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Custard Tart
03:39
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Custard tart so close to your heart
Take a bite and you fell apart
I made 6 just for your birthday
6 little perfect Portuguese tarts
Take a little bite and you fell apart
What's your beef with my custard tart?
What's wrong with shop bought pastry?
You'll never ever let me forget
Your long arms and my impression of a gorilla
I never meant to do that dance at your party
This is starting to feel like a shit party
No-one here has ever heard of Cy Twombly
Your long arms and my impression of a gorilla,
I never meant to do that dance I was tipsy,
You name drop anyone that nobody's heard of,
And what's wrong with using ready made pastry
Portuguese tart, Portuguese tart
What's in your heart, what's in your heart
Portuguese tart, Portuguese tart
What's in your heart, what's in your heart
Your long arms and my impression of a gorilla,
I never meant to do that dance at your party,
You name drop anyone that nobody's ever heard of,
And what's wrong with using ready made pastry
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Sempiternelle danse moderne
Tu m'entraînes
Avec elle
Dans cette transe
Danse !
Sempiternelle danse moderne
Tu m'entraînes
Avec elle
Dans cette transe
Danse !
Do you want to go to the
Disco
Remember the old disco
We would sing to the songs
That first lit a fire
Deep down in our souls
And give memories
Such sweet memories
And I just know that I
Can walk into any kind of room
And just socialise
All the vegetables are rotten
And the trains are sidelined
Behind the fence
Pounds and pence
All the vegetables are rotten
And the trains are sidelined
Behind the fence
But maybe you want to go to the
Disco
Remember the old disco
We would sing to the songs
That first lit a fire
Deep down in our souls
And give memories
Such sweet memories
And I just know that I
Can walk into any kind of room
And just socialise
Buying up the eight inch ply
Build a little box and you dance inside
Watching a grown man cry
Alone on a see-saw
Alone on see-saw
Buying up the eight inch ply
Build a little box and you dance inside
Watching a grown man cry
Alone on a see-saw
Alone on see-saw
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3. |
Little Trip
02:54
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You and I gonna take a little trip
To the town up in the sky
Gonna put feet up a little bit
Lie back on our arms and let it slide
Let it slide
Let everything slide
Lazy step out for a little tit bit
Fight you to the death for the sticky croquette
Bite down on lemon pip
Got a squirt of juice right in the eye
Right in my eye
Stingy stingy eye
See the sandstorm coming round the mountain
Feel its texture between your teeth
I can't finish this plate of sardines
The eyes are staring back at me
Do you know we got a parking ticket
The music plays all night
Thats an unripe orange not a lime tree
Alright alright
Mad dogs out in the one o'clock sun
They went missing in 1981
The empty streets are kind for shadow
You always find me on the left side
On the left side of the main drag
Then we climb up to Amelia's bit
Look across the pain, drink it in drink it in
Aperitif and I gave it big licks
You fell through the chair and laughed it off
We laughed it...
See the sandstorm coming round the mountain
Feel its texture between your teeth
I can't finish this plate of sardines
The eyes are staring back at me
Please don't clap along to the flamenco
Its complex polyrhythmic
Thats an unripe orange not a lime tree
Shut up you fucking dick
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4. |
Amour Sous l'Eau
04:39
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Amour sous l'eau
Quand tu m'laissais faire
J'aimais m'enfuir
Loin dans tes pensées
Aller à la mer
Nager, danser,
Ne jamais rentrer
Mais tu m'as laissé m'noyer
Sous l'eau j'ai tout oublié
Jt'ai pris pour un fou
Mon arrogance
T'a giflé d'un coup
T'avais l'coeur brisé
J'l'ai ignoré
Et j't'ai malmené
Toi aussi tu t'es noyé
Comment faire pour l'oublier
Drown me, or love me
It's just the same to me
On fuyait nos vies
Partout ailleurs
Était mieux qu'ici
On s'est consolé
Sans jamais penser
Qu'on pouvait s'aimer
Les yeux clos on a tout nié
Notre amour hors de portée
Drown me, or love me
It's just the same to
Me, drown, love me
It's just the same to me
Bonjour Monsieur Crabe
Bonjour Madame Poisson
Mon dernier jour est terminé
Mes yeux sont noirs
Rentrés sous mes paupières
Il n'y aura pas d'attaque sanglante
J'ai ri du silence
J'voulais pas savoir
Ce que tu en penses
J'buvais comme un trou
T'aurais pu voir
Que j'me foutais d'tout
Mais tu m'as laissé m'noyer
Et j'ai tout abandonné
Drown me, or love me
It's just the same to
Me, drown, love me
It's just the same to me
Drown me, or love me
It's just the same to
Me, drown, love me
It's just the same to me
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5. |
Five Starlings
03:57
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5 Starlings...
