Name: Toxic Mountains
Duration: P00H03M45S
Description: A friend of mine grew up in the Ore Mountains of East Germany. Her father was a miner. That time in history in that part of the world was a tricky time to be a young person. Her feelings towards her home town are complicated. I tried to capture what I thought it might feel like to be her in this song.

Toxic Mountains

from Shine by Alex Spencer

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A friend of mine grew up in the Ore Mountains of East Germany. Her father was a miner. That time in history in that part of the world was a tricky time to be a young person. Her feelings towards her home town are complicated. I tried to capture what I thought it might feel like to be her in this song.

lyrics

Toxic Mountains

Her grandmother grew to be 100 years old
The house on the hill had to be packed up and sold

She told herself she'd never go back
She told herself she's never go back,
Never go back, never go back.

That was the place of imploding dreams
Of whisky for breakfast and her father's silent screams

She told herself....

She drank the cool aid, believed in the lies
Ever since then she's been trying to get it out
Been puking up bile

She told herself...

To those toxic mountains...

Cut the ties, but the ties
Keep tying themselves back together.
Together, together, together, together.

credits

from Shine, released December 4, 2019
Double bass: Ben Lehmann
Drums: Martial Frenzel
Saxophone: Paul Engelmann
Viola: Alice Rose
Cello: Gábor Hartyáni

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Alex Spencer Berlin, Germany

Set afloat on a soft and shimmering stream, Alex Spencer's music is the kind of boat ride in which simple human rowing begins to resonate with deeper, inner currents. UK born Alex Spencer set down roots in Berlin in the year 2000. Today, she can be seen walking her black Labrador dog through Görlitzer Park, playing the singer-songwriter circuit and, on occasion, also raising her three children. ... more

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May 4

The Leadmill

Sheffield, UK
May 8

KOKO

London, UK
May 24

Manchester Academy 3

Manchester, UK
Jul 19

Robin Park

Wigan, UK
Sep 6

The Hairy Dog

Derby, UK

discography

Supermoon

Feb 2021
Supermoon

Apr 2020
Shine

Dec 2019
Growing Pains

Dec 2018

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