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Pricks

Cold winds are blowing
And it looks like my round
Attrition is showing
And you have to count me out
'Have to' will not wash
As choice recedes with age
And just like Sensational
I have to get on my own page
And as my small pal Thomas said
It's that which really hurts
And maybe with these little songs
I don't get time to hear the words
Marshal up your talents
Like the boy from Eminem
You've culture in your cannon
And your balls as well
No nuance in the newspaper
Should escape a child of six
To put it very simple:
The fucking cunts treat us like pricks
PRICKS
I don't act dumb deliberately
I'm grown but I'm confused
But you'd have to be an idiot
To miss how we're being used
I'm not a fucking communist
Don't talk as though I am
You jaw like you're a yankee
And I'm from Vietnam
We'll be buried in our boxes
With the death of Us and Them
United and divided
But who'll care about it then
As I say I'm getting tired
And I worry about my health
To survive in our society
I really need to save myself
I need to harness
all my energies
Screw my courage till it sticks
See how it drives me mental
The fucking cunts treat us like pricks
PRICKS

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from Songs From The TV Series, released April 12, 2020

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Pete Um Cambridge, UK

"A master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy, in marvellous micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics."

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