Peaches fell down
All around my feet
Crushing the beautiful grass
With all their glory
A rope ladder hung down
From the tree but I
Could not climb it 'cause
No one had teach'd me
And I turned around when
5 starlings began singing
'Show me the way to San José'
I pretended this wasn't startling
By joining in with a chorus
Of San José
I checked your big fat hairy mole
I checked your wintergreen kilner store
I learned to fix your squeaky tap
And I learned the curse to ruin your DNA map
I am the engineer of 5 starlings
That I will have sing for you
'Show me the way to San José'
But even if you hit the ground
With your fastest running
The tabloid will still stay its
5000 miles to San José
Stupid little birds were in the wrong key
Stupid little birds were in the wrong key
Come back birds, will you forgive
Come back birds, I am on my knees
Come back birds, flying with the breeze
Come back birds, human don't tease
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6. |
Girl On Fire
05:52
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When I came across you
I was on fire
When I came across you
I was a girl on fire
The sun was starting to show me
The way, le soleil
The sun was also starting to give me away
That I was on fire
There's a safe place to run and hide
New clothes, new pleasures
New friends to call
A safe place to run and hide
Free Coke and Fanta
Time to blether
Rain came slowly with you
Games play slowly with you
Rain came slowly with you
Games play slowly with you
Drink me in like Coke or Fanta
Drink me in like Jesus or Santa
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
Drink me in like Coke or Fanta
Drink me in like Buddha or Allah
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
The centre's fallen through the floor with love
Give me all your love
Give me all your love
Give me all your love
Give me all your love
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7. |
Trance
03:38
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I live my life in the sunshine
I live my life in a trance
I live my life in the sunshine
I live my life in a trance
This is a lie
I am uptight
This is a lie
I sit in your sunny garden
And I never cut the grass
I sit in your sunny garden
And I get angry with the plants
IF THEY ASK YOU SAY THAT
IF THEY ASK, YOU SAY THAT
I live my life in the sunshine
I live my life in a trance
This is a lie
I am uptight
This is a lie
I am uptight
We all live on the serpentine
We live on krill and crab
We all live on the serpentine
They make us kill and brag
BUT IF THEY ASK YOU SAY THAT
BUT IF THEY ASK YOU SAY THAT
I lived my life in the sunshine
I lived my life in a trance
This is a lie
We are uptight
This is a lie
We are uptight
We are living a lie
We are uptight
We are living a lie
We are uptight
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8. |
Last Dance
04:33
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You move in a way
That's unique to your feet
And it gives good shape to your day
The mind of a muscle
Will recall it all
Your brain needs nothing to say
Last dance
I gave
It was a lonely dance
In a busy room
Backwards you hop
Into a cornershop
For something to take away pain
The day has a shape
But the night isn't right
And you're wishing your life away
Last dance
I gave
It was a lonely dance
In a busy room
Don't stop
Play on
Even a lonely dance
Needs a heartfelt song
Dance away the problems of the world
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Stop!
02:37
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Stop!
Stop!
Where you going you should stop!
Where you going you should stop!
Cause when you stop there will be more time
Time to see things from the other side
The other side
The other side is green
Shot!
That Asian fired a shot
I didn't see that coming
The Korean fired a shot
I didn't see it coming
Theresa fired a shot
We all saw that coming
The geezer fired a shot into my blind side
I fell into the arms of the other side
The other side, the other side,
The other side is green
Stick your head up, see what all the fuss is
Smile you're up on the wide screen
Stick your head up, see what all the fuss is
Trough!
Your nose was in the trough
We should have seen that coming
Your nose was in the trough and we were horrified
We went and had breakfast with the other side
The other side, the other side
The other side... is green!
Stick your head up, see what all the fuss is
Smile you're up on the wide screen
Stick your head up, see what all the fuss is
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Gift Horse Glasgow, UK
Gift Horse are a Glasgow duo combining the breathy chanson-pop vocals of French-born guitarist Audrey Bizouerne with the darkly comic Scottish storytelling of drummer David Maxwell.
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