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Days Of Zero Cool
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Thought For The Weak
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Ten Thousand Suns
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Everywhere & Nowhere
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As In Uffish Thought
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The Thunder
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Dig
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Go
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released 03 May 2010
All songs written by Ben Greener, published by and copyrighted to The Smoking Rolo Sideshow and Them Big Oak Trees Recording Company 2010.
All tracks recorded, engineered and mixed by Ben Greener, Ally Lee and The Smoking Rolo Sideshow. Mastered by Jon Astley at Close To the Edge Mastering, Twickenham. Cover art and layout © Hooded Claw Design 2010.
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- Track Name: Days Of Zero Cool
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Oo there were women
Dressed as seraphim
And singing songs of sirens
And I was in heaven
Drinking deep from wells of pleasure
Sunk into the dry lands
While blessed aroused carousing
Beneath the cloudless skies
High, when night fell I would dive
Submerged until sunrise
And there was sinning
Base debauchery couched
In the heady guise of romance
My head was spinning
Hearts and flowers weeping
From massed ranks of sweeping violins
While contemplating heaven’s chorus
From beneath this universe
Well, guess who’s going straight to hell
I’m well aware the answer’s “All of us!”
Thought I was dreaming
Under trees unleavened
Weaving spells to make the sky dance
Strange lands appealing
Screaming to my senses stretching out for
Songs and rhymes and chimes and chants
While orchestras caress this
Heart this head and then
Swells, While the peal of bells
Sing and ring on into silence - Track Name: Courage Action Circumstance
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There’s a world at your feet you can’t see ‘cos you feel that you’ve had no chance
Like there’s gods granting wishes from Olympus who won’t give us just a cursory glance
So you’ll see out your days sleepwalking to your grave in a hypnotic trance
Nursing your bruises like a beaten man wounded by the way that he lands
So remember these words my friends
Courage being merely action regardless of circumstance
I know it’s hardly new but can you do what you do without a cash advance?
Can you aim for first place and then stay in the race without recompense?
It’s a bum hand you hold so do you twist stick or fold in this game of chance?
It’s not easy for the likes of you and I to put the “hi-fi” into high finance
Well consider this instead
Courage – Action – Circumstance
It’s my plan to find gold let my feet hit the road hold the world in my hands
To move soft quick and spry through this quiet time before the next storm lands
And so whether it’s fame or fortune you seek or even heart-and-flowers romance
Let these words be your weapons and remember against truth there is no defence
So remember these words to the end
Courage being merely action regardless of circumstance - Track Name: My Strange And Beautiful Escape
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Words swung back and forward
Tongues tied, heartstrings left in knots
Weaved a poisoned spell of ire
Sweltered venom sleeping got
And so I set my back
Pressed forward far & wide
Spurned the idle talk of years
And hollered what I’d held inside
No rhyme
No reason
No healing
Yeah I know the feeling
A call so clear
It brought us here
My strange and beautiful escape
Webs spun back and forward
Cocooned our wings with silken strings
Weaved our dreams to sleep it seems
Beneath the veil that twilight brings
And there I woke myself
Roused what lay within
Loosed the ties that held me bound
And pledged me to begin
No rhyme
No reason
No healing
Yeah I know the feeling
This choice we took
This voice we have
This noise we make
My strange and beautiful escape
Worlds shook back and forward
Titanic forces brought to bear
Tore at the skies and boiled the seas
And wrecked the toil of untold years
And so I set my sails
This helm at my command
Rolled with the ebb and flow beneath
And laughed at what befell this land
No rhyme
No reason
No healing
Yeah I know the feeling
If you’re of a mind then you will find me
In this place
My strange and beautiful escape - Track Name: A Human Pyramid Of Potential
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Deep need for common sense
People equal confidence
See people
Read people
Meet people
Neat people
Sweet people
Unique people
We need people
We be people
But were the effects
I felt due to this?
Did we stoop to build
A human pyramid?
Feel free to consider this
People equal counterfeit
See people
Weak people
Cheap people
Mean people
Unclean people
Please people
We need people
But not these people
Cuz were the effects
Down to bad bad things?
And what good can spread
From this potency…?
