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Midlake - Antiphon

Midlake - Antiphon Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Antiphon
Released: 2013

Antiphon Lyrics

Antiphon

Midlake spent much of 2011 and 2012 painstakingly recording their fourth album at the farm in Buffalo, Texas where The Courage Of Others was tracked. However the perfectionism of frontman and songwriter Tim Smith was increasingly frustrating the rest of the group and in late 2012 he announced that he was leaving Midlake to form a new project called Harp. The question arose as to how would the remaining four members (Eric Pulido, McKenzie Smith, Paul Alexander and Eric Nichelson) manage without Smith's songs?

"Of what we'd recorded," Pulido told Mojo magazine, "Tim had said, 'You can have this…' but what we couldn't take with us turned out to be 75% of the recording." The solution was to begin again from scratch, and the quartet wrote and recorded a new full-length album in just six months. Pulido said that they titled it Antiphon, "because it means a response to an oratory or piece of music, and this album is a response to what's gone on with Tim. The original Antiphon was an orator in Ancient Greece who was part of an oligarchy that fought democracy. But we didn't overthrow Tim! He's not Antiphon."

Midlake - Provider

Midlake - Provider Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Antiphon
Released: 2013

Provider Lyrics

When the first men on the ground were laid
I wouldn’t fall under the mad skirts
Onward forth into a land of gold
Swords were drawn upon the road

Provider, carry on
Far from the golden age
Follow me down a fox hole in the ground
Don’t delay

Come morning, miles along
Gathered round, those remained
With and a cry for the land
Joy to gain

Winter came and I was old and alone
Time set’s gone under the mad skirts
Onward further to a land unknown
With only hope of the sea’s ago

Provider, carry on
Far from the golden age
Follow me down a fox hole in the ground
Don’t delay

Provider, carry on
Far from the golden age
Follow me down a fox hole in the ground
Don’t delay

Come morning, miles along
Gathered round, those remained
With and a cry for the land
Joy to gain

Writer/s: SMITH, JONATHAN LINDLEY / FRYE, JORDAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Provider

In late 2012 Midlake's vocalist and chief songwriter Tom Smith announced that he was leaving the band. This song acts as a farewell. "'Provider' is about Tim, and my feelings towards him," guitarist and new singer Eric Pulido told The Independent. "It basically says to carry on, and that still I'm going to defend you and protect you. Even though I don't necessarily agree, I still love you, and support what you want to do. What I hoped was that it was a loving send-off."

Midlake - The Old and the Young

Midlake - The Old and the Young Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Antiphon
Released: 2013

The Old and the Young Lyrics

Time will have warranted all that the foliage brung
Falls to the ground at the feet of The Old and the Young
Tired and worn from a life made of wallow and pain
Of what will be made is all that remains at the core

Bear the old and the young
Time will have warranted
All that the foliage brung
So bear the old and the young

Awoke from a long one that came on the heels of a day
Where sun would arise and then grant us the kindness of ray
Fields full of gladness surrounded by droves that await
And look for the grave in everything adorn

Bear the old and the young
Time will have warranted
All that the foliage brung
So bear the old and the young

Bear the old and the young
Time will have warranted
All that the foliage brung
Bear the old and the young
Time will have warranted
All that the foliage brung
So bear the old and the young

Writer/s: PULIDO, ERIC / ALEXANDER, PAUL / NICHELSON, ERIC / SMITH, MCKENZIE / CHANDLER, JESSE / MCCLELLAN, JOSEPH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The Old and the Young

This song tackles the notion of aging with grace. The accompanying music video was directed by Ollie Murray (The Horrors, The Vaccines) in Hillesden, Buckinghamshire on the sheep farm he grew up on. The clip also features Jon Campling - who appeared in the last two Harry Potter movies as the leader of the Death Eaters - as the hermit.