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AS THE SEASONS TURN - VSN 28 - BY ELECTRIC BRETHREN

RING THEM BELLS - AUG 2021 UPDATE - ELECTRIC BRETHREN WAV

THE WALLS KEEP CLOSING IN - ELECTRIC BRETHREN - WAV

POP JUNK GERL MASTERED SINGLE WAV VERSION

(So  hey)  Just call, 
I’ll hear you, I’ll always be waiting, always be waiting
When you fall, 
I’ll be near you, there’s no hesitating, no prevaricating
Don’t feel small, 
You’re my natural selection, the peak of perfection
You got it all, 
(So) believe in yourself like I really believe in you


And you’ll see, 
It’s unspoken, you gotta believe me, just gotta believe me
You’re the key,
To the locket in your pocket, now I give you this token. I give you this token
Guarantee, 
Coming straight from my heart, will never tear us apart
I’m down on one knee, 
A diamond forever, gonna bind us together, now
So believe in yourself like I really believe in you

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF (LIKE I REALLY BELIEVE IN YOU) - ELECTRIC BRETHREN WAV

1.	I’m back, in slacks, I’m blister packed, I got a chainsaw in my hand
A walk-in heart attack, it’s beatin’ outta whack, like the hammers on a baby grand
In kecks-mauve, dressed as Michael Gove, I was happy as the day was long
I got cloned, disowned, an’ overthrown, though I never did nobody wrong

2.	I’m hot wired and my hair’s on fire, bin on the lash with your Auntie Beryl
I chew electric eels, I’m spinning Catherine wheels, so I’d ignore me at your peril
A big grin, (I’m) gonna pogo in, I got a stick made in Argentina
I’m fried, inside, flung open wide, like the doors of a Ford Cortina 

3.	I grind gears and I mainline beers, I chew the fat with an alcoholic
And then the bar-room spins, I’m hearing mandolins, drawn like a moth to the melancholic
The Dali clock face cracks, the numbers melt like wax and my troubles lie in disarray
And with a mow-mow double-jointed verbal soup, she’s gonna blues those blows away     

CHORUS:  YOU GOTTA SEE ME NOW… (Pay attention! Don’t ignore me! Etc ) 
YOU’D NEVER LEAVE ME NOW… (I need followers! Hit the bell notification!)
I SWEAR YOU’D WANNA BE ME NOW… (Over here! I’m not invisible! Etc Etc)

4.	My brain hurts like Colonel Kurtz, I swan around like a pound shop Jesus
I’m on tenterhooks, knee deep in medical books, to Wiki up on some new diseases
I wore my yellow dress, to join the SAS, in an crazed bid for your attention
I bang gongs, right wrongs, and then I knock out songs, that go beyond human comprehension

5.	OK...on your knees n pray, got a tenner says you don’t know how
We’ll meet God half way on judgment day, to plough along that furrowed brow
You got a double bed, I got a troubled head, you’d forget em if they ain’t been used
I got crazed, deranged, I raved for days ’til they medicated up my food 

CHORUS/GUITAR SOLO

6.	Yeah...I can’t sleep now I’m in too deep, I got a mattress that’s mostly wire
The night sweats, the looped regrets, feedin’ a mind like an amplifier
So now I’m necking pills, just like a hammer drill (note to lawyer – PUT DISCLAIMER HERE!) 
I get wrecked and decked,  by the side effects, keep falling over like a fallow deer

7.	I make up stats,  I saturate fats,  I baked a cake in the shape of sorrow
I got double-crossed by those verbal knots, like ‘yesterday was today’s tomorrow’
I took my mojo back, I got my shoe-heels stacked, turned the gee-tar to way past ten…     
And then I wowed the crowd,   
Oh Christ my shirt was loud,  
Then I woke up and I was born-again!        Yeah!

