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2. |
Lee Mole - Single
04:19
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My name…
is Lee Mole
I don’t
see very well at all
In my own world
deep underground
I keep myself all to myself
Don’t make a sound
I don’t see why
if you can’t talk
as an animal
then you’re destined
to die
why why why why why (echo)
My name…
is Lee Mole
I don’t
see very well at all
I live
In a hole
If I go out
and see the sun
my eyes hurt bad
then I might fall fall fall fall (tape echo echo echo)
Hello
means goodbye
Hello
means goodbye
Hello
means goodbye
Hello
means goodbye
I like cakes
and I like tea
I tell ya
there’s nothing wrong with me
I don’t like pubs
I don’t like shops
I don’t go out much
Like things when they stop
Put on my glasses
put on my hat
put on my raincoat
they call it a mac
the rain runs off
and goes deep down into to the ground
I like the drip drip drip drip drip dripping droppin sound
And an animal (like me)
has got to ask why
if you can’t talk
then you’re destined to die
I just don’t see
why why why
And the fur
that covers up my face
marks me out
from the human race
I get my things
and scurry back
to a hole in the ground
that I reach in through a crack
My name …
Is Lee Mole
I collect things
I collect them all
I have bags,
and I have boxes
and the things that I don’t need
I share with the foxes
and it’s dark down there (but I like it)
it’s dark down there (but I fuckin like it)
and it’s dark down there (but I like it)
it’s dark down there (but I fuckin like it)
it’s dark down there
but I’m safe don’t care
I’m a creature
and I need to live
out of fresh air
I’m a creature of habit
that’s got nothing to give
but I still deserve…
I still deserve to live
And I dig
I might be under you now
and I dig
I might be under your town
I dig
I’m a tunneller true
I dig, and I got roots hanging down to you
Turn right
at the mysterious pipe
turn left
past the treasure chest
near home, by the dinosaur bone
at leisure on my buried treasure
I might live deep underground
but I don’t take it lying down
I might live deep underground
but I don’t take it lying down
no
I’m clean
I’m serene
not part of the sewer scene
don’t get angry
don’t get mean
not lost the lust for life
still keen
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the hill has an eye
that opens
and looks around
and the coloured part of the eye
is in itself a world
with many hidden places to find
the hill has an eye
and the eye it stares at you
the eye can see you clearly
the hill has an eye
and the eye can see you clearly
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4. |
The Tunnel - Single
04:11
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5. |
Atom Itches - Single
02:46
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Atom Itches
Have you ever seen an atom?
Seeing as everything’s made of them - you have
that’s what we put directly on the speaker
this comes to you
from the grin fluoride
a blade so sharp
just a molecule wide
this atom has a memory -
?
I’m warped inside!
can’t stop wanking!
toss that jewel in the
murk of the cesspool?
squeeze a pustule
You’ll wank to the rules
wet chin shines
from the molecule drool
sat on a spore
from an anti-matter toadstool
self-rule
rules of science
are more of a guidleline
so in defiance
I learn to spurn
the rules and earn
reverse
So I get unbeaten
in time perverse
young and dumb
a cum pendulum
I lie in the darkness
I miss the the sun
atoms sizzle on the wall inside my mind
in a pattern glum that’ll make yer blind
plod and plodder
trading odder
dissemble vodka
tree limb fodder
balance off
and drunken nodder
drugs dreamed of a lot
pleasant hotter
broken bottle
cry out throat blocked huh
break the ampoule
inhale the snake wool
can’t stop wanking
I look behind
saw ghouls at the wire
soaked with brine
I run never tire
hash a 9 mile dash
in fear chatter
nylon pocket rash
and a tongue mouth masher
sulphuric acid
brick wall bashed in
cum face shit fit
tippex breathing
bunsen burner
sell dope earner
secret spliff
foreskin whiffer
finger stink
bring tattoo ink
7 quid teenth
from massive feet
long school tie
acid alkali
thought of the day
I’m gonna die
stop your fighting
or l release the artificial lightning
just one precious gramme of unobtaniam
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6. |
I'm Old - Single
03:43
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I’m old
I’m old, I’m incredibly old
Languid but lucid
not undersold
undersea maybe
fly free with me
to the wishing tree
what can you see
when you shut your eyes
and openly
brother bee to lucidity
transform your
personality
flower form and hour dawns
on the life of the sun and the sun it warms
fruit changes shape a thousand times
from seed to flower to blossom finds
then it swells and
what we cannot feel
or sense
is surely truly real
Loose but lucid
Juicy juice it
Freak frequency
Come find and lose it
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7. |
Yellow Horse - Single
02:15
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8. |
Leather Outfit - Single
02:50
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This is it!
