LYRICS
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TELLISON / TUBELORD SPLIT 7" SINGLE
A. Wasp's Nest - Lost on the stage I was looking her way to see, she was naming the dead and talking in poetry. And every line is a bookshelf, and I won't feel sorry for myself, your heart is desperately damaged, and my heart is a wasp's nest. And I hate that river I know I have rivals dear, but if books are my home then you killed my family. And every line is a bookshelf, and I won't feel sorry for myself, your heart is desperately damaged, and my heart is a wasp's nest. My heart is a wasp's nest, my imagination was the first apple tree. And every line is a bookshelf, and I won't feel sorry for myself, your heart is desperately damaged, and my heart is a wasp's nest.
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GALLERY 7" SINGLE
1. Gallery - Snap back a little minute there and I got my bag turned out the same routine again, its really not like that darling we were just kids and we were trying to start again. Taking the first steps. I heard that you needed this and I appreciate that, I appreciate that. Special dispensation is well and good but we’re not in a war this isn’t like that. Taking the first steps. And this view of your back is worth something more than that, there is a picture of this victory in every wartime gallery. And the back of your hand is a monument to that, it is a monument to that, it is a monument to that. Croatia calls me late at night and Israel beckons me, Jerusalem. My list of things to do before I met you come on let’s learn how to live. Taking the first steps. Spent my day spurning out this shit from this ditch and I’m fed up with it. Could have wrote back helped to pick me up your lack of adventure’s why we lost this war. Taking the first steps. And this view of your back is worth something more than that, there is a picture of this victory in every wartime gallery. And the back of your hand is a monument to that, it is a monument to that, it is a monument to that. You’re in a gallery you’re in a gallery.
2. Gibralter - And I'd write you a letter to explain all my actions but I'd only take it too far again, and you'll consign me to that shoebox underneath the place where you hang your coats, on a par with train tickets and badges. Well maybe that's justice, on a par with train tickets and badges, I'll be at home with objects that can pierce your heart and take you far away. Paint me with loyal marks, at least ignore me with feeling. Good arms. Painter. And the style of her dress is no longer screaming A line, simply saying that the rest of the alphabet had gone away to spell other words and phrases that day so there was no "U" to be found. Only memories of "x"'s. Paint me with loyal marks, at least ignore me with feeling. good arms. Painter. This time I'm not just thinking out loud.
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HENRY WENT TO PARIS 7" / NEW SLANG SINGLE
1. Henry went to Paris - I realise, this might be hard, for you, but you should realise, that apologies, are overdue. You can go if that’s what you want, you can go if that’s what you want. What’s in these stories? What’s in your heart? I never learn, I’m distracted by you. I wrote a speech, I read it out, I practiced. You can go if that’s what you want, you can go if that’s what you want. What’s in these stories? What’s in your heart? You’re never gonna learn, never gonna learn, never gonna.
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CONTACT! CONTACT!
1. Hanover Start Clapping - Are you over me, it was a song for all the friends that I’ve let down. You were the best thing, and I missed it because I didn’t have the guts to say what I meant, I got on a train and went away because that’s the one thing I can do. Are you over me? It was a song for all the friends that I’ve let down. You are the first thing that I think of, because I never have the guts to do what I want I put it away get on a train because that’s the one thing I can do. Are you over me? It was a song for all the friends that I’ve let down.
2. Reader - I think I know what’s going on, and you work yourself up to this every time, and thinking's just too, much to ask just make another story she'll believe you. I don’t want to be formulaic, I don’t want to mean anything at all. You and me are never going to agree so why don’t we call it official, let’s call it the reader goes first, the reader goes first.
