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Test Tube Baby

by Michael B Thomas

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As you’d probably have guessed already from the track title, I am a Test Tube Baby. I suppose lyrically it is sort of a homage to my Mum really, and the struggle she had to get me here, after her melanoma diagnosis at the age of 24.

I feel like there are musical nods towards Wilco, Elliot
Smith and Sparklehorse. It was recorded between my bedroom and Bam Bam Studios in Leeds with my Eades bandmate Harry Jordan on production, also featuring Leeds based singer/songwriter Gemma Gates on backing vocals.

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She can’t conceive it,
the original plan that laid in her head,
because things look different,
on the outside looking in,
but we best get moving,
from one constricted level to another,
got a one in three chance,
yeah to do it right.
Cause’ I’m just a test tube baby,
yeah I’m just a test tube baby.
Remove part of the skin and bone,
so that I could be your flesh and blood,
something that I hope,
you could be proud of in good time,
repay the gift that you gave,
from one life to the next.
Cause’ I’m just a test tube baby,
yeah I’m just a test tube baby.
Yeah I’m just a genetic mutation
Yeah I’m just a genetic mutation.

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released March 20, 2024
Written & Recorded by Michael B Thomas
Mixed & Produced by Harry Jordan
Drums Performed by Lachlan Banner
Verse Bass performed by Stan Braddock
Backing vocals performed by Gemma Gates

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Michael B Thomas Leeds, UK

Michael B Thomas is the solo recording project of Leeds based Singer-songwriter and musician Thomas Barr. His colourful lyricism and pristine lo-fi folk arrangements are born from Thomas's time as lead songwriter and vocalist in Party Hardly. Delving into the realm of existentialism and the way modern society identifies life and love; there's a certain melancholy of innocence within Thomas's music ... more

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