No Surprise (For Wendela)

Album: Falling of the Lavender Bridge (2008)
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  • Lightspeed Champion (Dev Hynes) told the Sun newspaper January 18, 2008: "Musically, it's dedicated to my mum but lyrically it would be a bit weird to dedicate it to her. Originally, I kept thinking, man, this sounds a bit like a Sade song. My mum kept listening to it over Christmas. She really likes it."

Comments: 1

  • Alex from Nairobi, KenyaI'm guessing he put the part in parentheses so people wouldn't get it mixed up with that awful theory of a dead man song
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