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Here's a tale of a fatal attraction
Here's a tale of the rarest of prey
I'll pin them down and keep them forever
Clip their wings they can't fly away
You love a thing you keep it in your hand
You love a thing you'd better chain it beside you
You set it free they'll go as fast as they can
I have behaved like a fool
A man made like me can't tame you
And I see you
You're just what I'm looking for
Cupid's bow barbed bloodied and broken
Tour a hole in my heart as wide as the sea
I had no choice but to give up entirely
Snared the bird tame the best they'll never be free
I have behaved like a fool
A man made like me can't tame you
And I see you
You're just what I'm looking for
I have behaved like a fool
A man made like me can't tame you
And I see you
You're just what I'm looking for
A man like me
An animal like you
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The Wildness
05:10
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I never believed in the concept of evil
You do what you do but people need reason
People need bad luck
Bad luck like me
I met you in June and you'd flowered in the April
You were fecund in bloom
Your blossom was delightful
But I guess you were bad luck
Bad luck like me
We'll go where the wildness goes
We'll live where the wildness lives
I swore to be true but with love there came murder
And with the final blunt blow I started to wonder
If there's such a thing as bad blood
Bad blood like me
We'll go where the wildness goes
We'll stay where the wildness stays
We'll live where the wildness lives
Come come to me
I'm ready for hell if that's where I'm going
If in heaven I see you then it's bad luck for me
We'll go where the wildness goes
We'll stay where the wildness stays
We'll live where the wildness lives
Come come to me
So give me a drink and a needle and thread
And push me away to the shore
I'm leaving my sins where the good lord won't go
I'm leaving all hope at the door
GIve me a drink and a god length of rope
I've done what I came here for
I know that I've killed and by the blood on my tongue
I know that I'm headed for more
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Pretty Child
03:01
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I should have seen the future by the way you took the bar
I should have seen the bloodshed by the bleeding of my heart
I should have know you'd kill me form the notches on your belt
I guess I had it coming from the moment we first met
Oh Oh pretty child
We were married in the autumn and I kept you close at hand
You stayed where I could see you but I knew you had a plan
I should have tried to stop you when you left to buy that gun
I knew I'd made an error when the bullet hit my skull
Oh Oh pretty child
Roses and chocolates are the colour of blood
I failed to see that I'd misunderstood
For the love you showed was a hatred inside
With all six of your bullets I knew that I'd died
Oh Oh pretty child
As I lie here rotting I run it through my head
I think of you quite often and why you'd want me dead
I think that you'd have loved them once you were used to them around
Your child you buried with me when you put me in the ground
Oh Oh pretty child
Oh our pretty child
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Be still my beating heart
Today the day I die
Stay close and listen hard
Be still my beating heart
History is made of men like me
Built up on chance not by greater deeds
Not by kings at all
I won't be mourned and I won't be saved
I won't be recalled for the things I've made
If I'm recalled at all
But I've tasted love and I've tasted sin
And I've lived for the most somewhere inbetween
I've no regrets at all
So do not mourn and do not cry
Just give me a stone and a place to lie
And remember me
Be still my beating heart
Kill kill the one you love
Today the day it starts
Be still my beating heart
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Animals Dine With Me
03:17
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Come shed your skin in the bar of souls
Come bleed your heart you blood red rose
Animals dine with me
Animals dine with me
Thieves bring your gold and your selfish woes
Lovers bring hands that are predisposed
To sordid and sinful deeds
Sticky unsavory
Sailors bring love in your 10CCs
The kind that won't last through the slightest breeze
The birds and the bastard bees
All come and dine with me
Come spread your seed or your misery
Either or or it's the same to me
Come animals dine with me
Come animals dine with me
We've seen them all in this bar of souls
The wolves and the whores and the unfathomable shoals
Breed after wondrous breed
All animals dine with me
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Hope and Social Leeds
In the tradition of the travelling bands, we guess we’re a bit like a Yorkshire E-Street Band...meets Arcade Fire...meets
The Faces…meets Dexys Midnight Runners…meets Prefab Sprout…at a party...in an argument about who gets to have sex with David Bowie. We're not as good at describing ourselves as others are, so...
"a big sound from this impressive outfit...inspired, anthemic, great" - Q magazine
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Hope and Social recommends:
Little Battles
by She Makes War
The ace Laura Kidd. We've been treated to a sneak preview of this, but it's part of my regular headphone listening (Rich). Try "Blue" for aquatic, pretty pop fabness. Woop!
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Mixed by our very own Ed. The ideal "getting ready for a night out" album. More hooks than a fisherman's box, more pep than a whippet on speed, and damn good songs to boot!
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11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything - Remastered
by Steve Lawson
Lovely lovely Steve Lawson's album, written about "love, journeying, gratitude, growing older, enjoying london, becoming a dad..." and other stuff. Loopy bass goodness from a lovely man. Go try!
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Whispers & Notes
by Social Simon
supported by 22 fans who also own “Songs from the Bar of Lost Souls”
Waking up to this liddle tune as the sun streams through the window.....sweet, gentle, chilled, natural, calm, relaxing, peaceful, positive, thought provoking.....and breathe. So......writing a few words. Well there is a comment box!!! Does anyone read these?? Have you got a thang about long grass?! 😊🌾🍃🌿🌱 I have enjoyed how you pronounce your ‘u’ s for a while now, and this track doesn’t disappoint. Only Yorkshire folk will appreciate it. ‘Up’
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In A House On A Hill
by Social Simon
supported by 20 fans who also own “Songs from the Bar of Lost Souls”
Wow, what a voice. Lovely collection of songs. Even the not so happy songs have your toes tapping and feeling good.
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Off-kilter Portland indie rockers make an unexpected return with a tight three-track EP, their first new release in 12 years.
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