1. |
Bells Ring
03:23
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Bells ring
birds still sing
the monkey kings are dressing up for war
in this case less is more
Stars shine
words still rhyme
pundits chirp and call it work
while we measure breath carefully
When all this is over
we may see you’re still you and I’m still me
lightened by the loss of dignity
starry eyed and sober
falling in the clover
when all this is over
Bells ring
and everything
the monkey kings are dressing up for war
in this case less is more
When all this is over
we may find the past is all we’ve left behind
delivered by the loss of liberty
starry eyed and sober
falling in the clover
when all this is over
Bells ring
birds still sing
stars shine
words still rhyme
pundits chirp and call it work
while we measure breath carefully
When all this is over
we may see we’ve been changed irrevocably
lightened by the loss of dignity
starry eyed and sober
falling in the clover
when all this is over
when all this is over
When all this is over
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2. |
1000 Saints
03:31
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Throw a feather
Throw perfume
There’s a riot in your dressing room
Throw a flower on the fire
And straighten up your new attire
I know I’d try the patience of 1000 saints
It doesn't matter who you think you are
Beware of what you ain’t
Say it isn’t so
We already know
Its almost touch and go
Its almost touch and go
Touch and go
Burn the bodice
Burn the lace
And put the cad back in his place
Bet a penny to a pound
You miss me when I’m not around
I know I’d try the patience of 1000 saints
It doesn't matter who you think you are
Beware of what you ain’t
They it isn’t so
But we already know
Its almost touch and go
Its almost touch and go
Touch and go
I know I’d try the patience of 1000 saints
It doesn't matter who you think you are
Beware of what you ain’t
I know I’d try the patience of 1000 saints
It doesn't matter who you think you are
Beware of what you ain’t
Its almost touch and go
Almost touch and go
Touch and go
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3. |
Pinned
02:43
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We are hopeless
And we’ve lost our dignity
Pinned somewhere between chromosome and that kid in the nativity
We are restless
Anxious to improve
But we’re lost somewhere between buccaneer and the ghost of one removed
You know it feels
When the going gets real
When you’re pinned to the tick tick ticking
Of the second hand sticking to it’s sweep around the wheel
We are hopeful
That we’ll stumble on a cure
That from the lies the truth will rise but I wouldn't be so sure
We are angry
And we won’t give up our toys
The epitaph that we will craft is of selfish girls and boys
You know it feels
When the going gets real
When you’re pinned to the tick tick ticking
Of the second hand sticking to it’s sweep around the wheel
You know what it costs, it’s more than profit or loss
You’re attached to the beat beat beating of a heart that’s cheating you,
The tick tick ticking of the second hand sticking to,
The universe will cheerfully return us all to ashes and to dust…
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4. |
Suburbs Like Seas
02:52
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We were trying to find you
We were trying to find you
Oh, I miss you so bad
I miss you so bad
I miss you so bad
I miss you so
Hunched in the back seat hugging my knees
Drifting in these
Suburbs seas
A towering concrete wave
Broken glass anemone
The houses all look the same
In these suburbs like seas
Where has my horizon gone?
I haven’t see it for so long
We were trying to find you
We were trying to find you
Oh, I miss you so bad
I miss you so bad
I miss you so bad
I miss you so
Slumped in the back seat hugging my knees
Drifting in these
Suburbs seas
A towering concrete wave
Broken glass anemone
The houses all look the same
In these suburbs like seas
Where has my horizon gone?
I haven’t see it for so long…
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5. |
Evenso
03:01
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Data in a paper cup
I guess we better drink it up
Lady Day and I
called up to testify
Cos you know
even so…
Wishes on a silver spoon
promised you the sun and moon
bird of prey so high
storm trooper butterfly
Cos you know
even so…
You’re a dead ringer for a cowboy singer
if the cowboy singers were crows
too back-fired to be inspired
to see as far as it goes
even so
yeah, you know
Sorrows in a plastic bag
it’s all we ever really had
judgement day
you cry
over the shiny lie
Lady Day and I
called up to testify
Cos you know
even so…
Cos you know
even so…
Yeah, you know
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6. |
Where Will You Go?
03:37
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Where will you go
When you go
To the place you think you’ll go
When you’re gone
Where will you go?
What will we see when we gaze in the face of eternity
Finally free
What will it be?
Under wood-smoke skies
Under mossy spires
Full moon and fire flies
Low hum of sleeping choirs
Heavy golden scent
From the star-lit flowers
Drowsy and content
Drooping from their bowers
Night time gently laps
Over sand filled eyes
Meteors will crack
Luminescent skies
Dreaming
Where are dreamers dreaming?
Dreaming
Where are dreamers dreaming?
Where will you?
And how do you know?
Where will you?
And how do you know?
Where will you?
And how do you know?
