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lyrics

Bag a Vivian Street takeaway, take a ride in the rain
Through the town and out down, down, down towards the bay
On the road round the hills, she looks deathly still
He’s picking words like his scabs, he didn’t have that much to say
Sliding low in the strobe, her hat hid the show
And her lips hid the words, she looks towards some other place
The wheels held the road, brakes red in the glow
Turn left into the wind that hold the ocean spray
Salt on the nose, and the sweat and the mould
He left behind the bourgeois slaves to aftershave
And he rolls with his luck, typically fucked
Fingers at the wheel wishing, maybe today, he’ll be someone seen as brave

Around the longest of bends in a rusted Standard 10
Just Chuckle and Shuck and a taxidermied cat called 53
Who rides in the black on black plastic bags
Past the last of the lamps that shine on nothing here to see
Slowing down through the gears to a place known as ‘Here’
The engine heat disappears, nothing about this night is gonna be free
Chuckle coughed and then spoke, he then held out a smoke
Reading the silence as No cos she turned and looked out towards the sea
Sometimes in the dark look for lights from the shore
Of the trawlers reward of the dying beasts that are hauled up from the deep

She hums in the dark, she’d hoped to be drunk
From out of the blue she says ‘It’s a song I didn’t write’
Memory twists under breath, father nicknamed her Threte
No-one here’s gonna find out that secret tonight
‘Run Rabbit Run’ is what her dad sung
When tramping up high on McKenzie lost from sight
Where he buried his hopes on the mountain of holes
The Winter suns cold, holding hands with the uncle Jack Frost bite
Now fear scares them all, like the end of the world
She hopes’ to make it through this night to home no less alive
But she’s embarrassed by hope, it pokes like a joke
At the end of this road fishing for lightening in the night
In his wreckage called wheels, in a temporary deal
A night of awkward revels, soon it’s out of mind when far from out of sight
It generates warmth, the eventual engine restored
Back the track now like a cat and blank it out in mute rewind
And what's there to lose, really, what's there to prove
When the winds whipping through one more night time in the home of the mind

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from Never Mind the Threat, Here's the Distraction, released April 4, 2022
All songs/words/instruments mr sterile except:
Track 5 written by TISM tism-this-is-serious-mum.bandcamp.com
Track 6 written by The Residents ralphlet.bandcamp.com
Track 9 written by Vorn vornnz.bandcamp.com

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