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A For Effort
04:53
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Everything's such an effort today,
Now it's now or never but everything's such an effort
It seems it's now or never, but everything's such an effort today!
today, today, today.
Everything's such an effort today.
I'm feeling your frustration, but lacking motivation.
I feel that you are at your wits end.
But everything's such an effort today.
In between two school's or thought I began to wallow.
Why should I do today what could be put off to tomorrow.
I sensed an opportunity! A golden opportunity to do sod all.
Everything is such an effort today.
A sense of obligation and self condemnation, and a dash of conscientiousness.
But everything's such an effort today.
Honestly I meant to but I couldn't because ok........
It's like this. It's like I don't.....It's like I meant to do it today....
But I sensed an opportunity.....A golden opportunity to do sod all.
Peace and quiet and nobody around to ask me to do ought about anything.
With no demands and nobody around to rant and rave and ask me anything.
Everything's such an effort today.
Everything's such an effort...........
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2. |
Black Hole
04:04
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This must be the way that light bends around a black hole.
This must be the way that time slows down as you fall in.
Yesterday is history.
Ask a supernova what that means.
As yesterday's history and what that supernova used to be...
Decorate the sky,
Between you and I how can I make you happy,
If what you are is never revealed to me and who you are is shrouded in mystery.
This must be the way that light bends around a black hole.
This must be the way that time slows down as you fall in.
There are things we know and things we don't
About those that we assume don't need our help.
There are those that shout the loudest,
And there are those that have never shouted.
How can you expect others to connect,
What does the night sky offer?
Above us we would find the entire history of time,
If not for the cloud cover.
This must be the way that light bends around a black hole.
This must be the way that time slows down as you fall in.
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3. |
Go Feral!
03:40
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I heard the sound of bulldog tig.
I heard the screams of those who were and weren't yet it.
I heard their cries, and there were tears.
I heard them falling down and calling out before they disappeared.
I heard the sound of childhood games.
I heard laughter and surnames.
I heard the sound of childhood games,
On a cold wet Easter bank holiday.
I heard the sound of childhood games,
I heard them screaming and searching.
I heard them run up Biggin Lane,
And trespass through back gardens caus it was part of the game.
I heard a car slam on the breaks,
As a hat was dragged across the road I heard them run away.
I heard the sound of childhood games,
I heard laughter and surnames.
I heard the sound of childhood games,
On a cold Easter bank holiday.
They were like ghosts,
Screaming and searching all night.
We're learning how to survive take that piece of flint.
And strike it at an angle to create an edge,
a cutting edge to draw across the skin.
take your piece of flint.
And now strike it at an angle to create an edge,
a cutting edge,
Before we go extinct.
A serrated edge, a cutting edge to draw across the skin
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4. |
Love In Time Travel
03:38
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Monika Conway what do you want from your long lost friend,
How many messages will you send her without a reply?
After how many glasses of wine!
How many life times do you need to live to find....
Love in time travel?
with your friend
Remember the year you spent in Carlise is that big old house.
Remember the shape of her mouth, and the curve of her spine.
How many life times do you need to live to find....
Love in time travel?
To get close to where you need to be.
Close....so physically, mentally close!
How many life times do you need to live to find....
Love in time travel?
with your friend
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disco bathroom
03:26
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It doesn’t meet building regulations but we’ll overlook that on this occasion it’s a disco bathroom after all.
On the walls and the floor and the power shower there are vintage lights and stencilled flowers in your disco bathroom.
Disco bathroom.
Disco bathroom, turn on the lights and play me a tune.
Disco
Disco
Turn on the lights and play me a tune.
It doesn’t meet bsi safety standards, but in the seventies there were no standards, it’s a disco bathroom.
With mirror balls, hidden speakers, sub woofers and squeaky tweeters.
Lava lamps and man alive it’s like Mancuso’s loft up here in your
Disco bathroom….
Disco bathroom!
Turn on the lights and play me a tune!
Number one’s and number two’s in your disco bathroom.
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6. |
Gengis Khan
03:19
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Edin din ding
Udo Uzoo
Edin din ding
Gengis Khan
Udo Uzoo
Attila the Hun
We are descended from marauders and barbarians.
I’m vegetarian.
You’re not you’re pescatarian.
You are descended from marauders and barbarians
Edin din ding
Gengis Khan
Udo Uzoo
Attila the Hun
At the Ainley Top roundabout someone took the piss.
It triggered something primal inside of me.
Edin din ding
Gengis Khan
Udo Uzoo
Attila the Hun
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7. |
bouncing on mushrooms
03:33
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I wield my nail
to nail my wield
I use the charm
that will quick heal
fingers and thumbs will not respond
fingers and thumbs are going numb
Show me how I should be bouncing on mushrooms!
Come on show how I should be bouncing on mushrooms
My trial and error
Is standing trial
Bare with me now - this might take a while
I died and then I lost my Shade.
