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English singer/songwriter Beth Orton’s latest album &#39;Weather Alive&#39; was one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2022, landing on year-end &#39;Best of 2022&#39; lists from NPR, Pitchfork, and The New York Times—the latter of which praised Orton for her “modal vocal phrases and marveling [stories].&#34; Pitchfork also named the title track a Best New Track, calling it “a slow-burning tour de force,” while The Late Late Show with James Corden invited Orton and her band to perform album highlight &#34;Fractals.&#34;

Orton self-produced &#39;Weather Alive’, laying the foundations of the album on an upright piano that she installed in her garden shed at home in London. When the time was right, Orton invited an incredible group of collaborators to join her across the album&#39;s eight tracks, including jazz poet Alabaster DePlume, The Smile drummer Tom Skinner, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and Mercury Prize nominated bassist Tom Herbert of The Invisible. The musicians locked naturally into Orton’s sensibilities, expanding the emotive and dream-like world she&#39;d created and conjuring a deeply meditative atmosphere that remains long after the final note has evaporated.

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The first in a series of playlist by Beth Orton of music that inspires her. Beth's new album Kidsticks is out 27th May. Listen to the new track Moon <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1PXTMIL2fTZ9rn1PMGGCKe">here</a> &amp; pre-order the album <a href="http://www.bethortonofficial.com/">here</a>. Follow this playlist for updates to this and other playlist.

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This is the playlist of all the albums by Beth Orton. includes new track I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain with the Chemical Brothers. Follow to be alerted when new songs are added.

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Four years older than Beth, and she makes me feel like a teenage boy chasing her in my dreams—thank you

I am so thankful that you share your music with the world.

Thank you for being the soundtrack of my entire childhood. And adolescence and a lot of my adulthood as well. I love you very much.Thank you, Beth.

I&#39;m listening to this right now on a Friday night. Under the 🌟 in my garden.

I'm listening to this right now on a Friday night. Under the 🌟 in my garden.

Oh, so moving. <br>I bigitme love your honest face.<br>My nephew turning 20 today... this makes me recall the days back when. Always friday somewhere....

Oh, so moving. 
I bigitme love your honest face.
My nephew turning 20 today... this makes me recall the days back when. Always friday somewhere....

Your voice and delivery is all I need in your songs sometimes. However in this one Everything sounds perfect. Much Love for you<br> Beth always.

Your voice and delivery is all I need in your songs sometimes. However in this one Everything sounds perfect. Much Love for you
 Beth always.

Beth Orton Friday Night is one of my favorite song

This song still wrecks me in 2024. Beautiful tune and Beth looks beautiful also.

I remember being 18, and having just graduated High School the first time I heard She Cries Your Name. I instantly fell in love with her voice. Well over 25 years later, and she still mesmerizes me with her beautiful and unique sound. I’m now very excited for this new album.

It has a &quot;Daybreaker&quot; sound, love it.

Bought this album 2 days ago at my local Barnes and Noble where I was quite pleased to find it for immediate purchase.  I&#39;ve been playing it in the car the last couple of days while running errands and also during the rare act of visiting a friend, which meant a longer drive than usual, which meant more listening to than usual.  I have yet to really sit down with the lyrics and listen intently to each song, but I have to say that, preliminarily, overall, this is wonderful new musical territory for Orton - neither electronica nor adult folk pop, but something more amorphous...something to really get lost in.  Mildly discordant and dissociative, but mellifluous.  Ponderous, yet prolonging.  Sublime and torturous.

Bought this album 2 days ago at my local Barnes and Noble where I was quite pleased to find it for immediate purchase.  I've been playing it in the car the last couple of days while running errands and also during the rare act of visiting a friend, which meant a longer drive than usual, which meant more listening to than usual.  I have yet to really sit down with the lyrics and listen intently to each song, but I have to say that, preliminarily, overall, this is wonderful new musical territory for Orton - neither electronica nor adult folk pop, but something more amorphous...something to really get lost in.  Mildly discordant and dissociative, but mellifluous.  Ponderous, yet prolonging.  Sublime and torturous.

What a fantastic song !!!!  No other comment, Beth is simply a Genius !!

I&#39;ve been listening to her music for over 20 years, and she is still finding ways to surprise and delight with her songs.

I've been listening to her music for over 20 years, and she is still finding ways to surprise and delight with her songs.

This song is so beautiful it almost makes me cry.

