The Clientele are a London-based British United Kingdom band musical group with Alasdair MacLean on vocals Singing and guitar, Mark Keen on drums Drum kit , James Hornsey on bass bass guitar and Mel Draisey on violin, keyboards Musical keyboard , backing vocals and percussion Percussion instrument .
The band have experienced greater success in the United States, where they are signed to Merge Records, home of bands such as... [read more] - An Hour Before The Light
And when I see your sunlit eyes it turns my laughterinto stoneI wait a single hour before the light unreal and aloneSummers waxing in the air the meadows stretchand onwards to st James squareOh my minds astrayI dream...
- Monday's Rain
Im dreaming inA still and empty nightAnd spooked by trainsI leave the windows lightWhere Jude is trying on her ringsAnd Im just thinking everythingMonday Monday Monday, Oh Mondays RainMy friends say Im wasting all my...
- Bicycles
Bicycles have drifted through these leaves still wetwith rainAugust now has faded in the silence of the rainI remember one Sunday, riding in through the gateThree balloons in a white sky, 1978La la la.....Playgrounds...
- Joseph Cornell
Why do humming birds just hum their loneliness to me?151 or 145 or twice times 123If were on delancey steet at nightIn the after train ride quietBarking dogs by highgate pondSomethings here but somethings goneWhat a...
- (I Want You) More Than Ever
But Ill never sleep like thiswith all the yard just stirring in my mindAs the evening rises up and falls nowIve got something on my mindAnd I see youre working on a TuesdayBack with no reliefAnd I see Im walking...
- Saturday
the taxi lights were in your eyesso warm against st marys spiresthe carnival was over in the rainand arm in arm through vincent streetthe evening hanging like a dreami touched your face and saw the night againand in...
- I Had To Say This
Nightingales all summer long beside me in my mindOne and one is nine the moon the june moths and the quiet.I have never really been here If I am aliveAm I just a photograph inside a printed night?How much further can...
- Rain
RainSoft in the darkWe take a left thru the deepening parkGrassSoaking and warmPast the iron gatesAugust has come& I want you so bad in my heart& I touch your shadowed fingers in the dark& the stars have fallen on...
- Lacewings
Only a word is in my mindWell get high and well go watch the lacewings flyWell get high and well go watch the lacewings flyEver since I saw youEver since I saw you, IThere are violets on the shoreThere are violets on...
- Five Day Morning
Mrs Jones and I were dreaming of the moonOn Wednesday afternoons without a cloudAnd the mirage of a suburb in the rainOn a train and drifting downOh Miss Lloyd your smiling eyes are in my mindHolidays and nights away...
- Reflections After Jane
Butterflies with gilded wings this morningTouched the red sun and the rainOn the bridge the workers pass in threes and fours andfivesTo my sleeplessnessReflections after JaneHow I long to live inside a windowBy the...
- As Night Is Falling
Drag yourself along to the sweetest Sunday songThen you smileIts the kind of place where dizzy and awake you facethe nightAnd I stoop to touch the skin that only seems to behere in my mindAnd I see a stranger...
- We Could Walk Together
We could walk togetherIn the jade and the coolness of the evening lightAnd watch the crowds serenely flowThrough carnivals of shop windows where elm trees sighThe summers heat is fadingAnd the clown on the golden lawn...
- Lamplight
its dark & its a long way downshe said as she lay her headon the pillowI took one step back& I retiredto evening& the movie made me feel as if I wasnt here at all& I drove home & I wound up all the windows in my carin...
- Policeman Getting Lost
& I see the blue-eyed surfer boys gone hometo the west coast& the Clerk Street morninghaunted by the figures of your friendsbut if you get too tiredyou can lay your hair across my pillowthe darkness coming quicklyat...
- Voices In The Mall
talking with your friends another nightwell I guess Ill love you when youre tiredIll love you when youre tired& evening in the schoolrooms & the parksince I failed to reason with my heartto reason with my heart& now a...
- Everybody's Gone
please dont say a thingits so simple just to let it all begin& I bend my head to kiss your lips again& stoop to touch your handits half past eightwhen I get homeso let the gas fire gloweverybodys gone& the fever that...
