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This album marks our thirtieth anniversary. ‘Screenplay’ harks back to our debut album 'The Magic of the Hepburns'. The tenebrous events behind the first Hepburns songs are now largely forgotten. It’s the songs you remember, not the life. This is a song about the ‘hocus pocus’ of songwriting which mentions the weird Western 'The Missouri Breaks', starring Marlon Brando. Brando invented his own weapon for the film, part-harpoon, part-mace, remarking that he ‘always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one’. Food for thought as we enter our thirty-first year.

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It’s only hocus pocus, a little sleight of hand
All the props are plywood, the laughter is canned
It’s really rather foolish, I know it’s a cliché
But this isn’t a novel, I’m not writing a screenplay

Every time you leave me my heart tightens like a fist
We didn’t go to the gig but we were on the ghost list
It’s really rather foolish, I know it’s a cliché
But this isn’t a novel, I’m not writing a screenplay

...but if I did...
The poster would have your name on it
Because you’ve got what it takes
You’d be wearing a bonnet like Marlon Brando in 'The Missouri Breaks'

It’s only hocus pocus, a little sleight of hand
All the props are plywood, the laughter is canned
I saw the dawn light turn you a kind of deathly white
It prised me open like a door, I walked into the night
I saw the dawn light turn you a kind of ghostly white
It prised me open like a door. You look just like you used to look before

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THE HEPBURNS Wales, UK

The Hepburns are a Welsh indie band from Llanelli, South-West Wales. They have recorded thirteen albums, two EPs, one single and three BBC sessions. 'Electric Lliedi Land' was released in September 2020, followed by a cover version of Vic Godard's 'I'll Find Out Over Time'. They also contributed to three Corona Underground Projects. A new album feat. Estella Rosa is due for release in Oct. 2021. ... more

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