Biography:
The Leisure Society is a British folk-pop band formed in Brighton in 2009 by Nick Hemming. Their debut single, "The Last Of The Melting Snow", was honoured with a 2009 Ivor Novello nomination for Best Song Musically & Lyrically. Their single "Save It For Someone Who Cares" was also nominated for the Ivor Novello in the same category in 2010, making the band one of very few consecutive nominees.
The band released their album, Alone Aboard The Ark, in 2013 through Full Time Hobby.
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Other songs:
- A Softer Voice Takes Longer Hearing
- Another Sunday Psalm
- Better Written Off Than Written Down
- Dust On The Dancefloor
- Everyone Understands
- Fight For Everyone
- Forever Shall We Wait
- If God Did Give Me A Choice
- Save It For Someone Who Cares
- Tall Black Cabins
- The Fine Art Of Hanging On
- The Sober Scent Of Paper
- The Undefeated Ego
- We Were Wasted
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C F
Goddamn these veins that keep bleeding
G Em
I'm wriggling like a dog in a sack
Bbm F C (F G)
Torn by the thought but still grinning like a criminal
C F
What do you get for all the free wheeling?
G Em
A pirouette in a castle of sand
Bbm F C
Try for the prize and unravel in the blink of an eye
F G
ohh, I
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build another wall
F G C
woah, woah oh oh
C F
Unhook the phone stop ringing
G Em
Come at the hour, come at the man
Bbm F C (F G)
Feeling the heat and the oven isn't even on
C F
The eyes in the night are not fearless
G Em
Trembling in the weight of the air
Bbm F C
They've borne us before, now their menace is subliminal
F G
oh oh
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build another wall
F G C
woah, woah oh oh
Am G Am G
Beats in the feet, you can do what you want with it
Am G Am G
I took the owners to hell with the ownership
Bbm F C
Five years and sixes and sevens
C F
Sated the taste by not singing
G Em
Too many ins and not enough outs
Bbm F C (F G)
Slain on the eve of another indefensible day
C F
This isn't quite what I had envisaged
G Em
Withering with the NišIcibee
Bbm F C
The lane on the lawn overran us in the dead of the night
F G
oh, I
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build nothing at all
F G C
woah, woah oh oh x2
Goddamn these veins that keep bleeding
G Em
I'm wriggling like a dog in a sack
Bbm F C (F G)
Torn by the thought but still grinning like a criminal
C F
What do you get for all the free wheeling?
G Em
A pirouette in a castle of sand
Bbm F C
Try for the prize and unravel in the blink of an eye
F G
ohh, I
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build another wall
F G C
woah, woah oh oh
C F
Unhook the phone stop ringing
G Em
Come at the hour, come at the man
Bbm F C (F G)
Feeling the heat and the oven isn't even on
C F
The eyes in the night are not fearless
G Em
Trembling in the weight of the air
Bbm F C
They've borne us before, now their menace is subliminal
F G
oh oh
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build another wall
F G C
woah, woah oh oh
Am G Am G
Beats in the feet, you can do what you want with it
Am G Am G
I took the owners to hell with the ownership
Bbm F C
Five years and sixes and sevens
C F
Sated the taste by not singing
G Em
Too many ins and not enough outs
Bbm F C (F G)
Slain on the eve of another indefensible day
C F
This isn't quite what I had envisaged
G Em
Withering with the NišIcibee
Bbm F C
The lane on the lawn overran us in the dead of the night
F G
oh, I
C F G
You've been given a role that everyone understands
C F G
To be given a role that everyone understands
F Em C F
With the money that you hoard you build nothing at all
F G C
woah, woah oh oh x2
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