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Cover of The Night Bus Takes the Long Way Round

Single · 2025

The Night Bus Takes the Long Way Round

by Thomas Averill

Two late-night rides, one slow bus and one father who won't take the lift.

Tracks

  1. 1. The Night Bus Takes the Long Way RoundAn empty upper deck with streetlamps sliding like lanterns on a slow canal. I wrote it from the front seat and I wasn't in a hurry.night-bus folk, dreamy indie folk3:51
  2. 2. Dad Takes the Stairs, and So Do IHe's eighty-one and says the stairs are a gift. I've started taking them too, and he's right.family folk, groovy acoustic3:44

Liner notes

A little double-sided single that I put out in the autumn between albums. The A-side is the night bus going the long way round, and the B-side is my dad, who is eighty-one and insists on the stairs. Both of them taught me not to hurry. Play it on a rainy evening.

Thomas Averill