I&#39;ve just found this song and I&#39;m flying right now.

I've just found this song and I'm flying right now.

One of the most beautiful songs I have heard in a very long time.

The world&#39;s a better place with your beautiful music in it

The world's a better place with your beautiful music in it

Beautiful song my soul breathes again.  You see me no one sees me.

Been a fan of Beth for more years than I care to remember <br>But this beautiful haunting masterpiece has blown me away    Like a fine wine she gets better and better

Been a fan of Beth for more years than I care to remember 
But this beautiful haunting masterpiece has blown me away    Like a fine wine she gets better and better

Found Beth interview and new song on Gilles Peterson worldwide,  You are forever beautiful.

this song has an extremely pleasant vibe, especially live. the first piano notes hooked me so hard

Love this! Kind of has that &quot;Riders on the Storm&quot; feel.

Love this! Kind of has that "Riders on the Storm" feel.

Can’t stop watching this omg. Love the song

THERE is nothing that is not wonderful about beth orton.

Always loved Beth since the first 7&quot;, but this year she seems to have gone up another level. Incredible stuff :)

Always loved Beth since the first 7", but this year she seems to have gone up another level. Incredible stuff :)

I agree this song has taken BO to another level and the live version at Maida Vale is even better. The voice may be weakening but who cares when she takes you to heaven like this.

The Ground Above

Singles taken from new album titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive

Weather Alive

Lost Leaves

Beth Orton - Live

Kidsticks

Trailer Park

'Friday Night' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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CREDITS:
Directed by Beth Orton
Director of Photography: Anna Gudbrands
Assisted by Sam Amidon
Produced by Evelina Evangelia Stoltidou
Production manager: Laurențiu Sarjan 
MUA: Amanda Velee
Location: The Old Carpet Factory, Hydra
Post Production by Tentacle
Edited by Jacek Janiszewski and Jordan Copeland
Colour by Kurt Riddell
Post-Production Manager: Arminda Klier

Thanks to Stephan at the Old Carpet Factory


LYRICS:
I’ve been dreaming of Proust all in my bed
He speaks to me in my sleep
He takes me to the other side
With his madeleines and friends
When the sea comes in it’s hard to believe
It’ll ever go out again
Though we never do get too close
I still hold you now and then
On a Friday night
On a Friday night
There’s a stillness left after you leave
It’ll speak of what has been
When I’m laying in the dark awake
And I’m listening to the rain
Our sorrow made the city shine
We never had to feel that pain
Now those tears are prayers of empathy
Gonna wash me clean again
On a Friday night
On a Friday night
Forgot that we had bones
Forgot that we could feel
Forgot that we’d wake up
And it’d all be real
It’d still be real
We’d been waiting for the light to change
We’d been waiting on a friend
And the only choice that was left to us
Was to bleed or rust in the rain
Now the measure of your absence
Is the presence that you leave
And darling that’s where we put all the love
That we still have to give
On a Friday night
On a Friday night
Forgot that I had bones
Forgot that I could feel
Forgot that we’d wake up
Beth Orton: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Piano
Shahzad Ismaily: Moog, Electric Guitar, Bass
Jesse Chandler: Synth, Mellotron, Backing Vocals, Flute Tom Herbert: Sounds Born of Bass
Tom Skinner: Drums
Additional Editing: Paul Corley

Beth Orton - Friday Night (Official Music Video)

'Weather Alive' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, also titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
 
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CREDITS:
Directed by Eliot Lee Hazel
Cinematography by Aaron Alan Mitchell
Post Production by Tentacle
Edited by Daisy Dickinson and Jordan Copeland
 
LYRICS:
In the morning
When you’re dawning
In the stillness of the day
Mist is rising, jewels aligning
And the shadows meet the day
 
And the world calling out to me
But the world out beyond my reach
 
It almost makes me wanna cry
The weather’s so beautiful outside
Almost makes me wanna cry
The weather’s so beautiful outside
 
“She said there are three steps
Down to the water’s edge
Take one two three
And there at the root of the tree
Wait for me, wait for me.”
 
