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Adelphi Apartments

from Some Were Meant For Sea by Tiny Ruins

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Pressed on sea-green translucent vinyl by Holiday Records NZ.
    Includes bonus track 'The Oldest Bar in Town' and full colour inner sleeve with lyrics.
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    2-Panel, 2-Sleeve plastic-free wallet w/ 8-page lyrics booklet.
    Includes unreleased bonus track 'The Oldest Bar in Town'
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lyrics

Rosie lived in the Adelphi Apartments,
Down by Carrigafoyle.
At night she read Cannery Row,
Before saying goodnight
To the highway below.

All the tomcats knew her,
Over on the Allenby Steps.
Sundays she'd burn a candle
For all the tears she hadn't wept,
And all the ends she hadn't met.

Electric thick around her,
She'd put a record on.
Of something warm like Olga Guillot,
Swaying her hips to a far off drum,

Where she lived in the Adelphi Apartments,
Down by Carrigafoyle.
At night, she read Cannery Row,
Before saying goodnight
To the highway below.

And Maurice next door, coughing
Up the things he tried to say,
Didn't want to seem like a creep,
He always dreaded the day
He'd put his ear to the wall
To hear the fall of silence,
Rosie'd gone, moved on away,

From where she lived in the Adelphi Apartments,
Down by Carrigafoyle.
Where at night she read Cannery Row,
Before saying goodnight
To the highway below.

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from Some Were Meant For Sea, released May 30, 2011

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Tiny Ruins are a band based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, comprising singer-songwriter & guitarist Hollie Fullbrook, bass player Cass Basil, drummer Alex Freer and electric guitarist/producer Tom Healy.

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