3. Gallery - Snap back a little minute there and I got my bag turned out the same routine again, its really not like that darling we were just kids and we were trying to start again. Taking the first steps. I heard that you needed this and I appreciate that, I appreciate that. Special dispensation is well and good but we’re not in a war this isn’t like that. Taking the first steps. And this view of your back is worth something more than that, there is a picture of this victory in every wartime gallery. And the back of your hand is a monument to that, it is a monument to that, it is a monument to that. Croatia calls me late at night and Israel beckons me, Jerusalem. My list of things to do before I met you come on let’s learn how to live. Taking the first steps. Spent my day spurning out this shit from this ditch and I’m fed up with it. Could have wrote back helped to pick me up your lack of adventure’s why we lost this war. Taking the first steps. And this view of your back is worth something more than that, there is a picture of this victory in every wartime gallery. And the back of your hand is a monument to that, it is a monument to that, it is a monument to that. You’re in a gallery you’re in a gallery.
4. Tender is the Night - The Divers were sick of the summer, the summer was locked in the shed, the hospital wards and the fortified floors, and the Doctor was tied to his bed. Who are you at war with? Who are you at war with? Who are you at war with now? The old man was out for the doctors, the doctors were out for themselves, the patients and staff had a fight in the bath, and the Fire Brigade, oh the Fire Brigade. Who are you at war with? Who are you at war with? Who are you at war with now?
5. Fire - If you drive that fast, you’re bound to get hurt, you can’t not get hurt, and the drugs don’t last enough time, to make things all right, you were my bright lights, but there’s no lights tonight. And I lost my confidence, I tried to get it back, I tried my best to be, the thing you want but drugs don't, make me feel great, you got so selfish and stayed up too late, for me. Do the things you take make any difference? Do the things I say make any difference? Have I lost your heart now? Have I lost your heart now? Am I too much in love? A fire, in me, for you.
6. New York New York New York - New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, someone was telling me how bad America is, you ought to go its like our relationship. Collapsing. Tell me I’m wrong if something’s amiss in this, I’d like to know I won’t be offended, you don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say what to say to me. Cause we’re collapsing. Let’s move to New York New York. New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it.
7. Amory - We are a battle and I’ve been fighting for years. You look so good when you’re away from me, it was ’86 or thereabouts, so this liberation being permanently impermanent, if you read more books you’d understand. Don’t be so obvious Amory.
8. Ambulance - Saying the little things is often harder than feeling your way around a bigger statement, the words just don’t come out very easily to me, I pour out my heart somehow I don’t say anything. But just you wait. And the Ambulance was an accident but a testament to my favourite word, you know it’s more like a miracle, and would it be better if it didn’t matter, if it didn’t matter to you it matters to me, you know its hard to prove. I left all my friends and ran away to the North and give him it all if that’s what the man wants, and I disagree quietly from far away, you’re talking to somebody else I’m on the phone though. But look closer. And the Ambulance was an accident but a testament to my favourite word, you know it’s more like a miracle, and would it be better if it didn’t matter, if it didn’t matter to you it matters to me, you know its hard to prove. Ba ba ba. And the Ambulance was an accident but a testament to my favourite word, you know it’s more like a miracle, and would it be better if it didn’t matter, if it didn’t matter to you it happened to me, you know its hard to prove.
9. Architects - From all accounts, it would appear, that you would be the sticking plaster and I the wound, but actually it's wrong around it's them that's hurt it's them that's bound, its them that get hurt, its them that get hurt, so much more than me, in the end. From all reports, you could assume, that you would be the architect and I the cold blue line but actually you would be wrong, and I won't write another song, it's me you draw you're writing on, the cold correction that goes on, so much more this year. John Keats John Keats John Keats John please put a scarf on.
10. Henry went to Paris - I realise, this might be hard, for you, but you should realise, that apologies, are overdue. You can go if that’s what you want, you can go if that’s what you want. What’s in these stories? What’s in your heart? I never learn, I’m distracted by you. I wrote a speech, I read it out, I practiced. You can go if that’s what you want, you can go if that’s what you want. What’s in these stories? What’s in your heart? You’re never gonna learn, never gonna learn, never gonna.
