Once Upon a Time in Cardiff

by Callum Houston

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Recorded at Sleeper Studio, Châteaubourg, Bretagne.

Callum - Acoustic guitar and voice
Sleeper Bill - Everything else

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From car to car and bar to bar, underneath the castle lights,
It was the time of year that brings good cheer, there was warmth in the city that night,
Though I talk some junk, I'm a romantic drunk and to you my words fell right,
So we cut the rope, we pushed the boat, set sail into the night

You don't have to think about it,
Because it's not for real,
Pay no attention to,
The things that I say or how I feel

From drunken chat in your student flat, the seeds of lust are sown,
Though I never really wanted it to be this way, I just hate to be alone,
Well these poster walls reflect your soul, all the books that you have read,
So I flick through the pages of a magazine, I found beside your bed,

The morning rain is falling down, clears my soul anew,
Cliches keep calling and most of them, most of them are true

And you roll a smoke, I toke, I choke, well never going to do it again,
And theres hope in your eyes, there is no disguise, let's leave it at that my friend,
Well you played me a song, I heard it wrong, the words didn't get right through,
Six years from then, I hear it again, it makes me think of you, that life that I knew.

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released January 4, 2020

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Callum Houston Lorient, France

Acoustic Alternative Folk Rock.

Made in Bretagne. Inspired in Ireland.

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