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Grown men don't just drop down dead in the street like that

from Here the brute harpies make their nests by Julian Gaskell & his Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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lyrics

What with the distance and the tv

A stay at home protest I thought was best for me

Though this apathy's a vote for all the things I don't agree with

For extinction at some point between the cockroaches and bees

TSG, SPG, CCTV

Theres never any witness where there ought to be

Don't want any trouble, don't want to start

But theres a mute dark canyon between the voice and the heart

It was like I wasn't there

Like he wasn't there

Like no one was there

Don't need a high vis vest, steel toe or hard hat

To know that grown men don't just drop down dead in the street like that


Spare me the worry and unpleasantness

Keep your sins to yourself theres no need to confess

Get to the punchline without waiting for it

Swimming for the cockles without wading in through shit

TSG, SPG, CCTV

How many acronyms will it take to set us free?

Don't want any trouble, don't want to start

But theres a mute dark canyon between my voice and my heart

It was like I wasn't there...


Hit by a car, trod underfoot,

picking up the roadkill, put in the boot

half a million reasons to get an umbrella

so when they look at me they see the other feller

TSG, SPG, CCTV

But somebody turned a blind eye to the one that could see

Don't want any trouble, don't want to start

But theres a mute dark canyon between my voice and my heart

It was like I wasn't there...

credits

from Here the brute harpies make their nests, released August 1, 2009
Words and music by Julian Gaskell ©2009


JG – vocals, violin, tambourine, washboard

DP – acoustic guitar

TS – upright bass, banjo

RP – drums

KJ – electric guitar

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Described by angry locals as the bastard son of Waits, Strummer, Reinhardt and Rachmaninov, Julian Gaskell’s music over the last 20 years has followed a wayward path of withering agricultural-folk, klezmer accordion, overly-lyrical punk, gypsy-jazz guitar, tangos, waltzes, rhumbas and skiffled-up boogie-woogie piano. ... more

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