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Energy Flashback
03:22
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oh 909 oh 303
floating cross the room to me
the whispered word said Ecstasy
inside my head then lived with me
sine waves up the narrow stairs
the older boys from school were there
more acid than mdma
the fear took all our words away
what were the skies like when you were young?
I remember running home
the whisper word said if you dare to sleep
the walls are coming crashing in
oh 303 oh 909
beating in this heart of mine
I found my friends in the park
and joined the gently swinging up and down
gently we came down
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Anxiety Dreams
03:06
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I still have anxiety dreams about school
your dad’s here, are you really tripping?
My finger on the pause button
taping it all
to tell me how to feel
to tell me how to feel
news flash the year was nervous
all the kids ran away with the circus
en masse hands in the air
I don’t know how to get there
I’m the music on my walkman
to tell me how to feel now
under, over
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Lifelines
02:57
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don’t be cool we should’ve kept ours
could’ve spared the boys and the girls
in tiny circles not so well traveled
our nerves are all disconnected
down the discotheque
can’t be articulate
I should’ve put my arms around you
we should’ve put our arms around each other
stay normal stay undercover
we should’ve put our arms around each other
arms around each other
so slow to the club
for the penny to drop
waiting for the answers
landing in the letterbox
cassette lifelines
cut and paste messages
lifelines photocopy d.i.y.
down the discotheque
got no language yet
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Hazard Lights
04:00
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hold the map upside down down
folding backwards
a cross on the atlas
hold the traffic in your own hands
stick out thumb out
into the flow
turn the map inside out now
folding folding
you can say no
I used to write to hold a sign
I used to hitchhike south
where nothing ever fit me right
smoke came out my mouth
hazard lights flashing
simply learning to trust in the guts
hard shoulder superstitious
winding down the window
landing in the A to Z
coins drop phone box
can I come crashing?
Walk a mile under the flyovers
over the circular
to the slip road north
the roaring past
thanks for picking me up
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hitching Bradford to Brighton beach
it was late when our lift
drove us all the way onto the prom
Ovingdean sound system
all night long the next day
walked a long way in the sun
to the junction
thumbs out into London
CJB demo Trafalgar square
they want to fight us
we wanna dance
we wanna dance
they wanna fight we wanna dance
right to silence gone
it’s wrong to amplify
to gather in the open air
to amplify
section 63 to 79
a succession of rights made wrong
a trespass aggravation
stop and search
they’ll seize your rig
up to them months away for it
how they wanna fight
Claremont road after later
leaning against a Heras fence
so tired now
found a space
in one of the houses
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6. |
The Sky and It's Summer
02:39
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7. |
You Dancing
03:38
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say it out loud
to somebody else
watch the words melt
leave your body behind
rewind
eyes behind shades
the room vibrates
existential
head in a bassbin
for years keep ringing
I wish I was still
with you dancing
with you dancing
tie a thread around my head
spinning out at arms length
oh higher state of consciousness
i’m a state you’re a mess
it’s the best of us
the love the love
kicking up the dirt
head in a bassbin
for years keep ringing
I wish I was still
with you dancing
with you dancing
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8. |
Circle of Wagons
02:42
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I want to live in the countryside
we all said
time to make the wheels go round
I learnt to drive
out to the edges
past the suburbs
the fences the expensive
when it hits the fan
are we safer on the land?
Just you me and all our friends
a circle of wagons in a field
roadblocks helicopters
move on there’s no stopping
cops cops
smashing windows
roadblocks helicopters
here we are are we there
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9. |
Now It Starts
02:17
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famous for the after party
‘now it starts’ written on the stair
everywhere empty air
empty cans no we don’t care
we’re the crashing upstairs
we’re the spinning out the window
broken records in the street
waking up in the early early evening
my house is your house and your house is mine
we don’t care about your children
shouting over another banger
twisted ankles twisted up
so glad there’s not many pictures
flickers in and out of vision
waking up in another nother era
my house is your house and your house is mine
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10. |
Late Nights Talking
03:10
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hear the late nights talking
the walking home in shame
not so young and foolish
full of it
so much I mustn’t share
good times people come together
all the good times twisted up together
and the good times
we’ll see each other
and we are we are friends
we don’t know how long we’ve got
to lose all sense of how we got here
one by one we all go home
to start a new life time to move on
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lianne hall Berlin, Germany
Lianne, described by the late John Peel as “One of the great English voices,” used to be in the legendary punk band Witchknot. Since then she has played solo and as Pico, Broken Heart Club and Haunted House. Lianne has also collaborated with d_rradio (deathrowradio), Paul Hartnoll (Orbital), FITH, DJ Marcelle and Lavender Hex. ... more
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