You got a leather outfit
It’s covered in zips
Zip Down!
Zip Up!
And off you go
Oooh
Yeah
Oooh
Yeah
This is it!
You got a leather outfit
Tight fit!
Leather
Outfit
Ain’t the
Thing ya
Wannabe in
when the weathers hot
unless you like
to ride on a motorcycle
quite a lot
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9. |
1000 Demons - Single
05:32
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one thousand demons
on the edge of a blade
hold it up close to
an endless parade
they dance a pattern
so fine to behold
stroboscopic emotions
vibrate then dissolve
one with a feathered spear
one with a mirrored face
black blood on the teeth (and a 3 eyed bag of leaf)
and a dark space underneath
when you’re the magic one
the spells don’t hurt
lift up your skirts
and sit down in the dirt
you can be your own chair
throw back your long hair
when you have spells to cast
you don’t have a to care
What do you think is the answer
That holds us in stasis today
I am the eye on the pyramid
I turn all the controls up one
prisms refracting reality
One that is torn
from the creatures of caves
one that is born from
the haze of all fate
Inside the eye of the laser beam scream
devolved into nothing but a terrible dream
I see the blinded eyes and painted grins
shrouded and sharp
with skeletal chins
we rub ourselves on the world
like dogs that roll in the dirt
we are the mess that can’t be solved
we are the enemy that you can’t hurt
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11. |
Custard Creams - Single
02:15
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CHORUS 01:
Marks n Spencer’s n’
Pastel socks
Pot pourri and
Carriage clocks
CHORUS 2:
Gin n’ tonics and
Custard creams
Cocktail hotdogs
bowling greens
VERSE:
Ice and a slice
British steel
institution ‘ish
Church bells peal
they don’t like it up ‘em
they do you know!
A nice slice
of pastel Battenburg - Prego!
In the passenger lounge of my Allegro
Is there no one left in Britain
who can make a decent sandwich?
VOICEOVER:
Voted in past surveys as
the nation’s favourite biscuit,
Custard Creams' popularity
remains undiminished by time.
With its classic design of
two layers of biscuit
sandwiching a tasty cream centre,
its Victorian swirls,
and its multitude of ways
to be eaten,
the Custard Cream
is quite simply a British institution.
So whether you like to dunk them,
dismantle them layer by layer,
or devour them whole,
you can’t really beat
the good old-fashioned
Custard Cream.
Tastes as British as bulldog
GLOBAL BRITAIN:
Custard creams in Croatia
Custard creams in Romania
Custard creams in Latvia
Custard creams in Lithuania
Custard creams in Slovakia
Custard creams in Slovenia
Custard creams in Estonia
Cyprus
Poland
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Czech
Austria
Bulgaria
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
FADE TO GREYHOUND...
