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Strike Up The Band
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Take up your instruments, strike up the band
The autumn days are dark and short and cold
We can do no other, so here we stand
Our lives, as ever, aimless and unplanned
The past is falsely glimmering fool's gold
Take up your instruments, strike up the band
Travelling deep into the hinterland
We see friends and former lovers growing old
We can do no other, so here we stand
Where is the rainbow's end, our promised land?
What manner of untruths have we been told?
Take up your instruments, strike up the band
We are as one, the chosen and the damned
Our hands are bound, they've tightened the blindfold
We can do no other, so here we stand
Don't get me wrong - please don't misunderstand
I didn't mean to leave you unconsoled
Take up your instruments, strike up the band
I can do no other, so here I stand
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Mad Girl's Love Song
04:00
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
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Mark Automaton UK
Mark Automaton came to prominence as a founding member of the seminal “cassette culture” band the Instant Automatons, who
were instrumental in spearheading the UK DIY music scene of the late 70s and early 80s.
Since then, Mark has been active as a producer, musical collaborator and solo artist, releasing music under his own name and also as 391 and randomk/automata.
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