Name: No More Backstreets
Duration: P00H02M55S
Description: An excuse for some interesting imagery that is part nostalgia, part autobiography. Inspired by an old Thames TV documentary.

No More Backstreets

from The Escape Artist by Will Hansen

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An excuse for some interesting imagery that is part nostalgia, part autobiography. Inspired by an old Thames TV documentary.

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No more backstreets
Go onto the rooftop
To play your games
Chasing fame
No more streetlights
Staying out all night
Waiting
No more music
In the halls, in the walls
Only faces fade, like the old brigade
No more fashion, chase a faux reaction
Just to get paid

Where do we go from here (x2)
Where do we go

Remember when
Days were sunny, and the nights would never end
Climb the fence, 27 pence
And you’ll be free forever, so they said, so they said
Memories of cobblestone lies
Cobbled together
From the threads of truth, that we believed, and they received

Against the light of the silhouette
Tell another story you’ll regret
Waiting for someone
Waiting for someone you’ve never met
Against the light of the silhouette
Tell another story you’ll regret
Place your bets, place your bets
Against the light of the silhouette
Tell another story you’ll regret
To feel like you’re home
To feel like you’ve never been on your own

Where do we go from here
(no more backstreets)
Where do we go from here
(no more backstreets)
Where do we go from here
(no more backstreets)
Where do we go from here?

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from The Escape Artist, released February 25, 2022
Will Hansen: Electric/acoustic guitars, lead vocals, backing vocals, bass.

Co-produced by Will Hansen and Adam Fancy
Written by Will Hansen

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Will Hansen Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Escape Artist is an excuse for nostalgia. Take a trip through displays of vintage pop art from the garage, featuring notes of flash guitar, singalong juxtapositions, and a voice for the backdated generation.

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