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"Trains to Brazil"
Song

Trains to Brazil is the name of a 2005 single by British Indie rock band Guillemots. The song "Trains to Brazil" also appears on Guillemots' 2006 releases Through the Windowpane and From the Cliffs. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl 10" formats.

In an interview for BBC Brazil, MC Lord Magrão, the band's guitar player, explained that the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a "reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes" and that the band's singer/keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".

Fyfe describes the title track as follows:

It was weird; I wrote in 2002 and was sort of thinking about the whole Twin Towers thing, but then a couple of months before the London bombings we decided to drag this song out and do it as a single, and then all that stuff happened. On my birthday, as fate would have it - 7th July. Very odd. But yes, it's also just a song about appreciating life, I guess.

All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "From the Cliffs".

The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine NME.

Tracks

  1. "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) - 4:01
  2. "Go Away" - 7:47
  3. "My Chosen One" - 3:14
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