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Bump And Swing

by Dog Faced Hermans

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Welcome, welcome I would give you the freedom of my own home And you may sit in my kitchen Between the hours of five and six And you may butter your bread On the one side only On the one side only And we can do this Because we're like that And we're quite groovy so you're lucky Remember Welcome I would give you the freedom of my own home And you may, and you may Butter your bread On the one side only On the one side only But hear the dogs Barking Outside Hear the dogs Barking, barking Outside Ooo... Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Oh, nothing open-handed This is some country this is This is some country this is This is some country Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Nothing open-handed This is some country this is This is some country this is This is some country Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Everything in limitation Nothing open-handed Nothing open-handed This is some country Yep yep yep! What did you expect? What did you expect? When you came, when you came, when you came? Hear the dogs Barking Barking Outside Outside Outside
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Viva 02:35
In the vicious flares Of the mad young men In the coated curls Of the up-faced girls In the thickening Of my mother's legs I see what's to come Sister walks alone Through the streets at night Mother is at home With the telephone Brother's never there In the north somewhere Chasing up the work All the boards are up Houses all for sale Patterning the street With the gardens wild I can't keep the junk From the door at night Baby baby pink Baby baby blue No one ever said It would be like this I don't feel at home I don't feel at home I don't feel at home I am in my tribe With its dark complaint That you often hear On the women's lips As they lose their grip Where did we go wrong? I go to my friends And we sit in bars And we talk like girls Who are making plans And we talk like girls Who are making plans To get out of here Baby baby pink Baby baby blue No one ever said It would be like this I don't feel at home I don't feel at home I don't feel at home
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When the truth begins to show Man becomes a living soul When the honey hits the core Then my sweet is everywhere She sits down to write him hers Let this moment include you He receives her with his eyes Let this day be marked by you When the honey hits, it's part of everything When the honey hits, it's part of everything I take what's coming I take what's coming When the honey hits, it's part of everything When the honey hits, it's part of everything I take what's coming I take what's coming She sits down to write him hers Every second enclose you He receives her with his eyes Let this moment include you She sits down to write him hers Let this hour encompass you He receives her with his eyes Let this day be marked by you When the honey hits the core Then my sweet is everywhere When the truth begins to show Man becomes a living soul
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Transformation this is Transformation I saw two men They were not men but cocks They were not cocks but men Playing at being birds Mask with beak Feathers round the navel And walking as birds Thinking they were birds Transformation this is Transformation I saw a queen Just a girl Just a queen Walking along with a melon on her head She had no clothes but royal bone Royal bone Transformation this is Transformation
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Keep your laws off my body What I have I'll not return I will live in no dark ages But in the light Clear as glass is my decision What I have I'll not return I will fight this territory It's mine to fight Mister when you're in the sunshine And a shadow falls across Just look up and you will find me I'm in the light
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Jan 9 06:35
Jan 9 In future time The day science clipped its wings Nobody flew We all stood around Shaking hands on the ground We all stood around Shaking hands on the ground Jan 9 In future time The day science clipped its The day science clipped its Nobody flew-w-w-w We all stood around Shaking hands on the ground We all stood around Shaking hands on the ground We could only see the soles of their feet We thought there were angels up ahead We could only see the soles of their feet We thought there were angels up ahead We could only see the soles of their feet We thought there were angels up ahead We decided that science Which restricts information to the powers-that-be Is a bad science We decided no more To be utilised As "the objective voice" We decided no more To blind the people That we knew more things About that which was Invisible than they We decided no more To be brought on As the voice of the truth We decided that That which does not advance us Is directly aligned to That which destroys We decided that the resources Are after all Finite Finite Finite Finite Finite Finite Finite Finite
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Human Spark 04:17
Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars I stand in awe of DNA Kinetic strategy in action Human spark The last of stars Human spark The last of stars I made a man I made a man I made a man I made a man A tube out and not fleshed Since that day
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Fuck cleans fast without scratching Cleans fast without scratching Fuck cleans fast without scratching Cleans fast without scratching Fuck cleans fast without scratching Cleans fast without scratching Cleans fast without scratching Love Love split Love split with blood With blood With blood
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Fortune 04:18
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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Includes bonus items: CD booklet in PDF, 23 photos and 7 posters in HQ

A live recording.
Recorded at:
Druckluft, Oberhausen Germany 2.11.93
De Eland, Delft, Holland 5.2.94
The Up&Up Tavern, Bellingham, WA, USA 2.4.93
Lounge Ax, Chicago, IL, USA 15.4.93

All words by DFH except the line 'Love split with blood' by Lydia Lunch. All music by DFH except 'Love split with blood' by 8 - Eyed Spy & 'Peace Warriors' from a tune by Ornette Coleman, plus small theft of the traditional Romanian gypsy tune Rumelaj at the end of Jan 9.

Konkurrel, k153c

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released January 9, 1995

Colin - bass
Andy - guitar, viola
Marion - voice, trumpette, bells
Wilf - drums
Gert-Jan - live sound

Photographs by:
24 Dafna Levy.
3, 6, 13, 14, 16, 20 Anke Hense.
23 Andy.
9 Gert-Jan.
4 Mirek Koch.
11 M C.
Drawings by M.C.

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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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