"This is a stomper of a single taken from their album The Seldom Seen Kid in 2008; which went on to win the coveted Mercury Music Prize that year. Our track Grounds For Divorce also went on to claim the Ivor Novello award for Best Contemporary Song the following year."
"Elbow are an English alternative rock band consisting of Guy Garvey, Richard Jupp, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, and Pete Turner."
Lyrics
"I've been working on a cocktail called "Grounds For Divorce", whoa Polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve, whoa Doubt comes in on sticks, but then he kicks like a horse, whoa There's a Chinese cigarette case and the rest you can keep And the rest you can keep
And the rest you can keep There's a hole in my neighbourhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighbourhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall
Mondays is for drinking to the seldom seen kid (Ooh, ooh)
There's this whispering of jokers doing "Flesh by the Pound" To a chorus of supposes from the little town whores There'll be twisted karaoke at the Aniseed Lounge And I'd bring you further roses but it does you no good And it does me no good And it does you no good
There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall There's a hole in my neighborhood Down which of late I cannot help but fall
Someday we'll be drinking with the seldom seen kid (Ooh, ooh)"
The lyrics of this song are very visual, and the introductory verse contains, 5 different pieces of visually iconography in it's self.
The title of the track could be one for many different designs to be based on, and the lyrics compliment this.
Tone, instrumental and backing track:
The tone of the song begins with 'Elbow's' intros he starts the song off to a tone which could escalate or decline, and the song does actually escalate into one of more emotion, which reaches the chorus, and then comes to a halt at the end.
Evaluation
This song does have lots of obvious imagery attached to it, and not necessarily any deeper meaning that what is seen on the surface, for this reason, this song doesn't jump out to me as one that i'd like to design an vinyl sleeve for.
