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Charge by Elbow

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Elbow

Charge

Release date: 7th March 2014

From The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Track 2
5:17
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About This Track

'Charge' by Elbow is an alternative track from the album 'The Take Off and Landing of Everything' (2014). The lyrics sketch an electrified, combative persona, mixing swagger with a sense of persecution as others ignore them. There is talk of being “a preacher” when fuelled up, and the narrator frames it as a kind of repeating pattern, with the line about never learning from history. The language also carries a defiant, confrontational edge, and the attitude is summed up by the repeated insistence that they are being dismissed even as they push their case.

"Charge" is a track by Elbow, from the album The Take Off and Landing of Everything, released 7th March 2014. The track is 5:17 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Elbow.

About the Artist

Elbow

Elbow

Lyrics

Charge

I am electric with a bottle in me
Got a bottle in me
And glory be, these fuckers are ignoring me
I'm from another century

I am a preacher when I've got it on me
And I've got it on me
And glory be these fuckers are ignoring me
We never learn from history

Hey, I am the boy who loved her so in every song
And I design that little mystery on your tongue
I've broken jaws protecting laws to keep you free
I've made your day so take a seat by me

I am an old tree, gonna' talk my jaw free
Someone come and get me
Another night beside myself would finish me
Give us G&T and sympathy

I am the die hard with an empty dance card propping up a young bar
I'm pouring oil in double time upon the troubled rising tide inside of me
Upon my history

Hey, I am the boy who loved her so in every song
And I design that little mystery on your tongue
I've broken jaws protecting laws to keep you free
I've made your day so take a seat by me

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Track details

From The Take Off and Landing of Everything

5:172014
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Album
The Take Off and Landing of Everything
The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Elbow
7th March 2014
Track number
2
Release year
2014
  1. 1This Blue World
    7:13
  2. 2Charge
    5:17
  3. 3Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
    6:24
  4. 4New York Morning
    5:20

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Craig Potter, Guy Garvey, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp
    Lyricist
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    Composer
    Chris Worsey
    Producer
    Craig Potter
    Engineer
    Danny Evans, Jose Tomaz Gomes
    Bass
    Pete Turner
    Drums
    Richard Jupp
    Guitar
    Mark Potter
    Keyboards
    Craig Potter
    Vocals
    Guy Garvey
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    Guy Garvey
    Cello
    Dale Culliford, Jane Hallett, Simon Turner
    Double Bass
    Beatrice Schirmer, Daniel Storer, Rachel Meerloo
    Mastering Engineer
    Tim Young
    Mixing Engineer
    Craig Potter
    Strings
    Halle Orchestra
    Viola
    Julian Mottram, Piero Gasparini, What So Not
    Violin
    Caroline Abbott, Elizabeth Bosworth, Grania Royce, John Purton, Julia Hanson, Lyn Fletcher, Paulette Bayley, Rosemary Attree, Steven Proctor, Zoe Colman
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