Biography:
Alt-J (sometimes stylised ?) was formed when Gwil Sainsbury (guitar, bass), Joe Newman (guitar, vocals), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards), and Thom Sonny Green (drums) met at Leeds, UK University in 2007. The band currently resides in Cambridge.
Unger-Hamilton studied English Literature; the other three Fine Art. In their second year of studies, Newman showed Sainsbury a handful of his own songs inspired by his guitar-playing dad and hallucinogens
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If you're willing to wait
A
for the love of your life
Dm F
please wait by the line
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And you know
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Dismissive prisms rainbow
But my native optimism
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isn't broken
by the light
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The idea of life without company
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Crashed suddenly
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It crashed through the ceiling on me
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And pinned me to the pine
F A
And layer upon layer
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Of hope and doubt
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Will crush bones to oil in time
D A D Em D A G
Are you a pusher or are you a puller
Em D A G
I pull the weight towards me
D A D Em D A G
And I lack the zest of a lemon looking forward
Em G D G
Unless I have a woman pushing me
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A canopy of red-billed quelea
Dm F
Passed over the blue
A five hour flock
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Not one dives down
Dm F
To tell you the truth
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As night falls
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A quelea crawls
Dm F
And whispers on his last wing
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So abundant are we
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Left alone I shall be
Dm F
But a waited phone never rings
D A D Em D A G
Are you a pusher or are you a puller
Em G D G
I pull the weight towards me
D A D Em D A G
And I lack the zest of a lemon looking forward
Em G D G
Unless I have a woman pushing me
D A D Em D A G
Are you a pusher or are you a puller
D A D Em D A G
We could hold hands for 1 minutes in the sauna
D A D Em D A G
We could hold hands for a pool length underwater
Em G D G
I can push and pull
Her
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If you're willing to wait
A
for the love of your life
Dm F
please wait by the line
Alüto
Alvaro Soler
Alvvays
Always Wanting Y (...)
Aly And Aj