Not now my child I've been waylaid
I'm learning how I should be bouncing on mushrooms
Nailing bouncing nimbly through the Fungal Wastes
To the Mantis Village and then Deep Nest
The urge to cheat
the urge to mod
the urge to watch these HK gods take on the Pantheons
look at me now - nail bouncing nimbly!
I'm learning how I should be bouncing on mushrooms
With Nailmasters Glory and Cyclone Slash
Into the Queens Gardens using Crystal Dash
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8. |
Pete the Pug
03:59
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How well did you know the man who sat there,
Pete the Pug with his bug eyed stare and his hunch,
And his lunch-box there on his lap all day.
Caus he came in most days and sat where you are,
Right where you are in the same spot.
He'd order a pint and the same one would still be there when I called time.
And you can't sit there!
That is Pete the Pug's chair!
No one sits there - That was Pete the Pug's chair
No one sits there anymore.
It wound me right up,
He'd sit there all day,
Taking up space with his lunch-box.
Blocking the route to the toilet,
And no one would ever sit near.
But did you know how much he was worth?
It came as a shock when they unearthed,
what he had squirreled away,
all over the world
so you can't sit there!
That is Pete the Pug's chair!
No one sits there - That is Pete the Pug's chair
You can't sit there anymore.
He needed help with his book keeping.
I have no idea how he survived alone for so long.
Caus he couldn't hold a pen,
and he moved like an old man,
but it turned out he was only fifty one.
And he left no heirs.
But his stocks and shares
Happened to bail us out god bless his soul!
When the lockdowns came we were in such a hole
So you can't sit there!
That is Pete the Pug's chair!
No one sits there - That was Pete the Pug's chair
No one sits there anymore.
It’s almost as if he’s still here watching us.
Honestly…..you can’t sit here……that is Pete The Pugs chair
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pantomime horse
03:26
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Is this a bad time?
Is this a bad time for us to talk about the way that you’ve been acting.
Is this a bad time, caus I’m concerned.
Should I be concerned now?
Like the rear end of a pantomime horse!
Like the rear end of a pantomime horse!
I’m following you around everywhere you walk
I’m following you around everywhere you walk
Is this a bad time for us to discuss what is obvious now.
Is this a bad time, caus I’m concerned.
Need I be concerned?
Like the rear end of a pantomime horse
Like the rear end of a pantomime horse!
I’m following you around everywhere you walk
I’m following you around everywhere you walk
Now that raised a smile….at least that raised a smile.
the rear end of a pantomime horse……at least that raised a smile.
Is this a bad?
Are you on edge?
Why are you upset? What are we fighting
Is this a bad time?
Why are you hiding?
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10. |
small victories
03:14
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Small victories another like, another view from my mother,
It’s just small victories, another like, another seemingly random follower.
Small victories …..very small, but encouraging non the less,
Look I appreciate your support.
Small victories another like, another view from my mother,
It’s just small victories, another like, another seemingly random follower
Very small….but the smaller they are the sweeter they taste to me.
Small victories.
Grow tiny legs, lose your tail and jump for it
Should we compare our small victories?
Should we?
A trickle of laughably small incremental leaps.
From froglets hopping from the pond looking for a bite to eat.
Only to discover more frogs and more spawn and more ponds and more frog f’in songs.
Small victories, another like……
Grow tiny legs lose your tail and jump for it.
Grow tiny lungs, lose your gills and gulp the air.
Small victories!
We shall take them on the beaches we shall take them of our ponds, of our pond lives and our pond songs.
Small victories!
Uncomfortably small and most days there are no victories at……
Small victories!
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11. |
the young verses the old
04:45
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The scene that took the kids by storm came over from Japan.
Young creatures with enormous eyes.
Your old man won’t understand.
And those that watched crunchy roll
Became more powerful than anyone could ever know
The scene that took the kids by storm.
The old began to fear the young
Their power, and their might.
Their ability to transform their world, with the power of their minds
And that belief in heroes.
Became more powerful than anyone could ever know.
The scene that took the kids by storm
Everyone needs to know their place in the grander scheme of things.
And everyone needs a greater say over their own destiny.
The scene that took the kids by storm
Tales of Ancient Greece.
Where creatures with enormous eyes would give their parents grief.
Everyone needs to know their place in the grander scheme of things.
And everyone needs a greater say of their own destiny.
Everyone wants to see the hero save the day and the bad guys to die horribly.
The scene that took the kids by storm
Of course the young abused their power,
And the young became the old.
What goes around comes around.
Now do as you are told!
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12. |
digital footprints
04:56
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13. |
big baby
04:20
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I was abandoned in an asylum in the north of England,
And raised by a pack of total tools on a diet of diamond white and pot noodles.
I still carry those scars today,
And that abandoned baby is north of middle age.
There are no bounds, guides or rules,
And I’m still learning how to walk, talk crap and crawl.
Big baby!
The baby I’ve grown up with…..big baby!
Big baby, the baby I’m locked down with baby baby.
I’m throwing tantrums.
You left me abandoned.
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Dave 747 Huddersfield, UK
The random musical adventures of Dave Cooke.......see also being 747 and Gigantelope
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