We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £0.67 GBP

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD (not CD-R!) comes in a lovely high quality (very glossy!) 4 panel card sleeve with artwork by Venison Lamprey @ Spongworks

    Includes unlimited streaming of If my feet were fingers, I'd stab you in the eye.. via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 1 day
    Purchasable with gift card

      £7.31 GBP

     

about

Written by the very wonderful Dan Ankers, this is one of my favourite songs. He's never recorded it, so I did. Despite my own literary pretensions, in my stuff I've managed achieve precisely one - oblique - reference to Terry Pratchett, while Dan manages to squeeze Dostoyevsky, Marquez, Melville, Murdoch and Greek mythology into just this one song.

lyrics

This generation's Raskolnikov came home with bloodstains on his shirt/threw himself across the kitchen table/passed out while you were trying to work/this year's Captain Ahab wrestles his demons in the street/prays then curses then pulls a knife/all the while you're trying to sleep/do you ever feel/life has passed you by/or are you just avoiding being a freak/until the day you die/Our very own version of Hercules is returning from his trials/while the tallest towers of London burn for some girl who looks like Helen of Troy/a whole generation of Buendia has moved into the north side of town/you've never seen them, but you've heard them talking/caught snatches while you're walking around/do you ever feel/life has passed you by/or are you just avoiding being a freak/until the day you die/maybe it seems to you that Ahab's just some drunken old tramp/the clan Buendia are all inbred fools/and Helen's just another page 3 girl/back in his flat, Raskolnikov has rolled onto the floor/maybe he's a fool who'll get what he deserves, but maybe he's so much more.

credits

from If my feet were fingers, I'd stab you in the eye​.​., released February 1, 2012
Written by Dan Ankers, recorded by Phil Reynolds

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Phil Reynolds and the Dearly Departed UK

During 2010 I started writing songs on my Paleolithic laptop - snippets of disconnected riffs and half-arsed complaints about the content of Radio 4 news broadcasts. It had occurred to me that, for the first time, I had the songs and the technology to put a record together completely on my own. And I did. I could have got help, but there‘s a freedom in knowing exactly where the buck stops. ... more

contact / help

Contact Phil Reynolds and the Dearly Departed

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Report this track or account

If you like Phil Reynolds and the Dearly Departed, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now