Name: Caribbean Twist
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: Caribbean Twist is a beach boys inspired, surf track about wishing that I'd grown up in Tynemouth. On a walk across longsands, my wife took me past a gated area where her and her friends would climb down and drink Caribbean Twist on the beach, to then bury it in the sand before they'd sneak back out.

Caribbean Twist

from White Marquee by Holiday in Tokyo

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Caribbean Twist is a beach boys inspired, surf track about wishing that I'd grown up in Tynemouth. On a walk across longsands, my wife took me past a gated area where her and her friends would climb down and drink Caribbean Twist on the beach, to then bury it in the sand before they'd sneak back out.

lyrics

you walked me through rusted gates and forgotten cliffs,
you showed me where you buried your Caribbean Twist
you said king eddie's was nicer
as we sat and watched the H.G. Wellian splicers
come up to shore
feeling like our own Dr. Moreau

i think about your family kicking sticks
on the set of a romantic comedy flick
going weeks without sunlight
get daily vitamins
from bovril and marmite
and sunday roats (chuckles in studio recording)
i'm dreaming of a childhood by the coast

look out oh the waves come crashing in
now look what might have been
look out it's a green primal sin

so i sit on the hillside under the sun
slowly forgetting that i'd ever had fun

it's not exactly a hole
i just connect it to a life on the payroll
oh won't you just
take me to the northern coast

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from White Marquee, released February 3, 2024

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Holiday in Tokyo Consett, UK

We like to play sad, funky chords over cool beats and sing songs about anxiety, small town attitudes and food.

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