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Olympic Girls

from Olympic Girls by Tiny Ruins

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This is the second single and title track from Tiny Ruins album No.3.

Released digitally in Australia by Milk! Records, in Europe by Marathon Artists, North America by Ba Da Bing Records & independently in NZ by Ursa Minor.

lyrics

Stirring, shaken, all of us waking

Under the same cover of sky

You said my freedom feels

Like a white lie



Sweet on the backseat

Another day bolder

A love spell rushes you by

The smoke and the smoulder



We were only inches away

Still had a long, long way to go



Weren’t we born to break out

To feel the muddy banks swell?

I think of you on the dancefloor

In a stuccoed motel


Forecasting when and where we’d end up

Couldn’t save us anyhow

Just kid conversation

My star sign resolver



You only had your olympic girls

The frosted sheen of leotard twirls

Running revolt and winning gold
For the TV screen

Before being led back to the cells



Lay your head in the lap of a girl

You’ll never learn something

If it isn’t taught well

You’ll never find a thing

If you can’t lose yourself

Every once in a while



I looked for your figure

The cut your shape would make

In the freedom of a microphone

There’s a shadow I can’t shake

Who’s there?

Who’s there in the morning?

To see you at the station

And when you feel like giving up

There, so you can hold her



We were only inches away

Still had a long, long way to go
We're only inches away
Still have a long, long way to go

credits

from Olympic Girls, track released October 18, 2018
Produced & Mixed by Tom Healy
Written and co-produced by Hollie Fullbrook
Recorded at Paquin Studios at The Lab, Mt. Eden, Auckland
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

Performed by:
Cass Basil: upright and electric bass, backing vocals
Alex Freer: drums & percussion
Hollie Fullbrook: vocals, acoustic guitar, cello, mellotron
Tom Healy: electric guitar
Finn Scholes: vibraphone

Photograph by Si Moore
Artwork Layout by Tom Cottle

Made with the support of NZ on Air.

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Tiny Ruins Auckland, New Zealand

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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