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Classical Communion
02:49
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It's here again
A bit uncalled for but everyone colludes
Get what you want
Get what you asked for
There's so much left to do
Nothing left to ask for
We have got it all
So what are you gonna do kid?
Throw snowflakes at it all
Be a star and shine forever
Lead wiser men astray
Quiet your need for needing others
Give yourself away
Not much left to ask for
So fork out for your love
Working so you forget
What you're thinking of
Quiet while the prayers are read
To those unworthy of
No classical communion here
We have got it all
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Christmas Tree
04:04
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Don't be so quick to engage in salutations
They said not to ever come back
To run off with the pack
But it's never going to work
All the wrapping is so tiring
So all consuming, so unimproving
They said hang it by the altar
Call it whatever you want to
Jesus coming back?
It's never going to work
Throw the drinks back, empty liquor bottles and sin
Dress in season, torn between the acrid seams
Uncover what's been always covered up
All messed up
Different rivers bleed into an overpriced and swollen sea
Cast your dreams like tiny useless gifts
Thrown about carelessly
Me and this tragic excuse for a christmas tree.
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3. |
The Bias That Excludes
07:00
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I miss you when you're gone
teaching English in saigon
So a festive singalong is all I'm left with
Turn those shopping street lights on
Let the people spend a bomb
on whatever seems endorsed by Disney
What you're doing isn't wrong
It's that you all run along
With the bias that excludes good thinking
Christmas occupies my heart
And has drawn it's constitution
Which fails to represent my wishes
Turn on hipocrisyismas
Sleep through another existence
Celebrate the lizard
Wealth and poverty
And all bad news disappears
As if it were never there
As if it did not concern you
It's tempting to betray
Those three words i sent your way
But to act without restraint would be regrettable
Could I be much better off
Without a wife or house or job?
Is this not the hidden tale of Christmas?
Sleep through another's life
Unwrap gifts tonight
Hope for what you know is yours
Dying on a weightful pause
Mugged by homeless Santa Claus
But saved by consumerist laws.
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4. |
Festive Facade
04:19
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Coming together in times like these
Doesn't it feel a little forced?
If we cared we'd laugh and speak and dance and see lots of each other
Not just at christmas time with secret gifts wrapped up
And mistletoe encouraging your lips to meet up with mine.
Burn all your bibles!
Those nativity songs!
They're doing us harm in the long run!
Snap all your credit cards!
Curse the retailers!
Who continue to do us no favours!
Counting the days til we're back to work
Making sure I spend as much time as I can with my friends
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5. |
Treasure Hunting
03:55
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Count the memories, take stock
We're coming to the ditch of winter
Beat the rush, stay on top
Your children's lives depend on your shop
Future working classes -
They want your gifts but need their families
So don't worry and don't spend
Your dream could be your own, let's rally
Jokes aside I would like a new banal movie to keep
Shiny book by a Z-list who's got no more guile than me
Hi-tech toys for a ransom that'll halve in cost next year
I'm just stuck in the hope that she might want to let me in
If I asked and you held me
There'd be no need for treasure hunting
So precious but so risky
I'll play it safe and hit the party
Where tongues twist and thighs burn
Pass round the wine and make me holy
But I'm full of distance, in case you wake up and you notice
I'm in magic condition and our escapades are grand
My list goes out the window when you look at me like that
I could mail myself to you in a bright red christmas sack
Open up and you'll find me on a bed of bubble wrap.
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