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Kill Yr Parents
03:47
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Slow pan through the dark room
Bedside pharmacy perfumes
Black pools on the carpet
Red scrawl in the margins
This is what they will look upon
When you kill your parents and quit your job
And you set the tableau to say to everyone "Goodbye"
Because you know it's alright
Because you know that you're right.
Ashtray over and toppled
Straight out of cheap airport novels
Because you're a thirties cinema crime scene
From a bad gangster movie
This is what they will look upon
When you kill your parents and quit your job
And you set the tableau to say to everyone "Goodbye"
Because you know it's alright
Because you know it all
And there's nothing wrong with wanting fame
Think of all the attention when you come up for trial
Because whatever the jury decides is alright.
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2. |
You Are What You Read
05:31
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She's so perfectly formed
She flows like a balanced sentence, not a syllable left out of place
And she hangs like an arching storyline,
A perfect model of eloquent grace,
And I'm a convoluted metaphor that doesn't even make a great deal of sense,
I'm not advancing the plot
My purpose garbled and lost
And any editor would screw me up and draft me again
She said "You are what you read,
"You're so badly constructed you can hardly make a clear description that works
"Because you are what you read
"You're a first attempt stock remainder with a readership you barely deserve
"You are what you see,
"You're so self-reflexive, no authorial voice, too inwardly directed,
"You're a black comedy, because you are what you read."
She's been up half the night,
She just can't put herself down
She's discovered she's a page turner of consummate skill,
And he's a worthy tome that no-one has the heart to begin,
And it's doubtful that there's someone who will,
And he says he's reading science fiction novels, they really really help him relax.
With every turn of the page they take him further away - and you know, there's nothing less impressive than that.
She said "You are what you read: you're the words made to fit the rhythm when you've found that inspiration has flown,"
She said "You are what you read: you're a debut novella so you've not developed any voice of your own,
"You are what you breathe, so you're great exclamations, half-remembered jokes, overheard conversations,
"You're a thin parody, because you are what you read."
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3. |
Part-Timer
02:54
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It's the way of the future
You should simply get used to
Life of the part-timer
Monday to Wednesday
Nine to three-thirty
Unless you're in early
Then you go home at one.
Once you've caught up the phonecalls
And the message pad notes
You can settle down
And who could be prouder
When the pay's in on Friday
Because you're the part-timer
And the money's alright, and the hours are alright, and the times being what they are I'll take what I get
(That's if anyone's offering)
Because it's not getting better I'm not getting better it's not getting easier, so throw open the door
Because no-one knows security anymore.
It's the end of an era
A century's effort
Boils in vapour
Because there's no protection
And no explanation
When you're the part-timer
And the money's alright…
And at your back is time's winged chariot
And you're no younger and your friends are doing oh so well
And in your heart how you'd simply love to save yourself
But that's not happening anymore.
Because you're the part-timer.
And the money's alright…
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4. |
Caffeine Nation
03:40
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Pick me up, start me going against my will
Because our days are compressed at either end, we go nonetheless
And you want to be stronger, so you need something stronger still
We're a caffeine nation, and there's no time to waste
And it could be worse
It could be never-ending
You could drag in your friends
It could all come to nothing
With the people you love
Or it could be the focus
Of the way that we go
And we all go.
Passed along at the start of this gloomy day
Because there's a trail ahead and I can't get there alone
It's our own little ritual, a marker along the way
We're a caffeine nation, and we're sick with the taste
And it could be worse…
And someday I will get more sleep
I'll give my body all it needs
But when I look at all that I've achieved,
It's so meagre
It's so cheap
It's so feeble
It's so bleak…
And it could be worse.
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5. |
Maim Yr Parents (remix)
02:57
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Career Girls Australia Adelaide, Australia
Following the 1997 dissolution of the Undecided, Todd Hutchinson, Jeremy Reglar and Andrew P Street recruited Sasha Pazeski
and formed Career Girls, named for the Mike Leigh film because they incorrectly thought no-one else would use that name. They went into semi-hibernation in 2005.
Members went on to form the Zero Kelvins, We All Want To, Ponytail Kink and the Majestic Horses.
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