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Stale Mate
03:33
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Wine stains on his corduroy keks
Sparrow's heart, sparrow's legs
Even in a goldmine he's picking up dregs
The rob-rob-robin went bob-bob-bobbing along
The bob-bob-bobbin went rob-rob-robbing along
The living embodiment of failure to thrive
Half dead, half alive
Under the illusion he's got time on his side
The rob-rob-robin went bob-bob-bobbing along
The bob-bob-bobbin went rob-rob-robbing along
Guaranteed to disappoint you
Guaranteed to let you down
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Blood pouring down my body
Travelling over silver mountains
Over snow-capped nectar fountains
I'm slipping round inside her
Washing away history
You don't know what she does to me
Yes, I'll take my pilgrimage
People are happy here
Give me my shell of quiet faith to walk upon
A scrap of faith, a sliver of salvation
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Love Of The Beyond
04:04
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Voodoo Doll Of Myself
03:07
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I'm a voodoo doll of myself (he's a dead doll baby)
There's a large lead-lined hole in the ground (where the family live)
I'm an outcast - to hell with me (he's a dead doll baby)
Eating scraps of gravediggers food
Weirdo! I'm the garbage man in my town (he's a dead doll baby)
Weirdo! Many people use my services (they come from everywhere)
Weirdo! Scapegoat and the dumping ground (he's a dead doll baby)
Weirdo! Doing all of your dirty work
Grasping tight a plastic light - he shines it in the dark (can't get it up!)
If he shines it long enough he might locate his heart (can't get it up!)
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Exposing Fiona
05:44
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I'm like a pig in Tehran
Exposing Fiona - the gargoyle on the hill
The wild dog in the basement that won't sit still
Exposing Fiona - the part of me you'll never see
The stain on my psyche that won't come clean
She was neither pig nor maid
Not living and not dead
She was one of the swine-possessed
She sang like a funeral bell
Exposing Fiona - the gargoyle on the hill
The wild dog in the basement that won't sit still
Exposing Fiona - the part of me you'll never see
The stain on my psyche that won't come clean
Quasimodo! Quasimodo! Quasimodo!
Exposing Fiona, Exposing Fiona, Exposing Fiona
Hog-hideous and haggard she haunted my dreams
(She wants to stroke my long pig)
Hog-tied and unclean she wants to kiss me
(She wants to stroke my long pig)
It's enough to make you want to eat your own young
(She wants to stroke my long pig)
I'm like a pig in Tehran
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Stick Thin Worms
02:28
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Coated in raining echoes
Stick thin worms inside a sad baby
Stick thin worms in the palace of the doomed
Small girl stabbing at her own remains
Like an unwanted dog
Spectators line the streets in the sewers and the drains
We slip beneath the mountains and we slip beneath the trees
Spluttering drunkenly
I want to lose myself in her for all eternity
Stick thin worms inside a sad baby
Stick thin worms in the palace of the doomed
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From mewling infancy to toothless dotage
From living existence to shadow
Long days long nights sniffing for lowlife
The taller the tree the greater the shadow
Like a tiger drawing blood
The road is strewn with bric-a-brac
The unborn future and the dead past
A strange illness afflicting me
Like a tiger drawing blood
The lime trees in Autumn gold
The stars turn against me
The cosmic sweat has long dried
The dark pull of the underworld
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My tongue wants to trace circles across her tummy
She spreads her fear in waves
Nerve endings spasm inside of her
She makes her way towards me
She illuminated herself with a black rubber belt
Great buildings rolling through the passages
The ghosts of yesterday made their way across subterranea
Children peering through the clouds
Sitting snorting sulphate in the strange night
Stars speckle in the light
Full moon dances like a skeleton
Like hungry birds in the cotton-white clouds
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Ashley Reaks Harrogate, UK
Genre-hopping musician and collage artist.
"an incomparable talent and a true original, a man who often borders on genius" - Louder Than War (UK)
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