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Another perennial CBQ favourite – which I think people like for its rather happy-go-lucky tune – co-written with my nephew, Andy. I’m not sure if people get the sinister lyric though. Like the previous track, this is based on someone else’s writing, in this case Francois Mauriac’s “The Viper’s Knot” - although it’s not a literal re-write like “Perfectly Simple” – I merely took one line “Crocodile I am and Crocodile I’ll stay” and wrote the lyric around that. Andy came to me with the music of the verses and I added the lyrics and the soaring chorus...
Favourite Line : “I know you want to be with me, even if it seems like something else to you”

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from Aftersilence​:​Songs, released May 7, 2011
The Crocodile Song
(David Reilly/Andrew Wilson)
Original Source : Deeperdown
David Reilly – Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming
Recording Date : February 2003 – October 2005

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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