"Laura"

Parlophone / EMI

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When Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan released 2009's Two Suns, its lead single "Daniel" was an ode to teenage first loves and naïveté, with all its hopefulness pinned onto Daniel LaRusso from The Karate Kid. On "Laura", the first song offered from Bat for Lashes' third LP, The Haunted Man, Khan offers her reassurances to a friend who's been left behind, clinging to a lifestyle of parties and night flirtations when everyone else has grown up and settled down. The reassurances Khan offers this friend aren't all desirable scenarios-- what grown woman wants her name "tattooed on every boy's skin"?-- but they fit the contradiction that the titular dame embodies: wanting to cling to a scene that can't last, trying to prolong the hot flash ofup the dog, but was too busy to compare the picture to the new strays.On day 3, she called and was overjoyed to discover her dog was at the vet.This was near closing and she was told she would need to wait until the next day to pick up her pet.Upon getting to the vet on day 4, she was told that hers had been put down and she should have called when the dog disappeared.The woman had the names and times of the people and calls.According to the files, the dog had been picked up on day 1 and by the morning of day 4, was executed.She was paid off, but that doesn’t help all the others.

There has been hard evidence that the overflow animals are taken