In the half light, almost moonlight
We’ll run naked ‘cross the lawn
All is rising
All transpiring
and our shadow breathes the day
 
And the world is falling from my hands
And the words will never understand (more than I can ask)
 
It almost makes me wanna cry
The weather’s so beautiful outside
It almost makes me wanna cry
The weather’s so beautiful outside
 
And the love, the love that were given
Gonna bring us back into being
And the love, the love that were giving
Gonna bring us back into being
 
Something like
something like
something like
 
Slipping from my hands
Falling from my grasp
More than I can stand
Coming alive
It’s coming alive
It’s all coming alive

Beth Orton: Vocals, Piano
Shahzad Ismaily: Electric guitar, Harmonica, Percussion, Bass Jesse Chandler: Various
Tom Herbert: Bass
Tom Skinner: Drums
Sam Beste: Vibraphone
Grey Mcmurray: Electric Guitar
Francine Perry: Prophet 06, Roland 100m, Modular Mini Moog, Additional engineering

Beth Orton - Weather Alive (Official Music Video)

'Forever Young' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: https://bethorton.lnk.to/foreveryoung 
 
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CREDITS:
Directed by Stephen Ellcock and Jonathan Reid-Edwards
Visual Effects and Editing by Jonathan Reid-Edwards

LYRICS:
My love, don’t you sing for me?
My love, won’t you sing for me?
Am I not your poetry?
Then why don’t you sing for me?
In the coliseum
Madness and reason
Laid out with the weight of snow
Come back my love and see
Come and see what a mess
they made of this
Your eyes they’re as wide as stars
Your eyes they’re as wide as stars
Your blood is as black as tar
Ain’t you beautiful, beautiful as you ever were
In the coliseum
Fighting and screaming
Weightless as the sound of snow
Come back my love and see
Come and see what a mess
They made of this
All I want, all I need
Where you are tonight
Won’t you come find me
And we could go rolling, rolling, rolling my darling
Go rolling down that avenue
Go back in time go back in time
Where the river runs wild
Our love will be forever young
Our love will be forever young
Beautiful as you ever are
Beautiful as you ever are

Beth Orton - Forever Young (Official Music Video)

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Beth Orton & The Chemical Brothers - 'I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain'

'Fractals' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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LYRICS:
You lay on your back under spider spun trees
Hallucinated on fractals of green
And thought about living with nothing to lose
With windows to see them before they see you
And you do not know how to pretend
You hoped it would all go away in the end
But you’re every person in your dream
When anything happens
it happens to you
 
And you,
You start believing in magic
 
What in the world are we gonna do now
There’s nowhere to turn and there’s no one around
I s’pose in the end well that is what it is
You grow up alone and that’s what you get left
And nobody knows how to forgive
You thought it might all go away if you did
Now you’re every person in your dream
When anything happens it happens for real
 
And you?
You start believing in magic
 
(who do you cry to)
 
We lay on our backs under vibrating green
Hallucinated on what it all means
Now I can be patient but just tell me how long
And why I feel like shit for what I didn’t do wrong
Cos I do not know how to pretend
I thought it would all go away in the end
But I’m every person in this dream
But when anything happens it doesn’t just happen to me 
 
You start believing in magic
(who do you cry to)
Well I’m believing in magic
(who do you cry to)
Without believing in magic
 
Turning like a stone
In the hand of the unknown
 
I made an art out of believing in magic
But I made believe
I could take it for granted
Falling like a star
I fell into your arms
Fell into your arms
 
It just happened by magic
It just happened by magic
 
“Every person in your dream”


Beth Orton: Vocals, Piano
Shahzad Ismaily: Synth, Percussion Sam Beste: Neo Soul Piano
Tom Skinner: Drums
Tom Herbert: Bass
Alabaster DePlume: Saxophone

Beth Orton - Fractals (Official Audio)

'Lonely' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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LYRICS:

Shall we go out dancing with the loon
My best friend in the whole wide room
The night is never long enough
The morning whisper’s “all is not lost”
I hear you singing in the wire
And I fall open as a flower
You’re the hope, you’re what is left
When all has emptied and has fled
 
I ask my Pa
Say, What’ll I be?
And I ask the question
Like I know the answer already
 
I’m falling falling I can see
I don’t know what is wrong with me
But lonely, lonely, lonely
Likes my company
 
Will you be nostalgia in the autumn
Will you be the hell I’ve known of heaven
Will you be the smile under my nose
Will you be the naked I can’t clothe
Will you be the Welsh choir on the wind
All roarin’ and swearing at the ocean
Will you be the ash of a well-tended fire
Will you be the ambush
Of my desire
 
I ask my Ma
What’ll I do?
She said shut your mouth
If someone desires you
 
And I’m falling falling I can see
I don’t know what is good for me
But lonely, lonely, lonely likes my company
 
