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song: Tears for Affairs
artist: Camera Obscura
album: Let’s Get Out of This Country
released: 2006-05-29length: 3:52
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Shedding tears for affairs
I'm a funny little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
Affairs don't win

Can you handle one more dirty secret one more dirty night
Is it true what they say
Will it make us go blind

You had to drive
Look me in the eye
Whisper don't cry

I'll take an interest in Illustration
It should be a laugh
Your words are with me still
They whisper in the grass

Shedding tears for affairs
I'm a stupid little thing
I can tell you this for nothing
You won't win

You had to drive
(I didn't want to)
Look me in the eye
(I found it hard to)
Whisper don't cry
(I had to whisper don't cry)
So I cried
Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura are a Scottish indie pop band from Glasgow. The group formed in 1996, and have released five studio albums to date – the most recent of which, Desire Lines, was released in 2013. A sixth, titled Look to the East, Look to the West, is set for release in May 2024. The current members of the band are lead vocalist Tracyanne Campbell, guitarist/vocalist Kenny McKeeve, bassist Gavin Dunbar, and drummer Lee Thomson. Following the death of long-serving keyboardist Carey Lander, the band went on hiatus from 2015 to 2018.

The band's music has been frequently described as "twee pop," and garnered comparisons to fellow Scottish band Belle and Sebastian. The band have also been praised for their "honest, wide, and adult approach to heartbreak, romantic liaisons, and escapism."

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Comments ( 167 )
Posted 5 years ago by tonyjory:
Nobody mentions that Camera Obscura were "discovered" by the late, and sorely missed, English BBC Radio DJ, John Peel.
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Posted 5 years ago by jasko:
Sounds like  hit song from  another era .
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Posted 10 years ago by ScottishWillie:
Been much to long since this was last on Radio Paradise. One of my favorite Scottish bands.
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Posted 12 years ago by hayduke2:
I'm flashing back in a positive way to a small apartment I had in north brooklyn with an accordian player as a neighbor, this sweet tune brings back hot summer nights, the accordian's way of lifting my mind out into the dark, past the street lights and street noise, the musings and longings for my late working Irish lover, coming home after 2, tired and hot and long limbed and ready for caressing and good sweaty lovin
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Posted 18 years ago by mamerjamer:
I always feel better at the end of this song than I did at the beginning.
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Posted 5 years ago by forthbrdge:
Love the cover art. Reminds me of the neighbor visiting Mrs. Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Broke more of the china I suppose...
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Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn:
Seems I used to hear this ages ago here, and I've always really liked this; has a wistful, bittersweet tinge along with brightness and light...
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Posted 14 years ago by kcar:
lixy wrote:
Look at those eyes! The chick's been abducted by aliens. 
  
 peter_james_bond wrote:

No, she's just horrified by that wallpaper.  ......Later back at the record company she says to the record exec., "Surely you are not going to use this pic for the album cover!?!"

Record Exec replies, "Yes, and don't call me Shirley."    ....that's all folks....
 
The soundtrack for that photo shoot:

"One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all..." 

Edit: Holy crap! Two minutes after I finish posting the lyrics, Bill starts playing an Emiliana Torrini cover of "White Rabbit"! Dude, it's a harmonic convergence! 
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Posted 18 years ago by Red_Dragon:
me likey....and I want some of the 'shrooms she's on in that album art.
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Posted 6 years ago by MassivRuss:
Wrong wiki link. Fun tho!
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Posted 2 years ago by sunybuny:
 bimmerfan739 wrote:

Do I detect a hint of Over-the-Rhine?

Only in that OTR's music is based on the Appalachian music that came north from TN/KY to Cincinnati and that that region of TN/KY Appalachia was settled by Irish and Scots immigrants back in the 1700-1800's. So, yes, you might hear a little OTR in there.

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Posted 3 years ago by Ralf:
How is that not Zooey Deschanel singing?
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Posted 3 years ago by brosen:
Reminds me of a Zooey Deschanel song from a She & Him album. 
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Posted 4 years ago by kevrey:
This is in the style of some early 1960s era songs. Very cool.
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Posted 4 years ago by Akazungu:
forthbrdge wrote:
Love the cover art. Reminds me of the neighbor visiting Mrs. Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Broke more of the china I suppose...
 

"Bu-quet"
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Posted 5 years ago by SpinyNorma:
Red_Dragon wrote:
me likey....and I want some of the 'shrooms she's on in that album art.
 
T'was a combination of some very similar wallpaper and a certain breed of fungus that once kept me trapped in a friend's downstairs toilet for many, many hours.  (In reality, it was probably only 10 minutes, though.)

Watch out for the flowers, 'cos they're gonn a get you, yeah!
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Posted 5 years ago by ScottishWillie:
tonyjory wrote:
Nobody mentions that Camera Obscura were "discovered" by the late, and sorely missed, English BBC Radio DJ, John Peel.
 
I bet that a reasonable percentage of this stations output could be traced back to John Peel.
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Posted 5 years ago by dmiley:
tonyjory wrote:
Nobody mentions that Camera Obscura were "discovered" by the late, and sorely missed, English BBC Radio DJ, John Peel.
 
John Peel's a C**t - Reading 1978
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Posted 10 years ago by dcdude:
All and all a really good album by Camera Obscura.   And the reference to Belle & Sebastian - I believe I bought their "The Life Pursuit" around the same time (although Amazon for some odd reason has its release date set at 2014?)

If you like this song, you'll probably like the whole CD.
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Posted 11 years ago by richlister:
hayduke2 wrote:
I'm flashing back in a positive way to a small apartment I had in north brooklyn with an accordian player as a neighbor, this sweet tune brings back hot summer nights, the accordian's way of lifting my mind out into the dark, past the street lights and street noise, the musings and longings for my late working Irish lover, coming home after 2, tired and hot and long limbed and ready for caressing and good sweaty lovin

 
I just sicked a little bit in my mouth...
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