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The Old Mans Gait

from No Treasure But Hope by tindersticks

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The old man's gait

Neither kind or unkind
Neither absent or present
Just a reflection
It's just in the way we walk

I walk to my father's metre, I walk with the old man's gait
Down past the gasometer and through the estate

Those miscalculated steps
Now he's not so steady on his pins
Those miscalculations
He was never ready with his affection

He walks with my grandfather's falter, he walks with the old man's gait Not that he ever knew him, just some guy staring at the school fence

Those miscalculated steps
None of us were so good at sums
Those miscalculations
With never the time to make our corrections

And I lifted you up to get a better view.
Your hip pressed against my cheek and your arm fell over the top of my head.
Your fingers playing with my ear.
And we looked at the same thing. And you were my boy.
And then I sat you on the wall, leaned down on my elbows to be by your side.
And you pointed and you told me of everything you could see.

Those miscalculated steps
None of us were so good at sums
Those miscalculations
With never the time to make our corrections

Neither kind or unkind
Neither absent or present
Just a reflection
It's just in the way we walk

Stuart A. Staples 2019

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from No Treasure But Hope, released November 15, 2019

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In January 2016 Tindersticks released their new album ‘The Waiting Room,’ a milestone not just numerically (their 10th), but musically and creatively. Two decades into their musical voyage Tindersticks, established masters of restraint and poetic human emotion, are a band now confidently creating the best songs of their career. ... more

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