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When I Get Home
02:14
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i seized up every protestant day i worked february march april and may jaded to the hangman's touch i packed it in said thank you very much bursting for a slash and cut to shreds i sold at 22 and beat the spread will you still love me when i'm mired in the tired and the dead? i'm sorry you'll be sorry i am sorry you'll be sorry when i get home. i called up some bristolian skank i took out all my money from the bank will you still love me? i purchased forty winks some shuteye and a nap each word he utters he stutters he didn't turn out quite like the others will you still love me? the coastal breaks will have to wait and see. i'm sorry you'll be sorry i am sorry you'll be sorry when i get home.
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Lush Places
03:01
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margarethe is on the phone talking so tough i'm in my hotel room just doing jet lag stuff advance team on the ground citizens of the crown perform the meet and greet when the plane touches down i've been away so long i barely remember i don't recall i don't recall anything at all my bones are broke baby i feel so tender i don't recall i don't recall anything at all question: what did i ever do deserve a girl like you? answer: baby i'm on my knees but we've got company so please tighten up please girl tighten up. i woke up i made the bed i wrote you deadlines in my head bad apples good intentions i consider deadline extension etes-vous toujours ma fille are you? are you? or are you just another agent i brought in from the cold and all you say is i don't know but i have been told well tell me this: what did i ever do what did i ever do? baby i'm on my knees but we've got company so please tighten up please girl tighten up. and when i met you on the short track you looked so good i am the ice breaker and when you brushed away the snowflakes they looked so good tasted so good i cross countries i take my time whoa but baby when you took a spill i went to carry you home we caught a chill huddle together for warmth save some time and you save some face and you relocate to a lush place and i don't know what we're supposed to do but i want to explore lush places with you
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International Tough Guy
02:17
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double-decked i lurch no-one told me bout the shortweight i feel it no-one told me bout the the tensile strength is it enough when you're up against the or will the curve of a neck wrought the iron form a point of no return? let's set this straight i question nothing but baby what have you done for me lately? your face i know my place but baby what have you done for me lately? a monkey with a knife i remember my first fight and now every saturday night a ring a ring i'm up against the one day i'll split for seine banks marshall tanks and the but now i'm stranded even-handed i'm up against the - let's set this straight i question nothing but baby what have you done for me lately? your face i know my place but baby what have you done for me lately?
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4. |
Note To Self
01:50
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primer base coat clean slate fresh start i don't want no trouble and strife but protect me from a country life i'll compose a note to self extended lunchbreak direct sunlight i was on my way to work when i woke up with a jerk i'll compose a note to self
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5. |
Sport In This Country
02:26
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come in it's cold the year is ending just time to sneak a consolation goal sloppy defending on closer inspection you're wrapped to perfection it's true i've only one ally and baby that ally is you no women no money that's the problem with sport in this country from the grassroots to the cities i pick up points but it's not pretty and stop look and listen stop short and look sharp and listen, listen to me you better stop look and listen. come in it's cold the party's started in the corner the broken-handed and the even-hearted in the kitchen there's kissing mergers and acquisitions it's true it's been slaughter this quarter but i got a bonus for you new fender nowhere to park it that's the problem with the free market i don't need you i don't love you i ask nicely and you tell me to stop look and listen stop short and look sharp and listen, listen to me you better stop look and listen
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i called your telephone i got the busy tone in the middle of the night i only hear her voice when she calls me up in the middle of the night she calls collect they say do you accept i always say i do you can call me 00 +1 (212) i traded tokyo the market opens up in the middle of the night the eat their breakfast there they read the morning news in the middle of the night and it's front page news south china morning post that you are still the girl i love the most i sit and stare it's you i think about and while i sit and stare hot money cleans me out i still love you and i think you love me too you can call me 00 +1 (212) she is my +33 she met a +44 in the middle of the night on the eurostar how can i compete in the middle of the night well sometimes i get choked i try hard to believe how i can be so bored of the NYC i just can wait to see your face again when i am back at home in the LDN i still love you and i think you love me too baby you can call me 00 +1 (212
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7. |
Ancient Geography
02:09
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doctor doctor what can i do the pain and torture that she put me through doctor doctor i'm going out of my mind can't take the insult to my civil kind 1, 2, 3 - ancient geography 3, 2, 1, and i am done. said the maltese to the corsican i'll be your woman if you'll be my man said the caspian to the black i'm glad i lost you i don't ever want you back 1, 2, 3 - ancient geography 3, 2, 1, and i am done. thank you operator for connecting me i was lost and i was tossed from sea to shining sea so i set up a committee to help me with this thing a conference call from new york london paris and beijing but i still don't know quite what to do 1, 2, 3 - ancient geography 3, 2, 1, and i am done.
