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Spirit Level

by Andrew Floss

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1.
The Tremors 05:19
Right at the epicentre There is poorly handwritten letter In an ancient foreign tongue
 Climb in the mouth and burn the roof I’m the undead, I’m living proof And everyone's calling shotgun --- A bed south of the river The only move we make is a shiver When the street lights all go out In candlelight and candledark With barely anything but sparks And the tremors of self-doubt
 --- And in all the places that we’ve been Through the fat, the thick, the thin Right there, underneath the skin Like a parasitic twin --- Up in the north and east You can find a bit of peace Pulling colours from an ocean of offcuts But in the wild west, you’re an iron lung catching its breath Just enough to spill your guts -- Once in a while, we’ll stop making fists Place two shaking fingertips over the wrist -- Once in a while, stop making fists Placing two fingertips over the wrist Cause sometime ago it stopped making sense To sit on your tail or sit on the fence
2.
It looks like a full-time job With a shift that never ends A failing agency Advertising yourself to your own friends But no-one wants to buy into your brand Cos everybody runs their own lemonade stand And no matter how much sugar they add in You still can taste the concentrate You still can taste the acetate Monosodium glutamate And saccharine You could be the salt of the earth Bitter-sweet, or sourpuss Even the fastest self-esteem engine Won’t turn down a little push But no-one wants to be caught, cowering Caught in the crosshairs of that targeted marketing Cause even though they let you in To that nightclub in Berlin It looks like a fulltime job Makes you wonder who it’s for Your jeans say '1993' But this shit says '84'
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Poltergeist 04:02
Halloween 2016 Food colouring and gelatine Found your thrill on Capitol Hill Homeschooled in Amityville The Hemingway of paper maché Those saints preserve us inside A melting pot of formaldehyde Like spiked wine at a communion Or a Manson Family reunion A loving gaze to the abyss It'll move you like telekinesis Now they’re on television No interference this time Just the white noise coming off their white pride They’re coming out Of the goddamn walls Dogwhistling Underneath the cat calls Like spiked wine at a communion Or a Manson Family reunion It’ll move you like a poltergeist Like a Piers Morgan opinion piece Or a Harvey Weinstein press release It’ll move you like a poltergeist What we need is more businessmen To make dystopia great again It’ll move you like a poltergeist Took us too much time to evolve To sit back and watch our spines dissolve It’ll move you like a poltergeist

about

*** All proceeds will be donated to charity; split 3 ways between Mind, Shelter and the RSCPA ***

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Everyday anxiety, the shadow in your peripheral vision that vanishes as you look to it, but stands over your bed at night, grinning in the darkness.

Weaponised peer-acceptance, spasmodically buzzing in your pocket like a malfunctioning sextoy, holding both your dopamine pathways and fragile ego hostage. Plus diet teas.

Career sociopaths, playing both ringmaster and clown for the folk who just need a parrot-able slogan and the right combination of veiled slurs to buy a ticket. Wow, what a shitty circus.

Modern life: the ghostiest spook train of all

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released October 21, 2019

Huge thanks to:

Sal for her endless support and talents, Lottie for her accordioning and Andi for making his theremin "thereours"

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