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Partners In Crime
03:06
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Shes the charm, the calm, the criminal mastermind
I'm the raw, brute knuckle, scourge of mankind.
A villan twosome, it's as brutal as it gruesome
how we've run this town till the blood's drained out.
Of course this outlaw life will doom us both
One day they're sure to find us.
But when the jig is up and its really it,
there's one thought that can save us.
Partner in crime
When you grab that axe and grind
your name into my heart
they can't tear us apart.
Shes an ice cold heart, fools every polygraph.
I'm a plank and a nail and a manacle laugh.
My finesse may be lacking but her plans are so refined
I'l be stamping on the cat and still escape in time.
And as I'l be's become I was and time slows to a trickle
The hounds are circling us, knives out
dreaming that we're kibble.
Partner in crime
When you grab that axe and you grind
your name into my heart
they can't tear us apart.
Partner in crime
may your enemies be mine
and your name into my heart.
They can't tear us apart.
Two birds on a wire dreaming higher than they've named it.
But someones got to jump cos the winds gonna take it.
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2. |
The Hill Is Burning
03:37
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Long ago this all was forests.
Where the wolf packs used to roam.
And stone circles told of humans
more connected than we could ever know.
Then the march of revolution
took the trees and turned our gaze to a thin steel pole.
And now the hill is burning down the hill is burning down.
Scorch marks on my dressing gown the hill is burning down.
You can see the smoke from space.
Then the scene cuts to the news.
Where the red and orange flicker
on the belly of the chopper
plays with themes of anguish and doom.
Take the film rights, take the song.
Cos the true arts in the moment when flint hits the stone.
And now the hill is burning down the hill is burning down.
Scorch marks on my dressing gown the hill is burning down.
And now the hill is burning down the hill is burning down.
Scorch marks on my dressing gown the hill is burning, its burning down.
Smoking blackout curtain.
Visionary or vandal.
Culprit or creator.
Arsonist or artist.
At last the buzz is leaving town now the hill is burning down.
I hit em with the big guns
Blind and deafen em!
Blind and deafen em!!
Oh the hill is burning down, the hill is burning down.
Shake to the flicker,
move to the beat of the fire-beaters beating back retreat retreat retreat!
Now the hill is burning down, the hill is burning down.
scorch marks on my dressing gown
scorch marks on my dressing gown.
I'l rise again before the heat dies down.
The hill is burning down!
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3. |
Expose Myself
04:50
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Long days in the office
Long night in the office
Working hard to get what I wanted
To get up to the top.
Hey look up, that's me at the top.
Trampling and manipulating
and treating people like shit
Just makes me feel like shit.
But I get used to it.
Now I'm here in the Dorchester
on this night all my dreams will come true.
I'm gonna expose myself to you.
No one says no to me, no one says no to me!
Thats not what I'm talking about!
No one says no to me!
Rich men and young ladies
well they go together
like smooth leather and the wheel of my Mercedes.
Do you have any idea home much it cost
and how much I lost to get where I wanted?
And you want a piece of my pie?
Well, I want a piece of your pie.
Sweet sweet, sweet charity. Melissa and Amy,
They're all looking at me.
So close the doors,
Lock the windows,
Cos the world just don't want to view.
When I expose myself to you.
(there are worse things I could do)
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When the plucky spider catches her fly
she swaddles him lovingly and tucks him in tight
So he can rest at ease cradled in a gentle breeze
knowing she wont let him go.
Like lucky numbers that never come in
you get an urge to change em but you don't give in.
You stick to your guns and you lose again
you'll stick to your guns and lose every time
Every time
Well that love is like our love
well that love is like ours
Its not the stuff of legend but it is ours its ours its ours
That love is like ours
When your head is in the barbers chair
Dictating every sweep and turn of your hair.
Then he snips and twiddles and twirls
at your mane of dashing curls
and just cuts it all off
Well that love is like our love
that love is like ours.
Borne of a clerical error
gum stuck to the seat of a bus.
Well that love is like ours.
That love is like ours
How did it happen to me
Well that love is like our love
that love is like ours.
They might not understand it
It might not be written in the stars
You don't even have to know me
but its ours its ours its ours.
That love is like ours...
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5. |
Bad Funeral Poetry
05:04
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Look I'm sorry shes dead
but you'll ruin the spread
the coleslaw will curdle
the congregations toes curl.
If you air your woes
In rhyme and not prose
what is it with bad funeral poetry?
Each line a crass rhyme
was the tumor benign
though the tests inconclusive
it seems dieing has proved it
Shes with the angels now
and the Princess Of Wales now
hit me with it
Bad funeral poetry.
Bad funeral poetry, bad funeral poetry
a stark and strange beauty all of its own.
We ate fish and chips at the solar eclipse
You burnt out your retina on that pin hole projector.
And so many more stories, past crimes and past glories
confined by a rhyme for bad funeral poetry
Bad funeral poetry, bad funeral poetry
a stark and strange beauty all of its own.
Bad funeral poetry, bad funeral poetry
a stark and strange beauty all of its own.
A rhyme is so final
so done and dusted
so neatly concluded
so ticked off a list
But memories linger
they dream and they wake
they flicker like candles
on your last Birthday cake.
Bad funeral poetry, bad funeral poetry
a stark and strange beauty all of its own.
Bad funeral poetry, bad funeral poetry
a stark and strange beauty all of its own.
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Michael Chadwick UK
Songwriter and performer. Making music with Limbs and composing for anything else that looks fun.. Always looking to write for new interesting projects, have a look round and email: mchadwickmusic@gmail.com
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