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Who will be the Rider?

from Magna Doors (Deluxe) by The Shaker Heights

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One of my biggest regrets was that this was never included on the Magna Doors album, having been self-released on its namesake EP the year before. One of my favourites, and a great live number, this was likely inspired by having read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', although the lyrics are a glorious madness of beatnik-inspired images.

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Who will be the Rider?

We slide past each other like eels meet in
the water.
We were the speakeasy trio so why did
you shoot down the third?
Now we slide past each other like eels
meet in the water.
And I know it ain't easy but God make it
easier than this!

Who will be the Rider?
Who will be the Rider?
Take it or leave me, take it or leave me
Here. Take it or leave me, take it or leave me
here.

We sense one another by the playing back
tapes of our voices.
The deceptive night laughing and the
placards read of pleasures prepared.
I'm sure that if you rode closer I could
spot just the way that you feel.
I can't entertain hideouts when you're the
last clip on Pegasus wing.

Who will be the Rider?
Who will be the Rider?
Who will be the Rider?
Who will be the Rider?

Take it or leave me, take it or leave me
Here. Take it or leave me, take it or leave me
her

credits

from Magna Doors (Deluxe), released September 9, 2022
Vincent Coole - Vocals, guitars, synths
Andrew Brown - Bass
Emily Dover - Keyboards, harmonica
Edd Featherstone - Drums

Recorded at Hanson Way and Area 18 studios London

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The Shaker Heights Oxford, UK

The Shaker Heights are an indie electro-rock band, originally from Aylesbury and Oxford, consisting of Vincent Coole (vox/guitars), Andrew Brown (bass), Emily Dover (keys) and Richard Dorrell (drums).

The band’s catalogue includes well-received albums/Eps Magna Doors (2007), Collapses (2017) & Little White Doll (2011), and crowd-favourite singles Body, Sitting in the Fire and Out the Blue.
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