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when the college boys meet the garage girls secretaries of love i don't sleep at night since you broke my heart early exit from the cup more time to focus on just staying up staying up i get to work and i try my level best but i'm either out of the office or just away from my desk my heart's full up it's fit to burst thinking about girls and the expanding universe in the bedroom concentration i switch positions and i change formations it's a faraway transmission rubs against me and it causes friction keeps me up and when you're close to me
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La Nuit, C'est Paradis
01:14
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shut your mouth you're eating flies the night, it's paradise - take my hand you are (safe?) it's all gravy, from paris to marseille, look it's the last train, the night, it's paradise. commute, work, i come alive after sunset. and love, it's arrived, it's a thunderbolt
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10. |
Hot Thoughts (Demo)
04:39
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this is your starter for ten ask me over and over and over again i got a hot thought for ya hot thought for ya i joined the jills and the jocks school of short sharp shocks i got a hot thought for ya hot thought for ya i'll meet you down by the nets i get stumped and i forget i got a hot thought for ya hot thought for ya i had a promise to keep i gave it away so cheap i got a hot thought for ya hot thought for ya - soy el diablo (yeah) and i got a tip it's the contradiction between the teeth and lip (hey you) emit sparks into the dark (hey you) inject night into the light (hey you) trade the ups against the downs (hey you) trade the cities against the towns when i first met you messed up when i first met you messed up oh growing up messed up - let my open arms seduce you fight the forces that reduce you to a target-hungry william tell baby come on now simple story boy meets girl bring a life into this world just protection from the risks just to kick against the pricks just to show these fuckers how it's done baby i'm done i think we're almost done baby we're done baby we're almost - she's working in the city she took a short position i made a tender offer that's just the way i feel about her when i first met your mother a terrorist exchange she was the product of a love affair between the sea and a mountain range i met the old man at the wishing well he said you see a pretty girl just wish her well there's nothing else that you can do i said don't you miss the taste don't you sometimes feel your life's a waste he said i was not put on this world to impress skirt i've had my share and it hurt hurt hurt here's something you won't understand you're on this earth cause i'm a weak weak man
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11. |
Chicken Jerk
01:47
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i'm cripple-dicked i'm shelled by shills they talk about it but they never will i'm the desk and you're the clerk i'm the chicken you're the jerk i don't know what i'd do without you you are the only one for me i'm full of shit but i'm never wrong they make the effort it won't last long you're fringe and i'm the gut you're the strand and i'm the cut i don't know what i'd do without you you are the only one for me i move on, move on
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Hello Pancake
01:14
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hello hello hello hello pancake i'm gonna cover you up with syrup and then i'm gonna swallow you up i got a call from central casting they want a man a man for all seasons i think i like their reasoning you are so cheap you make me so cheerful don't tell the boss or i'll get an earful i am the absentee i wasn't doing much when you called me stay in smoke up and do my laundry you are so good to me
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Awful Sparks London, UK
Art Rock band active in London 2005-2007. Songs mastered and collected as album "Lush Places, Hot Thoughts" in 2013.
Reformed as bedroom band "St Kitts" in 2010, nine-track EP "Possession Point" also available on Bandcamp.
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