The Sick-Leaves are gearing up for the digital release of long awaited fourth album Breaking Away on January 23rd 2012.
Breaking Away was originally envisioned to be an EP but once completed clocked in at an explosive twenty-nine minutes following the inclusion of the most recently written song and first radio single Catfights In Bushes.
Catfights In Bushes is by far one of the most energetic songs The Sick-Leaves has ever recorded.
Songwriter Eksteen Jacobsz describes the lyrics as being “a metaphor for how often we get caught up in a tangle with other people and how opportunities are made or lost with respect to how you react to those encounters.”
Breaking Away is a jubilant, victorious, uplifting experience.
lyrics
Catfights In Bushes
sometimes, it feels like I’m in your firing line
wait up, wait for your squeeze on the side, alright
high up, they’ll lean on your spirit to dig them a hole
lounge back, it’s about to spiral outta control
I don’t mind she said / before it expires come inside
hold the line / Dear Whoever, who’s in charge?
Step in / step out / cat fights in bushes
come down, it’s not as if you have a bird’s eye view, from up there
call in, but not if you can say I like the way that you are
don’t think for a moment you have what it takes in the bag
wake up, it’s a violent war that won’t end
all the love you had / over powered you / brought you down
all the tears / Dear Whoever, who’s in charge?
Step in / step out /cat fights in bushes
this time, cat fights in bushes won’t slow me down, let’s meet up tonight
I found a way, to suck them right out of their holes, not again, I’ll fall for their kind
hang on, whatever you do don’t let go / come on / settle in
come on settle in x3
credits
from Breaking Away (2012),
track released January 23, 2012
Track: Catfights in Bushes
Album title: Breaking Away
Catalogue number: TSLCD004
Music & Lyrics composed by Eksteen Jacobsz
All guitars, vocals and bass performed by Eksteen Jacobsz
Drums performed by Wayne Kennith Pictor
Produced, mixed & mastered at .45 by Matthew Fink
Recorded at Sting Studios, Johannesburg, SA September 2011.
Album cover photograph by James N. Brown
Album artwork layout by Sean Brand
The Sick-Leaves is the solo project of singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist Eksteen Jacobsz.
The Sick-Leaves
have released three albums with the first & second albums being nominated for South African music awards in 2007 & 2009 respectively.
Fourth album Breaking Away is to be released in January 2012 to follow from critically accliamed 2010 released 3rd album Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy....more
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