Mixed Music Bag 2024 – week 13 – Editors

The final week for the month of March to find a group or solo singer starting with the letter E or F

Editors are an English rock band, formed in 2002 in Birmingham. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band currently consists of Tom Smith (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Russell Leetch (bass guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals), Ed Lay (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Justin Lockey (lead guitar), Elliott Williams (keys, synthesizers, guitars, and backing vocals), and Benjamin John Power (composer and producer).

Editors have so far released two platinum studio albums, and seven in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits “Munich” and “Blood” and the following year received a Mercury Prize nomination.

Their follow-up album An End Has a Start went to number 1 in the UK Album Chart in June 2007 and earned the band a Brit Awards nomination for best British Band. It also spawned another Top 10 hit single, “Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors”. The band’s third album, In This Light and in This Evening, was released in October 2009 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Album Chart. The album featured the single “Papillon” The band released their fourth studio album, The Weight of Our Love, in July 2013, followed by self-produced In Dream in October 2015. In 2018, the band released their sixth album Violence. Their seventh album, EBM, was released in September 2022.

[Verse 1]
Make our escape
You’re my own papillon
The world turns too fast
Feel love before it’s gone
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My Papillon, feel love when it shone

[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch

[Chorus]
Darling
Just don’t put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He’d have raised a hand by now
Now darling
You’re born, get old and die here

Well that’s quiet enough for me

We’ll find our own way home somehow

[Verse 2]
No sense of doubt
Or what you could achieve
Well I’ve found you out
I’ve seen the life you wish to leave
But when it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke
Choke on the air you try to breathe

[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch

[Chorus]
Darling
Now just don’t put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He’d have raised a hand by now
Darling
You’re born, get old and die here
Well that’s quite enough for me, dear
We’ll find our own way home somehow
How, how?

[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch
It kicks like a sleep twitch

[Chorus]
Darling
Just don’t put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He’d have raised a hand by now
Darling
Oh, you’re born, get old and die here
Well that’s quite enough for me, dear
We’ll find our own way home somehow

[Refrain]
It kicks like a sleep twitch

[Outro]
It kicks like a sleep twitch

Writer(s): Christopher Urbanowicz, Thomas Smith, Russell Leetch, Edward Lay