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Glad Game

by Lemonade Sin

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We've been playing this song live for a while, but it didn't fit in with any of our highly themed albums, so here it is as a stand-alone release – exciting right?

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You play the glad game if you like, Pollyanna 
But there’s nothing to get smug about 
Don’t drag me higher 
And if everything is cool, Pollyanna
There is nothing more for you to do
So go retire

And if everything is awesome (ad nauseam) 
Float up to heaven before I die of boredom 

I watch the many ways you try to spin it
But it will end the same
However much i try, i’ll never win it
you’ll always beat me at the glad game

And if everything’s so great, Pollyanna
Isn’t there are a chance you’re going to end up disappointed?
Are you impervious to flaws, Pollyanna?
Are the wicked tyrants on a par with the exploited?

You tell me life is just a bowl of cherries
You get the fruit, I get the stones, so spare me

I watch the many ways you try to spin it
But it will end the same
(and you’re to blame)
However much I try, I’ll never win it
you’ll always beat me at the glad game

I watch the many ways you try to spin it
But it will end the same
(and you’re to blame)
However much I try, you’ll always win it
I’ll never beat you at the glad game

And you’re to blame
And you’re to blame

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released September 22, 2023
Written by Lee Friese-Greene and Simon Aldous
Recorded and mixed by Lucy Board and Matthew Board at Penquit Mill Studios, Devon. Mastered by Dean Honer

Lee Friese Green: Vocals, guitars, keyboards
Simon Aldous: Vocals, keyboards
Jennifer Denitto: Drums
Charlotte Beale: Bass guitar
Lucy Board: Synths and keyboards
Matthew Board: Synths and keyboards

Artwork by Abbie Aldous

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Lemonade Sin London, UK

London and Devon-based Lemonade Sin are the creation of Lee Friese-Greene and Simon Aldous – assisted by Charlotte, Robin and Jen. While they cite their primary influences as Abba and the Velvet Underground, their dreamy indie-pop sound also has echoes of every great boy/girl duet you’ve ever heard –from Nancy and Lee, via the Pastels to Belle & Sebastian and the Human League ... more

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