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Johnny Foreigner – Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes (2008) | Track profile | Dork

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Johnny Foreigner
Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes

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Johnny Foreigner

Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes

Release date: 1st June 2008

From Waited Up 'Til It Was Light

Track 4

2:35

Alternative Music

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About This Track

"Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes" is a track by Johnny Foreigner, from the album Waited Up 'Til It Was Light, released 1st June 2008. The track is 2:35 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Johnny Foreigner.

About the Artist

Johnny Foreigner

Johnny Foreigner

Lyrics

Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes

Ba ba ba-ba bada ba!

We make our own mythologies
Yr maps won't let us down again
Yr legends all played out
Yr keepin' some dark secrets, but you talk in your sleep

We make our own mythologies
All gangster scenes and bullet scars
Yr fashion's three months late
If I had the guts, I promise I would

Cut the powerlines!
Tape the letterbox shut!
I don't worry about those things
I don't worry about those

One grey mess to another grey mess (Things)
Distance knows a heavy heart best

Eve(ry) sin(gle)
Sin(gle) night (out)
For a lifetime of college films!
(A sign! A sign! A sign! A sign!) I'm hoping, I'm hoping, I'm hoping you don't call

Tear down our nightclubs, put up flats
Tear down our pubs and put up flats
All rows of neat new tracts
Why'd you want to live here if there's nothin' but housing?

Yr boyfriend owns the bar we drink
Yr boyfriend ruins everything!
In the room with the bordered doors
If I had the guts, I promise I would

Cut the powerlines!
Tape the letterbox shut!
I don't worry about those things
I don't worry about those

One grey mess to another grey mess (Things)
Distance knows a heavy heart best

Eve(ry) sin(gle)
Sin(gle) night (out)
For a lifetime of college films!
(A sign! A sign! A sign! A sign!) I'm hoping, I'm hoping, I'm hoping you don't call

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Track details

From Waited Up 'Til It Was Light

2:352008

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Album

Waited Up 'Til It Was Light

Johnny Foreigner

Track number

4

Release year

2008

1Lea Room
2:24
2Our Bipolar Friends
3:19
3Eyes Wide Terrified
3:47
4Cranes and Cranes and Cranes and Cranes
2:35

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Albums & EPs

How To Be Hopeful

How To Be Hopeful

The Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)

The Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)

The X and the O - EP

The X and the O - EP

Mono No Aware

You Can Do Better

You Can Do Better

Johnny Foreigner vs Everything

Johnny Foreigner vs Everything

Vs Everything

Certain Songs Are Cursed

Certain Songs Are Cursed

You Thought You Saw a Shooting Star But Yr Eyes Were Blurred With Tears and That Lighthouse Can Be Pretty Deceiving With the Sky So Clear and the Sea So Calm

You Thought You Saw a Shooting Star But Yr Eyes Were Blurred With Tears and That Lighthouse Can Be Pretty Deceiving With the Sky So Clear and the Sea So Calm

Grace and the Bigger Picture

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Exhibit #1: This Automated Age

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(a million different galaxies)The Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
0:46
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0:46
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1:36
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2:30
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4:34
All of the ChordsThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
5:40
All Of The ColoursThe Sky and Sea were Part of Me (or I was Part of Them)
1:31
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3:20
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2:37

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Companion EP 'the sky and sea were part of me, or I was part of them', out today (12th June).

12 Jun 2024 • 9:31 am

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Alexei Berrow, Junior Elvis Washington Laidley, Kelly Southern
Producer: Gene “Machine” Freeman
Engineer: Will Putney
Mixing Engineer: Will Putney