Inside a Boy | Single

Digital EP - Release Date: May 6, 2008

My Brightest Diamond releases the first single from A Thousand Shark’s Teeth with “Inside a Boy.” The release includes the original track, a beatbox-driven fantasy rock b-side called “I Had a Pearl,” and remixes of two tracks.

Tracklisting for “Inside A Boy” digital single:
1. Inside A Boy (album version)
2. I Had A Pearl
3. Black and Costaud - Tim Fite redux
4. Inside A Boy - Son Lux remix

Listen to “Inside a Boy” on MySpace or purchase on iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, etc.
Download SonLux remix at pitchforky.

I Had A Pearl Lyrics:
Many strange things did I behold
I had the favor a queen and watched it turn to stone
I’ve kissed the lips of princes, fools and dreams
I walked a tightrope through the moonlight to the seven seas
I’ve seen silver headed Valentine
I carried up the swan kings gold and gave them thimble wine
I saw the old man time glisten before the end
I went down disappearing hole was never seen again

I had a pearl and I lost it
I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded
I saw her face turn away
and now I know that there is nothing so hard
I can’t get over it

On eleven o two I sailed a red hot balloon
to the snow capped mountains of Timorataloo
And when the owl stole my air for his last tune
I floated up to Pluto on a beam of the moon

I had a pearl and I lost it
I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded
I saw her face turn away
and now I know that there is nothing so high
I can’t get over it

I Had a Pearl credits:
programming- SonLux
bass drum- James McAlister
beatboxing- Adam Matta
bass, guzheng- Nathan Lithgow
clarinet, bass clarinet- Sebastian Krueger
piano, organ and vocals- Shara Worden
toys- Sxip Shirey

engineered by Shara Worden
Produced by Shara Worden and Son Lux

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