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Big Lips
03:22
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Big Lips
What is it with girls and big lips?
The nonchalant hand on their hips...
Oh, could she be more plastic if she tried?
What is it?
Where's she coming from?
The time that it took (was it worth it)
For the unnatural look (Was it)
Gets under her skin
The one that she's in
Isn't good enough for her or
anyone
Could we just filter out
All that is good about her
She wants that fish's mouth
The pressure is on
To be like the ones
The painfully thin
I guess nature's not in
and there's no going back
Got whiskers like a cat
Like a duck crossed with a feline
Don't it make you feel fine?
What is it with girls and big lips
Where the collagen drips
And her real beauty slips
Couldn't be more plastic if she tried
Couldn't look....
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Dislocated Dance
03:02
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Dislocated Dance
Been programmed to feel this way
Your vision I'm not too au fait
Just lacking structure and time
Been dragging my heels for a while
Don't get around, in with no in crowd
Doing the...Dislocated dance
Dislocated dance...
Puts you in a trance (Til your mood's enhanced)..Dislocated...
Once under the mirror ball
Mind over matter watch it fall
What's now an elderly scene
A Nowhere bus reality
Get it on..bang a gong to our own BPMs
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Fell For It
04:24
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Fell For It
Take back control, lost control
You say we're better on our own?
I never heard you mention that
Til their slogans became your facts
To the sound of a racist loon
You dance and sing along no rhyme or groove
Lies off the richter scale
Nothing is up for sale, or so they say
Well here comes the tragedy
Some fall for it happily. Too easily
Fell for it all...
They say the ones who fight for peace
March along to terror's beat
The things you're told, d'ya ever check?
Got their gold teeth in your neck
Drag us in and hold us down
Look who we pin our hopes on now
Can you see them sleeping in the doorways
Universal credit suicides
This is what you wanted, well you've got it
This is what your great country looks like
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Mr. Tangerine Man
02:58
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Mr. Tangerine Man
Hey Mr. Tangerine man, don't play that song for me again
I know Johnny's a fan
And the Ku Klux Clan
It's alright he's gonna make everything great again
It's alright he's gonna build a wall to stop them coming in
Blaming China for making us ill...
Hey Mr. Tangerine Man and your dumb sloganeering crowd
I heard there's a place in the desert for your guns and prejudice now
Where has progress gone, thought that time had come
Got no wheels on to fall off
Tone of skin and where you're from to arse holes means a lot
Not that great in the first place, and you're likely to get shot
That's him on the fairway and you in the rough
2020 vision now
We seen all that brings us down
America you must be proud
You've got your joker we've got ours
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I Need A New Brain
03:33
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I Need A New Brain
Might as well not care
Like some people don't
Call it unfair
That's how it goes how it goes
It's what we learn
What we're here for
Sympathy burns
It's all yours you can't afford
To believe what they say
Again and again
Think I need a new brain
A brain, a brain, I need a new brain
One that thinks that it's sane
And doesn't feel shame
Throwing lives down the drain
A brain, a brain I need a new brain
To be the same, the same as everybody else who lives (thinks) that way
Looks that way....coz thay're ok? Aren't they...
I'll be - Happy like them
A part of their crowd
Meet my new friends
Send in the clowns to dumb us down
No going back
To my (old) roots
Don't need the facts
Forget the truth through lack of use
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The Out Sound
I don't want to hold your hand
I don't wanna be your man
Just wanna twist and shout
Can't work it out
Put it to the test
Might have to confess
Just like all the rest
Oh, at best
Cause I don't know where I am
And I don't know what to say
It's the out sound from way in yeah
The out sound from way in..
Love can hurt so much
I'd settle for a crush
Dreams not in contact
or getting back
All we left behind
Preying on my mind
I don't have the time
for stupid rhymes
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Where You Coming From?
04:16
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Where You Coming From?
Hello, nice to meet ya, are you going anywhere?
No, I've never been there
Follow the directions, that take us who knows where
Left, right? don't care
What would people think,
What would people say?
Forget what they say
What do people know
What does anybody know?
Come on let's go (On we go)
Achin' but can't feel it
Need something for my soul
Still have what you stole
A message never clearer
too late and unread
Guess what it said
Melodies are found
They turn me around
End up miles away
So you can play those songs
Where you coming from?
You forgot my name
Those stellar explorations
Another mission to the stars
Been too long
Just take offs never landing
500 galaxies so far
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Spiral Vertigo
03:31
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Spiral Vertigo
Make it tragic, loud and Spectoresque epic orchestrated hits
Lovin' feeling wo-oh-won't lose that
Can't always see where it's at
Nobody knows, just how it goes yeah
Self diagnosis, spiral vertigo
Fell in love with all the mystery, then(Til) you think you've worked it out...
What you get is ancient history
And it's happening right now
Spiral vertigo ohoh oh
Where does it go, who knows
Spiralling vertigo and on it goes
Forever and ever...Amen
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Still Swoon
03:07
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Still Swoon
See the boy with his G 6122
'Don't Sing' on the beach, Marsden Grotto
'Lions' set the pace the race was on)
Hey! it's just too fast for anyone
Songs like a whirlwind ripping through your soul
Nothing going wrong when it's on where it takes us... we wanna go
Wanna bet that there's a heaven to be found
For the proof keep looking on the ground
Verse and chorus flying out of the window
4/4's so old hat you know...
Your muse comes a knockin' well you better heed that call
Weeding out every cliché and come up with Technique and Basketball..
What could we do but swoon?
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Tangled It Grows
04:31
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Tangled It Grows
Looking through the rain distorted glass
Thinking that it's all in the past
Clouds come rolling by birds circling
Wishing I could be up there with them
And with a lighter heart
Make it a work of art
To see in the dark
Or fall apart
(Ch1)Need this to remind me
There's highs and lows
In wilderness the Ivy, tangled it grows
The way that Gene Clark's Circle makes us feel
Spinning, our emotions heal
Infinity it's limits leave a scar
And we're still where we are
Listen, our heart's desires
One voice or in a choir
It's yours with mine
Ours in time
{Ch 2}When Feelings are blinding
Then it will show (Then we'll know)
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Taser and The Firearms vs The Innocent Cats
They got tasers and real guns strapped to their waist
They've heard that a black man has got a false plate
So armed the four of them jump in their car,
Got a description, think they're above the law
So they stop somebody who's got that look
Got some questions bout that plate that you took
Better start praying, they don't need an excuse
To throw you on the concrete and you can't break loose
What they got what they got, nothing..on you?
Taser and the firearms vs the innocent cats
Angry now not frightened so get off their backs
Who can go home, have a beer get to sleep at night
After they've killed someone for not being white
Hey we've gotta put a stop to all this
Turn off all prejudice it won't be missed
Bricks from the riots lie on the streets
There to remind us, it's more than a tweet
Come on people wherever you roam
Spit out the water that poisons your soul..
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The Violet Chimes England, UK
The Violet Chimes are a duo from Washington, Tyne & Wear, in the UK, now based in the Hexham area of Northumberland. Songwriter, Jamie Harwood, Guitars, Vocals, Drum Programming etc. plus John Farrer, Bass, Backing Vocals. Originally formed in the early 1980s and with no studio recordings to their name they decided to record and release the old songs for their first album 'All At Sea' ... more
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