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Shameless Rock and Roll
03:10
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This shameless rock and roll
It's been living on my back
If it's what you do with it
That really counts
Well we'll soon find out
Won't we now
Oooo
Well I've been worried sick here
Flashcards of terror from the past
Tragic data, infograph, oh it's just
All so sad
Seeing that we've been had
I need some soothers for the soul
And a couple for the road
'cus if it's all heading south
Then why hang about?
And hope that
They'll figure something out
No, hand me that whistle now
I've got this shameless rock and roll
It's been living on my back
If it's what you do with it
That really counts
Well we'll soon find out
Won't we now
Just about lost it at the hotel
Really thought I was checking out
She says her life feels like a room that she
Forgot the reason she walked into
And there's a world I wanna fix, but it's too thick
He says 'I know, I'm so confused,
What fateful ruse have I got myself into?'
Well birds of a feather
Shit themselves together
And if ever there were one true way
That I could be of some use to you
I'd hole up and write some somber songs
that you might
hum the tune to
Infinite lives could have been right
Might not be this one...
But it might.
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2. |
Axis Of Distraction
04:36
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Living like a sailor
With your eyes
Marooned in the great big blue
And just lay there
Watching memes on mute
'cus I'm immune to the news, well
wait,
I'm confused
Am I really amused or just some corporate sluice?
Are we catered?
And do you mind?
I take my communion with a pinch of truth
Sticks to me like glue
Living on the axis of distraction
With your face in the glow
Ooooo give me love and interaction
People and places
I used to know
Well I get chills
And I can't sit still
information
These pantomime villains
and TV creeps
Who set the sails
Now I can't bop for free
Get me sponsored
Oh please, someone,
save me a seat
up on the beach
aw struth!
Living on the axis of distraction
With your face in the glow
Ooooo give me love and interaction
People and places
I used to know
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3. |
Last Living Bureaucrat
05:45
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Oh when the last living bureaucrat
hangs up his hat,
clears his history,
closes tabs,
forwards emails to the thermostat
( you can leave that tricky business
to the machines now,
they'll have it all figured out, before you can say... )
What's that sound?
ooo oo ooooooooo
There's someone at the door,
it's the inquisitor
he's looking miserable -
wants to know how he's wasted so much time
on someone else's life
And when he finally relocates
into a permanent state
of happy days and no complaints,
no bendy laws or greedy hands to shake
no shady business for the poor sod now
a thousand seasons in the sun -
oh wait, the technostate has him undone with a
ooo oo oooooooo
There's someone at the door
you would not answer though
the lady wants to know
why she's been fighting someone else's war
no one told her what for
Oh when the last living bureaucrat
hangs up his hat
and offers up the holy stats
to a cloud based judgement automat,
a couple minutes while she check the facts...
bleep blop bliplopilp
hmmmmm....
blipiplopip
Tell me then,
were we really that bad?
And is this doomsday fad
really coming to pass?
She just asks why we wasted so much time
in all our tiny lives
'I think you're dumb and you're evil
and your world is deranged
Utterly lost inside your brains
Full of shame, and yet
obsessed with fame.
And why do you bother getting so irate?
You are all dying anyway.
What difference could any of you make?
And all that smoke and waste
A tragic waste of space
A fickle, useless race."
Then she starts laughing and just self destructs
('HAHAHAHAHAH') * kabloom *
And he just brushes up
Heads for retirement.
'Ah well!'
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4. |
No Vacancies
07:28
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Dumb.
Just looking for somewhere fun to be
But as far as the eye can see
There are no vacancies,
there are no vacancies
So I'm stumped
Irreversable lump of human me
Elastic seatbelt still hugs me
From the car that night you told me
'I believe in you,
Go follow your dreams'
( All alone, alone, alone, alone, alone, alone, alone, alone)
But dreams can be selfish
I see now there's now way to explain this
So you can't be blamed
From now on it's
Two humans in a bed
Each living in their head
Chasing one another
to their death
Are you happy in yourself?
Sans-physician mental health
you've been keeping to yourself
No, I don't feel so well
And the house you're
living in
all your trinkets,
all your things.
Like a dog when
no one's in:
Unobserved
Are you happy in yourself?
Where do you keep your
private hell?
Am I healthy?
I can't tell
Oh if I could be someone else
Just for ten minutes
Are you lucid,
can you see,
in the future,
we'll be free
in the future,
all there'll be
No hope, no vacancies
Dumb.
Born to run.
You of the door is always open generation
You can do anything if you have the patience
But you don't.
And you can't.
So then,
Life has just arrived
You pull the car into the drive
Take the bags into the kitchen
Draw the curtains
Hit the lights
And just for a second,
you hesitate
as you remember what it used to feel like
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5. |
Uslov
03:30
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6. |
Imaginary Hippy Commune
03:12
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You never asked to be born
You were just lumped down here and told it was sacred
And, here are some lines to stay inside of
Well if your skin's stuck here
but your mind is a mile off
No bother,
You can come and live with me
Fuck them, come and live with me
I love those quiet people
Who make the room feel small,
politeness a science
Go on and fight your war of kindness
And if they make you feel small
for your hope or your shyness
Well you can come and live with me.
Fuck them, come and live with me.
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Tom John Hall Derby, UK
THUNDERCHILD 24/11/23 via Year Of Glad ⚡️
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