Station Approach

Album: Leaders of the Free World (2005)
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Songfacts®:

  • The Independent newspaper May 9, 2008 asked Guy Garvey which were his favorite lyrics of all the ones that he had written. The Elbow frontman replied: "My favorite lyrics either describe a familiar feeling in a new way or describe a specific feeling that you've never heard described before - an emotion that's too complex to be put into words usually, ways of getting to specific feelings. In 'Station Approach,' that's a very particular civic pride, which is a very specific civic feeling. I love Manchester. I have a complicated love affair with Manchester because 'Grounds for Divorce' is slating Manchester."
  • The song is named after the road that leads up to Manchester Piccadilly Station.

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