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Words Escape Me
02:34
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Sit down with me
And we'll talk for a while
Something 'bout this place
Reminds me of the old days so well
Every single month
I'm singing in the rain
Another year gone
With nothing to show, what a shame
In the cities and the houses
Words escape me, oh
In my name and my number
Words escape me, oh
In a south London skyline
Words escape me, oh
Sing a song of sixpence
Along to Peckham Rye
All the little blackbirds
Are laughing but they don't know why
Gas tower sunset
Down by the river
We used to play til dusk
We used to play til we were tired
In the cities and the houses
Words escape me, oh
In my name and my number
Words escape me, oh
In a south London skyline
Words escape me
In the autumn and the winter
And the spring and the summertime
Sometimes I think I'm going around again
The days are getting colder again
The nights are getting longer again
The ice inside of your heart is fear
Deep in the city
The only place to hide
Is in the spires and the alleys of words
The build in your mind
Now it's three for a girl
And it's four for a boy
They've got a secret that nobody can destroy
In the cities and the houses
Words escape me, oh
In my name and my number
Words escape me, oh
In a south London skyline
Words escape me
In the autumn and the winter
And the spring and the summertime
Sometimes I think I'm going around again
I'm feeling optimistic again
I'm feeling pessimistic again
The ice inside of your heart is fear
Sometimes I think I'm going around again
Tonight I wear the same clothes again
And drink a little too much again
The ice inside of your heart
The ice inside of your heart
The ice inside of your heart is fear
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2. |
Ravens
03:30
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You were a sitting target
In a uniform made out of plastic
Sticks, stones and words you see
All part of a society, I know
Where boys are hard and girls are mean
You look grown up but you're only thirteen
In your head, hear them calling
The ghosts of London falling
Look at the old boys on the corner
Drink the lethal waters
Forget about their daughters and sons
And skeleton trees with evergreen hearts
Are lonely ghosts of Christmas past
You wonder what they're doing
The ones you went to school with
You're not a child any more
But you are lost just like the ghosts you see
In launderettes and on street corners
Oh no, nothing surer
In your head, hear them calling
The ghosts of London falling
Look at the old boys on the corner
Drink the lethal waters
Forget about their daughters and sons
And skeleton trees with evergreen hearts
Are lonely ghosts of Christmas past
I don't, I don't know, oh I don't know, oh I don't know
To avoid busy stations
Go back where you came from
Little paths so easy to stick
More efficient and less scenic
This is the last song about the city
Before the ravens come and get me
In my head, hear them calling
The ghosts of London falling
Look at the old boys on the corner
Drink the lethal waters
Forget about their daughters and sons
And skeleton trees with evergreen hearts
Are lonely ghosts of Christmas past
I love winter evenings
When the sun cuts through the cold
And all the tower blocks are painted gold
The big city sleeps
In a blanket of haze
Buildings aren't the only thing
That scrape the sky these days
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
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3. |
Paragraphing
03:12
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One more car would get you far
Look at yourself, you're not so special
Are you in this club or on your own?
Burn again at rooftop parties
Les garçons et nightclub queens
Kiss yourself in bathroom mirror
Spiders in a TV scene
The bizarre is getting clearer
There you go, always talking love and revolution
Your badge says you are very good in bed
They're all giving up their jobs
In downtown parks and seaside shanties
Watching toaster burn and kitchen hobs
The demise of the appliance
He will start a building fire
Ten floors above the masses
Countryside is not that far
Get away on trains and buses
Measure low, a simple worker won't reform the country
It's just so you don't get ideas of your own
Mama say you must have patience
Let's all get above our stations
Seventeen million paragraphing
That's alright
Oh I've been a wicked house
Sitting room in yellow photo
Having sitcom dreams of going out
Four walls all that I know
Breakfast table days like these
Paper bills and hearts indebted
Dust on lino hands on knees
A draft will blow in if you let it
Work or play, an electron in a social circuit board
Rainy day, all your pennies washed away
Mama say you must have patience
Let's all get above our stations
Seventeen million paragraphing
That's alright
Oh-no-oh-no-no-oh-no-no-ohhh
Mama say you must have patience
Let's all get above our stations
Seventeen million paragraphing
Mama say you must have patience
Let's all get above our stations
Seventeen million paragraphing
That's alright
That's alright
That's alright
That's alright with me
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4. |
The New Excess
02:39
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Dirty pavements is the new excess
Runaway violence is the new excess
Love on the high-street is the new excess
And the boys in the basement is the new excess
And this rhyme was cool
We used to sing in school
This rhyme was cool
Radio pirates is the new excess
Reading about a knife fight, the new excess
A bomb in a briefcase, the new excess
And talking about High Life, the new excess
And this rhyme was cool
We used to sing in school
This rhyme was cool
(And it went like this)
We won the war
The 1984
Guess what we done
Oh what have we done?
(1, 2, 3, 4... oh)
Being English is the new excess
Welsh, Scottish or Irish, the new excess
And having a good time is the new excess
Or having a bad time, the new excess
And this rhyme was cool
We used to sing in school
This rhyme was cool
(oh)
We won the war
The 1984
Guess what we done
Oh what have we done?
We won the war
And now we wanna know what for
Guess what we done
Oh what have we done?
Boys in the playground
Wishing they were far away
Boys in the playground
All you do is hear them say
We wanna know more
'Bout how we won the war
What have we learned?
Oh what have we learned?
We won the war
And now we wanna know what for
Guess what we done
Oh what have we done?
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The Total Drop London, UK
The Total Drop were a four piece art rock/no-wave band from New Cross in south-east London, active between 2005 and
2008.
Releasing through their own Snakes & Ladders label, members of TTD went on to form electropop band My Tiger My Timing and, later, dreamrock band Heavy Heart.
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