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Lapsed Catholics
02:35
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You got red wine lips like all the other lapsed catholics. Some habits stick. After the evening shift when they've bolted the doors and all the lights are dimmed your evening begins. So get 'em in.
Old habits die hard until you die. Each one makes your skin crawl but by the time you leave it's already light.
You got red wine lips, redder eyes, a head full of regrets and the feeling you'll be here again. After the evening shift when they've bolted the doors and all the lights are dimmed your evening begins. So get 'em in.
We're all lapsed catholics. Sooner or later something's going to give.
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Charm Offensive
02:38
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The troops were ready, we sent them in armed with a smile and our coolest looking weapons. Students were hushed, the talk began:
"Sign up a boy and leave a man... what other prospects do you really have? Fall in! Or are you content to play pretend? So come on, sign up, be the best. Or you'll end up staring down the barrel at thousands worth of debt."
Pre-emptive strike on their young minds, shut down tomorrow's picket lines. A charm offensive, cynical and precise.
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Married Men
02:51
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Married men in business with topless women. Same old dirty tactics used again.
Married men making passes at the mainstream. Worried there's no room left for them.
Married men in regular rotation. And a growing list of bad decisions.
Married men going home to married women wondering who speaks for them.
I'm afraid to say I've been sucked into the furore. Boost the plays, increase the sales. I'm afraid to say I've been sucked into a last ditch sales pitch from a dying record industry.
Married men blinkered by ambition but still not allowed inside the boardroom.
Married men doing other people's bidding, oblivious to the glass ceiling.
There's no room left for them.
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Young Punks
02:46
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Can't think. Bad TV and other people's lives on the Instagram and Facebook feeds got me fatigued. Another night holed up inside. So we hit the streets and walked around routes we've run into the ground a thousand times before. Penned in by city walls and narrow trains of thought - inspiration left us cold. The 9-5 took what's yours: late nights and the early starts left you feeling short like that mounting stack of bills.
Forty hour weeks. Fell into a set routine. Lose sleep. Gotta keep the pace, there'll always be targets to meet, bills to pay and mouths to feed.
Young punks grow old. Double lives take their toll.
Forty hour weeks, fell into a set routine, lose sleep. Keep they pace there'll always be targets to meet and mouths to feed. At your work desk in the drawer there's a photograph of your life back home. Young punks grow old and struggle to connect it all
The paperwork's piling up. You've fallen into a rut. Young punks have all grown up. Struggle to connect it up.
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Box
03:19
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City west side at load-in time. Young punks hanging on the street. A mid-level buzz of networking and catching up. At the back of the room you're not here with anyone. It's a part you play without complaint although admittedly it took a while to take to the idea everything's in its right place. That was a tough one to concede.
And there comes a time when you're living out of a box. Lost count of the couches and the multiple jobs.
You're well travelled now. Basement shows in countless towns, thousands of calendar days. The scene's respect is a prize you took while all the young punks you once knew became doctors, teachers, management.
You swap niceties with kids dressed like they're from the 90s. Watch their set from the back, impressed as hell but politely clap then take to the stage and play with the heart of someone half your age while your head sits between passion and disconnect.
Scenes together and worlds apart. You should have seen this coming.
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Paperwork
02:28
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There are those who can and those who can't. They say that those who cannot teach just what we need can be replaced just as easily.
And if you feel burned out on paperwork, chasing targets and diminishing returns: we're watching you.
Nothing is going to stand in the way of progress and keeping up appearances.
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