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This Is 51
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Resign
03:01
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Just because you can do it, it doesn't always mean that you should, and just because you get paid to it doesn't always mean that you're any good. You've been playing for ages and can't seem to level the score. You're just pushing the pieces around and around and around the board. Resign, resign. Tip over the king, shake their hand and smile. Resign, resign, go home and shout into the void online... This is a tough situation and maybe I shouldn't intrude but there's a growing opinion that you're no good. Perhaps you should resign. Resign before you look any more asinine. Resign, resign, your lofty ambitions to the bin consign. Resign, resign. Get out of the way for the next in line. Resign. Resign. You've made enough money, of course you'll be fine.
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Free Culture Experiment
02:48
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All the part-time leisure pirates saying "stand and deliver" caught the eye of my favourite girl and now I just can't be with her, so I put my life in an old tin box and took it down to the river. Throw the box into the water- see what takes a bite...
Help yourself to my hard graft art, it doesn't make you a sinner. Stick it up on the World Wide Web and you'll be all right by Glinner. There's nothing left in the larder, only baked beans for my dinner. Stuff my life in an old tin box and take it down to the river. Throw the box into the water- see what takes a bite... someone famous might.
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Cheap Guitars Suit Me
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Cheap guitars suit me 'cos I'm from the gutter. I'm in live with their jagged sound. Line in to a knackered laptop- it's the greatest show in town. Cheap guitars suit me 'cos I'm from the city, they go well with the grease and grime. Cash Converters, Shpock or Gumtree- pick a winner every time. It's not a useless mid-life crisis purchasing mistake, it's a tool for art creation I'm not afraid to break. You can keep your Gretsch and Gibsons and your vintage Fenders too. I've a plywood Chinese six-string and a better song than you. Cheap guitars suit me 'cos I'm from the gutter!
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Moment In The Light
02:40
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Warners or Beggar's, 4AD or Sire, ears are burning on the telephone wires. We're innocent voices and they're after a bite. We were only dreaming of our moment in the light. Poor little suckers, we never earned. Our assets they squandered, the money they burned on "making connections" and "keeping it tight"... we were only dreaming of our moment in the light. Goodbye to those old songs, they went down the drain... but that chance in a lifetime it could come again- maybe tomorrow or maybe tonight. We will still be dreaming of our moment in the light.
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The Driller
02:37
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This one's for the builders making all that noise out there in London.
What are you doing there outside my front door? What are you drilling for?
Why does it have to be today? What would it take to make you pack it up and go away?
Across the road they're taking away my view of the old historic skyline and a sky that's sometimes blue
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Pipeline
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You took a problem and you passed it on until it ended up with me.
We're living in a pipeline, and slowly going the bend.
I took a problem and I passed it on until it ended with you.
We're living in a pipeline, and slowly going the bend.
I can't take any more years like this, waiting for the crumbs to fall from a rich man's fable.
You took a problem and you passed it on until it ended up with me.
We're living in a pipeline, and slowly going the bend.
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I Really Think So
03:00
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Supernatural bringer, let your honey linger. Captivate this singer, wrap me round your finger because I love you, I really think so.
Extra sensual healing sends my body reeling. Scrape me off the ceiling, you can't buy this feeling 'cos I love you, I really think so.
10-4 Breaker Breaker, fly like Freddie Laker, shake your moneymaker, I need you like a baker 'cos I love you, I really think so
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Balls To Enoch Powell
02:19
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Many years ago when I was five I saw some graffiti that inspired my life. It said BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL. Down by the river at the edge of town someone had a thought and they wrote it down, they wrote BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL. It probably dated back to '68, that speech about Rivers Of Blood and hate. A Tory MP with a sour face, he didn't like people from a different place. His political career ended in disgrace. But though he's been dead for over twenty years, there are still people clinging on to his ideas- trying to make racism respectable, driving in the wedges to divide and rule. They think they're being clever but they're dangerous fools. And until every trace of his memory's gone, we'll all stand together and we'll sing this song, we'll sing BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL!
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Andy Lewis UK
Andy Lewis played bass and occasional cello for Paul Weller & still does for Fay Hallam, The Red Inspectors, Spearmint, Pimlico and some others. He also writes, records, produces and remixes, and DJs wherever there's call for his dusty old 45s. He's released two and a bit solo albums and the tremendous "Summer Dancing" in collaboration with Judy Dyble all on Acid Jazz records.This is his shed. ... more
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