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Postcard
03:05
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You wouldn’t know it less you lived it
Regret and guilt
A sickness weeks before
Ended badly on the floor
And it’s not
It’s not
No, it’s not
Not.
Tiny hands, daughters
Through pockets for keys and deeds
Solitary vigil
Over an open casket
Formaldehyde
A painted corpse
You wouldn’t know less you lived it
Regret and guilt
A sickness weeks before
Ended badly on the floor
And it’s not
Not fair
Not fair
So much depends upon a postcard
Words in a line
Symbol occluded
Transgress time
So much depends upon a postcard
Sent in love
Arrived in a world
You fell out of
Not fair
Not fair
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2. |
Exit Interview
04:23
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Thank you for the loss of trust
I really needed that kick in the teeth
That time was wasted anyway
And they were lessons I had to learn
So angry I could kill
This is an exit interview
Someone’s bloods gonna spill
This is an exit interview
Thank you for killing what we had
Was there a time when you weren’t this
If it wasn’t me it’d be someone else
And I deserved all you handed out
So angry I could kill
This is an exit interview
This guitar between me and you
This is an exit interview
Exit interview
Leave my mark behind
All I couldn’t say
Now comes out to blind
Exit interview
Leave the truth behind
I’ll make you pay
Make you pay this time
Those acts of betrayal
I was loathe to admit
Now that I’m free
I won’t take that shit
Exit interview
Leave the truth behind
The bomb I just dropped
Will detonate in time
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3. |
Magnetar
03:01
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Like a magnetar
Lethal star
Burning fast
I knew you’d never last
Was a gamma burst
All molecules in reverse
You should have called me first
Across a universe
A two-week odyssey
At terminal velocity
All the meaning in the room
Not enough to consume
Like a magnetar
Neutron star
Dying from afar
Seven special requests
I’m not dead yet
What do you think about?
What do you think about?
What do you think about?
4303
Birefringent
Refracted
Crystalline
Memory memory
What do you think about?
what do you think about?
What do you think about?
Love street
Love street
Paisley redacted
James
Ferguslie Ferguslie
Seven special regrets
I’m not there yet
Like a magnetar
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4. |
The Locusts of Control
03:22
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Can’t move concrete shows
Eyes shut flight of flight
Boiling down
Autophobia
Froze you
Thoughts saying gonna fall out of this plane
Can’t turn it around
Autophobia
Froze you
Full body alert
Autonomic quicksand
Can’t shut it down
Autophobia
Froze you
Owns you
Head fuzz
Mounting panic
A drink won’t calm this
Manic unbound
Autophobia
Froze you
Thoughts saying gonna
Fall out into space
Just hold me down
Autophobia froze you
Fear of life
Fear of self your dead in time
Autophobia
Froze you
Owns you
Down down with the locus of control
Down with the locusts, the locusts seem to know-oh
Down down with the locus of control
Down with the locusts, the locusts seem to know-oh
Well you to sleep cattle
The cloak of simpleness is near
It’s coming
It’s coming
Well you to sleep-the cloak of simpleness is here
It’s coming
It’s coming
Well you to sleep-the cloak of simpleness is here
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5. |
Hand Bastard
02:09
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Wake
Sleep
Wake
Repeat
Wake
Sleep
Like this for more than a week
Blood and bone
Won’t you take me home
Blood and bone
Won’t you take me home
Beached, in the detritus of confusion
A priceless gameshow continuum
Blood and bone
Won’t you take me home
In the womb of delirium
A gallant cirrhosis
Pants shit in the garden
Dispense and hide
Black piss
Blood cough
An unfathomable remote control seen through jaundiced eyes
Time shattered logic
Misery of movement
Children spectres
Pass and glide
Terminal restlessness
Creeping magical paranoia
How silent it is
Communion with those from the other side
Blood and bone
Won’t you take me home
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6. |
Smile
01:51
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Lead with a smile
Indelible style
Then leaves with pile
Thirty, forty million high
Remorseless spin
Fact turn to saccharine
Then leaves with pile
One hundred, two hundred thousand dead
Lead with a smile
Incredible lies
Then leaves with pile
Lead with a smile
Indelible style
Then leaves with pile
Sixty, eighty million high
Merciless grin
Wage war join new religion
Then leaves with pile
One hundred, two hundred thousand dead
Lead with a smile
Incredible guile
Then leaves with pile
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7. |
The Whips
02:56
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In and of itself
Skipper on the bank
Gaseous sleeve face sank
There was a ghost
A shadow from the past
So we smote under orthogonal stars
All across the tracks
Through temporal stream
Criminal pacts
Datura dreams
On a terminal beach
Your throat froze
Beneath diabolical repose
Into the whips
Slow moan of distant ships
Through fog, sewer lips
No Itchycoo park in the 1970’s
Low moan if distant ships
Through fog, sewer lips
No Itchycoo park - the 1970’s
In and of itself
Skipper on the bank
Gaseous sleeve face sank
There was a ghost
A shadow from the past
So we smote under orthogonal stars
Into the whips
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8. |
Rurik's Revenge
02:52
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Revenge
Revenge
Such a sweet delight
Revenge
Improve, redraft a complete rewrite
Revenge
Well I took two
Revenge
Then fucked them blind
Revenge
Well I’ll see you
Those Wan Chai nights
Revenge
Revenge
For that recidivist wife
Revenge
Spit fight on womenkind
Revenge
Revenge
Such a sweet delight
Revenge
Improve, redraft a complete rewrite
Race currency conversion
Expats birth right
Every possible perversion
Weekly every fucking night
And the palisades will crumble
Subdued excite
Meek and humble
Concierges cower
Vermin at my sight
Bouncers all mumble
Amid the bar glitter eyes
Disgusting fumbles
Sick fucks here
Every night
Revenge
Out-of-office indefinitely
An automated reply:
"For further escalation
Contact God, though the devil may have custody"
Revenge
Can you believe what you can get
Revenge
At that price
Revenge
Well it would make you weep
Revenge
If you thought twice
Revenge
Well I killed two
Decapitated in a case outside
Revenge
Well I’ll see you
Those Wan Chai nights
Revenge
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9. |
Your Decline
01:51
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Fell out of time cos I waited too long
With a curse in my throat as I righted your wrongs
It’s like one of those nights when I’m constantly off the track
With a kick in my ear and a beat in my back
Slow your decline
Losing my mind cos I waited too long
As I struggle all the rights for my wrongs
It’s like ne of those nights when I’m constantly losing track
Cos I saddled with fear it’s never coming back
Slow your decline
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10. |
Infinite Regression
02:45
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Tools rusting in the basement
Times slows to a halt
Down on the ICU ward
You lose hope
Infinite regression
Watch those scenes played out again
A template for expression
This season’s wearing thin
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Former Utopia UK
Former Utopia are an East London based Rock band
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