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Ed Harcourt
Strangers
Music Box

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Music Box

Release date: 13th September 2004

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About This Track

"Music Box" is a track by Ed Harcourt, from the album Strangers, released 13th September 2004. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ed Harcourt

Ed Harcourt

Lyrics

Music Box

The music box

Is all that's left in the empty house

Must've left it when they moved out

In a hurry to flee the town

Armoured tanks

Broke through all of the soldier's ranks

You can be sure they weren't shooting blanks

From bodies laid out on the ground

There's a song your father had sung

When you were just knee high

Now a soldier plays the same tune

From the toy you left behind

Something to remind you

Something to remind you

Burnt to black

There's a face you don't recognise

Just a doll with hollow eyes

And a feeling you can't describe

In factories

Toys are made by the companies

Who create our killing machines

So the planet can rest at ease

There's a story you had to hear

When you couldn't sleep at all

Now the pages are burning in some

Sad unholy war

Something to remind you

Something to remind you

Something to remind you

The ones you left behind you

Something to remind you

Something to remind you

Something to remind you

The ones you left behind you

The music box

Plays a song that I used to love

But now I can't remember what it was

For my memory has faded

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Track details

From Strangers

2004

Album

Release year

2004

—Born in the '70s
—Black Dress
—Kids (Rise from the Ashes)
—Let Love Not Weigh Me Down
—Only Happy When You're High
—Music Box
—Open Book
—Something to Live For
—Strangers
—This One's for You
—The Trapdoor
—The Storm Is Coming

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Ed Harcourt — In the Embers of a Dying Flame
Ed Harcourt — Under the Still and Lonely Sky
Ed Harcourt — The Patron Saint of Restless Dreamers
Ed Harcourt — Mercurial
Ed Harcourt — Winter's Sigh
Ed Harcourt — O' Gentle Death
Ed Harcourt — Baby's Gone to Seed
Ed Harcourt — The Low Spirits
Ed Harcourt — Yesteryears
Ed Harcourt — A Ghost Walked Through Me
Ed Harcourt — Relentless
Ed Harcourt — Sleep Sleep Little Boy
Ed Harcourt — Ghost Ship
Ed Harcourt — At the Dead End of the World
Ed Harcourt — Broken Keys
Ed Harcourt — Anvils & Hammers
Ed Harcourt — My Heart Can't Keep Up With My Mind
Ed Harcourt — 1987
Ed Harcourt — Seraphina
Ed Harcourt — El Magnifico
Ed Harcourt — The Violence of the Rose
Ed Harcourt — Into the Loving Arms of Your Enemy
Ed Harcourt — Deathless
Ed Harcourt — Strange Beauty
Ed Harcourt — Drowning in Dreams
Ed Harcourt — Only the Darkness Smiles for You
Ed Harcourt — Fruit Fly
Ed Harcourt — Furnaces
Ed Harcourt — You Give Me More Than Love
Ed Harcourt — There Is a Light Below
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Ed Harcourt — Occupational Hazard
Ed Harcourt — Nothing But a Bad Trip
Ed Harcourt — Antarctica
Ed Harcourt — Immoral
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Ed Harcourt — Loup Garou
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Ed Harcourt — Sweet Malaise
Ed Harcourt — Come into My Dreamland
Ed Harcourt — Parliament of Rooks
Ed Harcourt — The Saddest Orchestra (It Only Plays for You)
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Credited: Jari Haapalainen