Question 3) Do you consider yourself a nice person?
___ YES BUT I AM MISUNDERSTOOD
___ I'M THE NICEST AND DONT YOU FORGET IT 
___ I DELIGHT IN CRUELTY BUT REALLY I'M NOT SO BAD ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW ME

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This is the beautiful and poignant film that inspired me to write this song. It was like I had Ellen in my head for three days..... https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ellen
Ellen is taken from The Hag and the Whore, the third album from Steph Sweet, singer-songwriter and underground musician and author. Influences of freak-folk, psychedelia and angel-punk and songs about hags and whores, paedophilia, the selfie-generation, a beautiful girl, a break-up, teepees, death and spamsters and wolves. Album art by Skinny Graphix
stephsweet.bandcamp.com/album/the-hag…e-whore-album

Ellen.
Ellen, she’s at the changeling age, only fourteen.
Her Mum’s lived inside a bottle, since she had her at fifteen.
There’s drinking ‘round the house most days.
Let the men in. Let the men in.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
Her Mum just wants to dance with them.
It’s like they’re factory-farming humans just to boost the GDP.
There’s no way out for the working classes, no jobs and no money.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting so bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everything.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
She’s difficult and mouthy.
Doesn’t make a good poster-girl for the BBC.
And everybody turns their head.
Ellen is the girl that they don’t want to see.
And everybody turns their head.
They don’t want to see.

He’s older and she thinks she loves him, he gives her tenners, vodka and speed.
A plastic bead of kindness in a vacuum looks like a diamond ring.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
Who's going to help Ellen?
Nobody.
There’s a million girls like Ellen in all the big cities.
Too difficult and mouthy to be poster-girls on tv.
It’s like they’re factory farming humans just to boost the GDP.
No vegetables unless they’re frozen, crisp sandwiches for tea.
Ellen’s lonely and she’s hurting, hurting bad inside her head.
She lashes out at everyone.
Ellen wishes she were dead.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Who’s helping Ellen?
Nobody.
Nobody.
Nobody.
©Steph Sweet September 2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag and the Whore

Ellen

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the night was coming on as you
collapsed there 
in that hall of mirrors.
“what a laugh,”
said some vague passerby.
the note was in your pocket,
and your blade, 
also your broken locket…
the note said simply this:
it said goodbye

now you can lie on a tray,
or you could just float away,
or shrug 
as you are handed your disguise.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why.

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye

the night was dripping down
as you followed 
some carny’s sullen shadow,
following in search 
of haunted highs.
he led you through the rubble,
said, while making love 
on a pile of shovels: “so lovely
are your cemetery eyes”

now you can feel all betrayed
or you could just float away
or shrug
while you are casually denied.
you and your tender crutch,
so many lonely companions 
still to touch,
each of them soon to say
goodbye…
you don’t even know just why

you can come out and play
or you could just float away goodbye
goodbye

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Damned Lullaby - Music & Lyrics by REKHA a.k.a. REKHA - IYERN [Fe]

The nights cold and boundless
I’m harrowed in the dark
The nights without you Dear
I can not survive
How shall I go on?
How shall I live?
Without any purpose
An Eden so far
An Eden so far

Catch me I’m falling, falling
Out of my mind into my own grave
I lay in the wretched ruins
Of my Damned Lullaby

Smeared in your ashes
I long only to die
Pierced with your memory
A mournful lullaby
No one can save me
My weakness prevails
Livid am I
Can not find the way out
An Eden so far

Flashes of us rising
Burning my mind
Etched in your love
Why do I choose to remain?
My wild wicked heathen
So cruel and untrue
To a heart that’s so gentle
So pure and so true
An Eden so far

MILKY OCEAN

Damned Lullaby

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I Walked The Zombie Town

So Not Scared Of You by steph sweet and drunkeninstrumentcorporation
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qde2CCDDtU&feature=youtu.be

Marco Abba: Vocals, bass, ebow
Steph Sweet: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, percussion and midi

A million thankyous to my friend Marco Abba for working with me on this track, he always adds such a perfect magic touch!
Ciao Marco, grazie dal mio cuore, mio ​​caro amico!