In deep. In need. A circumstance
People equal consequence
See people
Free people
Deep people
Asleep people
Dream people
So seem people
We need people
To be people
Or were the effects
Down to something else?
When it makes no sense
This human pyramid… - Track Name: Thought For The Weak
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I am the Silver Surfer
Or whatever
As close as mankind gets to perfect
I’m the Gardens of Babylon
Or whatever
A skeleton of pure adamantium
I am the king of worlds
Giving you pearls
Eater of souls
Or whatever –
I’m Spock at the controls
Or whatever
I am the Rock of Ages
Or whatever
Popping rivets blowing gauges
I’m the Maradona of the Ramblas
Or whatever
I am the God of War
Quick on the draw
Lord of Valhalla’s
Vaulted halls
I am King Kong’s balls
Or whatever
I am proton torpedoes
Or whatever
I’m James Bond’s libido
And tuxedo
Or whatever
I am a sea of calm
Intent on harm
All the charm of a
Fatale femme
I am The Big I Am
Or whatever - Track Name: Ten Thousand Suns
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Standing on the edge of reason
Staring into space
From stumbling blind these thirty years
I’m ready for the great way
From sat atop a spinning rock
Ten thousand times it’s turned
I’ve seen it all but now it’s clear
Blinded by the light of ten thousand suns
This blue light is blinding me
Hiroshima like mon amour
My Polaris guiding me
Cleansing, incandescent, pure
Transcendence in tranquility
While madmen speak in tongues
Like Icarus cast back to Earth
Seared from the heat of these ten thousand suns
My life is like a candle that dares
To shine like ten thousand suns
Virtue the great illuminator
A light so bright it burns
As gods pursue each other across the
Purple sky, fire weapons breathing
Their flying machines wheeling
Wailing and screaming and
Seething with the rage of ten thousand suns - Track Name: Descent
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Put your hands up now
Scream if it makes you feel better
Kneel before whatever gods
As it happens it won’t matter
Hang your head or hold it high
Your lifeline swings by a single strand
Your fate’s been lifted from your grasp
Stay in your seat, steady your hand
Feel your heart up in your throat
And your world lurch down ever deeper
If our refrain ends on this note
Hail the hearty grinning reaper
Bitter patterns spattered hard
Plunging through this ice we ride
Tighten everything you’ve got
Enjoy the sinking feeling inside
I’ve been here before
Can see it far below
Fixated on its sure approach
I’m tumbling back home
I’m tumbling back
Tumbling back
Tumbling back home
Tumbling back
Tumbling back
Tumbling back home - Track Name: Un Bolo De Ganare El Mundo
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He said that’s right
But that’s not right
A nose for a fight
His crack was dynamite
With a wooden elbow skirt
Under the bengal light
One pin from winning the world
Alright
A dirty, lowdown and mean drunken lookin’ fuck he was
Swaying like on deck while he bayed like he expected your applause
One Leaf from the turn
One success from a lesson learned
While he gurned
And we looked on unconcerned
Alright
Were we to agree
You know he’d tell himself such tall tall tales
While he beheld himself balefully
A mask of lies a bitter guise that a mother could despise
With sleekit snake-eyes supersized he stood attracting flies
One hand from a pontoon
One lucky streak from a fortune
And he thought you
Were just like him too
Alright
There there go we
But for the faerytales we tell ourselves
Under cover of night and sleep
In a buttoned up tucked in spilt down shirt
Atlas after a heavy night
One pin from winning the world
Alright - Track Name: Something Rattlingly Hateful
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Here I am
As you were
And all around me
Nothing much
Cast aside
A man a part
And all around him
A vacant hush
Fuck you and fuck your fucking attitude
The hate that brews inside is screwing you
There is no peace for you hereafter
What was worse? Loss or loss of pride
There’s no ugly quite as ugly as ugly on the inside
Remember he who laughs last laughs laughter
Here we are
As it stands
The walls of Jericho will
Soon be no longer
White as light
And thick as tar
And "Her der ‘ee knarr tharrah knar?"
