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Man with a busted hip
Man with fake hair
Woman with a tight hat
Woman with spongy shoes
They’re all here at the end of the world mall
Nail bar, eyelash tinting too
Cut price optician
That will Do you a hearing test too
Butcher shop with pale meat
Jeweller selling Lord knows what
To Lord knows who
They’re all here at the end of the world mall
Dollar shops here and there, smelling like chemical fresheners
A barber shop with a sad-eyed Greek man
A doughnut shop with a queue out the door
Sushi sushi sushi all around and not a drop to drink
They’re all here at the end of the world mall
Tiny plastic merry go round
Squawking Bananas in Pyjamas tunes
Yellow Caution Wet Floor triangles
Sprouting like seedlings after a shower
The click-clack of walking sticks
The trundle of massed supermarket trollies with worn wheels
They’re all here at the end of the world mall
They’re all here at the end of the world, ma
They’re all here at the end of the world mall
They’re all here at the end of the world, ma
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02. Alibaba's Alibi
03:48
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Alibabas alibi
Snuff movie gore
Battlefresh and lupidine
Bensamoric floor
Taking pride in sliding wide
Hiding mites with angel's tithe
Croupier headstone golosh
Oh gosh
Posh nosh, tosh
Pish tish and tish tosh, bloss
Haha the harbinger house
The huffing ham-lover's hue and cry
Hellzapoppin' hooty
And the hinterland hootenanny havering like a hapsichord
Hoping for help from an hubristic helleborine
Enough
Of
That
Pish
Posh
Orchid arachnid opiad
Otherworldly ochre ohms from ormskirk saltbaths
Breathing in the fibreglass and asbestos of love
It's the power of love
It's the tower of gloves, love
It's the spooky tooth's loopy droogs
It's the spirit of california
You randy mantooth
Forsooth, bruce
You and me both crude blossoms
And the bridge, its size
Wearing a short boot
With a long sock
Like a spatchcocked poltroon
Like a Himalayan haiku
Diminishing effervescently
Silently
Gently
Over hot coals in Autumn
Fiendish and friendless
Craven and skirmish
With a dervish called nervous
Ichabod the stunted dastard
Sinkhole tripwire stunt hole
Vacate the energising quarry deep
Rocking theatre coward of pain
Return the nosegay to the oasthouse
And begone before the tumult arises
Begone before the campfire ash
Stirs on your loft space and causes
Welts of love and gore and leopardskin mittens
Freeze framed in a foxtrot pose
By a snickering stuttering paraffin lamp
A bitcoined smutcoin tarnished by tinseltown
Rough shanks glimmer like pinholes in the snow
Moist, sharp, edgy and limp
It cannot be done
It cannot be sung
It can only be drummed
Burundi style and quick
Native talking froth
Cocked and cockerel coking cooking
Winking, primping, preening and pulp
It's a pulp
It's a pup
It's da pope
Wearing a long sock
With a short boot
A long tooth with a houndstooth
A bounder's truth
Purfled and chamfered with a chamfering cloth
With a dancing cloth
With a spoon
With a nude spoon in the gloom room
A doomy plume to the piper's tune
To the jumper's croon
The dumper's broom
The crumpler's spitoon
The warthog's high noon
The padfoot's craven rune
Sinking beneath a mouldering sack of hemp
At easter by the light of the brilliantine moon
The Billericay dickie Swarfegas his coarsen lumpen hands after a day sorting crankshafts with his vile brickie's engine oil
Calmly placating stirrups
Lightly powdering kegs
Frightfully blundering through hogsheads of bobsleds top shelf golf treads
Looking behind for relief from the wind-up crime drop hot spot hip hop bag drop dewdrop crop
Riding sunsets pretending plume
Tabbard with tabernacle treacle tune
Like Wimsey on a whimsey with a whopping wind
A guileless clueless feckless worm
Insinuating otherworldliness through the sporadic use of hand gestures sublime
Taming shrews and turning blue
Tapping tapioca trellises through unctuous unguents
And careening careers advisers carriages covered in calamine and cobalt crumbs
Buccaneering braid weavers bilk Mr Pobjoy's blunderbuss
Where have all the bees gone?
Buzzing bees make honey, doctor
Feel good about deluxe ducks
And Kursaal flyers flying
Are we nearly there yet?
A vanilla slice in time
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All the bangs and whistles
Tickling with thistles
Muckying my bristles
With tiny little kissles
Never eating tissles
Who would build missiles?
