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Hey Changeling [single edit]

from Hey Changeling [single] by Hallam London

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from the upcoming album Be Yourself in 11 Easy Lessons

The centuries old idea of a changeling – a fairy left in place of a stolen human child – has never died. We don’t call it that anymore but we still make people feel different, if only because they are unusual … but “unusual” is where we find the extraordinary people. So what if there were no “normal”? Just as off-centre as the changeling is the song’s combination of a heavy up-tempo beat with melancholic chords and melodies.

lyrics

Are you stalking through the shadows
With your slightly eerie glow
Your pale green hair
Your almond eyes
Your constant scent of newly fallen snow

Are you quite at home in this world
All its motorbikes and gangs
Its dirty needles
Boarded windows
This surely can’t be any home you planned

Hey changeling, so what are you about?
Hey changeling, where do you come from?
Hey changeling, should you let them find you out
Or is it time for moving on?

Why do you still try to live with human beings?
Why do you still try to do that boy/girl thing?
Although you can hold a job or stand in queues
Is this honestly the sort of world for you?

You keep walking through my dream time
With your shirt slightly undone
Your rapid eyes
Expressive hands
You daze me, but your wildness looks like fun

Are you quite at home in this world?
All its sex-workers and cops
Its red-lit doorways
Car-park dealers
In your heart you know there’s nowhere sane it stops

Hey changeling, so what are you about?
Hey changeling, where do you come from?
Hey changeling, should you let them find you out
Or is it time for moving on?

Why do you still try to live with human beings?
Why do you still try to do that boy/girl thing?
Although you can hold a job or stand in queues
Is this honestly the sort of world for you?

Is this any sort of world for you?
Is this any sort of world for you?
Or is it time for moving on?

credits

from Hey Changeling [single], released April 30, 2021
lyrics by Ian Badcoe
music by Hallam London

Hallam London: vocals, guitars, bass guitar
Kris Tearse: drums
Dave Sanderson: synths, programming

produced by Dave Sanderson
mixed and mastered by Dave Sanderson

Cover drawing by Floris Hansberg, incorporating Jenn Zed’s album artwork
Cover layout by Hallam London

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Hallam London Dresden, Germany

PostPunkIndieRock // Performer + Composer // Rock’n’Roll Club + Theatre Stage // queer and pround

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