"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

First prize to the teenage bridesmaids 
Not much more to say 
But years lost to a sadist god 
Has left nothing in my way 

This my mistress, saddled for war 
Surely worth some kind of reward 
Living with the murder that she wrought 

PG re: the bitter flavour 
It's not good for your health 
But all art's just the human heart 
In conflict with itself 

This my mistress saddled for war 
Surely worth some kind of reward 
Living with the murder that she wrought unto me 
Well done to me 
Living with the murder that she wrought

THE STARLING RADICALS - Murder She Wrought

Lyrics:

Lies, flies, octopi, oxygen commoditised
Arms all open wide, love can be a prison too
And so can be your ever-present gratitude
Ingenue, great exchange rate for April fools
Out to do another new taboo
Another Sunday, another shade of gloom

It's never far away
Sleeping in the waves
What better time to wear your shade
The sucker pulled astray
Sleeping in the waves
Another shade of gloom to make your day

Brass upper-class, celebrant to circumstance
Said to say she believed in that old romance
And now she's making love in an ambulance
Up to you what you do with your afternoon
Second chances abounding two-by-two
Can always count on the ignorance of youth

THE STARLING RADICALS - Another Shade of Gloom

"So it's a category, frightening things. And only things capable of abstraction can come up with something like the category of frightening things." - Jordan B. Peterson

You're so easy to please
Like cutting off a piece of key-lime
Soak your body with me
Doesn't that make you feel like
Someone of great importance
Something ain't right
Someone of great importance

Something has crossed the water
Nobody wants to be here
And it's all you can take, you can take, you can take
And it's all you can take, you can take

It's been more than a week
Since you last called your mother
Circumcised in a dream
Anything to remember
Something to make you notice
Something ain't right
What's really going on here

Something has crossed the water
Nobody wants to be here
And it's all you can take, you can take, you can take
And it's all you can take, you can take

Cash your chips
Move your lips
Count yourself involved
Roles assumed
Control consumed
Watch your tribe evolve
On the line
All the time
One more problem solved

And it's all you can take, you can take, you can take
And it's all you can take, you can take, you can take
And it's all you can take, you can take, you can take
And it's all you can take, you can take

Doesn't that make you special

released November 25, 2016
Recorded, mixed and mastered at The Boneyard

THE STARLING RADICALS - V.I.P

"It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.” - GK Chesterton

I was stepped on in the hardest place
When love stopped creeping in
I got better every night that blood was on the rise
And you, such a fool, blinded by the sun said to me
Of all the ways in all the world, you're the only one

I know - I know you lie
I know - always something sweeter on the side

Under pressure from the pouring rain
To prove what we believe
Upstarts upstanding for all that's good and right
How strange when the blame gathered at my feet once again
Oh where was my partner in crime, you'd always stay

I know - but I know you lie
I know - always something sweeter on the...
I know - yeah yeah yeah
No - always something sweeter on the side

You, such a fool, blinded by the light, said to me
Oh where was my partner in crime, you'd always stay

I know - but I know you lie
I know - always something sweeter on the...
I know - yeah yeah yeah
I know you...

from Wasteland, released December 17, 2016
Words and music by George Toulouse
Mixed and engineered by Curig Huws

Wasteland

THE STARLING RADICALS - Sidelined

In the very first official podcast from The Starling Radicals, George gets banned from Facebook, Bain recalls his favourite third-party fart, and Joe From The Past drops in to sing some Chili Peppers. Contains explicit language.

Promiseland Vol.1

TSR Podcast Episode 1 - Kim Jong Undercut And The Facebook Stazi

“God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.” 
- Rudyard Kipling

Heart of the city went cold when we got old
The animal picked down to the bones
Part of the pity we do as we are told
Son of mine, find the time
To find yourself some piece of mind

Oh never take me away
From the shell in which I'm set in my ways
Ain't no time, ain't no world like those days

When the boredom passes send me a sign
Heart of this city is sewn to mine
When you find your answer
Sing me a line out of love

All for the money, who wants to be a star
Just one chance to take it too far
Each somebody, all lungs and beating heart
Go let it out, scream about
The space you can't be you without

And if I close my eyes for a while
I find I'm already there
All that I want is to prove how I care

Cello - Emma Bryden
from Promiseland Vol 1, released November 24, 2017

www.thestarlingradicals.com

THE STARLING RADICALS - Heart Of This City

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” - Abraham Lincoln

To Wembley to see the Scottish play
And chase the white devil dogs away
Blue faces, lime ginger hair
Fairy liquid in Trafalgar Square

If this is all we stand for
Then we lost long before
And this is all you are
You're nothing anymore

Caged lion likes a fight
But easy meat keeps him occupied
Dumb families peer through glass
The lion don't take one more glance

Big day for the bitter fools
The cynics sit and cite their winter rules
And there's me like a grassy Moor
Would I could fall in with the rowdy horde

Hate that comes from somewhere
Outshines our five yard stare
Symbolic savoir faire
Outshines our five yard stare

Our houses are asleep
Boiled down to song and sheep
So desperate to be known
For anything to call our own

from Promiseland Vol 1, released November 24, 2017

www.thestarlingradicals.com

THE STARLING RADICALS - The Scottish Play

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” - Friedrich Nietsche

You're a mess my girl
And I foresee you making mess of me
You're obsessed, so cold for one so blessed
Who'd play the beaten chest
The stress is slowly making history...

...out of me
I can't breathe
You make a mess out of me

I can dress myself
Though I can't see you thinking less of me
Is this a test, then how do I impress
If sunday brings your best, the rest
Are days for wresting misery...

My imaginary friends
They all talk amongst themselves
Form a line and wait for years
Cause I'm mad

from Promiseland Vol 1, released November 24, 2017

THE STARLING RADICALS - You Make A Mess Of Me

“Feminists are like the Borg from Star Trek. They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen.” - Milo Yiannopoulos

Schooled
Another word for watched a man do
Born with the right of God to explain
So the faculty would have you believe
All you read
Ride her rogue third wave

Woman is the winter, fortune and the chain
That I bow to
She's ice cold, thousands of years old
And nothing I can do

Proved
Second term for talk-me-into
Truth served to make a crocodile cry
And not nothing more
The bird's stock and store
Is nevermore place some worth on why

Not my president but chosen nonetheless
To lead me through
She's ice cold, thousands of years old
And nothing I can do

from Promiseland Vol 1, released November 24, 2017

www.thestarlingradicals.com

THE STARLING RADICALS - I'm With Her

A candid chat with George and Bain (with a cameo from Joe) covering topics from animals we could beat in a fight to the worst habits of lazy journalists, not to mention a full track-by-track rundown and commentary of the brand new EP 'Promiseland Vol. 1' (available here - https://thestarlingradicals.bandcamp.com/album/promiseland-vol-1).

The Starling Radicals

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