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From ten thousand feet
in the air
we spiral down
we can see the temple
as we spiral
down and down until we settle
on the ground
dusty brown
against the sun
so bright we frown
we steal a car and drive
away from town
In the winding hills and secret groves
we leave our thoughts
and walk up and over
to the temple
hidden well
In the temple
stood a statue
so fair
amongst the columns
amongst the grass
that sprung from there
I could not imagine
I ever had a care
in the setting sights
of the book that we all read
o, open up
open up your book of cares
you can see the starlight there
o, open up
open up your book of cares
you can see the starlight there
o, open up
open up your book of cares
you can see the starlight there
up in
the fading light
something changes
from something to nothing
Cataclysm breaks
Columns tumble
Earth it shakes
We tremble
Panic humbled
We grip the earth
for terrors sake
where sunsets roam
and nothing but
the sound of stone
and all the danger
of an entrance
to the other world
he takes us
with the oldest hoax
wraps us ready
to be turned to smoke
- - - -
Press our faces to the ground
and wait until the dawn
hoof beats twist and turn
upon on our scorn
lost in the ruin
Quite another hill
we wake and find ourselves upon
- - - -
No words in our heads
There’s no story left
We wake on the ground
we feel dead
turn to the town
feet of lead
that carry us
we are the grime
we are the dust
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13. |
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I’m into the outdoors
Where I’m under the spreading leaves of the trees
I’m out of the indoors
To the sunshine and I feel so free
Why don’t you
come there with me
Back then I didn’t care so much
I lived my life for pleasure
Oh oh oh
go to the sunshine
Feel so free
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14. |
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No compass can find
those marooned in the mind
Shiver the bones
The wind she moans
capsize your mind
flesh will find
time slips by
So wave a doubt
jolly roger not sorry
When your guts spill out
all boats grow
on the land you know
trees need soil
and hemp seeds grow
sails need sewing
And wind needs rope
drowning waters beg
for the boats to float
my old piano sinks to the sea
from up in the rigging
I drink free from
Romanesque galleon wine BC
to be or not to be
But set at sea
an old mandolin
this merman’s seen
better days than today
but my blade is keen
North and South
to the monsters mouth
down and down we sink
To the inky south
i’ve got gills
I’ll be fine I think
down goes the drowner
lungs so pink
death’s friend we be
we rot in the sea
swashcosh and buckle up mutiny
broadside, hole from within, souls flee
Covered in scales
walk back up the plank
peel off the scales
wooden leg on a ramp
lift eyepatch to scratch
Ship’s cat is a rat
raise up the rigging
davy jones is back
Deck planks cracked
writhing ropes in a sack
Anchor chain is the pain
and the flesh we hack
In through the out
And up through the mouth
Eels in the ribcage
compass south
dance with jack ketch
the oldest letch
crack jenny’s teacup
the sea will fetch
doubloons and muskets
cutlass cuts duccets
mark this loss
I mark a cross
a place where there’s nothing but
Ocean gloss
Octopus got
no skeleton loose
Just slime over time
And a jellymeat noose
X marks the dark
lies sunken ark
Holds the the silver and gold
in dark there’s sharks
Two parts rum
And one part cum
Take whatever mate
all meat for fun
The undead’s said
To give great head
You’re not girl or boy
When you’re a skeleton
this octopus
makes sailors heads spin
strike the magnet to the iron
take paper, float pin
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Silver buckles
On my shoes
A slide from the top of the tree I could use
spiralling around
on my way to the ground
out of the red yellow blue orange clouds
way past the leaves
inside to the eaves
cinnamon in a moon
skin on
sing song
I’m going to climb in through the window
in the middle of the night
get into the bed
just as you like
my legs like ice
my arms like mice
echo echo charlie
feeling nice
feeling nice
feeling nice
black ice
black ice
black ice
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16. |
Suitcase Home - Single
05:07
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17. |
Take My Head - Single
04:36
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If you take my head
and take it all apart
you’re sure to find my soul
and sure to find my heart
I’m torn and turned around
I scream but make no sound
the tumbling leaves around
the trees they make no sound
please do this today
we’re only here one day
before the clouds they come
and help us drift away
there’s nothing else to do
there’s nothing else to say
If you take my head
and take it all apart
you’re sure to find my soul
and sure to find my heart
I’m turned and torn apart
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Don’t make rules
for how you think
‘cause then you won’t
think at all
Don’t set you mind
into patterns now
let experience
be your all
Do not allow
the cloud of fear
obscure your sight
please keep it clear
Don’t make rules for how you think
Into smoke of darkness sink
fading out, the shading ink
All truth is ridiculed
then violent opposed
then seen as self-evident
everyone knows
Do not condemn the words of another
‘cause they differ from your own
Do not contradict and confute; nor believe
But weigh and consider alone
Any victory gained
by authority
is a hollow victory won
Better and warmer to live in dissent
than agree with all thoughts as they come
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19. |
Open Shades - Single
04:48
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20. |
Special Paper - Single
03:08
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Ball it
Crumple it
Roll it
Set it on fire
Whenever I want something
I hand over special paper
Gold like the sun
but paper is no fun
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Build It Up Again
One billion years ago!