And who’d dare to love me, I’m a whore
I’m too exposed, honey I’m rubbed raw
And all that makes it better is your touch
 
Lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely
lonely loves my company
Lonely lonely lonely loves my touch

Beth Orton: Vocals, Piano 
Shahzad Ismaily: Bass and Drums 
Aaron Roche: Trombone

Beth Orton - Lonely (Official Audio)

'The Ground Above" by Beth Orton, out now on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/thegroundabove

Directed by Imogen Knight & Joseph Lynn (@imogen__knight__moves__ & @joelynntw)
Co-produced by Beth Orton

Beth Orton / Vocals, Rhodes       
Vishal Nayak / Drums         
Shahzad Ismaily / Bass         
Sam Beste / Piano         
Christos Stylianides / Trumpet       
Grey McMurray / Electric Guitar      
Dave Okumu / Backwards Electric Guitar     
 
Composed by Beth Orton 
Produced by Beth Orton 


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LYRICS:

I’m invincible as grief 
Violent as a blade of spring released 
Ecstatic as a mother’s love 
Tearing through the ground to the sky above 
 
I sing in choirs of the gods 
Every time I think of what got lost 
I’m euphoric as a war 
When I know who it is I’m fighting for 
 
And darling I could cry 
Don’t ever even doubt the reason why 
When love is the only certainty there is 
Remember at your sister’s house 
We laughed so hard we nearly pissed ourselves 
Remember when I thought it would never change 
 
And you kissed me and I knew what I was for 
And it wiped me out like chalk off of a board 
 
I’m invincible as grief 
Dancing cross a lake of loss beneath 
My capacity for joy 
Is ready and is able and is loyal 
 
I don’t know how it is we lived 
I guess I thought we had something to give 
I sing in choirs of the gods 
Every time I find what had got lost 
 
Yeah life is its own absolution 
All that thinking never reaches a conclusion 
I’m invincible as grief 
Violent as a blade of spring released 
 
Darling I could cry 
Don’t ever even doubt the reason why 
When love is the only certainty there is 
Remember when we hitched that ride 
Dancing in the full beam light 
Remember when I thought that I could change 
 
And you kissed me like you knew what I was for 
And it wiped me out like chalk off of a board 
Yeah you kissed me and I knew what I was for 
And it wiped me out like chalk off of a board 
 
I’m invincible as hope 
Dancing ‘cross a lake of loss below 
Ecstatic as a mother’s love 
Tearing through the sky to the ground above 
 
Come on, kiss me like you know what I am for 
Let it wipe me out like chalk off of a board 
Come on, kiss me like you know what I am for 
Let it wipe you out like chalk off of a board 
 
Let it wipe you out 
Let it knock you down 
Let it bring you round 
Let it take you out 
Let it find you out 
Let it find you out 
Come on lift me higher 
I want to touch the sky 
Come on wipe me out 
Come on wipe me out

Beth Orton - The Ground Above (Official Visualiser)

'Waiting" by Beth Orton, from the album The Ground Above out June 26, 2026 on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/waiting

Vocals, Rhodes: Beth Orton
Bass: Tom Herbert
Acoustic guitar: Sam Amidon
Electric guitar: Dave Okumu
Drums: Chris Vatalero
Trumpet: Christos Stylianides
Upright piano: Sam Beste

Directed by Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and Joseph Lynn

Cinematography by Alex Barber, Nick Peel and Joseph Lynn
Assistant camera and focus pullers: Jack Hayter & Billy Haverston
Produced by Zoe Flower
Edited by Olly Stothert
Grading at Dirty Looks
Filmed & recorded at The Fish Factory with thanks to Antonio Feola

Engineer: Dilip Harris
Studio assistant: Harry Fetherstonhaugh
Sound mix by Simon Byrt and Matt Wiggins

Gaffer and sound assistant: Biscuit
DIT: Rory Nichols

Runners: Alfie Wright & Sonny Kennedy-Brown

Hair & make up for Beth Orton: Anna Paolozzi

Filming equipment via XO Rental 

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LYRICS:

 
I’ve been waiting for the hurting to stop 
I’ve been waiting for the punchline to drop 
Anytime I hear the music we played 
I dissolve into a puddle of rain 
I’ve been playing down the way that I feel 
I’ve been hoping that I don’t make it real 
I’ve been waiting at the edge of a dream 
To jump and fly and find my beautiful wings 
 
