she’s if I drew (the tenderest kiss)

night-time walk
radio on, hear a 
long dead dog bark 
at the dark side of the moon
in my head not
in the world, see the
dog star burn
as we turn and turn

she’s if I drew
within and not with
she’s if I drew
invisible breath
lips touch eyelids
an after-image
swear I saw
the tenderest kiss

late-night walk,
ear buds in, hear a
rush in my head
feel a hand on my skin
in my head, and
in the world I saw
lips touch eyelids
and again, begin 

swear I saw the tenderest kiss

she’s if I drew
within and not with
she's if I drew
invisible breath
lips touch eyelids
an after-image

swear I saw the tenderest kiss

she’s if I drew
within and not with
she's if I drew
invisible breath
lips touch eyelids
an after-image

swear I saw the tenderest kiss

swear I saw the tenderest kiss
swear I saw the tenderest kiss
swear I saw the tenderest kiss
swear I saw the tenderest kiss

songwriter - Chris Phelon

she's if I drew (the tenderest kiss) -  reprise

(the way you) make me

(chuckle) ut-oh
oh no

I love the way
love the way you
the way you make
make me
I love the way
love the way you
make me

you make me see
make me see through
I love the way
love the way you

you make me up
make me back down
the way you make
way you make me

ut-oh (chuckle)

I love the way
love the way you
the way you make
way you make me

hey

I love the way
love the way you
the way you make
way you make me

what can I say?

I love the way
love the way you
the way you make
way you make me

(the way you) make me

[insert name of woman]

chance, dance, romance
‘word girl’ pop cleverness
hormones a go-go
teen knowing carelessness

she's outside of memory
but you're all undressed

milk of a human
skin of a rice pudding
caring for others
essentially

reduced to tears
bittersweet spilling
running on empty
leftovers only

she's outside of memory
but you're all undressed

insert name of woman (repeat)

she’s missing in deed
possessive apostrophe
contractually own me
possessively atrophy

she's outside of memory
but you're all undressed

she's too many things
she's love and be loved
she's lacking in focus
a cynical exercise

swooning over and under
swooning over and under
swooning over and under
swooning over and under (fade out)

songwriter - Chris Phelon

[INSERT NAME OF WOMAN]

duckяabbit, head down
better pray, prey
better weather, ‘ll come your way

no lip, keep schtum
bite the hand that feeds you
better run run run 
 
run rabbit, don’t look back 
keep running, leave no track 
it ain’t no fun when you gotta run run run

it ain’t no fun
it ain’t no fun 
it ain’t no fun 
no no no
when the rabbit’s gotta run
it ain’t no fun
it ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s gotta run

time’s up, all done
done saying yes sir 
done praying for a saviour 
 
arms up, show down
prey’s coming for you
double-barrel euphoria

stand up, turn round 
heads up, face you down
it ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun

it ain’t no fun 
when you gotta run
it ain’t no fun
no no no
when the rabbit’s got the gun
it ain’t no fun
it ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun

jus ain’t done 
 sayin no to the crumbs

ain’t supposed to be 
that they get up off of their knees

it ain’t polite 
when the rabbit wants a fight

it just ain’t fair 
when you’re in the cross-hairs

there ain’t no way
don’t wanna be the prey

it ain’t no fun
when the rabbit got the gun

(feat Richard Walker on sax)

duckяabbit

ambition stick - years later on

notch 1
play a gig for fun
mostly own songs

notch 2
support a real group
people show we don’t even know

notch 3
play a big city
hire a van and a fat roadie

notch 4
support british sea power
on a two week tour

notch 5
get a single played
by Mary Anne Hobbs in the middle of the night

notch 6
get it used a bit
in a tampon ad, have a minor hit

notch 7
years later on
never mind the buzzcocks with some other old men

notch 8
back to the day job
we’re gone without a trace

ambition stick
am I still waiting for I don't know what
ambition stick
I wish I wish I wish I was

ambition stick
ambition stick
to beat me with
you wish I wish

ambition stick
ambition stuck
am I still waiting for I don't know what?

ambition stick
ambition stick
I wish I wish I wish I was

ambivalence
ambivalence
what we want is buried in the present tense

ambition stick
am I still waiting for I don't know what?

ambition stick
I wish I wish I wish I was...

ambition stick - years later on (60th anniversary edition)

Love’s Pharmakon

What’s the reason for?
I got the sickest ever fever

Not sure I’ll endure
The completist love take over
Ain’t no Cole Porter
But in love with you am I