Build it up again
that’s the rules
Save it
Tic toc
Yeah!
Build it up again
that’s the rules
Save it
Tic toc
Get ready for it…
Number 1, the first
create all space and time
Second separate
the good from evil rhyme
Third, the magic bird
that flies the golden line
4th is the course
of all recorded time
5th the healer that heals all with a wish
Number 6 the natural universal life we live
From mammalian, to the alien
the tribal to the world
The lotus will be floating in an ocean made of gold
You got to build it
Action!
You got to build it
Up from the floor
Reaction
You got to build it
Action!
You got to build it
Up from the floor
Action and reaction
Stimulus response
Poetry of conciousness
That is how it was.
Be with me,
the primeval meditation,
civilisation
the one big love vibration
the heat, the light
that fills the stars at night
the sky the who the what the gift of sight
got to build it up…
You got to build it
Up from the floor
You got to build it
put one brick upon the other
why don’t you build it up?
build it up again
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Corrugated Concrete
should have been my name
my mum’s name is aggregate
my dad’s is Shane
his real name’s sand, and my mum’s is lime
And although that makes sense,
the other names … they rhyme
Things got worse when they got divorced
They can’t split the house it’s steel reinforced
I got two twin brothers called Bent Cement
and where a brick hit my Nan
her brain’s dement
My little kid sister’s
Called Cementine
She’s got the calm poise of a
figurine
It’s quite amazing
This crazy paving
You’re drowning in work
But just say your waving
Could have laid in
With some real stone
But just think of the savings
on sand alone
Patter so
On my patio
Natter low
Have a chattio
Suntan so
Watch how you go,
there’s a rough patch there
where the ivy grows
just so you know
It was still wet
And hadn’t set
When the cat in-stepped
With a ‘left right left’
And a rude little kid
Put a finger dipped
And drew a hairy pair
And a shiny lid
my next door neighbour’s
named Monica Mortar
she’s often plastered
she’s a builders daughter
Contractually this Concrete’s
Cracked actually
Check the contract
that cement sacks
are stacked back to back see
Corrugated Concrete
should have been my name
My real name is idiot
And that’s a shame
Cause the hard grey stuff
is like life’s elixir
My world revolves
around the concrete mixer
And if I get my way and I
change my name
My name’d be concrete
corrugateds the game
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
Crack
concrete downbeat in the
concrete jungle
brickies never go extinct
they just get humble
don’t drag your feet
I take my concrete neat
comes from the mixer truck
like sausage meat
man in the street
got concrete footsteps
in my new wet drive
where he sunk alive
got an old friend derek
in a motorway bridge
and some concrete poetry
stuck on the fridge
So the die was cast
In a glittering mould
Rich and poor poured
Like the stone of old
cement laments
pent up sentiment
late for aggregate
frequent torment
lime rendered
for the dis-ingendered
I wield the trowel like
cozy powell
Dyslexic rhymes
for our lockdown times
bucket lost
and bucket find
obsessed by cement
it’s indecent
only feel complete
in the presence of concrete
Rough concrete base
but a lovely polished face
I get depressed
with less cement
Brutalism romance helped protect
C’s the first real letter in the alphabet
I can spin this on cassette but concrete’s is best
Grout’s about
use the water spout
and some sand
and I start to shout
Corrugated Concrete should of been my name
Corrugated Concrete should of been my name
Corrugated Concrete should of been my name
Corrugated Concrete should of been my name
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23. |
Pink Smoke - Single
03:04
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soft shock
when the smoke in the next town rises up
sweet heat
when the houses burn in the very next street
pink smoke
and the start of the war’s just another good joke
footprints
in the dust and the face of a blooded prince
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24. |
Sweet Radiation - Single
04:15
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Fucking Hell It’s Fucking Fucked!
