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HMO
05:11
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something occured to me today
as i filled an ashtray
a beautiful song to good for the radio
dying to leave the room
you spin into another life
you slip into a different realm
the opiates run races with your pain
chemotherapy, it's your payday
so much to do, so much to say
so many good things dying to come your way
you really DIG being alive!
It's incredibly sweet but you're gonna die
birds smashing into windows
repeatedly again
your releatives are here, some of them are in tears
holding flowers and boxes of milk tray
so much to do within your life
cos you really DIG being alive!
something occured to me today
and then i went astray
there's nothing i can do
nothing i can say
now your world is looking badly out of shape
as you slip into your other life
the bird at my window chose to die
there's a time and a place for a joke
but all i wanna do is shoot some dope
a man walks into the room
eating tinned fruit with a plastic spoon
the man from Del Monte says "yes"...
you must die quite soon
the opiates run races with your pain
now all i wanna do is lose my brain...
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Leamington Spa
03:48
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She'll take the pills
til she don't read any books
how to best explain there is no purpose in the world?
She'll dull the day
til she's got someone to love
how to best explain it starts at home?
She'll run away
til she don't have any homes
how to best explain it follows you wherever you go?
She'll kill the day
in a Raymond Chandler way
how to best explain there are no words?
She'll get the train
til it takes away the pain
how to best explain that circumstances only change?
He'll rue the day
that he ever played away
most of who you are has been before.
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Gift
04:53
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turned on the box
looking for some sun
mum punching dad
dad hitting mum
better than anything on BBC 1
life is a gift
and i was wrapped too soon
wrapped in the wrong paper
in the wrong bedroom
nowhere to go, surf the micro waves
roses are red, taxi's are black
bush did 9/11 and the earth is flat
you wrote on the floor now you write on a wall
modern technology hasn't helped you at all
switch off the box it's time for some weep
go to your bed and try not to sleep
there's been talk of taking me out of school
better than anything on BBC 2.
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Seroquel
06:15
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Going out on a limb
can't bear to be tomorrow
take vitamin, no valium
I don't mind if I die today
Take poison again
take one at ten, it helps with sleeping
going half & half until it's gone
hurts like an embarassing thought.
Every weekday I get high
pharmaceutical make the day taste sweeter
borrowed bed and wasted time
any excuse to do a few things fewer
pinned to the bed
in the end
it's such a reliable friend
I don't mind if I die again.
Annise & Wintergreen
James McLean hates the Queen
our serotonin walked the wall
duff up the estate with my best friend.
The tape disappeared- I'll buy it again
I don't mind if I die tonight.
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Our Day Will Come
05:04
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Stained Glass
05:38
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Highschool
02:49
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kids will spit on your back
teachers despise you aswell
gtimetable keeps things on track
a routine reducted at my school- highschool.
you can learn how to love
you can learn how to cry too
with the luck of the rub
you may learn how to die too, highschool.
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Yucca Tree
02:54
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National Park
06:22
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the past is dead
the future's cack
it really hates itself cos it's full of crap
the polar opposite of a national park.
a roll of film
has just destroyed your will
19 years have just melted away
24 hours after Valentine's Day.
National Park
National Dark
you were only young
couldn't find the words
stained blue carpet handstand by the bed
you opened up the door to your final mistake.
Juliana,
you could be my daughter now
your sun has long set and i'm far too late
you're an unreturned videotape.
National Park
National Dark
if you'd like me to speak for you
i will try and be a bit better
if you'd like me to pass on through
i will try and move a bit faster
tell your mother, brother, sister too
im so sorry, couldn't make you any better
now you're black, now you're through
now the tears are gonna get thicker.
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Claire Welles Liverpool, UK
One of Liverpool’s finest underground provocateurs. Fiercely singular in her approach to music yet with a musical nous you
simply can’t teach.
A long history of recording music, Claire has straddled almost every musical styling yet imbues her music with a rich melodic tendency which makes her experimental pop ease into your being over time. If you let it.
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