Name: The Beast (Live)
Duration: P00H05M16S
Description: I wrote this song when I was 17 about growing up with an alcoholic. Slowly, it evolved as part of my live set. Once I started playing regularly in Liverpool it became a regular gig-closer. On the 5th December 2019, closing the launch of my last album at Studio 2 on Parr Street, we captured this live performance.

The Beast (Live)

by Thom Morecroft

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I wrote this song when I was 17 about growing up with an alcoholic. Slowly, it evolved as part of my live set. Once I started playing regularly in Liverpool it became a regular gig-closer. On the 5th December 2019, closing the launch of my last album at Studio 2 on Parr Street, we captured this live performance.

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I met you drunken after work
I had a few hours between so I drank myself away
You introduced me to some friends
You introduced me to some friends
They were laughing
I made some noises like a seal
I think I made some noises like a seal
Well at least I was clapping

You don't think ill of me
As I don't think too ill of you
I'm a dead dead horse as dead horses can be
Right on course

Right on course and far away
Into the steamy piles of a desperate, next door day
Right on course and full of hope at least
And if I get drunk enough I can be the beast
Oh

My father he used to come home drunk from work
He always had a few hours between
So he drank himself away
He introduced me to some friends
He introduced me to some friends
They were crying
Been locking headlong to their knees
Been locking headlong to their knees
While he was sighing

He don't think ill of me
As I don't think too ill of you
He's a dead dead horse as dead horses can be
Right on course
Oh

Right on course and far away
Into the steamy piles of a desperate next up day
Right on course and full of hope at least
And if he gets drunk enough he can be the beast

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released February 12, 2021
Performed live at Studio2 Liverpool closing the Feng Shui and the Sushi album launch 5/12/19.

Engineered and mixed by James Thorne
Enhanced by Hippocratic Mastering

Written by Thom Morecroft

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Thom Morecroft Liverpool, UK

Played on 6music and described by ex-editor of NME, Q, Mojo and Word Paul Du Noyer as “cheering and addictive”, Thom Morecroft is a singer-songwriter from Shrewsbury based in Liverpool.

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