Been waiting for the right time to come 
To put the best dressed back on 
To catch a favourite song 
And to find my way home to your love 
 
I’ve been hovering around like a ghost 
In all the places gone away, left unspoke 
I’ve been playing down them penny arcades 
Celebrating what a big win I’ve made 
I’ve been following the river back home 
I keep finding out I’m accident prone 
I was going to write a gratitude list 
Just got to work out my resentment to it 
 
And I’m thinking, and it gets to me 
Perhaps there’s nowhere else that I will ever be 
I’m wondering and it seems to me 
That there’s nowhere else that I would rather be 
 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
If there was another now, another place and time 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
 
But I keep waiting for the hurting to stop 
I’ve been waiting for the punchline to drop 
I’ve been waiting ‘till forever had come 
Before I knew it, it had already come and gone 
I’ve been waiting on a beautiful dream 
Forgiving everyone that I’ve ever been 
While I’d been playing down them penny arcades 
I went and found a way to rise up and sing 
 
Waiting for the right time to come 
I put the best dressed back on 
I caught a favourite song 
And I danced my way home to your love 
Oh I found my way home to your love 
 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
If there was another now, another place and time 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side

Beth Orton - Waiting (Live)

'Unwritten' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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LYRICS:
Oh my love, has there ever been a Spring?
How would we know, ever in the unknowing
 
There’s an old man standing by the side of the road
Doesn’t carry that weight no more
He’s a real live wire but for all of his life
He’s now somewhere that he does not know
Sifting through that old fall out
Waiting for the dust to land
I’m gonna throw my cards as far as I can
To know what’s in my hand
 
And I wrote my love a letter just a moment ago
Said I’d be getting on the next train but I did not go
Yeah I wrote my love a letter just to tell her so
I was sure we made a promise
But you never know
 
And we tried to make it better
We tried to make it so
Oh that feeling was strong
You know nothing’s wrong
It’s just that I was getting unwritten
 
Oh my love, had there ever been a spring
How would we know, ever in the unknowing
 
There’s an old man sitting by the side of the road
Doesn’t carry that weight no more
He’s a real live wire
Sure he knows what he likes
In the morning on the edge of the moor
 
Patient as a puzzle unsolved
Patient as a heart untold
He had to keep his cards as close as he can
To know which way they land
 
And he wrote his love a letter just a moment ago
Said he’d be getting on the next train
But he did not go
He wrote his love a letter
A whole lifetime ago
He was sure they made a promise
but you never know
 
They tried to make it better,
They tried to make it so
And the feeling was strong,
You know that ain’t gone
It’s just that he was getting unwritten
It’s just that he was getting unwritten
But you know that this ain’t getting undone

Beth Orton: Vocals, Piano, Wurlitzer, Midi Ambiance
Tom Skinner: Drums, Drum Loop, Additional Drum Production
Tom Herbert: Bass

Beth Orton - Unwritten (Official Audio)

'Haunted Satellite' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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I got the air that a storm was coming
Rolling in like a distant warning
Telling me I’ve gotta get my head straight
Telling me I’ve gotta get my facts in range
 
Summer runs through winters blood
Spring’s beneath the snow in bud
Times it’s hard for me to see
But that’s the way its gotta be
 
I have lived as a satellite
I saddled up I settled up, I don’t sit right
I’ve ain’t forgotten, all that I said would be
All the world inside of me
 
I got the air that a storm was stealing
Coming in as the children sleeping
Telling me I’ve gotta hold my head high
Telling me I’ve got no more tears to cry
 
Summer runs through winters blood
Spring’s beneath the snow in bud
At times it’s hard for me to see
But that’s the way it gotta be
 
We who live as satellites
We’re like that plant that lives off air
But we need light
I had forgotten all that I thought would be
All the world outside of you and me
There’s a world outside of you and me
 
Nature’s got a bigger gun than anyone
Nature’s got a bigger gun than anyone

Beth Orton: Vocals, Piano, Body Percussion
Shahzad Ismaily: Ghost Piano, Body Percussion, Bass Keyboard Tom Skinner: Drums
Tom Herbert: Additional Bass
Francine Perry: Prophet 06, Matrix 1000, Space Echo
Alabaster DePlume: Saxophone

Beth Orton - Haunted Satellite (Official Audio)

