I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want
The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland formed in la… Read Full Bio ↴The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland formed in late 2003. The band is composed of James Alexander Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar/keyboards) and Mark Devine (drums). They have released five full-length albums: Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (2007), Forget The Night Ahead (2009), No One Can Ever Know (2012), Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (2014) and It Won/t Be Like This All the Time (2019). Where their debut album mixed post-rock and post-punk with heavily delayed shoegaze guitars and folk elements, their second album is more influenced by early krautrock. The band experienced a stylistic shift on their third album that replaced the wall of sound with analog synths in a new wave style.
The band started up by playing a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games, and a lot of noise, in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.
In September 2005, they produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ '06 and SXSW '07 Festivals.
Their debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, was recorded over a short period of three days and featured the first songs the band had ever created. It received good critical reception from the independent music media and turned the band into a reference point for the up-and-coming scottish indie scene at the time. Where the band’s recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience which replaces the intricacies of the recordings with a more visceral wall of sound, which is something the band intended to do all along.
In June 2008, they released the Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did EP, which included off-the-cuff reworkings of songs from the debut album, alongside the title track and a cover of Daniel Johnston, an artist they've cited as one of their main influences. The idea came about after the band played at London's Union Chapel, a venue with noise restrictions that forced them to perform with a more basic line-up of a fan organ, glockenspiel and percussion. During this time, the band recruited Martin "Dok" Docherty (formerly of Aereogramme) to play keyboards and additional guitar during the live shows. At the end of 2008, they released Killed My Parents and Hit the Road, a compilation to help fund their tour with fellow scots Mogwai. It consisted of live recordings, acoustic tracks, previously unreleased material, new demos and covers, which included The Smiths, Joy Division and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Their second album, Forget The Night Ahead, was released in September 2009. For the recording process, the band disposed of their effect pedals and experimented with natural reverb using early krautrock techniques, like mic'ing up inside the studio walls and rooms on the other side of the building to get the drum sound. During this time, original bassist Craig Orzel left the band to pursue other projects. He was replaced in the live setting by Johnny Docherty of Take a Worm for a Walk Week. A year later the band released The Wrong Car EP that featured two b-sides from the 'Forget' sessions as well as remixes by fellow Scottish acts Mogwai and Errors.
The release of their third album No One Can Ever Know saw the band pursue a change in style, virtually eliminating delayed guitars and relying on vintage analog synthesizers instead. The album was recorded in February/March 2011 at The Pool studios in London and featured production assistance by Andrew Weatherall.
The band started up by playing a couple of gigs at the 13th Note in Glasgow, creating half hour-long pieces of music using guitars, bass, drums, theremin, tape loops from films and old folk/country songs, effects pedals, toy keyboards, thumb pianos, saws, computer games, and a lot of noise, in an attempt to try and discover a sound they could call their own and continue to develop. After these two shows, they rejected many gig offers, and became a more reclusive unit, spending any spare time they had in the studio focused on writing and sculpting away at new material.
In September 2005, they produced a 4-song demo with a 24-track desk, trying to get the best representation as possible, sent it over to Brighton-based Fat Cat Records. Alex Knight, co-founder of the label, went to Glasgow to watch the band perform their third gig and signed them on the spot. In November 2006, they made their first official release with The Twilight Sad, a US-only EP that helped bring attention to the band, as well as performances at CMJ '06 and SXSW '07 Festivals.
Their debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, was recorded over a short period of three days and featured the first songs the band had ever created. It received good critical reception from the independent music media and turned the band into a reference point for the up-and-coming scottish indie scene at the time. Where the band’s recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience which replaces the intricacies of the recordings with a more visceral wall of sound, which is something the band intended to do all along.
In June 2008, they released the Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did EP, which included off-the-cuff reworkings of songs from the debut album, alongside the title track and a cover of Daniel Johnston, an artist they've cited as one of their main influences. The idea came about after the band played at London's Union Chapel, a venue with noise restrictions that forced them to perform with a more basic line-up of a fan organ, glockenspiel and percussion. During this time, the band recruited Martin "Dok" Docherty (formerly of Aereogramme) to play keyboards and additional guitar during the live shows. At the end of 2008, they released Killed My Parents and Hit the Road, a compilation to help fund their tour with fellow scots Mogwai. It consisted of live recordings, acoustic tracks, previously unreleased material, new demos and covers, which included The Smiths, Joy Division and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Their second album, Forget The Night Ahead, was released in September 2009. For the recording process, the band disposed of their effect pedals and experimented with natural reverb using early krautrock techniques, like mic'ing up inside the studio walls and rooms on the other side of the building to get the drum sound. During this time, original bassist Craig Orzel left the band to pursue other projects. He was replaced in the live setting by Johnny Docherty of Take a Worm for a Walk Week. A year later the band released The Wrong Car EP that featured two b-sides from the 'Forget' sessions as well as remixes by fellow Scottish acts Mogwai and Errors.
The release of their third album No One Can Ever Know saw the band pursue a change in style, virtually eliminating delayed guitars and relying on vintage analog synthesizers instead. The album was recorded in February/March 2011 at The Pool studios in London and featured production assistance by Andrew Weatherall.
