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Unseen Ripples From A Pebble

by The Wolfhounds

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Me 03:45
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Sandy 02:14
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In Transit 02:04
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Cruelty 02:36
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Handy Howard 02:45
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LA Juice 03:44
LA Juice Got that LA juice in my veins
 got a fried donut for brains
 the hole in the middle is my life and that
 the dough on the outside and escapist trap Gee! Show me a rebel and Ill show you a cash plan 
I’ll be laughing from the bottom of my bucket Got that TV juice in my veins
 Well, the slightest attention I’ll treat it as fame 
Feed me my drip and keep it flowing
 My bruised little heart’s got a new film showing Gee! Got that PVC juice on my back again 
those long black cars are driving me insane
 Your life is porn a racket a game
 Give me attention – I’ll limp ‘til I really am lame Gee!
Sincere! We mean it from the bottom of our buckets Found in the dark, and I’ll bask in the shame
 Got that oh dear OD juice in my veins
 Boiling up the kettle for one cup of ease
 Tread over your pleasure for the life of ease Gee!
14.
Another Hazy Day on the ‘Lazy A’ Corpse deflates to the ground
 buzzards circle round
 a drunk man dribbles and the dust it settles 
on another hazy day on the Lazy ‘A’ A skull leers from an outcrop
 blazing white bleached crack in the top
 teeth still smoke-blacked since the flesh slacked
 on another hazy day on the Lazy ‘A’ An owl peers from a cactus rotten and brown 
the branch collapses the bird has flown 
the drunk lies down hat titled over eyes 
his wounds licked by flies on another hazy day on the Lazy ‘A’ The desert was bland today
 Sands all blown away
 Boulders cracked all the way
 The wood rotten, grey
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Cut The Cake 03:28
Cut the Cake Well every other sunny day
 you can come and cut the cake
 The thin line between shade and night
 Cross the border into the daylight
 if you want to feel that way 
come over here and cut the cake All summer I was in the cold shade
 Keeping co with the stalactites and stalagmites
 Spent restless sweaty nights
 The cost of dowsing the candlelight Well come on over and cut the cake
 take a dip in the milky lake
 tried to cut the atmosphere beyond
 up to the neck in a stagnant pond 
just try and see what you can take
 come over here and cut the cake Everything is already alive
 white cotton stings your eyes
 white dress telling white lies
 grinning, we’re as free as flies The smell of cut grass
 glinting of an empty glass So what do you say? 
come around and cut the cake You can’t get away from it. Even in the bright green kaleidoscope wilds of somewhere, here it comes, dented rust cans and snot rags rolling down the river, chemical stream fingers, tousled knotting hair, stinking hyphae fronds wrapped round your legs and deep into the ground, perhaps even to the molten core of the earth it seems … everywhere secondhand, lived-in …
16.
Deadthink 03:17
Deadthink Screaming through the cave,
 head on down the tunnel
 pains and sweat now 
forced down a funnel
 deadthink deadthink The eyesight was once believed
 now eyes are open with the blinkers on
 long gone long gone
 deadthink deadthink Still here nagging still here nagging 
kicking all the wrong boys, still out there fagging
 still out there fagging
 deadthink deadthink Scratch your eyes you bitch
 go and sleep in your own ditch
 cue the violins cue the violins 
dragging you down to where you begin
 deadthink deadthink Sunday morning Rolls Royce drivers eating with fat teeth
 a pink worm writhes and wriggles underneath
 got a beady wet glass eye 
the corpse got on a suit and tie 
its keeping up appearances 
keeping up appearances 
I can’t get away 
can’t get away
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Stars in the Tarmac We’ve trod this road before
 with holes in the firmament 
there is a hung parliament where nothing gets done
 where nothing gets done
 where your friends are all brilliant
 your acquaintances all excellent
 your teeth the sugar grips Your mates are shimmering
 your mates are shimmering
 shivering
 like stars in the tarmac We’ve trod this road before
 with holes in the firmament 
 there is a hung parliament where nothing gets done
 where nothing gets done
 down comes the rain at night 
up goes the evaporite
 pinned with tiny black holes Pinpoint frozen cheeks
 your mates are shivering
 glimmering 
like stars in the tarmac.
18.
Midget Horror A love letter without a lover is a useless piece of paper
 a nagging irritator
 a pointless see you later A brand new day with nothing to do is a terrible waste of air
 a brush of teeth a wash of hair a river that takes you nowhere Please don’t touch me there
19.
One foot wrong You better hold on to your brass 
see if it rubs up fine
 how much can you take?
 how much can you leave behind? You put one foot wrong
 You put one foot wrong
 and all the others are too You better work hard all along
 try and earn more than one
 cos if you got two pennies
 you can rub them together just for fun 

