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Mental Blocks For All Ages (Remastered 2007)

by Dog Faced Hermans

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Fortune 04:22
Fortune has a double edge Sometimes I think it cuts Today you've got enough And others not too much The early signs of scars Are gifted on the poor Who draw the shortest straw Who draw the shortest straw And in the hospital The sink fills up with hair The women check for holes More than before She has what I have not He has what I have never We wish the body whole We wish the body whole
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Suppressa 04:13
Once again the office floor Some decision making by the Men-in-suits “And do we consult the girls?” Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool Treat us like a herd and we are cowed Relegated to a basic usefulness Girls are pushing 30 on the till Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool You did not even see her You did not know her second name She just had always been there If you think it does not count I could pick a couple sharpest names for you Naming is what marks us down Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool Even though the woman is your mother You would cut experience from under her Girls are pushing 30 on the till Girls are pushing 40 in the typing pool You did not even see her You did not know her second name She just had always been there
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Astronaut 06:04
My mother was an astronaut She spent all her time away Only ever came down for the births My father was her husband Sometimes we'd get to watch her on the TV With our dinner She was circling circling My father would sometimes cry a little And call his brother To come and comfort him The Russians did it also But much earlier - out of curiosity At first they sent up empties And then silkworms And then a monkey And finally their most efficient women These women were my mother's friends Their meetings were at first absurd And then commonplace My mother had no weight Historical or otherwise They would experiment On where cress grows best Or how to build a sky net Or how In a normal way To make life more than the sum of its parts When she got very old She retired there And was gone I only had a picture of her And was always a little shocked Because she was not glamorous
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I don't know what hangs round there Now the air is once more air Death leaves no stain Only on the memory Everything is as it was All in the grip of the heat Water comes slow from the pump Man with his last cigarette Watches the last of the day Children dig holes in the ground Wait for the siren to blow Deep in the Union Carbide Workers break off from the shift Cluster the bicycles out Punch through the clock at the gate Home and it's home for the night Town that exists on its knees Never woke up to the day Gas from the Union Carbide Poisoned the people in sleep And for the children unborn Still they are dying today When will the company pay Seems like no never no not Buried the case in the court Everything is as it was All in the grip of the heat Water comes slow from the pump Man with his last cigarette
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The man ran As things were getting bad He ran to a wall The wall was the law The law hit like a block The law hit like a block The man could not stop Draw the curtains please There's one citizen less Draw the curtains please Neatly, neatly Draw the curtains please There's one citizen less Draw the curtains please Neatly, neatly We must keep it neat
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She's not a blonde She sings and exchanges things for songs If she's a cartoon I must be real life Oh my darling what have you for me? This is the current notation for passion These are the signs of love These are the signs of love It's quite an art The body strategic We watch in awe Her legs snip bits out the air She's only playing She plays passion for us She plays passion for us Fuck without touching but Fuck without touching but She plays passion for us She's playing passion for us Fuck without touching but Fuck without touching but
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In A Row 01:15
In a row they lie People say people say There but for grace go I Not so In a row In a row they lie People say people say There but for god go I Not so Someone else In a row they lie On screen somewhere else People say There but for grace go I Not so Not so They lie They lie
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I have a flower It is my right hand With this I can
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It's Time 04:28
That was our time It's over Was easy I hope to miss you When you're gone

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Includes bonus items: front and back cover with lyrics in PDF, 23 photos and 7 posters in HQ

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released January 9, 1991

Recorded at ADM's Koeienverhuurbedrijf May 1991 by Dolf
Andy - guitar, hippo tube
Colin - bass, steel drum
Marion - sings, trumpette, tuba, cowbell
Wilf - drums, bells, foghorn
Gert - Jan - live sound

Cover - Lydia Sokolova, 1916
All music by DFH except Punjabi Monster Beat

Konkurrel ‎– K 139

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Dog Faced Hermans Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dog Faced Hermans formed in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1986, and later moved to Amsterdam. The band was closely associated with The Ex. A mix of energetic post punk, African music, No Wave, Free Jazz and improvisation. They grew out the scene of angular noisy guitar bands in the UK
They disbanded in 1995, with members moving on to projects including Rhythm Activism, The Ex, Kletka Red, Two Pin Din.
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