11. Disaster! Disaster! - Stayed in London felt like Japan, don’t be angry if you’re angry, sum it up cover up running out of buildings running out of ideas, running out of friends she said, “Stephen disaster is your best friend, disaster is your best trick, you do it oh so well”. Ba Da Dum. Disaster Disaster. London water never runs ice cold, eyes like pilot lights like my best friends, never did know very much about me, temper patience, just keep smiling, “Stephen disaster is your codename, disaster while you’re smiling, you do it oh so well”. Ba Da Dum. Disaster! Disaster!
12. Hospital - I am a hospital with many wards I’m saving lives and fixing peoples hearts but mine’s not in it, hearts but mine’s not in it. Emergencies and Accidents and ambulances are my oxygen, and people are my blood and corridors my veins and every day is just the same, paramedics and pain, I won’t complain it could be worse, the old folks homes are cursed. You’ve got a date with me, could be tonight it could be years, you’ve got a date with me, could be tonight it could be years. And every send people die and many of them are inside and most will be here soon, most will be here soon. And seriously I hate my work but someone’s got to do it though the poetry is lost on me, you’re born, you live, you die, that’s all that I can see from here, been counting down the years, the wrecking ball is far off yet and till it comes I’m something of a prophet. You’ve got a date with me, could be tonight it could be years, you’ve got a date with me, could be tonight it could be years. It could be years. It could be tonight.
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SPIRA RECORDS MIX TAPE: VOLUME 2
3. New York New York New York - New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, someone was telling me how bad America is, you ought to go its like our relationship. Collapsing. Tell me I’m wrong if something’s amiss in this, I’d like to know I won’t be offended, you don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say what to say to me. Cause we’re collapsing. Let’s move to New York New York. New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it.
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SOUVENIR - A TRIBUTE TO CABLE
Song #1 - Lyrics by Cable.
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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE - 2006 GDIP SAMPLER
3. New York New York New York - New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, someone was telling me how bad America is, you ought to go its like our relationship. Collapsing. Tell me I’m wrong if something’s amiss in this, I’d like to know I won’t be offended, you don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say, don’t know what to say what to say to me. Cause we’re collapsing. Let’s move to New York New York. New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it, New York’s a town that I’ve never visited I’d like to go but I’m too afraid of it.
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READER 7" SINGLE
1. Reader - I think I know what’s going on, and you work yourself up to this every time, and thinking's just too, much to ask just make another story she'll believe you. I don’t want to be formulaic, I don’t want to mean anything at all. You and me are never going to agree so why don’t we call it official, let’s call it the reader goes first, the reader goes first.
2. Linley - It's getting harder to do things like this right now and all you're arguments can barely even stand up to mine what they were before was something else. I won't beleive you'd do that, and I won't beleive a thing they say, I won't beleive write it down, I won't believe Linley lost it all in the same way. And Linley's daughter's swimming face down in the lake they found her yesterday but I'm not quite sure that's right it's something else. These walls still stand.
3. Winter Winter - It snowed again we trip back to the lights falling over and taking it slowly, come on it's too quiet to be started yet, come on I heard it on the radio the snow next year takes days to go and above all a good roof.
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TELLISON / SEVEN YEARS - SPLIT
1. Reader - I think I know what’s going on, and you work yourself up to this every time, and thinking's just too, much to ask just make another story she'll believe you. I don’t want to be formulaic, I don’t want to mean anything at all. You and me are never going to agree so why don’t we call it official, let’s call it the reader goes first, the reader goes first.
2. 1112 - I want to they said "dress warm" she knows, during the night his talented friend died, I told you I was sick. I'd help you if they said "dress warm", she knows.
3. How they didn't knight Chaplin - Everynight never knew anyone who went to Japan, everyone do can do no harm, underline it to make sense underline it to make sure. Running through rain to find some solid walls, only to return to the house where the house where, underline it to make sense underline it to make sure. Chaplin.
4. Painting - I'm going on what I heard and if its wrong would someone say, I heard you're tired you're fragile, sick and tired, paint the walls red just so you can say you did it. I heard I'm tired he ruined something else I heard youre tired you're fragile, sick and tired, paint the walls red just so you can say you did it. You did it.
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