Lily Fontaine of 2024’s Mercury Prize Winner English Teacher sits down to chat to Jamz Supernova about ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’.
Taken from their album ‘This Could Be Texas’, the lyrics of the song were written by Lily while she was at university, and while originally penned to her hometown Colne (home of the World’s Biggest Paving Slab), looking back, the song has become a metaphor for so many other things.
In this conversation, Lily and Jamz get into conversation about school, race and culture in small, predominantly white towns, and being creatively inspired by their mums.
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Lyrics:
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
But no one can walk over me
I am the Pendle Witches, John Simm
And I am Lee Ingleby
I am the Bank of Dave, Golden Postbox
And the festival of R&B
I’m not the terrorist of Talbot Street
But I have apocalyptic dreams
You should see my armoury
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
So watch your fucking feet
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
But I sit here quietly
No one ever looks down at the ground
Yeah, no one ever notices me
I wish I were born a stone
And made Wycoller my home
Haunting with Charlotte Bronte
I’m not the terrorist of Talbot street
But I think that ruins have beauty
You should see my armoury
You should walk all over me
I am the world’s biggest paving slab
And the world’s smallest celebrity
27 сен 2024