And how do you know?
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7. |
The Old Quartet
02:28
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Kickstart the old quartet if anybody here remembers it
bitter and bemused again
Spring clean the courthouse clock the debris strewn way to the top
drunk on bad news again
There’s enough to go round
There’s enough to go round
They’ll mollify the compound eye and bleed anaemic populations dry
Pigs in a stye
Kickstart the old quartet
Dribble and spit through most of it
drunk on bad news again
Lay siege to the old town hall and hold the masses in a thrall
bitter and bemused again
There’s enough to go round
There’s enough to go round
There’s always been a frightful scene that panders to the maddest dreams of greed
Stuffed on junk you don’t need
Here comes the old quartet
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8. |
Stealing Honey
03:22
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A nervous breaking down
Seemed to follow you around
Another ugly scene
From the time machine
The story is you always got the breaks
But you never understood what it really takes
Now they jump and shudder like a bad transition
Ringing hollow like a false contrition
It's a dirty little mission stealing honey from the hive
Stealing honey from a hive
A nervous kind of crowd
Talking way too loud
I only heard the scream
As I fled the scene
The story is you never got the breaks
But you always understood what it really takes
Now they jump and shudder like a bad transition
Ringing hollow like a false contrition
It's a dirty little mission stealing honey from the hive
Stealing honey from a hive
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9. |
New Song
03:39
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We got lucky but no one knows why
We got rainclouds to hold up the sky
Listen very softly to the new song
Though no one can hear it it’s a new song
We got fingers to point at the stars
We got buffoons to play the guitars
And we’re floating along with the stream
And we’re hoping you know what that means
Listen very softly to the new song
Though no one can hear it its a new song
We got memories before we forget
And a mean side that you ain’t seen yet
Listen very softly to the new song
Though no one can hear it its a new song
Listen very softly to the new song
Though no one can hear it its a new song
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10. |
Electioneers
03:09
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Rogues and parasites
Your devotees are terrifying
Electioneers clutching at the straw poll town by town
Electioneers money is a promise to repay
Electioneers worrying they're gonna be left behind
Electioneers kisses on the baby yeah
Oh, from dizzy heights
You doctrinaire and testifying
Rogues and parasites
Your devotees are terrifying
Did we make a mistake?
Did we make a mistake?
Electioneers family to the front and the devil in the back please
Electioneers telling you that they can hear your voice
Electioneers looking for luck they can get behind
Electioneers hope the debt will never be recalled
Oh, from dizzy heights
You doctrinaire and testifying
Rogues and parasites
Your devotees are terrifying
Did we make a mistake?
I think we made a mistake
Did we make a mistake?
Did we make a mistake?
Did we make a mistake?
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11. |
Billions
03:10
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I guess I made myself a jerk
I couldn't make the language work
Falling hard on my face
Dying down here in a state of disgrace
Oh we're one of millions
Yeah one one of billions
Oh one of billions
I guess happened years ago
to someone I used to know
Living high and laying low
you can see the way they go
Oh we're one of millions
Yeah one one of billions
Oh one of billions
I guess you made your feeling known
There were things I could have shown
Falling hard on my back
Get up, get up enough of that crap
Oh we're one of millions
Yeah one one of billions
Oh one of billions
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12. |
Circle The Oval
04:50
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Circle the oval
Planning escape
Willing the future
Into a shape
Circle the oval
Under the pine
Lighting a capstan
Wasting my time
Circle the oval
Playground and park
Watching the wood
Disappear in the dark
Circle the oval
The centre is safe
Out on the edges
The menaces wait
Don’t you wish the days would flow
Like honey golden years
Can’t you feel the days all flow like rain swollen gutters of tears
Circle the oval
Surrender to night
I saw you appear in the sodium light
Circle the oval
Clutching my hand
From to hereafter
As if it were planned
Don’t you wish the days would flow
Like honey golden years
Can’t you feel the days all flow like rain swollen gutters of tears
Can you feel the minutes flow like river silvered tears
Don't you wish the days would slow
Like honey golden years
Honey Golden Years
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13. |
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It's 1985
and Bowie is still alive
navigating by the seat of his pant
he's got one shot left in the canon
So Lets Dance Motherfuckers
Let's dance jaded prince
Lets Dance Sister Midnight
Like your life depended on it
Wailing baby level one
second floor is troubled mum
negotiating silent son
who will not speak to anyone
level three is you and me hanging from the balcony
and suddenly, and suddenly
its a long way down
So Lets Dance Motherfuckers
Let's dance jaded prince
Lets Dance Sister Midnight
Like your life depended on it
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15. |
The Insufferable Paul Scott Sydney, Australia
"As a matter of policy, The New Conniptions only work with the very old, the out of shape, and the extremely foolish.“
(Stolen from Grinderman)
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