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Well I'm just out of my hospital bed you know what it was the first thing that you said?
The first thing you told me the first thing you said on a motorway you wish that I was dead.
You sent me my life in a box and a bag...
Photographs all cut and butchered family stories you tried to change.
So you cut your man right out of the picture there's still a history unchanged.
You sent me my life in a box and a bag...
It was a cross with a broken arm jesus...
It was a cross with a broken arm jesus
It was a cross with a broken arm jesus
It was a cross with a broken arm jesus
It was a cross with a broken arm jesus
and I survived, and I survived...without you.
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So Far Away
02:57
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Met you when my heart was broken
met you when the life was through.
Reflections in a head so broken
nothing changes nothing new.
So so far away, so close to you...
Thinking as I walk the trees
thinking only what will be.
What could have been and should have been
many stories many histories.
So so far away, so close to you
"disconnected broken mirrors
I still have the dreams of you
something deep inside of me
a little broken part of you"
My heart bleeds
My heart bleeds
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The Batchain Pullers
02:52
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"we're dancing at the vulcan with the bat chain pullers
we're dancing at the vulcan with the bat chain pullers"
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The Outsider
02:42
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I'm standing at the crossroads
with a copy of the outsider in my hand.
Lonely at the crossroads
a stranger in my own land.
I'm the outsider, I'm the outsider in my own head.
I'm standing at the crossroads
54 46 ringing in my head.
Head spinning at the crossroads
song in my heart just full of dread.
I'm the outsider, I'm the outsider in my own head.
"lost standing at the crossroads
seems like I've been here before.
life living on the crossroads
oh oh forever more... forever more.
I'm the outsider, I'm the outsider
In my own head, in my own head.
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Deep Song Dark Nights
03:49
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Going away, you never can tell
then she went away, welcome to hell
deep song dark nights deep song dark nights.
And what if I'd stayed, you never can tell
a history changed, from living to hell
deep song dark nights deep song dark nights.
Going away, you never can tell
then he went away, I'll see you in hell
deep song dark nights deep song dark nights
Take me home and I will stay
Take me home and I will stay... forever ...
deep song dark nights deep song dark nights
deep song dark nights deep song dark nights
"for me it's forever, for you it's a while"
"for me it's forever, for you it's a while"
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Jo Jo
03:30
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I got the photographs that I cannot see, you and me, you and me.
I was told that you wanted to see me, you and me, you and me.
jo jo, when I look into those eyes
jo jo, when I look into those eyes, a message to you.
Fixing up the playhouse in your mothers house
you and me, you and me
Sitting in that room in the lock in clinic
you and me, you and me.
jo jo, when I look into those eyes
jo jo, when I look into those eyes, a message to you.
I cannot write what is in my head, you and me some tragedy
The memories are locked away hearts at bay, seeing you, I'll be seeing you...
jo jo, when I look into those eyes
jo jo, when I look into those eyes, a message to you.
I'll be seeing you... I'll be seeing you...
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Who Makes The Wars?
03:34
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It's not the poor, of that I am sure
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
Who makes the wars tanks n things
Who builds the war planes bombs n things?
Who makes the money making wars
Takes the money for killing wars?
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
Who kills the planet stealing the oil
Who kills the bees killing the soil?
Who makes the money draining our planet
Who makes the millions killing our planet?
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
It's not the poor, of that I am sure
Hold my hand, let's start again
Hold my hand, let's start again.
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Your Sunshine Superman
04:03
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Halcyon Days
03:42
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Walking round manchester streets and the kids, kids all wrapped in rags
reaching down a kid in my hand
for the kid in the tracks rags.
Down through piccadilly gardens, looks like a bomb hit the street
bodies shaken bodies broken
blood on the kids on the street.
These are the days, these are the days... the halcyon days?
Well a guy in a bloated bulbous beamer shouts abuse as I talk to a kid
I'm a loony lefty arsehole he say's
the guy in the shiny car we know him, we know him...
Where did they go, where did they go... the halcyon days?
'we walk the line we walk the streets
we walk the way they give us treats
we walk the spectacle Guy Debord
he was dead right and we ignored...
Bring back those halcyon days
Bring back those halcyon days
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A Saint, I Will Be
03:11
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Gonna write myself another history, a secret history
my life will change.
A halo with a Mitchum legacy, just for all to see
a life re arranged.
What can I say, come the day?
A saint I will be, a saint I will be, the best of men, best of men, you'll see.
Gonna write myself as a flier, concord energiser
socialist archangel.
Curate myself ever higher, star man awaiting
a rocket man of certainty.
What can I say, come the day?
A saint I will be, a saint I will be, the best of men, best of men, you'll see.
A saint I will be, a saint I will be,
A saint I will be, a saint I will be,
A saint I will be, a saint I will be,
A saint I will be, a saint I will be,
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There's a man takes pictures says he's an artist
pictures of girls in frocks he's an artist.
He wants to make a difference got a social conscience
take pictures of wars and the poor for his conscience.
he's got a signed edition by Robert Capa
Pictures of frocks, pictures of frocks
He says he's an artist a radical a radical.
Pictures of frocks pictures of frocks
He wants to make a difference with his pictures of frocks.
He's got the revolutionary air of a rather smug buddhist
a dalai llama come futerama.
He read the first chapter of black skin white masks
says it makes a difference to his pictures of frocks.
he's got a signed edition by Robert Capa
Pictures of frocks, pictures of frocks
He says he's an artist a radical a radical.
Pictures of frocks pictures of frocks
He wants to make a difference with his pictures of frocks.
"says he wants to leave a legacy so don't fk with those apostrophes"
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Empire ABC
03:45
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aborigine afghanistan arab atrocitiy amritsar
boer bengal ballymurphy bloody sunday burma
caribbean china opium chuka cork... castration...cannonading...can can can nonading
delhi derry
egypt ethiopia
famine flogging "famine is good, they breed like rabbits"
guyana gold gibetting ...gi gi gibetting look it up
hong kong
india ireland iraq iran irlanda
jamaica
kenya kaffirs kenya kaffirs
libya loughin island lashes
mau mau malaya
nigeria ningbo
opium trade oh yeah
palestine bombing villages no guernica paintings here palestine
queen elizabeth
rape rhodesia
south africa springhill slavery sudan sierra leone scorched earth
tibet trevalyan "famine is an effective method of reducing surplus population" torture
uganda diamonds
vietnam
winston water can the whip
xenophobia
yellow creek yemen
zimbabwe
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jd meatyard
well, via the great lamented john peel we were given a run around europe with our rackety post punk noise... as Levellers 5 then Calvin Party,,, Peel sessions n all... now on the 5th album as jd meatyard 'solo' project... new york anti folk and regular shows around uk/europe and 5 star reviews...wow, huh! 'The Batchain Pullers' December 2018 release on Probe Plus ... A big big love to all. ... more
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