I wrote this song about a woman and her family ( who I've never met ) who body-shamed me on the internet for being fat. 

So Not Scared Of You 

You rip up your friends and enemies
When they don’t pander to all your needs.
I met a hundred mean girls like you
Grinding your gears ‘cos she’s got better shoes than you.
I’m so not scared of you.
Just what you gonna do?
I’m so not scared of you.
I am just so not scared of you
Yeah. 
And really?
Just what you gonna do?
Stand on a chair so you can look me in the eye?
Careful of these wars you start,
That I will finish with fire.
I’m so not scared of you.
Just what you gonna do?
I’m so not scared of you.
Unless you can come up with some curses that I’ve never heard,
Say some more nasty words and give your mouth a rest girl.

©Steph Sweet All Rights Reserved

So Not Scared Of You

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music. Ivy Told A Secret @ivy-told-a-secret
version 1 of this instrumental https://soundcloud.com/ivy-told-a-secret/binary-mandate-five-reprise
singing, lyrics , vocal mix & arrangement, cover design . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

MAHI (can mean goddess/beloved/fish/partner across the south asian languages)

to your eyes, i bow hello, 
me too, if we go, then, beloved, go i will too, i will come

oh
mahi beloved fish partner

we like river/body, river upon us

life with life in storm

storm at night, storm in the day

want, then we us, goddess will come, we’ll go

look, there is one, there is one a whole

we too will go

look there is one, there is one a whole

that we remember, that shade, come shade give us

shade give us your shade for years
oh mahi goddess fish partner nadi river/body comes

when, when will you arrive, years pass

Mahi - Ivy Told A Secret | Myrh

An unnecessarily long song with no true chorus (thank/blame R.E.M. haha!) and, for the first time ever in the whole Behold the Sludge catalogue, no kind of rhyme structure whatsoever. Taking cues from everyday life, the title simply comes from me and my wife telling my daughter to stop mumbling so much. 

“Mumble”

If I told you where I’m going 
Would you say you’re on your own 
And if I knew what I was doing 
I swear I’d let you in 
If the thoughts all made some sense 
I’d tie it all together  
To try and explain the madness 
In one package  

But I never could quite fathom 
Just what they all were chasing 
It never seemed within our reach 
kept drifting farther away 
Through solace and dumb comfort 
The safety was a mirage 
It torched our sanctuary 
Exposed it for what it was 

Mumble, mumble away....

Embrace the aftermath 
The end of the saga 
Whatever comes after 
We still won’t understand it 
So much to comprehend 
Ignorance of common sense 
A voice beneath the surface 
You can’t escape the beast (relent)

And sometimes things just happen
We will never understand 
Put our hands on the glass 
And squeeze it til it cracks 
In our nature was a fear 
Magnifies the gaping void 
Dwells on the blunt trauma 
Brings the motion to a stop 

Mumble, mumble away 

If I told you where we’re going 
Would you even see it through 
No sense of understanding 
Just bleed until it’s all dried up 
No purpose in all that tragedy 
Not one single point 
A hatred of the unknown 
Falling into that hole...

Rise up and shine bright, kid 
This ain’t gonna be a grave 
If the sludge was such a friend 
Why’d it leave you behind?
Below the surface is a bruise
It’s defined you too many times 
Never even got the point 
Just gave up even trying 

Mumble your life away 
Mumble, mumble 

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He Told You Twice

Love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be 
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you
His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out
Oh love, love’s not meant to hurt you bad
Bruising inside out

You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again
You didn’t think that he could be, he could be
You didn’t know that he could be, he could be
You didn’t guess that he could be, he could be
Until he tells you that he won’t tell you again

His tears won’t heal the wounds
Washing over bruises that he gives to you

Oh love, love’s not meant to make you sad
Bruising inside out

He Told You Twice ©steph sweet 2019 All Rights Reserved

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He Told You Twice

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