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lyrics

Put the music in a coffin, bury it at midnight

I'll save a plot beside it just for you

When your complaining days are over and you're lying down beside the racket

Feigned your death to get a mention in the packet

But your work round here is done

I'll be pushing up the weeds

Cos everywhere I go there's nothing

And everything we know means nothing

Where there's too much silence to be broken

Pushing up the weeds

Cos every seed we sow gets nothing

And nothing ever grows from nothing

But it'll take this place down, stone by stone


When the whole town is quiet and the billboards are all clean

And curfews been placed on everyone and everything

You can sit over there safe in the knowledge the struggle's over

no scratches on your bumper, your chicken tonight charm boiling over

pushing up the weeds...


From the tallest ship I surveyed your ivory towers

Loaded up with gifts of out of date ales and flyers

A tribute act was playing but I heard a different sound

Of a root in a crack in a hole in the ground

pushing up the weeds...

credits

from Here the brute harpies make their nests, released August 1, 2009
Words and music by Julian Gaskell ©2008

Contains excerpt of the Bulgarian traditional tune 'Racenitsa' (trad/arr. J. Gaskell ©2008)


JG – vocals, electric guitar, tambourine

DP – acoustic guitar, vocals

TS – upright bass, vocals

RP – drums

KJ – hammond organ, vocals

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Julian Gaskell UK

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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