1. |
Nude
04:32
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Down the front
the young ones slide their eyes
over the bodies
of the people
inhabiting a disguise
I was once a little kid
eyeing up the legends
I thought they could
say anything and
nothing was pretended
Now all these years later
I know that
all of them used to be
waiters or something
They weren't born with
that special kiss
to make everything seem
delicious and interesting
I am a rocker now
and it came on me
just like pyjamas
I slipped on the gown
and it covered up my scars
It feels so
good to wear gold
silver and purple
But I'm nude underneath
Yeah I'm nude underneath
Just like they were
Come on with me
and dance like a puppet
A puppet to your own desire
Come on
Jump a little higher
Sweat a little harder
Stomp your feet on the ground
Let's get down
Let's get down you fuckers
Let's get down on it
Let me get up on it
Let me put a ring on it
and take it home to Mama
I always knew that I never knew
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2. |
Photographs
02:31
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I used to drive in front of your house
I didn't have a license then
I used to take pictures through your window
I never told my friends
I never gave the photographs to anyone
I just kept them under my bed
in a shoebox I got my school shoes in
It wasn't a trend
I just did it once
and I never did it again
Those photographs stayed with me
'til this very day
Please don't think it creepy
Please don't get me locked away
But I've got those photographs
and I'll never throw them away
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3. |
Your Saviour
04:41
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Dirty in the streets
but ice cream clean between the sheets
She's like a rusty old nail
straight through your feet
She's a doctor
but don't look in her purse
You've got her
but you're feeling much worse
Oh she's in your dreams
Oh she's taking over your memories
If you lift up your sleeves
You can see where she breeds
Oh yeah she told you it was just once
Oh yeah but now you're crawling and looking through crumbs
to get a little bit of dust
Oh I saw it on the counter
I saw what you use to flip your outer
into inner
And now I know I know you're a sinner
A sinner
Yeah I know what you had for dinner
Don't tell me any more lies
because to my surprise I believe them
Yeah I'm your only friend now
You're plastic on the outside
and you're disgusting on the inside
She took what I knew of you
and made it into some kind of primordial stew
Yeah you're a lover
but only to her
If I looked in your trousers
I would see only 7 ounces of failure
You derailed yourself
when you named her
your saviour
She would never think about you
the way you do of her
You know it's true
You know she's only using you like a rube
at the carnival
And you know your pocket's gonna feel the pinch
in Hell
Like this
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4. |
Stolen Nazi Gold
04:52
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Get away from me
Can't you see I'm trying to flee the scene of something
Here take this bag
No don't look inside if you know that your life is glad
Don't be looking for trouble
If you don't wanna find it
Cause you will find it here with me
Here with me
you get stung by the bees
I like you
You don't ask too many questions
Not like the last one
I like you
You're a pretty good driver
Hey, take a left at the stop light
Yeah you're pretty safe with me
Come on park up next to this tree
I got something to show thee
Hand this shovel to me when no one's looking
and I'll get digging
There's something at the bottom of this trench
Yeah that's right
Something French
Stolen Nazi gold!
That's what's in the hole
And half of it's for you
If you can keep your mouth shut
I opened the box
There was nothing inside
The whole thing had been a lie
And now it was time for me to say goodbye
Now I'm in that hole
Never trust a guy with a mole
Never trust someone who says they've got stolen Nazi gold
and they're gonna give it to you
That dealt with that poor sucker!
You better get down and stay down!
Even your mother won't ever find ya
I'm on my way again
You can never have a friend
When you're touting stolen Nazi gold
Nazi gold
My precious Nazi gold
It's all mine now
Oh no I lost control of the car!
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5. |
Fairies
03:03
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Darling
It's darker when you
break the globe
that contains the fairies
Don't you know
once you let them out
you can't get them back in
And they're mischievous
once they get into the gin
Don't
try to tell them what to do
They will just laugh at you
Don't you know
not to tell them where to go
'cause they'll
go in the
opposite direction
You know
they have a way of smelling
secrets
You know
If you try to hide something from them
They'll find where it is
and keep it
Fairies
they love that shit
If you go down to the woods today
You're in for a big surprise
800,000 pairs of eyes
And they all know where you hid your locket
And they won't stop until it's in their pocket
Darkness falls
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6. |
A Spell
03:09
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Bread and honey
Make me feel so lazy
Sitting on my chair at work
I go berserk
Aesthetics disgust me
My life isn't pretty
I only like it when it's disgusting
Because you bounced in front of me at
my cousin's wedding
I'm going to put a spell on you
I'm going to put a spell on you
is how it goes
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7. |
Under a Rock
04:48
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Under a rock
You must have been living under a rock
for the last 7 months
There are plenty of rocks
In fact there are pretty much only rocks
I hope you are not too shocked
when you see
what has become
of your precious town
Yes, even the church burned down
I don't wanna be the bearer of bad news
but good news is in short supply
I bid you spread your tiny eye around
You will see what happened to your town
Razed by fire
Even the church burned down
God doesn't live here anymore
So celebrate whatever you've got
Maybe go back under the rock
and don't come out
Yeah they really painted the town brown
You're better off under the ground
with the real creatures
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8. |
