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Dog Meat Stew
03:38
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Dog Meat Stew - Lyrics
I just drank three bottles of the best excuse on the planet
Going back to Camberwell to sign on and then shoplift
Lost my dog after I smoked something I knew I shouldn’t have
Days that followed followed me and I was following the days
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with her
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with a girl
Neighbours said they thought we were dead, we only slept one hour a night
Working jobs that we both hate to buy some shit we don’t need
Dog meat stew from Mexicans who dig in trash cans for breakfast
Burglar alarms are disconnected when they want insurance
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with her
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with a girl
I knew her before the thing, I never knew her after
Don’t like too much noise and I don’t really like the weather
Changed my name to John Coltrane 'cos no one took my phone calls
Best times are always the ones that you just walked away from
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with her
They saw you, they saw you, they saw you with a girl
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Strange Part of the Country - Lyrics
The night falls on Nong Bone town
Seventeen ladyboys and he are beating up small change Europeans
Someone gets drugged by three old ladies
This is a strange part of the country
This is a strange part of the world
This is a strange part of the country
And we are not welcome
We are not welcome
The night falls, I have no past
Twenty three hostess girls and me
The edge of the roads turn into decades rubbing against me
This is a strange part of the country
This is a strange part of the world
This is a strange part of the country
And we are not welcome
We are not well
This is a strange part of the country
This is a strange part of the world
This is a strange part of the country
But we are not welcome
We are not welcome
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Years Between
04:32
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Years Between - Lyrics
Time to go home
Time is not enough
And I have seen down the ways of time
And I feel them coming through me in waves
In my life, like a shadow in the sunlight
Just passing over all the days and the years between
And the long way and the journey into night and day
And when it's over our days are lost into real life
Breathe in the years
Time greeting me
And how all these things have me weighed down
When I have seen far away
And in my life, like a shadow in the sunlight
Just passing over all the days and the years between
And the long way and the journey into night and day
And when it's over our days are lost into real life
And what about when I get old?
And in my life, like a shadow in the sunlight
Just passing over all the days and the years between
And the long way and the journey into night and day
And when it's over our days are lost into real life
And what about now?
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Round Midnight
05:05
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Round Midnight - Lyrics
Round midnight when the engine’s on
Lose my head from the rolling throng
Get my house out of the fire
Get my car out of the wreckage pile
Straight out of lullaby land
Straight out of Birdland
Like waking up in the morning without my head in my hands
And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And I woke up around midnight to see Charlie Parker fly in a saxophone
Well there's gold on the road
Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you
Charles Mingus
That’s so like Philly Joe Jones
Miles she likes your Miles Davis shit
Miles Davis shit
Miles Davis shit
Gone midnight and I'm just moving on
With a couple of fellas with sticks and songs
Got my head into a St. Louis fire
Haven’t seen daylight for a couple of nights
Straight out of lullaby land
Straight out of Thelonious land
Like waking up without feeling like my head’s been up my ass
And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And if I’m not home before midnight I'll be playing here with this whiskey and these songs
From somewhere out of the earth
Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you
Second cousin of the Dizzy man
And the nephew of the devil
A girl sent to me by the devil
I'm getting it on and I can’t do me wrong
Got jazz inside my vein now and the blues even comes out of my asshole
It's the door to my soul
Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you
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After the Hole
06:03
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After the Hole - Lyrics
All I seen is what I thought I would have seen
At the end all I found were other ends
Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole
On the screech of the city brakes I heard your name
Feel as though we're living in a recurrent dream
Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole
And the life is after the hole
And the life is after the hole
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Time Settles
03:22
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Time Settles - Lyrics
And the decision made a hole, a vacancy in a vital inner chamber in my bones
This is what finally separated me from all my friends for whom I became skeletal
Time settles over me
Time settles over me
And then the places I visit became the same inside world that I thought I was in
And like a fly scribbling the air I know neither the place nor what the hour is
Time settles over me
Time settles over me
And I, far off inside, was old
And now the years are closing in, each minute the last minute and following me
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Old Irish Drunks
05:11
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Old Irish Drunks - Lyrics
Well he left home one Sligo day and he kept on going until he came to a halt
And they heard nothing of their lost son since London had swallowed him up
Each night he drank himself to sleep in a town where he lived but did not belong
These streets were built by men who came from the earth then covered it up
They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good
Living on the far edge he broke his toes in the High Road cold
His last days he told me how much he loved all he said he hated most
They built these streets of Cricklewood
They built these streets of Kilburn
They built these streets of Cricklewood
And they built them good
Built them good
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
And all the roads remain
Built them good
Built them good
Built them good
Built them good
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Kitty's Wake
03:44
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Kitty’s Wake - Lyrics
At Kitty’s wake we sang the old songs
And the priest was telling me about his world
I’m at the old house for the last time
All the workers at the church stop when we arrive
And everyone dies
And everyone is born with life
And everyone might find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with
All the kids are playing grown up
I’m remembering that once I was a child
Some are lonesome when they’re on their own
And then some of us never get the time alone
And everyone dies
And everyone is born with life
And everyone might find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend
And I should know
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A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock - Lyrics
A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
A mild case of death in the park
Meant I was looking for someone
And the old guys keeping us straight with their stories
The death of a bricklayer in Dublin
And claims that there once were leprechauns
And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing
After two years of digging up my roots in back rooms
I found out there was only one truth
That roots were meant to be buried
A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back
So I stopped looking for anyone
And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing
A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back
So I stopped looking for anyone
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Camden Town and I Should Be Happy - Lyrics
Feel unusual maybe we should get outside some time this week or maybe we should go on scraping the walls
Head's gone weird
Head's gone weird
Feeling derelict, if I was a house I’d be the end of a terrace knocked down leaving my inside walls outwards
Head's gone weird
Head's gone weird
Head's gone weird
Head's gone weird
Camden Town and I should be happy
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Conil London, UK
"You don't sound like anyone else," said Danny Thompson - renowned bass player for Nick Drake and Joe Strummer - about
English musician Conil.
Tchad Blake, the GRAMMY-winning engineer for Tom Waits and Paul McCartney, echoed Thompson's sentiment, declaring, "Strange Part of the Country is an awesome album! I still listen to it."
Fleetwood Mac blues icon Peter Green also recorded with Conil.
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