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Souped up fandango version with good rolling bassline - still missing my fade outro metaphysical rant which I shout as I drive through the gloaming

st jude : Later (Heaven to Mars version)

Long dreamed of assassination lullaby for George W.  Rockaby Guantanemo Baybeeee. Giant production noise by Adam Fox, who broke bass strings and several vertebrae.  Is that Mark E Smith crooning in the looming chaos at the close? Possibly the only song in history to feature the word 'motorcade'.  Live fiddle, sampled blues 'arp.  Sounds even better on just acoustic and vox, Tom in detuned roadside shambleslide guitar.  Me dressed as blind performing monkey staring into middle space.  The video for this goes as follows:  Dark painterly stylised set,  dark gothic wood with curving road leading to golgotha style craggy hill.  Four soldiers carry a coffin draped with an American flag; I am dressed as a well known arabic bearded agent provocateur and sitting cross-legged atop said burial vessel.  I sing as the vocals kick in.  camera pans to the top of the hill - my destination - where there is a crucifixion scene.  Left and right crosses contain Mickey Mouse costumed figure and Donald Duck.  In the centre, face raised to his forsaking father is Ronald McDonald. I haven't thought beyond that tableau, although assembled cast doing some RiverDance style hoppitty skippitty would certainly leave the audience profoundly moved.

st jude : Jawbone

Tumbling chord sequence, simpler when just the two of us, but a decent big sound version here

st jude : Displacement Song

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Here are a few samples of ever more rarely stolen musical trysts with myself Tom and my main man Tom S as 'st jude' 

Start at the bottom of page 2 and work upwards - you'll be pleased you found 'Jawbone'...

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