Your brain it argues with your twisted face
Your mouth speaks out to your eternal disgrace
The words that once were sword and shield have slipped
You’ve thrown your last blow and it missed
Congratulations now you’ve made the list
Now we’ll see if you flap your fists as well as you flap your lips
And here I am
It’s as you were
And standing I am
Barely so
Shutting down
In fits and starts
This carnage all
Around me, profoundly
Discretion is the better part of valour
And you my friend are possessed of neither
Fearing nothing, denies everything
Do you think I give a fuck what you think?
Do you think I give a fuck whether you think I give a fuck what you think
Just so long as I’ve got something rattlingly hateful here to sing?
Fuck you and fuck your fucking attitude
The hate that brews inside is screwing you
There is no peace for you hereafter
What was worse? Loss or loss of pride
There’s no ugly as ugly as ugly on the inside
Remember he who laughs last laughs laughter - Track Name: Everywhere & Nowhere
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Everywhere and nowhere
The ways of this world makes no sense
Blinding white enlightenment
Darkness creeping hence
When the sun shines
And the snow falls
Where the world’s white
And the sky falls
The shrikes of muttering fiends burst forth
Borne on tusks of elephants
Bellowed lungs bray hunting calls
And bid this kill commence
Blood spattered on the tundra
Track marks left in monochrome
Warped and wicked wiles afoot
Mottled white like ancient bones
When the sun shines
And the snow falls
Where the world’s white
And the sky falls
Where winged monkeys fly
And the stars fall
Lowdown on high
Demons creeping forth
I’ve been
(Everywhere & nowhere)
I’ve seen
(Everywhere & nowhere)
I fit in
(Everywhere & nowhere)
This blizzard swirls and heaves
This technicolor dream bleached white
So stained seep by in seconds
In the icy glare of the midnight sun
Eternal. Damnation. Beckons
When the sun shines
And the sky falls
Where the world’s white
Everywhere and nowhere - Track Name: As In Uffish Thought
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Towering arches standing stark
Dark shadows cast across the sky
Covered tunnels running into nothing
No way from here
Ghost words speak of such strange beasts
Seen in sight of graven stones
Slips of yew sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse shine
The slippery elm sighs
As willows weep in grief
And from Winter’s Gibbet swings
A splintered wooden mort-heid
Sightless eyes puckered against the stiffening breeze
The stone cross now a pool of murk
And green to wet your finger ends
A growing horror lurks unseen
From an uffish point of vantage
Ghost words whisper my demise
Echoes of a doggerel howl yclept
Bare your vorpal blade melad
Be of an uffish mind
Inside and outward
Something slithy this way steps - Track Name: The Thunder
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I saw the creeping vines
I felt the earth shift underground
I tasted fear tear at my throat
Where thunderous silence surrounds
I felt the creeping sensation
Beneath my skin my heart did pound
Breathed deep but could taste no air
Where thunderous silence surrounds
I saw by what light came to me
The blackness fast encroaching round
Through the dappled greenish gauze
Where thunderous silence surrounds
I crunched the soft brush underfoot
But it made no sound
I felt the ice course through my blood
Where thunderous silence surrounds
I lost my way beneath the trees
And through the wood there what I found
Was through my life beneath you love
Thunderous silence surrounds - Track Name: Dig
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I’m digging a hole for myself
With every breath
And spade of earth
I dig a hole for myself
For better, worse
Or something else
I’ll dig a hole for myself
Oh I dig a hole for myself
No throe from life
Or woe from grief
As I dig a hole for myself
No hardship felt
Or cry for help
I’m digging a hole for myself
I’m digging a hole for myself
I feel little
Or nothing else
And dig a hole for myself
What drain I’d feel
I bury deep
And so dig a hole for myself
Each breath I breathe
Blessed relief
As I dig a hole for myself
A deep well of dark release
But I don’t dig down to see
What is up with me? - Track Name: Go
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This is my life in passing
Pirouetted on a string
In flashback it was fascinating
And passing through my mind this last thing
So
Go
That was it, you had it
But off the rails your heart’d skip
You’ll swim or sink so take the hit
And keep your stride so get a grip
So
Go
You knew more than you let on
I knew less but hell I’d learn
Together we are here and gone
O le di mi corazon
So
Go
These are our lives in passing
These words resound these voices ring
These worlds we weaved with threads and strings
Let them come undone
Let them fall
Let them all
Go
Let this tempest be the last thing
So
Go
And so
Just go
