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stick yourself in it
04:05
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getting up going out car horns people shout corporate doors hissing as I walk automatically. Pink dogs, a nothing mind, snow falling almost vertically. On her face, there's blue light 'round Pigelle, there's a holy trace lovers shine in neon time snow falls lights glide its all mine
Too many cars, too many laws,too many lies being told, pushing my sky,Not enough giving,not enough feeling, not enough being born
makes you wonder why. But when you talked to me, I went quiet and stared at the sky and all your hidden words tremble tremble in my mind and beautiful smile ran naked through my veins
Here's a bloke on a stood up straight suitcase blank face waiting for a bus to the Maghreb that will never come. stick yourself in it, make it more complicated like it's never been before, or let it go after all what do you know except you know – nothing at all
fireworks go off in the park. Bang bang go off in myheart and on her face there's sunlight round Pigelle there's a holy trace sailors yearn
for things unseen, housewives laugh, husbands dream, cops scheme like dying stars, the light moves, the crowds pass, snow flakes fall between the cars and all the shit that we make
all the things ain’t it great
all our things, the things we make all our shit ain't it great
fireworks holy fireworks go bang in my heart. Stick yourself in it we can take it we can make it we can shape it, we can dream it
we can build it we can face it we can make it
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My soul rides in a prison bus
Got prison stripes go up and down
Got a Prison chain and a prison hat
My soul waves with a broken hand
My soul waves with a broken hand
Got broken dreams all over the place
Got a broken heart the sun can’t reach
My soul rides in a prison bus.
My soul sings with a convict tongue
My soul sings with a convict tongue
got a convict right and a convict wrong
got a convict tongue and a convict song
Only your love can save me
only your love can save my
save my life save my life from
from this prison prison bus
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one big soul
03:12
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I walked down the steps at Vauxhall
bridge I took a walk along the dirty Thames
and the temple of the spies stood in the sky
and the light of the day was dying on the cranes
and 18 million people in cool rotation turned
tied one to another in ways they didn’t know
in one big soul
and in a Portuguese wooden neighbourhood
when I was lost and I felt afraid
I bent and kissed the virgin Mary’s feet
At a tiny shrine on a dark and cobbled street
And the prayers of the men and the women
Offered up from their hope and pain lifted me up
like one big soul
Well I’ve been around the world and now I’ve come back
and there’s one thing I know for a fact
Under all our the different faces
all our different skins our million different names
all our different lives and dreams and scenes
There’s only one big soul And the Sydney sun shines
soft and warm holds me tight like my mother’s arms ,
holds me tight and won’t let go. One Big Soul
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I want to find me a big fat woman
who’ll hold me in her arms
wash me in her big fat bucket
in the middle of her courtyard
cut my hair sing me a song
love me hard till my blues are gone
but just when I’m trying to sleep
the roof just opens wide
and I feel those teeth you know
biting deep inside
false teeth start biting me
I went to sleep between the highway
between the cars going north and south
and in that no-man’s land wake up in your arms
but just as the moment of climax has been reached
as I walk out along the sun stricken beach
false teeth start biting me
I got a question A little question
I need answered real bad
why is the world’s so beautiful
why is it so sad
Daddy daddy is that what u mean
That I should swallow with margarine
Meanwhile from my head down to my head
In defiance of court orders and notices to quit
false teeth start biting me
I don’t get it I don’t get it
I won’t get it till the day I die
so scrub my tongue, hose me out
tell me what its all about
but everything beautiful, holy in me
is rising up to fight off these teeth
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government building
02:20
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government building reaching up to the sky. Your iimitation of the divine leaves me cold. You can't hold me, you can't help me, you can't love me. What are you for? We're not sure. Its not clear from down here.
Governement building staring down at the crowd, your intention is prevention of everything. That's a mortal sin. That's completely mad but then again what are you for? we're not sure. Its unclear from down here.
government building you're all pretending in tight pants. Always stealing all you can from everyone. Its your idea of fun but its not mine at all when you leave me poor.
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Tactics France
Tactics were one of the most celebrated acts on Australia's new wave scene boasting an eclectic sound that ranged from angular pop and stripped-down psychedelia to fractured art rock, all married to the thoughtful provocative lyrics of Dave Studdert, the group's motivation was to create a popular music native to their own being-ness. in 2020 tactics relocated in france. ... more
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