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Patrick Wolf

Thickets

Release date: 1st June 2009

From The Bachelor
Singer/SongwriterMusic
Alternative
Indie Rock
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About This Track

"Thickets" is a track by Patrick Wolf, from the album The Bachelor, released 1st June 2009. It's filed under Singer/Songwriter. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Patrick Wolf.

About the Artist

Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf

Lyrics

Thickets

[Just a little further up the hill boy

You'll be home soon enough.]

All along the river

Heading as fast as I could

Watch as the wasteland flowers

All cars and rubbish flourish

With blackberries and red berries

Sweet blackberries

Tainted red berries

Berries

Berries

Went looking for my tower

Off all the rails and the roads

In need of resurrection

As my desires and power

Are growing thickets

Tall around me

Tall around me

Tall around me

Around

Around

Around now

Well, have I been traveling so long

That I've forgot how to stop?

Why are my brakes all broken?

Wheels spinning out of control

And in mirror

Pale and deathly have become

Oh, what have I become?

Mother

What have I have become?

Become

Become

Become now

Now

And all my wastelands flower

(and all my wastelands flower)

And all my thickets grow now

And all my wastelands flower

(when all my wastelands flower)

And all my thickets grow tall and tall

Still damn tall

Tall and tall

And around

All around me

(round and round and round)

What have I become?

Pale and deathly have become

What have I become?

Pale and deathly have become

Become

Become

Become now

[Pale and deathly

As all the wasteland flowers and all the thickets grow

Pale and deathly

As all your wasteland flowers and all your thickets grow

Pale and deathly

As all the wasteland flowers and all the thickets grow

Pale and deathly

As all your wasteland flowers and all your thickets grow]

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Track details

From The Bachelor

2009
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Album
The Bachelor
The Bachelor
Patrick Wolf
1st June 2009
Release year
2009
  1. 1Kriegspiel
    0:47
  2. 2Hard Times
    3:33
  3. 3Oblivion (feat. Tilda Swinton)
    3:24
  4. 4The Bachelor (feat. Eliza Carthy)
    3:13
  5. 5Damaris
    5:28
  6. 6Thickets (feat. Tilda Swinton)
    4:08
  7. 7Count of Casualty
    5:03
  8. 8Who Will?
    3:31
  9. 9Vulture
    3:22
  10. 10Blackdown
    5:21
  11. 11The Sun Is Often Out
    3:33
  12. 12Theseus (feat. Tilda Swinton)
    4:40
  13. 13Battle (feat. Alec Empire)
    3:07
  14. 14The Messenger
    3:39
  15. —Battle
  16. —Theseus
  17. —Thickets
  18. —The Bachelor

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  7. Better or Worse (El Lobo Mix)Better or Worse - EP
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  8. Better or Worse (Instrumental)Better or Worse - EP
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Patrick Wolf
Producer
Patrick Wolf
Co-Producer
Jonathan Shakhovskoy
Vocals
Patrick Wolf
Baritone Ukelele
Patrick Wolf
Bass Clarinet
Derek Apps
Double Bass
Nick Haward
Harmonium
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Narrator
Tilda Swinton
Piano
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Soprano Vocals
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Whistle
Rose Marie (2)
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Patrick Wolf has announced a new album, 'Crying The Neck', shares 'Dies Irae' single

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4 Feb 2025 • 12:55 pm
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Patrick Wolf has shared a new single, 'Nowhere Game'

It's taken from his upcoming EP, 'Nowhere Game'.

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Patrick Wolf has released ‘Enter The Day’, the lead single from his forthcoming EP, ‘The Night Safari’

The full project is set to arrive in 2023 via his own label, ARPORT.

11 Nov 2022 • 11:16 am
Patrick Wolf has confirmed his return with an upcoming single, ‘Enter The Day’
News

Patrick Wolf has confirmed his return with an upcoming single, ‘Enter The Day’

The full project is expected to arrive next year via Wolf’s new label, ARPORT.

8 Nov 2022 • 12:17 pm