New album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0WNQPgX1O2RkWQ7j9w31RR
Website: https://www.theloafingheroes.com/
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/theloafingheroes/stairs/s-WXX0m

“descend the stairs, bend your legs, melting one by one” … And so begins The Loafing Heroes’ first video and single from their brand new album “meandertales” (release date April 2019). Filmed in locations in Lisbon and Ireland, the lyrics, melody and movement of “stairs” convey the dreamscape of a distorted fairytale. Witness burning hair, skin turning to water, a software that is beyond repair, and an enigmatic woman telling the singer just to breathe. This is the striking new single from a band taking to the road and the airwaves once again.

Directed by Otwin Biernat
Song written by Bartholomew Ryan
Produced and mixed by Tadklimp
Mastered by Moritz Ilner
Featuring: Bartholomew Ryan (vocals, guitar), Giulia Gallina (autoharp, vocals, percussion), Judith Retzlik (viola)

LYRICS:

I
Descend the stairs, bend your legs
melting one by one

Open your mouth to the snake in the sand
swallowing you one by one

Laugh at the time when you thought you could count
with just one plus one

Enter the stone that your brain will become
with each part one by one

II
This software is beyond repair
now we are naked
I’m listening to the woman who told me to breathe
now we are breathing

III
My hair is on fire
and I know that you know
yes I know that I know

My skin is turning to water
and I see that you see
yes I see that I see
I see the stairs

IV
Descend the stairs, bend your legs
melting one by one

Open your mouth to the snake in the sand
swallowing you one by one

V
I’m listening to the river that told me to drown
now we are drowning

VI
My hair is on fire
and I know that you know
yes I know that I know

My skin is turning to water
and I see that you see
yes I see that I see