A Name In A File

from Happy People by Tom Slatter

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Name in a File is the second track from Happy People. As the second track its job is to keep the pace and theme of the album going – now isn’t the time for a massive change in direction – while still giving us something to get our teeth into...

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lyrics

Maybe it's time to let them go
Maybe that's what you do
When the world's gone mad

Circle of ink in a rippling pool
Documents burning in an alleyway
Crackling and spitting
Looking at loved-ones
Looking at nobodies

No-one you're looking for is here
Shadows and knives
Maybe they were make believe
Maybe it's time to let you go

They're never gonna come back
No matter how hard I shout and I cry
They're never gonna come back
Now they're nothing but a name in a file
It's only wishful thinking
No matter how hard I shout and I cry
They're never gonna come back
No matter how hard I shout and they
Say once you're gone you will stay disappeared

Murder
Justice
Perfect system
A name in a file

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from Happy People, released March 17, 2017

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Tom Slatter London

A latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ‘orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles’ is how Tom Slatter has been described. Since 2010 he has been scaring audiences with six albums and numerous EPs of storytelling songs. ... more

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