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I'm So Cool
02:24
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Hi!
Is this the venue?
Can I begin?
I'm good to wing it
I'm a professional
I lost my bearings
a moment there
I'm never present
anywhere
Glasses in the dusty city
I'm so cool
Glasses are for my protection
Ooh
I have named my cat Spaghetti
I'm so cool
Strike out in the wrong direction
Ooh
Bring me the head of
all daffodils
I'll wage my war on
windowsills
Going undercover
it's not for me
If I recover
then we'll see
Glasses in the dusty city
I'm so cool
Glasses are for my protection
Ooh
I have named my cat Spaghetti
I'm so cool
Strike out in the wrong direction
Ooh
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2. |
1986
02:56
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1984
Bury me in expectation
1984
So long!
1989
Pushing love underneath the nation
1989
So long!
Forever on the side
By the steps
Under the slide
With you inside my mind
I could live in every line
Take me for a ride
In your clothes I feel alive
Somebody can write me down
2009
Join the dots, city is shaking
2009
So long!
2016
Give it up for girls forsaken
2016
So long!
Forever on the side
By the steps
Under the slide
With you inside my mind
I could live in every line
Take me for a ride
In your clothes I feel alive
Somebody can write me down
The bell ring
The door swing
The headlights
Here we go
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3. |
Name Again
02:06
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What was that name again?
Is that with an 'e'?
Can I see some ID?
You can't use that pedal here!
Don't make me laugh!
Mister 'everybody-look-at-me'!
Can't walk down the street in London
(well, I can)
I'm the invisible man
Just take that hat off, man
Don't be a baby
Oh don't take it that way!
Oh did you play tonight?
Yeah you were great(!)
Well I don't need to say
Can't walk down the street in London
(well, I can)
I'm the invisible man
Can't walk down the street in London
(well yeah alright, I can)
I'm the invisible man
Fifteen minutes
Fourteen minutes
Thirteen minutes
Twelve minutes
Eleven minutes
Ten minutes
Nine minutes
Eight minutes
Seven minutes
Six minutes
Five minutes
Four minutes
Three minutes
Two minutes
One minute
Zero minutes
Bye.
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Trying to do something right
I'm throwing petrol on a fire
And I don't really want to fight
Come on
A fear of corridors open at both ends
I got fourteen minutes to make amends
In this comedy of common sense
Come on
Speaker backed
Severed lip
You're just shooting from the hip
All my money to the floor
Promise from my unhinged jaw
If I could have been like you
I'd have haunted myself too
Yeah
All out
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5. |
Mise en Scène
02:00
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Well!
Done by the river she
pulled on my hand
Gave me a camera
Said "go to town!"
I capture passerby
I capture clouds
Like I think I'm Man Ray
Are you down?
If this is flirting then
give me the lens!
you get the drinks I'll set the
mise en scène!
Back of the garden I
hung off her arm
Spun with the dragonflies
unalarmed
She caught me sleeping there
She got me home
She never leaves me out on my own
(and that's ok!)
If this is flirting then
give me the lens!
you get the drinks I'll set the
mise en scène!
If this is just for now
and Summer ends
thanks for the drinks you filled my
mise en scène!
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6. |
Kick the World
04:51
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Yeah!
Uh-huh!
Alright!
1, 2, 3!
If your ship is going down
I am coming round
pushing randomly at buttons!
We are made of light
I think I said that right?
I think I'm tangled in your curtains!
If I am a dog
you can be my God
we can click along the pavement
You can wear my shoes
and we can never lose
whichever galaxy we're saving!
Let's stay this way forever
Kick the world and make it better
Find a corner we can go
Let the curtain fall whenever
We'll just leave for somewhere better
Take my hand and off we go
I'm a beat up shirt
dragged along the dirt
you just slid out of the washer!
We can swap our spit
attract as opposites
and nobody can ever stop us!
Dance me down the hill
lean in for the kill
shove me through the rhododendrons!
Wrap around my hand
and catch me as I land
a sappy note for me to end on
Let's stay this way forever
Kick the world and make it better
Find a corner we can go
Let the curtain fall whenever
We'll just leave for somewhere better
Take my hand and off we go
Yeah!
Alright!
Uh-huh!
1, 2, 3, 4!
Let's stay this way forever
Kick the world and make it better
Find a corner we can go
Let the curtain fall whenever
We'll just leave for somewhere better
Take my hand and off we go
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7. |
Lawn Fire
02:50
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Focus. Morning. Put on dress
Walk to window reassess
Walk the garden, shaded lines
Rubbing petrol into eyes
Shoving splinters into hand
This is head buried in sand
Nothing good can come of this
Wheezing air, animal piss
This is the bed that I have made
I am never unafraid
I cannot walk into a room
Without impending sense of doom
You said it sounded so cliché
So why not take me far away?
Model village, model thinking makes
Drive me to the outer limits
Don't return until I've gone
Empty out my every pocket
Run until there's nothing wrong
Firing the lawn for winter
Smoking in the hazy dawn
Bury me behind the shimmer
Keep the weary moving on
My unrest
My heart
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8. |
Loft Space
04:30
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Loft space
Get paid to do my thing
Loft space
I thought of everything
Loft space
I call this one 'Kevin'
Loft space
I am the state you're in
Loft space
I'm making history
Loft space
I know you've heard of me
Loft space
My fellow mannequins
Loft space
Are holding court again
Loft space
I shrug and hits come out
Loft space
I'm all they write about
Loft space
They live on my expense
Loft space
It's only common sense
And if you were me
you would want them to see
All the plates I've washed in hate
And if you were me
you would want them to see
All the plates I've washed in hate
In the loft space
Loft space
You're in my way again
Loft space
You hang off everything
Loft space
Did you get your free pen?
Loft space
I've got a second collection down in the village! You should come sometime!
And if you were me
you would want them to see
All the plates I've washed in hate
And if you were me
you would want them to see
All the plates I've washed in hate
In the loft space
Loft space
Out of phase
In the loft space
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9. |
Listen Idiot!
04:07
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I wear the same clothes as everybody else
I formed a band with myself
I sing the same songs as everybody else
I need a word with myself
Listen idiot, it's not that bad
You're the best kind of you they've ever had
Listen idiot, you're not that great
But is that any reason to get in a state?
Listen idiot, you may degrade
Like a second hand thermos spilling lemonade
Listen idiot, I might be wrong
but I think I like your song!
I have the same thoughts as everybody else
I hold the door for myself
I dance the same way as everybody else
So I've got the floor to myself
Listen idiot, it's not that bad
You're the best kind of you they've ever had
Listen idiot, you're not that great
But is that any reason to get in a state?
Listen idiot, you may degrade
Like a second hand thermos spilling lemonade
Listen idiot, I might be wrong
but I think I like your song!
GO!
Wear the same clothes!
Form the same bands!
Sing the same songs!
Wear the same clothes!
And form the same bands!
Sing the same songs!
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10. |
Back Seat
06:56
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In the back seat
The windows pass me by
In the taxi
I hear the city cry
Sail the driveways
Slide the streetlit nights
All the glass animals
upon the dashboard sigh
In the back seat
Of the taxi
If you ask me
I'll take the quiet life
Give your love and then
you never sleep again
In the backseat
The windows pass me by
In the taxi
Through the glow of life
Chart the way on
Leave the lights on
All the glass animals
upon the dashboard sigh
Give your love and then
you never sleep again
Orange through the night
and no one's getting in
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Rob Britton London, UK
Just can't stop making albums, it seems! I am also in Luxembourg, Menaces, Laverne and Keith Top of the Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, so go and look at their pages. They're good!
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