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Love From London

from Found Wanting by Rob Britton

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Lily white face and ageless skin
took a gentle battering
all the people came to see
the branches snapping off the tree
Left them lying in a bar
in the back seat of his car
crumpled up and trampled down and smeared across the cenotaph
Take a picture of the earring
it’ll be front page by morning
you can say you saw it first hand
this is how you take the world in
Shake the small town apathy
tangled hair and broken teeth
burning cars and burning trees
and coffee stains on single screens

And just run far
just outrun what you are

Be in London by evening where under the sunset
they’re opening boxes in everybody’s heads
and losing perspective is so recommended
the best you can do is the best you can do

So send a postcard back to them
as though you’re all that’s happening
oh the places you’ve been in
who do you think you are again?
Let your parents use the phone
kill yourself to stay ten stone
promise them you meant to call
you piss your twenties up the wall
Lying sideways face the door
as scalpel blades serrate the floor
wrap yourself in disco lights
dream of clear Midland nights
Then brush the country from your teeth
and keep the sadness underneath
just keep the sadness underneath
‘cause now you know where these roads lead

You just ran far
and forgot what you are

So in London this evening you’re under the sunset
and opening boxes in everybody’s heads
and losing perspective is so recommended
the best you could do was the best you could do
So you find yourself almost asleep in the kitchen
you boiled the water now where does that fit in?
You walk for three miles in any direction
but cannot walk yourself right out of your own skin
You’re wrapped in the past and you’re stuck with no chance of escape
but the dark path of least resistance
is calling to you from down the side of the bed
and if this is the high life I’d rather take death
But that’s giving in just as they all said you would
like they thought you were easy
well let them get fucked
you just lost your perspective – it was recommended
the best you could do was alright

You’ve got your lily white face and ageless skin
you took a gentle battering
let the people come and see
branches hanging from a tree
That was now and this is then
and who are they to recommend?
Who do you think you are again?

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from Found Wanting, released January 5, 2009

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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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