With material that was fissile
Not parrots, that's for sure
A loneliness descends
Like an unwanted raincoat
Questioning the habits
Querying the formula
Turning again to the sodium lit screen
To escape to hide to feign
Averted eyes and ear bud deafness
Calmness concealing tensed sinew bone and muscle
Fright flight or fight
Looks like a fightnight
Deep breathing techniques to release the coil spring
And what is it all for, this pretence, this sham
To avoid dying alone
Every one
Alone and responsible and then quite forgotten but two generations hence
So much dust
So much trust
So much rust
Nights alone flights alone fights alone
Twelve years on and those words were never truer
Caffeine's not your fren, fren
Toothache jawache boneache
Rude stare fruit stare hebdomidaire
Loquacious propatious
Rottenburst skyfall hapsash
All the bangs and whistles
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Big fella in a small suit
Crumpling a donut bag and wiping icing sugar from 'is lapel
Packet of soft toffees in his inside jacket pocket - sooooft'n'sweet
And a stick of lip balm
Coconut and honey flavour - tasty
P'raps too tasty
For a big fella in a small suit
Big fella catches his reflection in Lord John's window
Neat
Neat
Neat
Short cropped barnet of flamey red fades to grey
Gone too soon
Gone to grey
Born to be wild
Born to beguile
Born to begrudge
Big fella in a small suit
And it's a cheap suit
But a neat suit
Not a stretch suit
Not a flex suit
A very small suit
A very smart suit
Roll over keep down sing loud play fair
Big fella in a small suit
Sweating tho its not hot
Not cool to sweat when it's not hot
Not cool to sweat when it's hot
Plastic shoes'll do that to a man
Every
Fuckin'
Time
Big fella in a small suit
Cracked glass iPhone giving 'im tiny paper cuts when he texts
biscuit stains on 'is tie
Not an easy look to achieve
But 'e struggles
My 'ow 'e struggles
Like a sunbeam
Like a porter's daughter
Washed her hands in the deadly water
W'iout a bustle in his hedgerow
Big fella in a small suit
Dreams of retiring to a cottage by the sea
Raising lilacs and learning to cook
Shedding a few pounds from where it counts and doing the crossword
Short walk to the village pub where the landlord knows his name
Knows 'is place
Knows his order
The usual, sir?
Light'n'bitter, please. In a thin glass
And a packet of porky scratchings and a pickled egg
Not good for the waistline and he's a little bit pissed an' all
But hey, it was only a dream
A bitter little daydream
Believe 'er
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05. Hard Peace
02:09
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Hard peace
Under milk stout
Slush, concrete and a corporation bus
Chip wrapper, Daily Record, band-aid with puss
Sub-zero wind blowing just for some atmosphere
Harrington and Sta-Press, dribbled with pakora grease
Hand-me-down oxblood monkey boots
With mucky yellow laces
They could tell a tale or two
Hiding from the polis
Because you just torched a ‘phone box
Pissed as a parrot, Skint as a rabbit
Afraid to go hame in case the auld yin’s still awake
In case the lunacy’s still smoulderin’ in the grate
The promise of violence of one sort or another
And the worst of it is not knowin’ any better
Wee owld man in a bunnet
Zig zagging hame, heid doon
Arguing wi somebody that used to drink in The Bells
Before he passed away, 12 year ago
The year efter his wife died of something bad
Two skinny weans, sixish and sevenish
Dark rings roon their eyes
Eating chips frae a bag
Their tea and mebbe their breakfast as well
Grime under their nails and nits in their hair
Merry Christmas, son - can you open some tins?
We’ll be better the morra
We’ll be better the morra
Starless and bible-black, right enough
How does it end? Bad blood bad liver bad kidneys
Hit by a motor car driven by a bam
Hair doon tae there and a look in his eye
Collapsed lung, concussion and a helluva scar
Lyin’ in the hoss bottle dreamin’ of Largs
It sounds a bit Victorian, a wee bit rough
If you’re feelin’ rough, see The Puff
But it’s probably too late already
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06. Ibrox
01:38
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Noisy toy train, rattling into Copland Road
Rangers scarf wound tightly ‘round stringy neck
Acid-looking man with sunken cheeks nods hallo
To a sour-looking man with a straggly moustache and a grimy collar
Drifting out of The Stadium bar
Solitary drinker, mellowed by neglect and use and quiet living
Staring fixedly at extended puddles on the pavement
Like a mourner by a grave, heart bowed down by sorrow
Disabled pensioner standing irresolutely by a burst mattress
Feeling the cold through the soles of cracked leather boots
Heart of lead in the steady rain from a cheerless grey Caledonian sky
Thinking of what to have for tea
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What makes you happy
The wife’n’the weans’n’the brither of course
Vera, Poirot, Endeavour and Morse
The Orb, Dub Rebels, some metal and Scratch
Green Penguins, Hardy Boys, Arthur Catherall, natch
What makes you happy
What makes you happy
Melbourne, Lorne, Hobart, Penang
Pickled walnuts, ice cream, samosas and nan
Lime juice, lemon mint, orange juice and tea
What makes you happy
What makes you happy
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08. Lorne Rap
01:37
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Ivy Baldry sniffing amyl nye-trate
Doug Stirling huffing glue
Gordon’s bench knee deep in used condoms
Dan dan the pippie man
Carving a cadaver in a lather
Ivy Baldry, gypsy queen
Ivy Baldry, silver screen
Ivy Baldry, kinky dream
Ivy Baldry, seventeen
She shells sea snails from a seesaw
He files faux shawls from the foreshore
She smells feet smells from a glass claw
He fells freefalls every time for sure
Ivy Baldry, gypsy queen
Ivy Baldry, silver screen
Ivy Baldry, kinky dream
Ivy Baldry, seventeen
She shells sea snails from a seesaw
He files faux shawls from the foreshore
She smells feet smells from a glass claw
He fells freefalls every time for sure
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Deep Rectal Temperature were formed in 1994 in Melbourne from the remnants of various post-punk bands that haunted the underground scene in London and Glasgow. DRT have produced over 50 albums, EPs and singles to date - many of which will be reissued in the coming years in high quality streaming and downloadable formats. ... more
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