Prison planet
Best of luck!
Pretty flowers in the breeze
cut them down
and get down
on your knees
A prayer to the billionaires
choking on their spaceship air
perfect couples, breeding pairs
strapped in flames
to spaceship chairs
boiled meat
in silver heat
blown up and
scattered at our feet
the smell of aluminium
that vaporises
and the funeral flowers sweet
No planetary lifeboats left
A knife to throats is what comes next
There is no planet C
we ate our As and Bs
Gods sweet radiation
makes steam from the sea
Everything’s a sunset
Everything we see
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25. |
Slim So Slim - Single
05:46
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on an on an on an
in an in an in an in
on an on an on an
in an in an in an in
on an on an on an
in an in an in an in
slim so slim
all is earth and life and kin
toward the inner being
all is earth and life
a sweeter pool of water cool
a harsher careless heart can rule
wizards pace and archdukes fret
the end of everything is coming next
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26. |
Little Silence - Single
03:50
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1 2 3 4
please please just don’t talk no more
5 6 7 8
There’s only so much talk I’ll take
9 10 number number
be cool like a cool cucumber
ears are roasting
body’s bursting
silence is
the thing I’m thirsting
Did you see I did a thing,
where a person saw the thing
said they liked the thing I did
and wanted more?
Did you see a thing
they said they liked
was also a thing
which I liked doing
and looked good doing
and in doing was a thing
that made the other things
I’m doing look good
and maybe better
than the things that
other people say
they’re doing and
that makes me pleased
the things I’m doing
are so well worth doing.
Did you hear that thing
they said
they said a thing
so very big
it was a thing that’s worth repeating
and it’s an echo in my head
and if I say this thing to you
then you must never breathe a word,
because the thing I’m
going to tell you is
a secret from the earth
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27. |
Sqwound - Single
02:31
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when you lie round
on your square bed
with your round eyes
looking at your square phone
with your round head
when you lie square
on your round bed
with your square eyes
looking at your round phone
with your square head
grimscreed
tunnelope
screenager
squarethinker
angulist
thinknot
faker
alchemental
slack fantacutrix
hyperelastic
quintic
square pix
so is the earth flat?
hyper-eliptic
earthbound fairground
burial mound tri-diptych
turn a square in the air
get slicker than a slick trick
and the corners
dematerialize
ions resize and make the air high
lizard skin wizards hat
deflects magical hazmat
on your round phone
when your square UFOs
call home
I got hexagone windows
in my greasy glass peace dome
my paper round
aint no
paper scissors flame alone
TV square eyes
don’t die alone
don’t lose your marbles
on the bus ride home
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28. |
We Are 24 HRS - Single
04:28
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We are 24 hours
24 hours of now
We are 24 hours
24 hours
now
We are 24 hours
24 hours
and hours and hours
We are 24 hours
24 hours of now
We are the night
and the daylight fright!
We are the street
and we are the fight
We are the neon
the boots and the blades
we are the zeon
the roots
and the fades
We are the Zeds
who are covered in sweat
We smell pretty sour
stay up 24 hours
Check your time
Feeling fine
Gotta be a little bit past nine
Morning or night
It still feels right
No need to speed
day or nite
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29. |
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Nature Loves Bravery
Nature loves bravery
Round here
There ain’t much
Nature to see
Nature loves bravery
Round here
There ain’t much
Nature to see
Nature loves bravery
But round here
There ain’t much
Nature to see
Nature loves bravery
But if you see her
say hi from me
You don’t care
If it’s not fair
You just keep growing
You just don’t care
If it’s green or blue or grey
You always seem to get your way
And I like it that way
Nature loves bravery
But round here
There ain’t much
Nature to see
Nature loves bravery
But if you see her
say hi from me
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30. |
Aphelion - Single
05:26
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Aphelion
Aphelion
Aphelion
Aphelion
Aphelion
Speak
Walk
Free
Talk
Shout
Scream
Earth steams
White line
Inside
We’ve learned to fly
Mycellium
in helium
convenience
in seeds we send
a tree to them
which frees the zen
and we will see
we’ll see with them
Cerebral twins
are freed within
we journey to the outer rim.