Just take the pill 
See how it feels
Can’t do no harm
Love’s pharmakon

I don’t know for sure
Got the acutest can’t get over

I don’t need no cure
Cus I got the sweetest love hangover
I ain’t no doctor
So why’s my pulse so high

Just take the pill 
See how it feels
Can’t do no harm
Love’s pharmakon

love's pharmakon

hitusupquick

and if I said that this wasn't good
duddde I'd be lying
but all you need is more attention
duddde I ain't lying

real talk
I need ur song to be heard
real shytt 
me and my girl crew
we need ur song to be heard

real talk
I need ur song to be heard
real shit
me and my girl crew
we need ur song to be heard

so hit us up quickkkkk
hit us up quickkkkk

real talk
I need ur song to be heard
real shytt
me and my girl crew
we need ur song to be heard

vox - Chris Phelon/Paul Grivell
songwriter - Chris Phelon

hitusupquick

glove-box (double-dutch edition)

sugar-lift (worried about your ears mix)

Zugzwang

You gotta move
You gotta move
Mmmm yeah

I’m Aeschylus in zugzwang
Too scared to be inside
I’m looking up in fear and dread
Cus nowhere’s safe to hide
Centrists to the right of me
Sensibubbles on my back
Liberals all off kilter
Their interests under attack

You gotta move 
Mmmm yeah 
Ignore the rules
It’s your move
You’re in Zugzwang
You gotta move
You’ve gotta move now
Break all the rules
Get out of line

Eagles droning overhead
Death from above
Turtles raining down on me
Iron fist in iron glove
Essence of emoji
All thumbs ’n' smiley clowns
Kunstlumps to the right of me
Metaphors all the way down

You gotta move 
Mmmm yeah
You’ve gotta move now
Ignore the rules now
It’s your move 
Now’s the time

Essence of emoji
Always already clowns
Kunstlumps to the right of me
Metaphors all the way down 

You may be high
You may be low
You gotta move 
Just gotta move now
It’s your move
Ignore the rules
You’re out of time
You may be rich 
You may be poor
You gotta move
Move out of time

zugzwang | you gotta move

all the pretty little horses

never learn blues edit2 (vox) - 17_01_2025, 21.29.mp3

rhythm kneads time

Weather the Whether (Or Not)

Icebergs merging, endings nigh
Storm a brewing, tea-cup-sized

Event horizon, clouds dissolving
Seas up, iced-up, crisp and dry

Tesco zoom-ad, home delivery
All together, stay in alive

Inane chatter, climate matters 
Beg to differ, vape free skies

Anthropocene, 50+ sun screen
Hombre solaire, scallop logo and fries

Channel 4 weatherman, home behind ice O bars 
Torture instrument, inaudible cries

Slo-mo fatboy, nuclear fusion
Die cast spellbound, bang on time

G and T ice cubes, bones in the charnel house
Watery gravy, mushroom pies


Micro-soft kindnesses, benevolent gifting
Glacial speed, passers fly-by

90% Fair trade, chocolate fireguard
Carefully watched pot, sore eyes

Gesamtkunstwerk, Wagnerian jingle
Anthropomorphised, NIMBY turbines 

Open-cast freeway, green-washed airport
Dustbowl hot-house, hung out to dry

Flintstone auto, dine o powered 
Bumper to shoulder, I and I

Deep water horizons, Black gold blood diamonds
Atishoo, man sized

Dive for dear life, lobsters handcuffed
Bring to boil, gas mark 5

Season to good-taste, perpetual winter
Freeze dried, half-life, petrified

Uncanny valley, map past its sell by 
Not the territory, be terrified

350 ppm, life supporting
Neutral footprint heavy (metal) 
Sigh

Cynical irony, hazmat one-zee
Scuba do PPE can but try

El Niño lotto, snakes and ladders
Jet stream chaos, cats, dogs, frogs

And Bird flu, high

Anything you can do
I can do met-uh

No, you can’t
Yes, I Kant

Weather the whether I’m in
Whether the weather. or not

Bother some, bigger than any and everything
Better the devil you got

Weather the whether, to be or not
Whether the weather is in or out

The difference is all the more or less
Over and over, and over and out

Smart-arse banality
through clenched ears

pre-lapsarian, hearing-loss
so unsure

for what it’s worth
autodidactic conditions

hip hop and epistemology
knowledge over opinion

limits of education

missing the point

pointing the finger

blunted, stunted

pinned and mounted

rounded on, pounded

spent and changed

Over and over
And over, and over
and over, and over, and out

grivelvis

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