Little ambient track I did. Jazzy chords and nostalgia.

Titania

Cupcake fascists on the run –
Better keep calm and carry on
Sculpting pink lambs from plasticine
Baking pies with a picture of the queen.
Oh England!
Mediocre and pristine,
Taking tiny dogs
For walks on her mountains green.

Now let’s all watch this reality show
Friday nights on Channel 4:
Fat immigrants on benefits
Sipping bin juice through silly straws.
We lead comfortable lives,
That’s easy enough to see,
But it all makes me sad.
Now what does that say about me?

Normality’s no formality –
We want quiet lives; no conflict –
But diagnosed with firstworld vanity
We cure it with a click.

Suffocation aesthetics,
The art of the terminally repressed,
CathKidstonstyle tumours
On Britannia’s beleaguered breast:
There’s no sincerity
In a cute meerkat’s whimpering face –
Yeah, we get it
You like pastel colours and things in their place.

I wish I could have that simple joy
From a picture of a yawning dog
That I’m not so easily annoyed
A grouchy slouching frog


Cupcake Fascists

Treasure
Knowledge
The roots will give in
The roots will give in
She is a dragon

Plunder 
Conquest
The roots
She has a golden hide
She likes to go and hide
The roots will give in

The Worm

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What a world of loyalty to numbers
Even numbers die
Was there even a goal beyond amassing the clay
That crumbles with time
Here's an instant you tried so hard to capture
Look at your greedy eyes
Well who could blame you for expecting more 
Than this cold life of surprise

Don't know how I have the guts to walk on
Don't know how I have the gall to break out
Don't know how I have the strength to go on

What a world of blind fool's aspirations
Kicking into the dust
And as the spite spikes up like a Tower of Babel
Will they even be fussed
They're using all their powers in aid of comfort
And precious little else
Nothing left but to seize the day 
In this cold life of surprise

Don't know how you have the guts to wake up
Don't know how you have the gall to breathe in
Don't know how you have the strength to go on

What a life of hermit's isolation
Never venturing out
In every continent souls are trapped in bodies
Both within and without
That nightmare of the rug being pulled from under
We dream it every lonely night
If this disturbs you, expect nothing more
Than this cold life of surprise

Don't Know How

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Falling in this was enough
I don’t need the fire again
But she makes me sit right up
Though I know can’t maintain

And I know how it feels
To go without her touch

It’s a secret sacred thing
My great heresy for today
And each lick becomes a sting
God knows you somehow have to pay

Cos I know how it feels
To sleep and feel unloved

Cos the stormy skies weren’t enough
Cos the burden wasn’t enough
Cos nothing was enough

She’ll burn me up

In the red light on those hills
On my one weekend away
It’s so fresh in my mind still
Hearing you beg me to stay

Cos you know how it feels
When I’m in there with you

Cos the stormy skies weren’t enough
Cos the burden wasn’t enough
Cos nothing was enough

I’ll burn you up

Burn Me Up

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Specifics strangle everything 
There is no other you
In every face you’re there behind the eyes
Your voice contains all others too
I’ve fallen in and I can’t swim back out

Cos I’ve seen the orbit of the world around you
And space and time fold in when I’m touching you

I love you what else can I do
As if I’m nothing more than wires
But only you are the real source
A river touching all that dies
That man and her are the same in my eyes

I’ve seen the orbit of the world around you
And space and time fold in when I’m touching you

All my days with you

To Live In Pronouns

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Nothing but husks
Fruit of a fallen seed
Recently rejuiced
With golden choking weeds
And dreams

Here I am
You found me
I'm here

Thorns inside the nest
A medieval torture chamber
Recently reduced
To games and chatting
Galleries

Here I am 
You found me
I'm here

Justice is served
Two hungry patrons
Who recently rejoiced
To see a number turn their way
And sleep

Here I am 
You found me
I'm here

Thorn

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Our ship she lay in harbour In Liverpool docks she lay 
Awaiting for fresh orders And her anchor for to weigh
Bound down to the coast of Africa Our orders did run so
We're going to sink and destroy my boys No matter where we go

