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Stripped To The Bone (Live at The Old Church)

from Live at The Old Church by Adam Beattie

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Recorded live at The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London

This song also appears on the studio album 'Somewhere Round The Bend' (2021)

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Bombs fell on your house
Wiped out the whole street
You grab what you can
You’re out on your feet
The bombs keep falling
It’s raining stones
You keep on running
Stripped to the bone

Gave all your money to a smuggler
Boat leaves in the night
Across the dark ocean
Out of the coastguard’s sight
You get to the other side
They can’t send you home
You're stuck in no man’s land
Stripped to the bone

Barbed wire fence
Rivers of mud
Damp rots your feet
Screams chill your blood
You got to jump the fence
Dog’s teeth and mouth foam
Took the flesh from your leg
Stripped to the bone

Laying on a park bench
Dirty hands and bare feet
Sleeping in the doorway
In the rain and sleet
Going where the begging is good
Nowhere to call home
All out of favours
Stripped to the bone

All in a shopping trolley
And plastic bags
One man’s rubbish
Another man’s rags
Washing in the river
Wake with the dawn
Sleep beneath a bridge
Stripped to the bone

What man can endure
Like many men hence
The temple of Zeus
I see through the fence
Surviving earthquakes
A spine of lead and stone
Well I’m still standing too
Stripped to the bone

If this is a man
Then so it be
He’s just as often here
As he’s prospering and free
It must be nature’s law
To be high on a throne
Then to fall so low
Stripped to the bone

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from Live at The Old Church, released March 17, 2023
Words and music by Adam Beattie

Adam Beattie (vocals, guitars)
Fiona Bevan (vocals, double bass)
Mikey Kenney (violin, vocals)
Chris Jones (drums, percussion)
Zac Gvirtzman (accordion, saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet)

Mixed and mastered by Tom Archer

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Adam Beattie Scotland, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Adam Beattie has released 5 studio albums. His latest album ‘Somewhere Round The Bend’ received critical acclaim, "Uplifting reveries of love" - MOJO Magazine, "5/5 Master of powerful narratives” - RnR MAGAZINE, “8/10 “Stirring folk balladry” - THE LINE OF BEST FIT, “A very fine record, full of great moments” - RODDY HART, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND ... more

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