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02:55
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Animal Instinct
03:04
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Animal Instinct
Is this just a well worn track
Running across my silverback
You can easily ignore
But I'm 99 percent sure
You call it animal
Call it animal instinct
That's what you do
It's your infallible
Your infallible distinction
Between the two
The Empire state was so grand
Holding you in the palm of my hand
You struggled with the difference
But in my dreams it all made sense
You call it animal
Call it animal instinct
That's what you do
It's your infallible
Your infallible distinction
And aren't we the same after all
Did you respond to my call
And aren't we the same after all
Holding my hand so I don't fall
And I climb this wall
Tallest order
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Mongooses
04:24
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MONGOOSES - The Sheikhs
Of all the things I ever learnt I don’t remember a thing
Of all the things I ever learnt I don’t remember a thing
Except the warm metallic taste a sudden beating brings
Lying in the sun, people form an ant-like crowd
Waiting for another egg to crack open on the ground
For every action unequal & opposite reaction
Shall be the sum total of yr mis-education
Entropy increases but some things never change
Exceptions to established laws are soon made to blow away
Mongooses unroll these corridors
Mongooses patrol these grounds
Mongooses control these sacred halls
Unsight, unspoke, unsound
The serpent's curious tree
Whacked by the mongeese of our tradition
This imposture of hysterical facts
Forever stalking our current position
Tears fall from the whitened faces
Of the legion of counting machines
So eager to carve their places
At the cliff's edge of this completion scene
Of all the things I ever learnt I don’t remember a thing
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Irregularities
04:34
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Irregularities
More indirect, that is to say, oh no
Correct me if you feel I'm wrong away
Not to be rude but who am I to say
No really who am I to say no way
I go something I
Can you tell I
Can I unlearn whatever I now know
Concern myself beyond the afterglow
Not to presume, not to interpret, please
Not to resume irregularities
I go something I
Can you tell I
And certainly you know the words won't come
Uncertainty remains the only one
The glass and chrome, identical decor
Company face isn't me anymore
Pattern is held, listen for the last call
Flying's a trick, feels like I've seen them all
And over time watch you cut down to size
And now I sit, wait for the sun to rise
I got something I need to tell you nothing about
Irregularities, please don't do that to me
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The Tuck
04:06
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Dancehall Lowrider
04:15
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Dancehall Lowrider
Surrender
Throw your hands up
Gonna rise up
Surrender
Throw your hands up
Throw your hands up
Surrender
Throw your hands up
Gonna rise up
Gonna rise up
Gonna rise up like smoke
After all the fire
After all the flame
After all is burned
What remains?
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Gulag
06:50
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Gulag
Gulag with view
Up in my bridal room
My metal roots
Shining through
Formed an elite
Wield a curated eye
All I survey
Becoming infinity
All humanity
A room embraces me
I fall awake
No I don't feel that way
Gulag with view
Up in my bridal room
My metal roots shining through
Your thalamus rex
You thalamus rex, rejects
Gulag with view
Up in my bridal room
My metal roots shining through
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Brutal Rural
03:35
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Brutal Rural
Aye ain't
NO!
Brutal rural I
To charge the gate
With the pace of a bull
I won't be late
If I brace myself full
Besides, impact'sgot to be good
I'v got to be understood
To change the pace I'd be a fool
Slamming the past in the face ain't noble
I don't claim to be last
I'm perfectly able
Head on's got to be good
As I splinter the wood
I await my come-upance
Slamming the past in the face ain't noble
I don't claim to be last
I'm perfectly able
Head on's got to be good
As I splinter the wood
To the victor go the spoils
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Ethnical Dilemma
06:40
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Ethnical Dilemma
May I
Remind
You
May I remind you
The defendant
You are
Under
No
You are under no
Obligation
Up on the horns...
Draw your
Gaze to
View
Draw your gaze to view
Your attention
The fact
That once
Moved
The fact that once moved
Remains undone
Up on the horns...
Up on the horns again my darling
We find
We have
Found
We find we have found
In our research
Certain
Patterns
Shapes
Certain patterns shapes
Reoccurring
Up on the horns
Up on the horns again my darling
Hashtag hole in your shoe
Did I fashion a tool
To smash right through your windscreen
Follow your passion fool
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The Sheikhs Adelaide, Australia
The Sheikhs is: Francis Diatschenko, Leon Hewer, Markus Karlsen. The Sheikhs periodically gather from two States and a Territory to play rock and roll how it should be done, and hope you will come see them do the same.
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Classic songs, both quiet and loud, from one of the best bands to come out of Darwin. Pure squeezed Darwin goodness - the mighty Dorkstain!
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Processed Harp Works, Volume 2
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