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1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.
Benjamin Francis Leftwich (born 4 September 1989) is an English singer-songwriter from York.
Leftwich began playing at the age of ten and grew up listening to The Rolling Stones and Nina Simone; later discovering Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, and Elliott Smith. He cites Arcade Fire, Ryan Adams, and Bruce Springsteen as inspirations.
Leftwich was educated at Bootham School, an independent boarding school in the city of York, the county town of Yorkshire in the North of England.
Leftwich's debut album, the Ian Grimble-produced Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm, was released in July 2011. The Fly called it "a majestic debut" " "whilst The Sunday Times cited Leftwich as "a serious new talent".[citation needed]The Skinny described it as "occasionally a bit O.C. soundtrack...[but] enjoyable throughout", while the Sunday Express called it "lovely" but "increasingly repetitive over the course of 10 tracks". Hazel Sheffield, writing in The Guardian, gave it a 3/5 rating, as did David Pollock, writing for The Scotsman, who drew comparisons to Damien Rice and José González, but also stated "sadly there are also heavy hints of Chris Martin at his most mawkish".
Well some may say it's not even funny
And there you stand not even trying
They say it is in line with the angel
Sometimes noise is just your mind
But the lesson is vague in the light now
Shows a dear with her mind on the moor
And I'll something with the sun is just a friend
Since they shook the earth in 1904
And as I lowered down I hear it's a message
And it's 1902 just telling people to get out
And if there was just a way I could tell them
It's been long but you are right
And the singing is slow and so quiet
Like the sound when you sleep off the floor
And I'll something with the dirt is just a friend
Since they shook the earth in 1904
And when the night is young with the bridge is sung
Something passing by I was sure
And the only one you can tell it to
Well it's the only one that ever knows
And since more robbers made to go through my window
Here is something so strange and something louder than before
And you living with no light or direction
But temper size and now you know
When believing is hard but you go now
And you feel what you drag across the floor
Because something with these drills are just a friend
Since they shook the earth in 1904
And when the night is young but the bridge is sung
Something passing by I was sure
And the only one you will tell it to
Well it's the only one who will ever know
And some will say it's not even healthy
But body is young and mind is sure
That something is alright well you're thinking