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Chaos For The Fly

by Grian Chatten

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Frank This album is bliss. I thought it was strong at first. Distinct voice, great sounds, poetic. I’m on multiple listens now and I can honestly say this is a quiet gem. Thanks Grian. Proper beautiful album mate x Favorite track: East Coast Bed.
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chahula Fontaines DC goes haaaard, but this delicate version of Grian Chatten is beautiful. Truly a no-skip album, every track could be a favourite Favorite track: Season For Pain.
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Mesil Been loving the stuff from Fontaines D.C. and this record is such a great outing from one of my favorite vocalists & songwriters of the past few years. Favorite track: The Score.
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1.
The Score 02:41
when I make my move to you You will know See I am that wave that breaks below I will give you thrills and take your pain I will lay you down Like a shadow Like a stain You know the score It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore Cuz when you make his love you turn alone You see your heart’s been tethered to a sinking stone you know the score It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore You know the Score It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore When I make my move to you You will know
2.
All my words They fail me now And I have seen it all and I have no doubt That an alonely thing You surely are Could be a fixture made In a face down bar Where they go out their way To be hurtful now And you can see the world Written in their brow And I can see them all They laugh in spite They have no right Last time every time forever Yesterday I met you And the feelings gone You can baby me But you won’t baby long Yesterday can keep ye Where the feeling’s strong You can take from me But you won’t be taking long (Give him loving I do I do I do Give him loving I do Yeah) Fed the birds On a lap round town Got a peculiar thought nearly struck me down Am I the wingless one that keeps me here? Is to articulate a wish My one great gear Without a chance I’m king Of every single thing And it’s the cheapest spend To make a dead heart sing And I keep them all And laugh in spite I have the right Last time, every time, forever
3.
Fairlies 04:10
Kindness is a trick to turn you strange Til you’re twisted and you’re shining like a varicose vein Anger makes you weak and turns you sick And gets you in the six feet nice and quick No fair They can talk to me I can live alone I can live alone Happy Where I like to be I can live alone alone alone alone I fought For the right to be I can live alone I can live alone The fairies get their fingers and they spin your wheel And they make you look at sunshine that your skin will never feel Baby do you miss the days before Hope knocked on your door? But you went and fell in love And into you love fell And it made you feel unwell Oh well There’s a thing about people that I suppose is alright It’s when they smile right at their pain through all the day and night The fool dies at the altar in a smile Says “I’m moving to America You won’t see me for a while” If I get the ferry over will the fairies follow me? Will they throw me to the sea? We’ll see No fair They can follow me I can live alone I can live alone Happy Where I like to be I can live alone alone alone alone I fought For the right to be I can live alone I can live alone When the devil takes your soul he does not care If you’re shot down like a dog or expired on the stairs The boat is drifting in, the weight is cast, How can life go so slowly, and death come so fast? Across the River Styx I’ll row along But I’ve got one more song More song More song More song
4.
Bob's Casino 04:44
On a Sunday gone In the harbour place The big boss man’s eye Fell on the pretty girl’s face She was closing things Oh what a death he died He drank away his sense He never said goodbye You could talk about love You could talk about the light You could talk about the only time You ever did things right You could talk about the moon Hanging in the sky You could talk about the finer things You could talk about the minor things It’s a poor man’s game This serious life No pursuit could make me The man for my wife Says the man’s hot streak To a sober face No reflections please When I’m the king of this place I will take my first fist And I will bring it down And I will take that smiling Right outta this town You could talk about love You could talk about the light You could talk about the only time You ever did things right You could talk about the moon Hanging in the sky You could talk about the finer things You could talk about the minor things He was cautioned to the wind Oh man…you’re a fable now
5.
