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Sparrow Dance

from AC​/​EP by Battery Operated Orchestra

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  • Limited Edition CD with Handmade Glow-in-the-dark Sleeve
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Our first EP on CD inside a lovingly handmade, glow-in-the-dark gatefold case.

    Numbered limited edition sold at random. Numbers 1-10 include an additional hand-stencilled glow-in-the-dark acetate sleeve for ten lucky people.

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Includes an excerpt from Rin Ishigaki's "Plucking Flowers" ©1987

lyrics

摘碑東勘の内で摘み草をした / I plucked wildflowers at Marunouchi in Tokyo
昭和は樺代のはじめ / At the end of the 1920’s
払は十樹tのなかごろ / I was in my mid-teens.
銀行へ通う / On my way to work
出動の勘がち / To the Bank
袴僻居をひるがえし / The hem of my kimono-trousers flapping
鋪道の脇をちょっと駈けのほると / Just a dash up the embankment beside the footpath
原っばがひちけた / Before my eyes an open field
クロ-バ- / Clover
タンボボ / Dandelions
ハルジョオン / Philadelphia fleabane

Shy girl
Playing with your food
Looking at the wall wanting something to do
On your knees
Facing west
Took all day to put on your favourite dress

Tucked in safe as houses
How many hours?
It must have been thousands
See the others
Watch them pass
Everyone else seems to move so fast

Sparrows dance
Over your head and under your thoughts
You're long gone
No reason to stay here waiting

Sparrows dance
Over your head and under your thoughts
You're long gone
No reason to stay here waiting

Gather up your things
Leave the map behind
This not a joke
You've made up your mind

Gather up your things
Leave the map behind
This not a joke
You've made up your mind

Look out turn the corner
But don't turn your head
If you look back
You'll forget what you said

戦犠の輯駅周辺は / Around the postwar Tokyo Station
経摘成長の伸びをクラ7にしたような / Just like a graph of the economic boom
新しい高層建瀞である / Tall skyscrapers bloomed

クロ-バ- / Clover
タンボボ / Dandelions
ハルジョオン / Philadelphia fleabane

クロ-バ- / Clover
タンボボ / Dandelions
ハルジョオン / Philadelphia fleabane

Gather up your things
Leave the map behind
This not a joke
You've made up your mind

Look out turn the corner but Don't turn your head
If you look back you'll forget What you said

Sparrows dance
Over your head and under your thoughts
You're long gone
No reason to stay here waiting

Sparrows dance
Over your head and under your thoughts
You're long gone
No reason to stay here waiting

払は十樹tのなかごろ / I was in my mid-teens
払は十樹tのなかごろ / I was in my mid-teens

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from AC​/​EP, released December 9, 2012

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Battery Operated Orchestra Newhaven, UK

Chris + Brigitte make inter-dimensional indie synthpop.

“Highly charged electronica with incredibly addictive melodies” -Louder Than War

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