'Arms Around a Memory' is taken from the new album from Beth Orton, titled 'Weather Alive'. Out 23rd September on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/weatheralive
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Oh for them New York City summer streets
All of the hours lost between
There was always a beautiful sky
And you on your contact high
And me with my broken bottle smile
 
I put my arms around a memory
Though you’d always told me not to try
Didn’t we make a beautiful life
In your 8th floor walk-up that night
The way two words they make a rhyme
 
And I got to questioning my credibility
Like you’re the reliable witness to what I feel
Tho I can still taste all the sweetness of what we had
And there’s no one will kiss me as deep as you know you have
 
Once that I saw how to see
All if that love was looking back at me
It was hard not to fulfil the prophecy we’d always been
 
Oh but bow California’s out of reach
All of those colours bleed between
There’s always a beautiful sky
Me on my contact high
And you, with your broken bottle dreams
 
And if you get to questioning my credibility
Like you’re the reliable witness to what I feel
Tho I can still taste all the sweetness of what we had
And there’s no one will touch me as deep as you know you have,
Once that I saw how to see
All of your love was looking back at me,
It was hard not to fulfil the prophecy we’d always been

Beth Orton: Vocals & Piano, Loops/Electronics Shahzad Ismaily: Percussion, Bass
Sam Beste: Vibraphone
Tom Skinner: Drums
Grey Mcmurray: BV’s, Electric Guitar Dustin O’Halloran: Old Synths
Stuart Bogie: Saxophone
Additional Editing: Paul Corley

Beth Orton - Arms Around a Memory (Official Audio)

'Waiting" by Beth Orton, from the album The Ground Above out June 26, 2026 on Partisan Records: http://bethorton.lnk.to/waiting

Beth Orton / Vocals and Piano
Chris Vatalaro / Drums
Tom Herbert / Bass and Backward Guitar Bass Solo
Sam Best / Piano
Dave Okumu / Electric Guitar
Shazad Ismaily / Organ and Bass on intro
Christos Stylianides/ Trumpet
Adrian Utley / Electric Guitar
Jesse Chandler / Organ and Flute
Teeny Lieberson / Background Vocals
Grey McMurray / Background Vocals
 
Composed by Beth Orton 
Produced by Beth Orton 


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I’ve been waiting for the hurting to stop 
I’ve been waiting for the punchline to drop 
Anytime I hear the music we played 
I dissolve into a puddle of rain 
I’ve been playing down the way that I feel 
I’ve been hoping that I don’t make it real 
I’ve been waiting at the edge of a dream 
To jump and fly and find my beautiful wings 
 
Been waiting for the right time to come 
To put the best dressed back on 
To catch a favourite song 
And to find my way home to your love 
 
I’ve been hovering around like a ghost 
In all the places gone away, left unspoke 
I’ve been playing down them penny arcades 
Celebrating what a big win I’ve made 
I’ve been following the river back home 
I keep finding out I’m accident prone 
I was going to write a gratitude list 
Just got to work out my resentment to it 
 
And I’m thinking, and it gets to me 
Perhaps there’s nowhere else that I will ever be 
I’m wondering and it seems to me 
That there’s nowhere else that I would rather be 
 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
If there was another now, another place and time 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
 
But I keep waiting for the hurting to stop 
I’ve been waiting for the punchline to drop 
I’ve been waiting ‘till forever had come 
Before I knew it, it had already come and gone 
I’ve been waiting on a beautiful dream 
Forgiving everyone that I’ve ever been 
While I’d been playing down them penny arcades 
I went and found a way to rise up and sing 
 
Waiting for the right time to come 
I put the best dressed back on 
I caught a favourite song 
And I danced my way home to your love 
Oh I found my way home to your love 
 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side 
If there was another now, another place and time 
And if I could be anywhere I’m right here by your side

Beth Orton - Waiting (Official Audio)

Beth Orton live at the Roundhouse on 10th February 2018


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Beth Orton

Weather Alive

Kidsticks

Sugaring Season (Deluxe Edition)

Comfort Of Strangers

The Other Side Of Daybreak

Daybreaker

Central Reservation

Trailer Park

Waiting

The Ground Above

Who By Fire

Fractals

Friday Night

Forever Young

Weather Alive

For Today I Am A Boy

I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain

1973

Blue Crush Soundtrack

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Fajne Indie

Cool as Folk

This Is Beth Orton

Beth Orton Radio

Fresh Folk

Songs to Test Speakers With