now if you wanna see a wish come true
 you better throw them all down the well
 cos if you hold on to them all
 you might just have to sell Middle four
 what do you want a middle for?
 we’ve got a beginning and an end
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Slow Loris 02:45
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Restless Spell Things are usually drifting quite well
 something throws a curse into the world
 it has a restless spell And when you’ve settled down it starts again 
from the warmth of the house into the pouring rain 
running in the spell
 the restless spell Time to brush the chaff aside
 and the oldest truth becomes an embarrassment, a lie
 the sun rolls on its side and dies
 in a restless spell If only it was always this pure the outcome would always be sure
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Hand in the Till Caught you with your hand in the till again 
The easy way out, easy thrill again 
in a hopeless heaven from the age of seven
 caught you with your hand in the till again Well do you want to go out?
 no, I think I’ll stay in
 wait til everyone’s out
 under cover of darkness on the wing
 to the back door of some stranger’s house
 under the floorboards the rat grows from a mouse
 building up mounting up
 off duty is the sentry
 for the great break and entry
 the great break and entry Vacuum tugging at my heart
 every suck tears me apart
 I’m in someone’s back yard and I need my camouflage I crave immediate food now
 saving up for fruits will turn sour
 I take my own football away
 when you won’t play the game fair Vacuum tugging at my heart
 every suck tears me apart 
I’m in someone’s back yard and I need my camouflage
 need my camouflage Caught you with your hand in the till again
 The easy way out, easy thrill again 
in a hopeless heaven from the age of reason 
caught you with your hand in the till again
25.
Disgusted E7 I rode to Aldgate on a 225
 and the crowd shook me alive
 and I swear by the dirt in my nails
 and by the will that always fails
 these are the streets where nothing grows
 there’s easy pickings for the ones who know
 but I know nothing and it’s being rubbed in
 out of the carton and straight in the bin And I walked through an excuse for a park
a shield of concrete and a sheet of glass 
in the bushes where the law takes flight
 deserted by day and diverted at night I went to sleep 
I went to sleep
 I went to sleep in the witness stand
 my body tossed and turned by ghostly hands 
I was being born and lying dead
 and I awoke with the thickest of heads There was a knock and I opened the door
 rain on the pavement and shit on the floor
 and the chemist was open late
 the only cross on the eastern estate I fell from grace 
 I fell from grace 
 I fell from grace 
I fell from grace in the west end of town
 the rich and the waste always bring me down I fell from grace in the west end of town
 the rich and the waste always brings me down
 I rode to Aldgate on a 225 
where the wasted are just kept alive
26.
Cold shoulder And I will grow impatient of waiting for you 
like an outpatient slumped in a queue
 and I will grab a second if I can
 as the crow zigzags across the land
 parked on your cold shoulder I rode all the way from A to Z
 darkness where you raised the dead
 problems that we couldn’t prevent
 needed saying but nothing said
 nothing said And I will grow roots here
 we knot our nerves here
 mad bodies and faces 
 short sharp shock embraces
 something needs saying but nothing said
 now there’s only head to keep us company
 parked on your cold shoulder Lying down in my bed on the shelf
 a voice fills my head and I rid myself
 carries out my wishes with one command
 now there’s only heads to keep us company
 company And I don’t wanna go alone to a place that isn’t home
 the cold distance you keep is all I can see somewhere in that cold distance
 hopes you might see me
 parked on your cold shoulder
 perched on your cold shoulder etc etc
27.
Boy Racers RM1 Living in a double life
 words processed like cheese
 the great sun god breaks you down to your knees
 living in a double life
 your brains like Russian dolls all inside each other 
living in a double life 
the town is grey and the posters saying
 you’ve got to cram it in the licensing hours 
cram it in the licensing hours
everybody – free drinks on the house
 stick it in his face! Living in a double life
 sobriety and economic necessity 
living in a double life five minutes late and you’re fired
 living in a double life
 everything breaks and you’re tired 

in the time it takes to buy the paper you’ve already read it
 in the time it takes to review the papers you’ve already said it This country’s shrinking and the ranks are swelling 
like the head is shrinking, like the gut is swelling 
in too late and up too late
 came too early You came too early 
 no one was there
 you came too early 
getting in was easy you came too early 
you missed out 
if everyone else wasn’t bleeding or sleeping I’d be leaving

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released January 1, 2015

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