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Any Other Way
02:04
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Any Other Way (Alex Gavaghan)
I was delivered to her in the highest regard
Carried up on shoulders round the drilling yard
For all this success there was a price to pay
And I know you wouldn't want it any other way
I was overused and I overran
And I can blow my fuse like any other man
But I'm tired and I'm weary so not today
And I know you wouldn't want it any other way
You let me down in times of hunger
You let me down in times of greed
You even let me down in times of distemper
Now a little pick me up is just exactly what I need
The highest yield, the best in my field
But I couldn't go back my skin it bubbled and peeled
I bury my head and not a word I will say
'Cause I know you wouldn't want it any other way
You let me down in times of hunger
You let me down in times of greed
You even let me down in times of distemper
Now a clip around the ears is just exactly what I need
The leanest meats, the most expensive seats
I balanced the books in the troughs and the peaks
I bury my head and not a word I will say
'Cause I know you wouldn't want it any other way
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Scottie Road Ghosts
02:22
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Scottie Road Ghosts (Alex Gavaghan)
I got Cains, stacked to my left and my right
With the Scottie Road ghosts on a Saturday night
Old Tom, he's in The Bevy again
Mary's back down in an hour but he'll milk it till then
He's had a good day out on the fiddle
He'll take his hat off if you've earnt it
Poor old Georgie, he had it but he burnt it
Should've knuckled down and learnt it
Like all the others on the circuit
Sarah Jane, looks like she's marrying up
She ain't no Mary Ellen no she ain't no Paddy rough
Henry's making a pretty penny in the pubs
He'll take his hat off if you've earnt it
Those Mary Ellens perform a vital service
Little Alfred'll never learn this
William's down in Portsmouth he deserves his
I'm sat in The Parrot with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Conway with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Bevy with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Lambert with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Stanley with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Hamlet with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Derby with the Scottie Road ghosts
I'm sat in The Saddle with the Scottie Road ghosts
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Botox Little Hitlers
02:24
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Botox Little Hitlers
(Alex Gavaghan)
Careful what you're signing lad you might just end the wrong side of history
Fawning for a dirty handshake with your platitudes and plenaries
They'll be laughed right out of town
Everything here is the wrong way round
Botox little Hitlers goosestepping door to door
And I can't stand it any more more more
Tonight theyre gonna party like its 1939
Hopkins and the Faragists
Conspiracy nuts muddying the waters
The proles are kicking up a stink
With their rotund flip-flopping clown
Everything here is the wrong way round
Botox little Hitlers goosestepping door to door
And I can't stand it any more more more
Obsfucation, misinformation, oversimplification
All those lessons unlearnt
Again and again and again
The debates will run and run but the arguments have long been lost and won
Wake me up when it's all blown over
I don't want it I dont need it
Nudge nudge wink wink share share click click
Sloganeering frothing sneering peering blearing cheering leering
Trust fund privelege, armchair keyboard nihilists
Patronising hipstercrites, throw enough mud and it'll stick
All knowing seed sowing gaslighting infighting,
Heresy treachery murderous insanity
Kids shot, bombs drop, crops rot, eyes pop, good cop bad cop, flip flip flop flop
Everything here is upside down
Botox little Hitlers goosestepping door to door
And I can't stand it any more more more
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Mute For A Year
02:18
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The Sound
(Alex Gavaghan)
Well I swear I don't now where you find enough moments in the day
Disconnect yourself before you run out of things not to say
You don't suit our demographic target
You fools there's already an existing market for the SOUND
They're out there listening to the sound
While the dribbling masses gather round
They're all inside listening to the sound
Adorno he was bang on the pound
He's well connected and he's decent on guitar
His cousin's in a real good band so he could go far
Our hard work will come to fruition
We'll obliterate the competition with the sound
They're all out there hoovering up the sound
While all the pre-converted gather round
They're everywhere lapping up the sound
You gotta keep your ear to the ground
He's out there with his posters doing his city centre creep
The zeitgeist oozing from his pores from week to week to week
The fool couldn't see what was right underneath his nose
He wanted a younger model with more promotionally pleasing hair and clothes
He came so far up the motorway
He's not going back to London today without the sound
They're online downloading the sound
From the auditory lost and found
Pick your open scabs to the sound
You gotta keep your beard to the ground
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Alex Gavaghan Liverpool, UK
Guitarist with The Cubical. House trained, can eat solids, bought own jumpers, Gas Central Heating, three or four lady owners, comes with own pens (red one leaks), detachable feet for easy storage, needs tuning, pick up only.
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