You think I’m about ye Well I’m not The centre of my world Is a hotspot You think that you know me you’re below me And you don’t All of the people They can fly Straight to the white hotel Up In the sky I’m hard as my money Yeah, you’re soft as a lie Well a smile could be made so endless Just happy, free and friendless No paper lending Just time, spending Yeah You think that you love me But you don’t You think that you know me Yeah well you just don’t Did you know I’m into your brother? Did you know that I hated your show? Tell me who exactly do you think you know? People are scum I will say it again Don’t let anyone tell you that They wanna be your friend They just wanna get close enough to Take the final shot They will celebrate the things that make you who you’re not They will criticise All of the people Well a smile could be made so endless Just happy, free and friendless No paper lending Just time spending She’s standing in line now At the funfair Fistful of tokens And charm to spare What kind of fool would follow signs that were never there? All of the people All of the people
6.
I was a kid I was unsure and I would hesitate And so I early learned to spite And from the anger all my words I could not separate But she could always put me right It’s always got to be the baseline Every time you look around And if you have to go that’s alright That’s the way it’s got to be An east coast bed. She worked with people from the travelling community They introduced her to belief So she was best equipped, ironically it must be said To make sense of all this grief You’re always gonna be the baseline Every time I look around And if you have to go that’s alright That’s the way it’s got to be An east coast bed.
7.
When February came it came straight for New York Any colder - they said- and we’ll be skating to work Salt throwers were taming the sidewalks with haste Til the whole of the city was seasoned to taste The world was a yawn fingerprinted by night Pro couples out running the leaves into kites And out jumped the soul from his too-little chest Was kited away along with the rest Live by design, til you resign If anyone asks, I love my city… Oh where will ya take me for dinner and sex? The romance of somewhere where trains go direct? I live pretty close to a view of the stars But it’s not in my nature to look through the bars My friend You’re major You’re king of the world You might as well feel it You might as well take all the Chips that you can They’re the chips that you earned And they’re ain’t no forever Where living’s concerned When I’m at the door of whatever it is If it’s nothing romantic or nothing to miss I’ll hope that I lived like those salt thrower heads Drove over the treasury and helping the next Live by design, til you resign If anyone asks, I love my city… Old was a man who attended his patch Offending next door with the lock on the latch He felt too deeply, too often, too long And now he’ll feel nothing forever
8.
I Am So Far 03:42
Way down Nothing is the same Love is all around us there’s no one to name I know both sides of the cane She is all things to me The hopeful and the sane Seeking only answers Seeking only answers Hearing only lies Way down jealous of your pain Loan me all your troubles Lend me all your shame So fair Fairytaling When the reaper’s done his looking I would like you to be there hug Seeking only answers Seeking only answers Hearing only lies Hearing only lies Hearing only lies Hearing only lies Way down Nothing is the same Love is all around us and there’s no one to name I know Both sides of the cane When the reaper’s done his looking I would like you to be there
9.
If you have nowhere to go Get used to the rain This is no season for loving This is the season for pain No hand to strike you down No smile to fade The show was good while it ran my friend Til it was running away There was a season for loving This is the season for pain Ring it up there’s no amends Talked it through ye to such bitter ends All I get is “what do you know” It’s a shame Your words are powerless here Where cold truth reigns I’m not your friend in all your stupid fights I will be looking any other way My heart was for ya My hand made to assure ya Now watch it wave This is no season for loving This is no season for loving This is no season for loving no no This is the season for pain If you have nowhere to go Get used to the rain I doubt you find what you’re looking for I doubt the feeling remains This is no season for loving This is the season for pain

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'Chaos For The Fly' is the debut solo album from Grian Chatten, vocalist of Dublin’s critically-acclaimed band Fontaines D.C.

Rare moments of respite from a relentless touring schedule afforded Chatten the opportunity to start work on something for himself, occupying a completely different headspace from his hugely successful work within Fontaines D.C.

Co-produced by the band’s longstanding producer Dan Carey, the album is arguably the most poetic we’ve heard from Chatten. Each song here has a sweep of colour and textures that breathe life into his lucid tales. Over its nine tracks, Chaos For The Fly is a record that takes in all of life’s rich emotions, transporting the listener to a place you not only want to visit, but will find yourself returning to again and again.

It's been a tremendous run for Fontaines D.C., debuting at number one in both the UK and Ireland with their third album, the critically acclaimed and Ivor Novello nominated Skinty Fia, and taking home the BRIT award for International Group of the Year. It followed 2020’s A Hero’s Death, which was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammys, and their debut, 2019’s Dogrel, which was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.

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released June 30, 2023

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