We had not been a-sailing Scarce fifty leagues or more
For there we espied a lofty ship And down on us she bore
She hailed us in French colours She asked us where and whence we came
We just came down from Liverpool town And the Dolphin is our name

Are you a man of war sir Pray tell me what you be
I am no man of war sir But a pirate ship you see
Come heave up your fore and main yards And let your ship come to
For our tackles are overhauled and our boats are all lowered Or else we will sink you

Now our captain he stood on the quarterdeck he was brave and fearless too
It's three to one against us he cried unto his crew
If it hadn't had been for my younger brother this battle would never have been tried
Let every man stand true to his gun and we'll give them a broadside

Now broadside to broadside which caused all hands to wonder
To see that lofty tall ship's mast come rattling down like thunder
We shot them from our quarterdeck til they could no longer stay
Our guns being smart and we played a fine part and we showed them Liverpool play

Now this large tall ship was taken and in Liverpool docks was moored
We fired shots with our sweethearts and the fancy girls ashore
We hoisted down the French colours and put up the red white and blue
We drink success to the Dolphin and all her jovial crew

The Dolphin

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I've sailed the seas fought battles too
Long time I've ploughed the ocean
I've fought for my queen and country too
Won medals and promotion
But now I'll bid shipmates adieu
I've left behind both ship and crew
I'll travel the country through and through
To be a rambling sailor

And if you want to know my name
My name it is young Johnson
I've got a mission from the queen
To court all girls that are handsome
And with my false heart and my flattering tongue
I'll court them all but I'll marry marry none
Court them all both old and young
And be a rambling sailor

And when I came down to Greenwich town
There I saw lasses aplenty
And I boldly stepped right up to them 
To court them for their money
And with my false heart and my flattering tongue
I'll court them all but I'll marry marry none
I'll court them all both old and young
And be a rambling sailor

Rambling Sailor

you said the smell of lavender
had changed your life 
reminding you of childhood
you shower just before bed
and with your hair still wet
you soak right through to the pillow
you are my mountain flower
and at this hour
you still talk in your sleep to no-one

i feel you 
i feel you 
i feel you all the way
i don't know if it it'll stay
but you lift us both with your love

understand how you're feeling
or at least i try
it's difficult in the evening
and when you're in the shower
i believe
your silhouette stays for hours

i'm feeling
i'm feeling
i'm feeling all the waves
and on this restless day 
you lift us both with your love

Shower

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I ate a meal
In your so-called venue
I shouldn't have paid for it
The staff were rude and
They rolled their eyes at my jokes
I don't like your types anyway
Your dirty kitchen shuts down today

Can I speak to the boss please
And tell him I'm not pleased
And I'm hungry

Look out! A fire
In the room of engines
And we can't change it
The smoke is rising
My eyes are melting into clouds
I rang my mother just to say
The hunger gets us all someday

Cresting horizons 
With nothing to guide us
Who's driving?
That world is retreating
What is that you're eating?
Look at me
Look at me

Just imagine
I just wish for it to
Engine master

Everybody Comes Here

Engine Master

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Evening on the avenue
Trying to stop my head and failing to
I have something to show you baby
Sad eyes staring hopefully

I don't miss my teenage years
Sebaceous lusts and youthful anxieties
But I miss the romance baby
Candles and stars on the sea

Come now your leaves are falling dear
Lines drawn nets caught I'm calling dear

I don't retreat into temperance
Suppose I haven't seen all the evidence
I'm a wildcard you know baby
Hedonism without thought

Flowers that bloom only for a day or two
Heliotropes, narcissus failing too
I have not been growing baby
That's the thing I haven't caught

Evening invades the avenue
I've got so much to show to you

Stars On The Sea

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Tuscany is a one-man project from Liverpool, UK, consisting of funky tunes and fuzzy tones atop many clicks, snaps and thunks. 

My music available for download on bandcamp, as always.
EPs: Augury, Beyond Forces
Albums: Amerika, The Badman Mechanical, Changes, Dunrise Deepset, Everybody Comes Here

More to come.

-Tuscany-

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