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New Shoots
03:49
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Ever dream a green so dark, so nice and lush?
New shoots for you to eat
My home place is a dump site dump
New shoots for you to eat
My home place is a field that's scored with scars
New shoots for you to eat
New shoots for you to eat
Ever seen a land where the air is thinned with ashes?
New shoots for you to eat
My home place is a yellow cake of earth
New shoots for you to eat
New shoots for you to eat
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Scottish Block
04:04
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Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
Lived all his days with curtains drawn
Lay low, took the bins out dead of night
Thought he could rely on some close community
Community in the close but no
Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
Shopped by a woman on the block
To the men from the district tax invasion corps
Irregularities not unnoticed
Some peculiar goings on
Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
Wished to be lost in a Scottish block
To duck beneath and pay no tax
Yet see the day, still see the day
Working always on the black
Some friend a while went underground
Thought he could disappear just so
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Binding System
03:37
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This is binding system
(words as desired)
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John Henry
04:59
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John Henry when he was a baby
Sitting on his mothers knee
Saw a hammer and a little piece of steel
Said “Hammer'll be the death of me, Lord
Hammer'll be the death of me”
Well now some say he was born down in Texas
Some say he was born in Maine
Well I don't give a damn where that poor boy was born
Leader of a steel driving chain gang
Leader of a steel driving gang.
Now the captain said to John Henry
“I'm gonna bring that steel drill round
Gonna bring that steel drill out of on the job.
Whop all that steel on down, Lord
Whop all that steel on down”
John Henry said to his shaker
“Now shaker, why don't you sing?
'Cause I'm bringing twelve pounds from my hips on down
Listen to that cold steel ring, Lord
Listen to that cold steel ring”
John Henry said to his captain
“A man ain't nothing but a man
Gonna beat that steam drill out on the job
Or I'll die with my hammer in my hand, Lord
Die with my hammer in my hand”
John Henry hammered on the mountain
Till his hammer was striking fire.
He drove so hard, he broke his poor heart
Laid down his hammer and he died Lord
Laid down his hammer and he died
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Beautiful
06:15
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It had been a hot day
We were in some southern place
And we'd been walking for miles
From that town to this place
When we got to the town it was Sunday
There was a festival
We went into the church
Because it was big and cool
And there she was
She was a triangle
She was triangular
Her head was a pinhead
Her hair was black lacquered and her cream cheeks cream
Her dress was crusty with flowers
She was lit by a thousand lights
Plastic candles glinting about her base
She had no arms or legs
She was robed from neck to the ground
Fresh paint on her oh so glossy face
And she was very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
She was very very beautiful
It had been so hot that day
The sun had got to my head
And I was sick and crushed to look at her
I was sick and cried to look at her
My tears were nearly catholic
Her dress was crusty with flowers
Her hands were painted on
Her face was super real
She was stiff
She was stiff with religious virtue
She was stiff with the thoughts of the watchers
Buzzing a furious field about her head
Her dress was crusty with flowers
She was lit by a thousand lights
She was triangular as wide as wide
Her head was a pinhead atop a radar station
All signals on and jamming
She was so wide you could not push her over
I had to fight her down she was so strong
And she was very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
She was very very beautiful
Very very heavy
Very very rigid
Very very plastic
Very very heavy
God she was heavy, so heavy
Took twelve men to lift her, twelve men to shift her
From one side of the church to the square
We could only stand and watch
From the thickest part of the crowd
For I had sunstroke and believed it
And there were the women in black
And there were the men in suits
All eyes all eyes all eyes
They knew a thing or two
These master-craftsmen builders
She was some heat conductor, lit by a thousand plastic lights
Crush of women pressing
All the lips were moving
I just stood I could not move
Her dress was crusty with flowers
You could not push her over
Her base was much too wide
And she was very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
Very very beautiful
She was very very beautiful
Very very heavy
Very very rigid
Very very plastic
Very very heavy
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Frock
03:18
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What did you see dear, what did you do?
Were the others dressed like you?
Though you set no sights at all
Were you lonely by the wall?
Were you lonely by the wall?
I made a dress of silver wire
In the Laura Ashley years
Scared them away with prickly charm
No they did not dance with me
No they did not dance with me
Ah my hinny
Ah my hinny
Ah my hinny
Ah my hinny
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Live Action
05:52
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Want more action
Live action
Who's the muse who waits to move?
Love to chatter
Talk passion
Talking with my rhythm friend
Too much tragic
Deep buried
Early stifled rhythms lost
Blaster heat
Shake your spirit
Live action, live life
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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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