We have no needs
no limits then
the wisdom of the stars
they send.
The body can speak
the body can talk
the body can fight
the body can walk
the body can be
a growing tree
the body can’t lie
it wants to be free
a thousand tunnels
to a tunnelling town
behind an atom
the madness frowns
total colour, total dark
description of a meteor arc
drunken and reeling
questing for reason
there is no more feelings
just bodies be fleeing
minds left behind
left inside and beside
we divide into three forms
and then start to ride
up high on a north star
cloaks clouds and steams
of neon flame curtains draped free across fields
we hold and release to the infinite wreath
a gesture so pure now
as we gaze down beneath
a single new word that emerges in time
a single pure word that contains its own rhyme
the body can stand on the edge of a light
with dust clouds and lazers
that cut up the night
a peace sign, a circle
that looks round every way
you could see it from anywhere
in the whole milky way
The body can speak
the body can talk
the body can fight
the body can walk
the body can be a body tree
but the body can’t lie
it wants to be free
Aphelion
Aphelion
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31. |
Hey Waiter! - Single
02:23
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Hey Waiter
Hey waiter
Bring me some wine
two bottles of champagne
One red, one white
A piece of caviar as big as you please
Two roast chickens
And a piece of cheese
Silver buckles
On my shoes
Handkerchief on a stick
Baby you can't lose
Hey Pilgrim,
Sexy and clean,
I'd like a go on your tambourine,
There's affection in my tuck shop cloak,
For an angular priestess in a shiny black rowing boat,
I'd like to set a new record in her castle moat.
Hey wet cheeks,
See how you feel,
When we get to the water wheel,
I know they play Steve Hillage,
At the campsite cafe by the model village,
There, plastic tablecloths resist a spillage.
Cheap hotels
but good reviews
I hope you brought some comfortable shoes
This Bohemian district
Ain't no scam
Artisan toffee
Speciality ham
Fresh baguettes
And a poetry slam
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32. |
Mushroom Walk - Single
03:01
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don’t eat the cup
or the stalk if it talks
eat me, oh eat me
i want to be eaten…
do the mushroom walk
bite into the twilight
sky burning bright
night orange white
let the mushroom take your sight
step up to a cloud
take a slice of the world
spread out the gills
of the burning soul
hear the mushroom toll
eat me a mile
take the mic for a walk
and raise you a light
you see me a spiral
i might take a bite
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33. |
Nice After Life - Single
03:16
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Nice After Life
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
It’s nicer than here
Will the last one to leave…
turn out the light
Turn out the light
Turn out the light
Turn out the light
Turn out the light
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
It’s nicer than here
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
It’s nicer than here
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
Will the last one to leave…
turn out the light
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
It’s nice
It’s nice in the after life
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34. |
Vessel - Single
05:15
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Vessel
stretch the person, stretch them out
make them thinner out and out
like a string, like a thread
colder grey and silver way
made of dust and blown away
Stretch the person
each person a line
that starts from where they’re from
goes on to where they’re going to
then ends where they belong
a painted forest in the sea
rippling light, make all the leaves
moonlit white that’s made from sun
noise of swirling waters come
dab by dab the paint goes on
fainting song and years too long
seen outside the fleeting run
into moonlight made from sun
leaves and branches
melt away
turn to shadow trees that sway
surfaces are peeled away
surfaces are peeled away
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Jody Barton Copenhagen, Denmark
Jody Barton was born and raised in the UK near London and now lives in Copenhagen. His rowdy and eclectic music calls to
mind the post-punk and anarcho folk of Crass, Ian Dury & The Blockheads and just a little bit of Tim Curry. His latest project ‘Morris Maroon & Other Ballads’ is an open-ended work in progress both as a solo live set and recorded album.
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