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The Crocodile Song

from Deeperdown by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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THE CROCODILE SONG
When people come and people go, they can't see me but I still know
Cos I can see their bodies' glow, and I can hear their voices low
Crocodile I am and crocodile I'll stay, hiding in the sand on a sunny day
Listening from below as they pass by, bodies in the sun, hazy in my eyes
I want you, and I need you, here and now
You can't see, but you want me, here and now - I'm a crocodile
Crocodile I am and crocodile I'll stay, so let me take your hand on a sunny day
I know you want to be with me, even if it seems like something else to you

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from Deeperdown, released November 28, 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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