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THE SPECTRAL PRiDE - Laid Bare

from Brainstorm by Various

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Do you ever feel your life is one long night
Darkness following darkness no more light
Blackout curtains everywhere you go
A darkroom for a patio

Do you ever think your world is just too flat
Lifeless as a turned-off bureaucrat
Movement a shrivelled-up desire
Facedown in the trash with the flyers

Science is as science feels
Breaking butterflies on wheels
Slide across the laminate
What you see is what you ate
Laggy-bands, a stethoscope
Petridish and a bar of soap
Battenberg, chicken thighs
Two brass balls and a nobel prize

Do you ever feel that time is one long wait
Nothing turning up but an empty crate
Falling off the wagon with a crunch
All the bits and pieces out to lunch

Do you even think it's all a waste of space
Unnatural selections in a case
A twisted form unfolding on a twig
A pig in a Steve McGarrett wig

Dozy does, dozy don'ts
Dozy wills and dozy won'ts
Dozy ones, dozy pairs
Dozy fuckers everywhere
Send you scrambling up the wall
Through the trapdoor in the hall
In among the fibreglass
Blowing bubbles out your arse

Looking here, looking there
Looking through your underwear
Looking in, looking out
Looking like a layabout
Looking up, looking down
Looking like a wasted clown
Looking left, looking right
Looking like you're full of shite

Looking hot, looking cool
Looking like a broken tool
Looking fat, looking thin
Looking like a rusty tin
Looking rich, looking poor
Looking like a frosted door
Looking bland, looking grey
Looking like a ghost today
Looking for needles in hay

Do you ever wake up with the wombats in your mind
Ravaging the memories they find
Digging through the postcards and snaps
Chewing up the letters and maps

Running near, running far
Thoughts are running cross the yard
Down the street and into town
Better turn those taities down
Neurons firing overtime
Turning water into wine
Hand-in-hand and at the gate
Garibaldis on a plate
Sunny day, O so fine
Washing drying on the line
Just one thing to say to you:
Blah-blah blah-blah blah-blah boo!

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from Brainstorm, released September 11, 2014
Written, arranged and played by THE SPECTRAL PRiDE.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by The Knobster at The Bunker.
Produced by Mr Reindeer.
Artwork: Frank Blunt.

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A recording venture launched in the spring of 2004 to enable four friends to meet and indulge in a common favourite pastime: the laying down of sounds while making one another laugh.

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