YOU GOTTA SEE ME NOW - CLEAN RADIO VERSION - ELECTRIC BRETHREN - WAV

1.	(Hit the go button!) And I’m feeling it’s way past ten/ And I’m checking the odds again / Bottom dollar or Bitcoin stash/ Drained me dry of folding cash
I’m gonna ride it down, I’m gonna ride it downhill

2.	So pick the moment they’re off their guard/ Two of hearts or a tarot card
You pulled me in with the cheapest thrill/ I’m gonna ride my luck downhill
Gonna ride it, gonna ride it downhill

BRIDGE:    (Listen) Here in the dark of the cemetery/ You can’t see time
Just like the odds that they generate/ I feel in my bones 

And while they roulette my mentality/Twist me in the wind
I keep a firm grasp of reality/ Though I lost everything

3.	I’m losing track or I’m off the rails/ It’s on the edge or its heads or tails
It nearly broke me to pay that bill/Gonna ride my luck downhill
Gonna ride it, gonna ride it downhill
4. (Repeat Verse 1)

BRIDGE:    Here where the spark hits the cellophane/ Deals get tied down
Or snuffed like a match into kerosene/ Put deep underground

And still they roulette my mentality/ Hat thrown in the ring
They hospitalise hospitality/ And I lost everything

I lost everything/I lost everything/I lost everything/ Looking for you

RIDE MY LUCK DOWNHILL

1.	I’m in the dirt...out in the field/Searching for bones in the soil
I’m crossing my fingers, don’t use no machine/ I’m choosing to suffer and toil

2.	Overhead another ‘V-pattern’ flies/ To some kind of sunnier lands
My feet are in mud now I’m deep in the clay/The future, it’s out of my hands

CH ONE
(Grey skies, hope dies/Black horizons) look close...the oyster chokes on the pearl (it all begins to unfurl)  Dark eyes, parched eyes, you gotta save that girl

SIMULTANEOUS CHORUS
Don’t chide her/Stand beside her/We are of one world
Look wider/Woe betide her/You gotta save that girl

3.	The geese echo away, all talking, incessant squawking. Mocking my feeble earthbound endeavours as I clod-hop the ground in a fruitless search for relics of another time...  

4.	Another ring-pull, a pellet of lead/No path to a previous time
The thunder clouds mass to the North and the West/While I  crawl in the grit and the grime

CH

5. 	No Doctor O, no TX850 or Garrett in my un-gloved grip.  And consequently little to show, save for the pitiful collection of accumulations that clinks and clatters in the small canvas bag slung about my waist...     

INST. CH x 2

6.	And so I scan the grim horizon for a sign of sentient life, but the only remnant of yesterday’s encounter is a sun-blasted sideways mirage, like a shimmering tear in the broken continuum...

7.	And by the sunrise, the fabric is torn/The optical promise has gone
The dead are in hell and he’s yet to be born/ Just a soundwave distorting the dawn

I’m alone for you...will you stop the pain?

THE OYSTER CHOKES ON THE PEARL - ELECTRIC BRETHREN

Nine Oh Nine,  I’m watching hands they’re moving slow
The sky is hung with snow, The truth is I don’t think you’re gonna show

Now it’s Ten Fifteen...I’m frozen right to my core
I’ll catch my death or more, you’re MIA in this none-too-holy war

Twelve Oh Five, The midnight hour has passed me by
Oh girl you never tried
Can’t even face me with the grace to say goodbye  

CH   Cos you’re cold, so cold

One A M, Black Ice is forming in my heart now
I guess you think it’s smart now
After ten years together to be worlds and poles apart

Two Oh Three,  I just gotta see this through 
My lips are turning blue
No kiss of life coming in the dark for you

CH      Cos you’re cold, so cold
STARING THE CLOCK-FACE DOWN

INST BREAK

At Five Oh Four, the all night diner still awake
Around the cup my fingers shake
Frost and nail-bitten like my spirit soon to break

So, at Four off Six, my waitress clocks this tale of woe
She says ‘Boy you gotta let her go!’
Then blags a ticket to the show

INST BREAK

(Next night at)  Nine Oh Nine,  Here she comes she’s right on cue
She’s dressed all in ice-cold blue
She might take my breath but she could never take on you
‘Cause you’re cold

9.09, 10.15, 12.05, 1AM, 2.03, 5.04, 4 off 6, 9.09

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