In My Little Bag
04:23
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Spinning in a field full of flowers
for hours
For our love is like a daffodil
Its power lies inside
In the fact that it never dies
No matter how many times
it falls to the ground
and melts down in the dirt
It hurts, yes it's true
Every time I wasn't speaking to you
my heart felt like a seed
that was never planted
but whose day comes after
the rain falls
on the earth
and
pushes down
the debris
Fallen leaves
Anything else that's around
Every seed has its day
It's fed one way or another
The sky is its mother
Now I feel
the clouds
are peeling their covers off
and taking me up
Taking me up on my offer not to drown
Yes, good times abound
every time you're around me
We've got a new thing
As we lay to see what our dreams bring
I lift up my arm
Once is the charm
And I slide it under your back
and I tell you
You're in my little bag
Safe and warm
in my little bag
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9. |
Horn
04:21
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Brick and mortar
Give me your only daughter
And I'll your forgive your crime
Taste of wet cement
has bent my will to yours
And you're a shovel user
I will abuse every chance I get
with you
Don't look back
Your village has been burned
Water please
Strike the last days from my memories
If you ever loved me
You never loved me
That's what occurred to me
After I saw what you'd done to them
You never even saw
the first scar
that was born
It was round
Just like your
horn
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10. |
Tin Man Boogie
02:28
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Rock
I was shocked
when it cut me
I didn't fall from a tree yesterday
I got what you told me
and I took it away
And I tore off my price tag
I'm just a hag
hanging onto a good time
at the end of your fishing line
You got me
I'm ashamed to say for free
You got me
I ashamed to say it was easy
And I regret the day I
put your hand in mine
I regret the day I
thought it was too good to be true
Too good to pass up
Too good to let someone else get into
Too good
I thought it was too good
I know I'm your disciple
Oh and it's a sin
The mess you got me in
I thought it was just a boogie in that pin
But you made me into a tin man
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11. |
Don't Go Away
04:20
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My shoelace keeps coming undone today
Please don't fade away
I kiss you on the mouth every day
If I forget
please don't go away
You are my favourite
combination
of atoms
on this planet
So please
don't go away
Don't go
I'm not afraid of anything
Except when my body freezes up
That's when I know
I got it rough
I don't like
to die
Nobody does
If you hand me a certificate
I'll give it right back
I won't put it on my wall
What a waste of time
What a waste of breath
To put a broccoli where a donut once was
But don't go away
Don't go away
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12. |
23:03
03:46
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Rumble in my stomach
What am I even doing here?
I want another goblet of your green drink
But you had gone by the time I arrived
And so I strive to impress some other poor
fool
who loves the sight of
the moon drowning in a swimming pool
The okay came from the KO co-ordinator
And a couple of droplets
came from the ceiling into my glass of water
The one that filled up
with lambs' tears
It's 11:03
and I'm feeling kinda slimy
So I creep over to the corner
to do some knitting
My crochet friends are there
Pearl without a care
And that's the image that I'm spitting
They wore French perfume that night
But I didn't hate 'em for it
They wore French perfume that night
But I didn't hold it against them
If you know someone
that has a clutch
Don't hold it against them
Hold it against yourself
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13. |
To Be Wanted
05:41
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I am a prostitute on the vine
You know how I like it
Sharp and fine
and sad
I walked my city
in the finest rags
And every day
I got called pretty
by the dads
That was all I wanted
To be called pretty
and be wanted
To be wanted
by the dads
To be something better
than what they had
There were times
I was haunted
by what I'd done
And there were times
I looked into the barrel
of your Bright Yellow Gun
That's all I ever thought about
That's all I ever dreamt about
That's all I ever meant when I said
You're like water in a drought
But you were really
nothing to write home about
You were nothing special
Just 70 quid in an alleyway
Nothing special
Just an afternoon of need
Just a way to get petrol
and 5 quid on the top
out of greed
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14. |
Growing Pains
05:31
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Suck it up he said
You're winning aren't you?
Tough it out he said
There's others who'd love to be you
But I was the only one in the ring that night
And I couldn't bring myself to fight
They promised me riches
They promised me all the women money could buy
They promised me toys
Remember I was only 9
But remember it was only me in the ring
And I just couldn't bring myself to fight
That night there was a smell of petrol
hanging over the arena
There was something going on
I wasn't dreaming
There was something going on
I wasn't dreaming
When I awoke
It was like someone had broken glass over the bed
Yeah I was cut up real nice
and there were cuts all over my face
When I asked my mother
She told me it was just growing pains
The same thing had happened to my brother
and he never complained
Yeah he never complained
So shouldn't I?
I didn't wanna be the one with a black eye
Didn't wanna be the one
caught in a lie that was true
A lie
Something that happened to you
That you'll never forget
How can it be a lie
when every time I close my eyes
it's happening again?
It's happening again
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Deftera Athens, Greece
A Weekly Music Diary.
Deftera is an improv project by Chris Scott and Giorgos Athanasiou. Every Monday evening we meet for 3
hours to express the week's feelings through improvised songs. We then select our favourites to release the following Monday.
Chris plays guitar and sings.
Giorgos plays the drums and sometimes guitar.
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