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Got the Whizzer
03:44
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Part of the greatest fight in history
Starts with them dancing on the outside
Staring, it’s a staring contest
Half hearted attempts to engage with me
Your fakes and feints are gonna take some reading
Caged in, this time waits for no one
Just what I thought it’s gonna pick me up pick me up
You almost got my back but no I got the whizzer
Use it as leverage use secure the takedown
Give up position submission attempted get up and break
Every round starts on the feet
Sit down relax control your breathing
Three more deep breaths then listen carefully
You gotta circle and keep out of range of that power hand
Your better than this
Step up just how badly do you want it
Gotta keep making him miss
I think you’re down two now you need a finish
It’s five minutes lets go lets go
Empty the tank show just what you got what you got
You almost got my back but no I got the whizzer
Use it as leverage use secure the takedown
Give up position submission attempted get up and break
Every round starts on the feet
The head kick’s there all day
And throw punches in bunches
It’s everything we’ve worked on
And it’s all just coming right down to this
Don’t wanna wake up in the morning hurting feeling regret
Thinking of what might have been
You say you’re better than ever
We see an ending heading for this opportunity
A hail mary intending to be your last run your last attempt
But then you start again
This champ shit, these failed visions
This broken hope screams should’ve set the bar low
I guess you’ll never learn
But I’ll be better next time
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2. |
I am your Density
02:15
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There’s a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up
If erasing all history is not thinking fourth dimensionally
Pray stop play kindly
This aint lucid this aint lucid
If my calculations are correct you’re gonna see some serious shit
So make like a tree and leave
Make like a tree and get out of here
I am your density I mean your destiny
I don’t know how but they’ve found me, run for it Marty
There’s that word again heavy, so run for it Marty
This cloak and dagger clandestine off piste
Skullduggery goes on
Pray stop play kindly
Great job trust easily
Rise up inspiring
An all out war
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3. |
Boomerang Kid
03:13
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Leave home today for the last time
Give it up kid you’ll be back like a boomerang
All in one way like the last time
Sure enough this is a fine flight
Running away always running
I’ve heard it all
I can’t escape myself I’m pushing on
With a bulletproof back up plan of backing up and back again
The stakes raised every time I linger on
Another year another number adding on to the anxiety
Always running away
I ask is this what you want backfin stop sculling
If it’s what you really want you’re gonna have to have to
Get your backfin down stop sculling
As if it’s what you really wanted
I say it looks like I’m coming home
Any minute this becomes what I’ve been calling
A way to shake the shackles off this life it happens any time soon
All the the offers I’ve rejected will come haunting
My thoughts it’s short sighted to think only one way
Running away
I ask is this what you want backfin stop sculling
If it’s what you really want you’re gonna have to have to
Get your backfin down stop sculling
As if it’s what you really wanted
I say it looks like I’m coming home
What’s that can I hear the fleet calling
Grab your bag scrap your plan
I’m good as gone I’ve told no one
I’m better now I got my slate cleaned
Settle in to thinking I’ve got somewhere to be
But what’s that can I hear the fleet calling
This time I’m not coming home
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Sammon Steps
04:21
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It’s setting in an adequate display is what it’s tantamount to
Yeah it’s a hard fought win
But not enough for me to scream and shout about it
Big up the last time become the only soul to stay seated here
There’s gotta be a reason for this change this trade of personnel
There’s gotta be a better way than this one
Can we change this grey old tradition
This will never be us
Here’s the last change in the game I don’t wanna get up
Straight from restrained to hysterical
Become the past with a passed on plastic cup
It’s on a riddle a complexity a stickler
Big up the last time see now you’re getting a go
It’s kind of funny how adrenaline takes hold
Your realise even though you’re bang against it
You really dig another standing ovation
With legs so tired and a belief that comes and goes
With a fate you can say it to be by the sea
And the cold will be cutting when it’s time to leave
Hope it’s the last time these dice get rolled
Right now I’m six months shy
And the saving grace is that it’s temporary
I have to remind myself that I’m getting out of here
Or I’ll just stand here stricken and wasting it all
Here’s the last change in the game I don’t wanna get up
Straight from restrained to hysterical
Become the past with a passed on plastic cup
It’s on a riddle a complexity a stickler
Big up the last time see now you’re getting a go
It’s kind of funny how adrenaline takes hold
Your realise even though you’re bang against it
You really dig another standing ovation
Stay right here I’ll make it
Yeah right I’ll take it
This years a strangler a guillotine
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Always thought I was going to be a lifer
But this simple singer sees a brighter future
A bigger passport but more is less
I always thought I was going to become part of the furniture
Maybe a name plate late for lates sake gear in a crate
But without a TW I’ll never make the A list
With a heart not heavy just awkward
I’ll take a look back supress a sad smile
Distant features can barely see
So just one last time quick Ros get the bino’s
Before this big ship slips away
I got the ritties in last time
It don’t cost much this broken crutch
A pick me up for this so called social life
Call me Mr Gregarious
I woke up and pissed excellence
A classic tale of riches to rags
It took a corpses toe to make me quit the fags
Glad I trod on that same glass twice
I’m not drinking I got a night dive
I’ll train in this heat muay thai in my style
Dodgy hips bags I can barely reach
So just one last time quick Ros get the bino’s
Before this island slips away
Lantwonida, yan mure, yan gonen, kap kap
Trigger, Mitsy, Piglet, P’chet, Panda, Roy
Night dive everyone singing
She said she doesn’t laugh like that anymore
We found the sweet spot
Patch of purple purple passage period of notable success
Soz Luke I’m shoeless thanks to Miss Leigh
Thank god enter Devanney
And Mr Jutajak can go fuck himself
In burning bridges I got a doctorate
All my messages I reply a decade late
The list is endless
I promise I will try harder next time
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Four piece melodic punk from Derby.
Ben Chapman - Drums
Neil Draycott -
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Ben Ashton - Lead Guitar
Nelb Cowie - Guitar & Vocals
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