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Part One

by Alarm Bells

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1.
Whitemare 13:00
lets see if i can list them off in a biting but focussed way like me when i'm super-aware of my tongue as its checks and shows off each one of my teeth i've got a hunch-back hand on my heart he said it was a pathological liar with gingivitis and appendicitis, honest cop, oh call, oh, eh then the bulbs they grow and grow and quiver receptors just lose their nerve and shiver (through bone and brain, through mind's new terrain) this is you too babe, just wait and see you're peeling and fading just like me a gig and whiskey casualty, that's gospel true, baby, baby a buff mutant that's got to seen to be believed then the bulbs they grow and grow and quiver receptors just lose their nerve and shiver (through bone and brain, into mind's new terrain) this is you too babe, just wait and see PAST HELL, FUTURE PURGATORY I'LL LEAD YOU TO THE END, THROUGH ADDICTIVE PHASE-SHIFTING your fortune is my hostage, funny that you're so free you're so free that chose bondage then the bulbs they grow and grow and quiver receptors just lose their nerve and shiver (through bone and brain, into mind's new terrain) this is you too babe, just wait and see PAST HELL, FUTURE PURGATORY I'LL LEAD YOU TO THE END, THROUGH ADDICTIVE PHASE-SHIFTING histamine lies, histamine lies, histamine lies, allergy eyes PAST HELL, FUTURE PURGATORY I'LL LEAD YOU TO THE END, THROUGH ADDICTIVE PHASE-SHIFTING i've practised this thing in my head so when this song's finished i'll never think of of you again but i know you always preferred the style over the stylish and i'm positive cos i know that you're a thought in my head the sun it's bounces round us cos the past is like a freaky foreign country that i'll never visit lately i've been practising this conversation in my head but then i remember you're a thought in my head - sing when this songs finished i'll never think of of you again but could i put this whole thing in quotation marks? preferred the stylish im positive cos i know that you're a though in my head just singin' eh oh eh oh eh oh cos the past is like a freaky foreign country that i'll never visit lately i've remembered that you're a thought in that you're a thought in that you're a thought in that i'm a thought in BANGING ON THE GATES OF PERFECT SILENCE ON THE GATES OF 27 YEARS OF GRAVITY ON THE CLOCK OF THE ONLY FACTORY I WOULD RATHER BE AT HOME JUST CHEWING ON MY BABY'S MOLECULES BANGING ON THE GATES OF PERFECT SILENCE ON THE GATES OF 27 YEARS OF GRAVITY ON THE CLOCK OF THE ONLY FACTORY I WOULD RATHER BE AT HOME JUST CHEWING ON MY BABY'S MOLECULES past hell, future purgatory past hell, future purgatory
2.
pouts there's rules to writing english, jack you remind me in the most vivid way you manifest in my waking eyes at a pitch, i can see you, so brilliant the thought i had when i fell asleep subconscious studies and fragments it into a million crystallised bits they swing got to got to got to got to go she swings don't take that sinking so personally, bub look at your body in the bathroom mirror eventually you'll end up giving yourself the finger so you suck, you don't matter a flying fuck? the thought i had when i fell asleep subconscious studies and fragments it into a million crystallised bits she swings got to got to got to got to - gumption, you get it gumption, you get it gumption, you get it, do you? gumption, you get it, do you? what'd she say? no, i want to know.. you are my speeding ticket i'm not so sure, are you go to go? you are my speeding ticket what'd he say? yeah, i want to know.. you are my speeding ticket i'm not so sure, are you good to go? you thought you were a little ticket you thought you were a little.. i've learned the rules to writing english, jackie boy i've wrote you a ticket with a pitch, with the bitch, we've got a glitchy stitch it is frozen introspective subconscious study fragments it
3.
Cycles 05:46
hands up big drop, the process of prowess lights flash throb out, watershed safety age lined up, shots gone, cool as comet water champagne, hands up for the prowess, all we want to hear is big drop, yeah eyes up, hands down, she said 'i could be your future ex if you wanted' hips swing, arms fling, shouting compliments over the booms lined up, shots gone, cool as comet water champagne, hands up for the prowess, all we want to hear is big drop, yeah cubicle - club cubicle - club cubicle (i could explain but words would only limit it) human psycho cycle human psycho cycle we hope you have a good time sleeping eyes up, eyes up, eyes up i don't think so i know you'll go supreme mathematics pipe dream low-pass doors dampen the party lean on a wall talk to yourself like a hidden dressed rehearsal you imagine she whispers to you lined up, shots gone, cool as comet water champagne, hands up for the prowess, all we want to hear is big drop, yeah cubicle - club cubicle - club cubicle human psycho cycle human psycho cycle we hope you have a good time sleeping eyes up, eyes up, eyes up i don't think so i know you'll go supreme mathematics pipe dream a dishonest yes is a no to me snapping necks curl and flex nightclub hex shit reflects this is an open mic to all concerned the party's over you're time's up a dishonest yes is a no to me snapping necks curl and flex nightclub hex shit reflects this is an open mic to all concerned the party's over you're time's up god and earths on corners dropping jewels god and earths
4.
Cocoons 05:32
(i'm your delivery man trailing with the places i've been glasgow smell stuck in my hair the scent is dissolved like effervescent air) what' we going to do, what' we going to do with you? knock knock, delivery ma'am glasgow smell stuck right in my hair the scent is dissolved like effervescent air and i'm trailing with the tiny bits of all the places i have been, yeah back in cocoons! what' we going to do, what' we going to do with you? what' we going to do, what' we going to do with you? she said: fill me up with packing foam and plastic send me recorded delivery then she starts repeating.. bootleg my thighs bootleg my thighs back in cocoons.. i'm part mean and i'm part crude and i'm all assembled to be your food i was sure these gears were queers for 19 years you're a hostage to fortune and it's mine and as these 5 horses you call your senses drag you through your days i hope you are enjoying this cos being will have me in an early grave from a blue skied oven bathed in Z-11 to minus 20 at the smoking bit the smoking bit in bitter berlin and like the sun you get at everything dissolved and bleaching landscapes brutal how do i recognise the un-scent/unsent how do i know what you really really meant? and what?

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released January 4, 2013

Written and performed by:

John Baillie Jnr (Vocals, Electronics)
Ollie Cox (Synths, Vocals)
David Roy (Guitar)
Ryan McGinness (Bass)
Paul Bannon (Drums)

Recorded and mixed at Scrummy Yummy's
by David Roy and John Baillie Jnr.
Drums recorded at Chamber
by Graeme Young.

Photo: J.R Stevenson
LP Design: DCWID
Thanks: Musician's Benevolent Fund

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