Heralding the British band’s upcoming fourth album The Clearing, this thrumming, Fleetwood Mac-like, acoustic 70s-style rock number is the only one from the LP to feature drummer Joel Amey on lead vocals, with Ellie Rowsell joining in the chorus. Over a krautrock beat, the lyrics explore themes of identity and family. “We’ve never really known where we came in terms of heritage until recently,” explains Amey. “My mum and my aunt were adopted, and for years it posed questions of identity and where our roots lay for all of us, but for me, they never seemed like answers I needed to find out.” The Clearing is out on 22 August via Columbia Records / Sony. To explore and enjoy more by Wolf Alice, see also the other embedded links below.
Music and love have magnetic properties
Wrote a scholar from the island that they kept from me
And I don't need to solve my unknown identity
Just need an answer to the question in the taxi
My sister paints apathy like blasphemy
But I never thought names deserve such energy
It's my choice to choose who I embrace as family
My choice to choose, yeah, my choice to choose, yeah
Know who I am, that's important to me
Do what I can to see the wood from the trees
Know who I am, that's important to me
Let the branches wrap their arms around me
I could just wander always, like a leaf on the southeast breeze
I do not need no rooting, I carry home with me
To be a nomad floating on the waves of the Channel Sea
I can see England waving, white horses carry me
Music and love have magnetic properties
Wrote a scholar from the island that they kept from me
And I don't need to solve my unknown identity
Just need an answer to the question in the taxi
My sister paints apathy like blasphemy
I've seen God's green earth with the people closest to me
It's my choice to choose who I embrace as family
I choose you, yeah, I choose you, yeah
Know who I am, that's important to me
Do what I can to see the wood from the trees
Know who I am, that's important to me
Let the branches wrap their arms around me
I could just wander always, like a leaf on the southeast breeze
I do not need no rooting, I carry home with me
To be a nomad floating on the waves of the Channel Sea
I can see England waving, white horses carry me
Know who I am, that's important to me
Do what I can to see the wood from the trees
Know who I am, that's important to me
Let the branches wrap their arms
(Branches wrap their arms)
Let the branches wrap their arms around me
I could just wander always, like a leaf on the southeast breeze (On the southeast breeze)
I do not need no rooting, I carry home with me
To be a nomad floating on the waves of the Channel Sea (Of the Channel Sea)
I can see England waving, white horses carry me
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