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What I like
02:03
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Well, there’s the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Fighting for the unions
And the WIDC
Setting the unions straight
And the Cable Street Rally
Beating back the fascists
And the folk of Bamber Bridge
With their black troops only signs
What I like
What I like
What I like
What makes me proud
And there’s the Greenham Common women
Pulling down the fences and
The Diggers and the Levellers
Proclaiming common land
On a picket line with Tony Benn
Not a barricade but hey
Me and Reynard in a field
With citronella spray
Well, there’s the Tolpuddle Maryrs
Fighting for the unions
And Holtom’s simple semaphore
Fighting for us all
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2. |
Gas Station with a Bar
03:35
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You press play and our soundtrack begins
Tuning in a big blue sky
Mile after mile
Mile after mile and just when we’re getting tired
It comes into view
A gas station with a bar
Shows us how far from home we really are
A little shade in an ancient arcaded square
The sky cut up by screaming blurs
Lazy travellers
Dear swimming hole make my skin cool enough for clothes again
If it’s not too late
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3. |
Brown Street Library
03:09
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She’ll meet you on the steps
With her two-foot megaphone
You’re a tailor in a dress
Two airguns in her hand
You’re storming the Bastille
You’re going to take down William Brown
It’s paid for from your pound
Don’t let his capitals bring you down
It’s paid for from your pound
Don’t let those capitals keep you down
He gets a bloody plaque
You’re not confident to pass
His story won the day
But Bess she has a plan
Reformatory girl
You’re going to change what people say
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4. |
Wooden Leg
04:07
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I lost the wooden leg, the leg that you gave me
Maybe in the Pig or the King David
As the night went on, I think I go mouthy
Somewhere on the tube we parted company
Evenings now lost, but lost among friends
And details held but blurry
Our stories told in theory
With many ends if told at all
Shadows on the wall moving uncertainly
Snatches of my life in your story
A character with lines on the edge of unkind
There was probably a reason, a good idea at the time
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5. |
Two Kinds of Stupid
03:23
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My wilful heart loves your heart best
But maps get in the way and we don’t agree where to rest
Now you’re half-packed and I’m half-cut
‘Cause I don’t know how else to make this wilful heart of mine shut up
We must be crazy ‘cause we’re
Two kinds of stupid
Could all be so easy but we’re
Two kinds of stupid
Two kinds of stupid
With one kind of love
I know that you are feeling sad
Sometimes I feel for you, other times I feel I’m going mad
I can’t believe we set this up
I don’t remember what made sense, don’t know how to make it stop
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6. |
Wait a Minute
03:48
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Wouldn’t it be nice?
Wouldn’t it feel free?
Flip through a catalogue, choose a different me?
Find a new shape to fill and see
What life is like
Without the constraints of being me?
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
Wait a minute
I’m coming with you
So many possibilities
Taste the range of available life
Is it sweet to be me?
Wouldn’t it be nice?
Wouldn’t it feel free?
Flip through a catalogue, choose a different me?
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Well, I’m sorry Mum and I’m sorry Dad
And I’m sorry to the future but it had to be said
30 miles offshore, not many meters square
We won’t get any favours from that ship out there
We are the ghosts of the listening post
Just one thing, go fuck yourselves
There’s a lighthouse on the temple, we’re nowhere to be seen
You had the invitation you don’t seem so keen
We are the ghosts of the listening post
Well the oracle of Delphi, Achilles and his friend,
They’ve brought along some moonshine and they’re getting stuck in
So think of me Penelope, I know you’re so alone
The seabirds wet their wings while I head to my new home
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Mysterious Ways
03:17
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When the Devil woke up today
Cleared last night’s dishes from the table
Thought about making a ‘to-do’ list, wrote some things down
Put the coffee on, stared out the window
Cursing God, cursing God
The job’s outsourced, and what’s worse, they work for free
The Devil needs a union too
The Devil needs a union too
By mid-afternoon the Devil was engaged in some serious self-talk
“Do not think about going to the bar
I’m smart, I’m creative, I’m the fucking Devil for Christ’s sake; get your shit together”
By late afternoon, the Devil was in the bar
By late evening the Devil was talking to God again
“They have less respect for your creation than I do. Christ!
The little fucks are into every evil thing before I can birth it
Are you really so spiteful you’d throw away this whole world for a grudge?
Dick. Mysterious ways my ass”
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9. |
Gasómetro
05:01
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Contra el cielo
Rueda caleidoscópica
Centinela de pié
En el campo de cricket
Escabulles tu belleza
Más allá de los transeúntes
Pero te veo
Ojo industrial
Desde el tren - gasómetro
Desde el avion- gasómetro
Desde la orilla del canal – gasómetro
En el ojo de mi mente – gasómetro
Allí de pie
Cien años
Resonando arriba y
Abajo a través de los años
En el lugar
Donde solías parar
Melilot crece
Abejas resposan
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10. |
Lee Raymond Knew
03:21
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Sorry young ones
We stuffed your future
Things come undone
We’d hoped for better
Politely asked
Patiently waited
Instead of tearing
This whole thing down
This won’t get better
No sudden miracle for us
Oh, we could… but that means changing
In ’81
Lee Raymond knew
His industry
Was poisoning the planet
How did he read?
How did he bury?
How did he choose;
what matters is the money?
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The Lovely Basement Bristol, UK
Post-cool or too old to care?
Lovely beings in the Basement
are:
Kevin Bache: guitars, vocals
Steve Dew: drums, percussion
Katie Scaife: guitars, vocals
Paul Waterworth: bass
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