- The Violet Hour
terraces that climb like vinestowards the moonthe five a sidesthe evening inter-city lightsI see your face each time I close my eyesJude I told you yesterday that I know nothingall my friends are loaded & they...
- House On Fire
midnight coming back aroundthe summer heat that wears me outis drifting through a firmament of cranesand the friends I've left behindare speechless in my sunlit mindas through the door to summerthrough the door to...
- Haunted Melody
basketballs bounce out of tunethe streets are empty & the moonhas shone on Mrs. Porter& her daughters soda water till they swoongolden evenings pass me bybeneath a dream of darker eyes& empty on a southbound...
- Missing
on a night like thisyou cant brush awayall the faces in the streetIve got so much longing in my heartI cant even sleepdarlingtheres a thick fog up aheadthe first time that I saw youI couldnt say a thingI walked in...
- Porcelain
a darker garden this though pale with beautyin the louring of the rainhow I long to break the silencewhere the moths & tigers playdriving through the forest in the empty afternoona Japanese car stalled inside a...
- The House Always Wins
so wake up& smell the scent on your skinthe night breatheseasily, the subways windcarries me back, brings me all the way back inheres a car that we can drivecome on get inthrough the night that rolls in every...
- When You And I Were Young
when you & I were youngwe would press our white faces from the car& the rain on the windows would run through the gathering dark& the lampposts shone & dogs would run into the dying framewhere the park was glowing...
- Bookshop Casanova
After all the lights go low we find ourselves aloneWe could be just anywhere but no one's going homeYou got my name, pick up my numberCome on darling, let's be loversYou got my name, pick up my numberCome on darling,...
- Here Comes The Phantom
April in my mind, but I can't sleepSo I take a walk under the treesWhat did I see? Summer waits the leavesAs lovely as I've ever knownHappiness just comes and goesMy heart is playing like a violinSunday, and she...
- Somebody Changed
Back on the streets every day is the same, lordGirls in the trees have the faces of angelsSomebody changedIt's like the year has another faceSmilin' all night long through the glass and the pineYou paint the nighttime...
- From Brighton Beach To Santa Monica
cross the lonely paradeyour face turned awayfrom the people who talkone more night in the townspun you aroundto the house in the darkautumn's coming in the airautumn's coming in the airvoices in the parkfollowing us...
- I Hope I Know You
Close your eyes, take your timeThere's a bad night on the rise andSo we take one step asideThere's a bad night on the riseNervous Girl who plays your parentsStaring down at meMy Dad will soon be home from workIt's...
- When I Came Home From The Party
When I came home from the partyEverything had changedThe city was beside itselfJust one inch awayAlright, my tongue gets split my hands are glovedI just can't quite shake it offI just can't quite shake it offI just...
- Six Of Spades
When the fog comes rollingthrough the avenuessomething leaves my mindgifted in November underneaththe elms in all the dying linesThe mirage and the echoof the life we livegently leaving mebreak the fever, square the...
- Spirit
I've been hanging aroundFeeling up, feeling downIt's like I'm blown in by somethingI don't understandHey, it's been really niceWe went for a drinkWe went for a drivePhased out one million hopeless nightsI've got the...
- Losing Haringey
In those days there was a kind of feeling of pushing out of the front door, into the pale exhaust fume park by broad water pond,where the grubby road eventually leads to end field.Turkish supermarkets after chicken...
- E.M.P.T.Y.
When I'm riding home at night nowI get in so tiredTo the saws and bows that spell outE-M-P-T-YBut driving west nowHalf-past fiveMy skin is cutMy hands are knivesI could be anyone aliveBut I just can't fitAnd it's too...
- K
Back into that falling nightthe birches & the silhouettesthe haunted plain, sweet lordhere I am againYou flower through my nailsand skin moving like the sunlightin the alleyways but in this life wewon't meet againYou...
- My Own Face Inside The Trees
All the pines that shiver in the parkKick my fever through the darkThrough the railings and the ironEmpty bars and tenement linesSomething slips back into placeFor a second there's a traceOf my face inside the...
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