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Fenchurch Street

from Age of Anxiety by Rodney Cromwell

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    "Sounds like liquid gold. Age of Anxiety has renewed my faith in the digital age of electro pop" Malcolm Holmes (OMD)

    “Rodney Cromwell’s music belongs to the future. This quirky synth-pop is the sound of industrious robots and the modified toy orchestra hanging out at Argos, and songs like Barry was an Arms Dealer see Cromwell’s offbeat wit shine brightly” NME

    “Rodders joyous debut album, ‘Age of Anxiety,’... choice cuts include the frantic mode Mode-like ‘One Two Seven’ the magnificent, early New Order-ish ‘Black Dog’ and the Kraftwerkian ‘Barry Was An Arms Dealer’, not that Dusseldorf’s finest ever had a song title that good” Electronic Sound Magazine

    “A genuinely excellent album. It’s clever, it’s full of songs that instantly burrow into your head and, like all good pop albums, the majority of songs here could be singles in their own right” 8/10 XS Noize

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lyrics

I have such unnatural fears
The Blackwall Tunnel,
The Southend pier.
I’d swap London’s tower blocks,
For a night with you, at Tilbury Docks.

So I met this bloke. at Fenchurch Street.
I was minding my business just reading Heat
He told me he always wondered,
how to kiss a girl from Chafford Hundred.
I said I couldn’t help I was from Ockendon.
And he ran off to his train on platform ten
After I wished I hadn’t told that lie to him
I’m from Basildon.

Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.
Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.

You seem to me, out of my reach
As we stood on Shoeburyness Beach.
I’d swap London’s city life,
For Canvey Island as man and wife.

I saw that guy again after about a week
Train late, signaling problems in Purfleet.
He came out of Tie Rack and bought an umbrella
Definitely not my normal type of fella.
He came up to me and said can I buy you a drink,
I said mate I’m not a cheap as you think.
And I told him straight out he had got me all wrong,
I’m from Basildon.

Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.
Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.

Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.
Fell in love with an Essex Girl
Let me into your Essex World.

credits

from Age of Anxiety, released June 29, 2015
Adam Cresswell: Vocals, Bass Guitar, Synths, Programming. Alison Cresswell: Vocals.

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Rodney Cromwell London, UK

Rod makes music on old synths, kids toys and guitars from Argos.

Released on Happy Robots Records.

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