham, Nik Sibley, Mary Dyleuth, Dani Shortland, Nick Porter, Daniel Goudie, Robert Tulley, D Wood, Traci Allison, Ian Bryant, Lorna Howard, Chloe Trayner, Joe Hicks, Sharon Dorricott, A Wilson, Philip Fisher, E Wright, S Grant, Scott, J Webb, C Walker, Adam Wilton, James Andrew, Liam Livesley, Matt Keen, Annette Phillips, Tom Nurse, Lee Garrod, Amirhesam Shahmohamadmirab, Jason Naylor, Jade Cadwaladr, Sandra Woodnott, Rob Hayden, L Baxter, Ryan Muir, Cressida Prebble, Kye Byford, Oliver Cummin, Lauren Dauny, J Richardson, Michael Goobourn, Sam Whitehall, Lara Baker, Carrie Brough, John Holland, Jonathan Ivey, Isobel Gardner, Rowena Poyser, Aj Davies, Aaron Witchard, S Proud, Adam Whiting, Ayako Namaizawa, J Hall, Jamie Nixon, Martyn Cheney, Chris Clarke, Harry Debenham, Joshua Carvell, Sophie Grant, Samuel Rose, R Lewis, James Hibberd, Ryan Strudwick, N Smith, Love Ahuja, Kirsty Dines, John Prebble, Rachael Wills, Michaels Clifford, Imogen Walker, Ben Gourley, Michael Paradise, Tony Parrott, Terry Brown, Peter Harrison, Jade Husseyin, Tim Mendelssohn, L Archer, Jason Aldred, Acef Nadia, Nicola Johnson, Clive Richardson, Jackie Day, V Barnard, Jamie Gordon, Benjamin Kirsch, Luis Allen, Matthew Williams, Amber Holland, Ashley Jeggo, Mark Potter, Abigail Smith, R Barks, Craig French, Helen Bristow, Simon Cavadino, Andy Walker, Kate Eldridge, Robert Wood, Alexander Briggs, Carl Hickman, Amber Berry, Aimee Weatherill, Michael Stubbings, Deb Highfield, Tommy Bogawski, Matthew Rebeiro, Dewi Jones, Chris Smith, Mark Hollinson, Allan Macrae, Sophie Gibson, Simon McGill, J Stapleton, Lissa Phin, Lk Holley, Alison Watkinson, Thomas Dipple, Colin Edwards, Lindsey Whistler, James Cooke, Phillip Mead, Daniel Flint, Kenneth Porter, Frederick Houldcroft, Sandra Shanley, Andrew McIlwaine, Chloe Ciliberto, Patrick Beauchamp, Ian Chamberain, M Coyle, Christopher Herbert, Martin Chapman, Heather Jobbins, Michael Griffiths, Liam Buckley, M Heide, Jackb Szafranski, Shannon Tucker, Nicholas Fevre, Raymond Metcalf, Liam Burden, Aki Shimazaki, Jon Watson, Karen Penn, Adam Spenceer, Spencer Polk, Oliver Bichener, Tom Aylott, A Moberly, Daniel Turner, Jordan Nicholas, Fraser Clark, Jaysen Gurney, Nick Upshall, Jessica Cannell, Samantha Gates, David King, Ben Bailey, Franziska Thuering, Alexander Stockham, A Mitchell, Dennis Tuffnell, Margaret Howard, Paul Hanna, Malcolm Cuthbertson, Patrick English, H Tomlinson, S Anderson, Karl Turner, Steve Morris, L Fletcher, Ollie Cobb, Hugh Barne, Carla Moreira, Rachel Gale, Samantha Masterson, Catherine Heath, Derek Richford, Dónal Clancy, Matt Gray, P Gillespie, Ian Mulvey, Christopher Carson, Ruth Yih, Euan Stirling, Jane Langston, Lisa Hoffman, T Davison, Will Oliver, Patrick Ullrich, Simone Bennett-Crump, T Bassnett, Larwrie Pattison and Matthew Alner!

Thank You all SO much for your support!!!

What The CD Sleeve Reads:

Canterbury Is; Luke Prebble – Vocals & Keyboards, Michael Sparks – Vocals & Guitar, James Pipe – Guitar, Ben Bishop – Bass, Scott Peters – Drums.

All songs written and performed by; Canterbury.

All songs recorded at; Scott’s house, East Worldham (except; track 1 recorded at Holne Bridge Studios and track 9 recorded in Pete’s bedroom, Southampton).

Engineered by; Peter Miles. Produced by; Peter Miles and Canterbury.

Sleeve design by; Ian Johnson. Photo by; Stacey Hatfield.

The title of this album goes out to; Nick, Ian, Pip, Andy H, Bex Lee, James Passmore, Mark James, Mark and Joe at Music Glue, Hayley Codd, Keith and Andy at Mythophonic, Norm, Stu, James Green, Billy, Tom Baxter, Freddy Furber, everyone at Drop Dead Clothing, Tom and Hi Wonderland clothing. All Forgotten, We Are The Ocean, The Automatic, Enter Shikari, Viva Machine, A Stranger In Moscow, Enjoy Destroy, Hundred Reasons, You Me At Six, LightsGoBlue, Tonight Is Goodbye (R.I.P), Kill The Arcade (R.I.P), Data Select Party, Flamboyant Bella, anyone who had bought this album, or ever come to see us play. We appologise to anyone who deserves a thank you who we may have missed off this list. Thank You!

Extra Thanks to;

Luke; My band-mates. My awesome brother Nick, for everything he has done. My Mum and Dad for total support in so many different forms. All the members of my family who have waited so long for this album. Billy My good friends. Toby/Tony, Steve, Sam and Henry. Stevie for giving us inspiration. The resident of St James Avenue. Anyone who has put up with me talking about htis band. Thank You.

Scott; Les and Ralph (my parents) for being very supportive and letting us abuse the house for many banding purposes, George, Mark and Clare, my neighbours, the rest of the ‘burys and Nick for doing way too much to help out this band! Rob, Ted and Hugs (Star Scar), Dex, Al, Briggie, Steve, Sam, Henry, Ian, Jisum, Jamie, Jamie AND Phoebe and maybe some others too for various help and support. Cheers.

Mike; Dad, Mum, Lauren and Matt. Nick, Sam, Dom, James, Yespinasse, Tom, Rory, Cal, Jack and Dave (Mr Man). The Sparks and Howes families, especially Kieran, John Simon, Phillipa and Sunty Marty. Mrs Smith, Rob Cavill and Simon Barnard. Ellis, Justin and Atom Gang.

Ben; Mum, Dad and Chloe. Suzie and Her Family. Uncle Pete. Nick for all his contributions. Tony Osbourne for teaching me all-things-with-4-strings and many other valuable lessons. Also to Alex, Billy, Toby, The Hart/Graham duo, Henry, Sam, Alicia, Rosy and Holly.

James; My Mum and Georgia for everything, Sam, Toby Steve, Weston, Billis, Andyhh, Lewis, Dad, Sean, Hart, All my family, my band mates (you know who you are) and Nick.

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