I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want
The Twilight Sad Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by The Twilight Sad:
Alphabet We put them in the park and we told them…
And She Would Darken the Memory And head up, dear, you're shallow and blind And head up,…
And She Would Darken The Memory of Youth And head up dear, you're shallow and blind And head up…
Another Bed The reminder That we don't know who you are And I preferre…
At The Burnside And we can't all be there so far At the Burnside We're…
Auge/Maschine You're so sincere I know you're a liar Oh-so sincere We all …
Cold Days from the Birdhouse Another hotel with ruined plans Romantic gesture with ruined…
Dead City That's time You're mine go on together It's your life It…
Don And I I'll have you Wouldn't you ever knew And I I…
Don't Move And I I'll have you Wouldn't you ever knew And I I…
Drown So I Can Watch I put you through hell But you carried it oh so…
Floating In the Forth So you just stepped out Of the front of my house And…
Floorboards Under the Bed And taken all of our mistakes And we've turned them into…
Girl Chewing Gum I'm leaving now Won't see you again I'm leaving now Won't se…
Half a person Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years…
Here You're too close for comfort You're too lcose tot comfort me…
Here It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did because your present's kicking strong old man and there's a …
I You're too close for comfort You're too lcose tot comfort me…
I Became a Prostitute There's a girl in the crowd and she's bawling her…
I Could Give You All That You Don She put your toys away You carried them and scraped your…
I Could Give You All That You Don't Want She put your toys away You carried them and scraped your…
I'm Taking the Train Home Comments and memories attached And when there's no one there…
I/m Not Here You're too close for comfort You're too lcose tot comfort me…
In Nowheres Outside they say you're alright But you're mine and i'll hol…
Interrupted The room was so tight I'll see you in the morning…
It Never Was The Same Look aside You don't see our things We lose them all Noth…
Keep It All to Myself The love that you see for you, not for me You…
Kill It in the Morning I see not the same things Are you assure are you…
Last January I see you at night, and I stare at you You don't…
Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard She sings from a hole in her skin, I only want…
Leave The House So what do you care for There's no one in the…
Let/s Get Lost I'm losing, I'm losing you every day I see that I'm…
Made to Disappear So show him what you lose When you answer no Catch the…
Mapped By What Surrounded Them And these walls And these walls are filled with blame And th…
Nil And I remember that day It was her last And when the…
Not Sleeping You have to know you are And off the curve and…
Pills I Swallow It started on that night I never left your side, Oh have…
Reflection of the Television There's people downstairs I'm more than a fighter, you know…
Seven Years of Letters If you say go There's a chance that we're running scared W…
Shooting Dennis Hopper Shooting Why did you do that? We're not talking anymore Why did you…
Sick You don’t feel the same When the fears go You ride my…
Some Things Last a Long Time Your picture is still on my wall, on my wall The…
Sometimes I Wished I Could Fall Asleep Sad to see I will stay awake I'm leaving you Just to be…
Suck We've talked so long, suddenly it's Tuesday We still don't k…
Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed And did you feel no good when When you see that…
That Birthday Present And have another skin full, put it in your eye And…
That Summer I'm 14, and you know, That I'm looking the wrong way And…
That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy And 14, and you know, That I'm looking the wrong way And…
The Arbor I'm tired I can't believe that you will die So tired My eyes…
The Neighbours Can't Breathe They're no thoughts of mine this time When the paint went…
The Room And your face is turning hard through the winter There's na…
The Summer At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy I'm 14, and you know, That I'm looking the wrong way And…
The Wrong Car And we were there with our ears to the ground 'Cause…
There's A Girl In The Corner And you're not coming back And you're not coming back…
Three Seconds Of Dead Air Mother knows And how to keep a secret from me And when…
Throw Yourself Into the Water Again and we're dancing over your grave and the lights were only…
Twenty Four Hours So this is permanence, love's shattered pride What once was …
Videograms I won't keep All the hurt you gave to me I'm scared…
Vtr I've been waitin' for you There's nothin' that I'd rather do…
Walking for Two Hours Why do they come when you're always raining? Why can't they…
[10 Good Reasons for Modern Drugs] We're hanging on by a thread And you keep bowing your…
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Trevor Webster
Brilliant song and amazing vocals, I love the fact that the Scottish accent was kept.
Sue Sutton
same - their are few ( if any ) Scottish bands with such a strong accent - I Love it , amd it just adds to their unique and awesome songs , they r one of my very favourite bands ❤
Nathan Hammond
Accent was more than kept. No shame in their islander game😅
Nathan Hammond
Nice to know where someone is from, just with a few lyrics. It is a beautiful accent, to me
Omar Vicente García Sánchez
Why isn't this song viewed like 87 billion more times?! Why is this kind of music not shared with more people?! This overwhelmingly beautiful music needs to be at the forefront of the industry because it speaks to the SOUL.
WhiteEagleForce2.0
Because people lost the taste in music. But dont worry friend. We have great taste in music. We are like rare gems 👍
comeupandseememakeme
This song and performance exemplifies all that it is to be young to be driven forward by that young life force and to believe in the unknown future. Very nice piece of work it gives me alot of joy at 52.
Sue Sutton
And me at 60 : ))
Betty B
I’m with you at 50.... our souls can still lift and soar when we are moved by a song like this one.
Edricama
This is a power anthem for real