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Play By Mail

from Package Holiday by Claire Welles

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lyrics

used to play a game, play by mail
used to send away and wait without any fail
used to play a game, play by mail
got a load of mates to join it was all plain sails

what i failed to notice was that you could use a telephone to phone up random strangers in the comfort of your bedroom walls...
what i failed to remember was that i was just a teenager and you were so much older, old enough to know better

i used to walk away, play by mail
got football on the brain i am in charge of Port Vale
but i have to play the game, play by mail
being groomed by a man who's twice my age...once again


what i failed to notice was that you could use a telephone to phone up random strangers in the comfort of your bedroom walls...
what i failed to remember was that i was just a teenager and you were so much older, old enough to know better

keep your hands off me
keep your filthy little hands off me

(I'd like to make a collect call...urgently)
"hello, can you hear me
i'd like to sell you Jan Molby"

a fella asked my age, play by mail
asked me personal things such as how often i'd been impaled
but i cannot walk away, play by mail
dream about it every now and then now my mind has failed

what i failed to notice was that you could use a telephone to phone up random strangers in the COMFORT OF YOUR BEDROOM WALLS...
what i failed to remember was that i was just a teenager and you were so much older, old enough to know better

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from Package Holiday, released October 1, 2022

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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. ... more

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