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Appetite For Selection 143 - Charles Webster

Look at you, look at me
Alone and adrift on the Suprema Sea
Cockles and muscles and blood enemies
Isn’t it shitty to think so

Shelf life is limited at this Late Stage
At the Tail end of the vice and device age

Is it a race when one of the runners is hogtied?
Is it a war when one side is small and one plus sized?

That man made a monument all to himself
A tradesman who handed out scraps of his wealth
He took out insurance on people he stole
No matter if half of them choke in the hold.

Shelf life is limited to those of age
Soylent Green for a living wage

Chicken Supreme overcooked in a pot that’s so Fragile
When he writes words every one looks so fearful and facile

That man made an arsehole out of himself
And broadcast his lack of good mental health
Making things worse with the public purse
America grates putting white lives First

Shelf life is spirited away from The Hague
Guessing the name of the latest Plague

Is it a race when one of the runners is shoeless?
It’s not a mystery just because you’re fucking clueless

If there’s a future you’ve planned,by all means whip out the Blueprints

Look at me, Look at you
Wondering why we all drink so,
Skimming the cream from American dreams
it isn’t pretty to think so.

Shelf Life:

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Appetite For Selection 200 - Charles Webster

Hate is like a typhoon / Typhoon / Is all a typhoon wants to be / Hate is like a typhoon / Inside of me


Inspired by 'Blue Eye Samurai'

Hate is Like a Typhoon

Lyrics; 
Well it's a deep dark night
Even the moon is out of sight
Not far in the distance rides the train

And I haven't slept a wink
Cause all I do is think
Of all the things you said to me that float inside my brain

I listen to the rhythm
Of the wheels upon the rails
I know my world will never be the same

It's a deep dark night
But I can see the light
As the bridges from my past are put upon the flame

And as the train leaves for tomorrow I say goodbye to yesterday
Leave it at the station watch it fade away

I'd spiraled down and lost control
I'm climbing out of this old hole
Steel wheels and new shoes for my feet of clay

Just the thought of losing you
Would turn my turning world so blue
And it turned me inside out to let you go

But the train is moving on
And with me will soon be gone
From the only world I knew and thought I'd ever know

And as the train leaves for tomorrow  goodbye to yesterday
Leave it at the station watch it fade away

I'd spiraled down and lost control
I'm climbing out of this old hole
Steel wheels and new shoes for my feet of clay

This train leaves for tomorrow goodbye to yesterday
Leave it at the station watch it fade away

I'd spiraled down and lost control
I'm climbing out of this old hole
Steel wheels and new shoes for my feet of
clay





Steel Wheels and New Shoes

A psychy ballad.  I am not sure its finished yet.

REAP/SOW  #1

Coots in suits

Some Heaven. (ft: Lioness Pinky

From grassy squares to the undergound
Suburban explosion a queen is crowned
down country lanes with an e type sound
white lady assassin to whom I'm bound

Where were you my dear on that empty street
potempkin houses with no place to meet
abandoned weapons
water coloured sweet
cynaide scented candles, our lovers final treat.

Lyrics: Kieran Flynn
Performed and arranged by Richard Hall

Assassin Assassin

Not without my rhombus

The collaborative song writing working group fronted by multi instrumentalist Richard Hall  and crafted from a small studio in Shropshire, UK.  The process commenced in 2005 and so far, has resulted in 2 albums and several singles/EPs released on the streamers and the songs on this Soundcloud page.  Rich plays all instrumentation on the songs apart from ‘real drums’. Lyrics are contributed variously, with Dan Botswarna providing lots.   
Rich thinks the project will never end. He is quoted as saying ‘ I don’t think it will ever end , it is a sanity check and I listen to so much music and hear songs and bands that I like the sound of and just try to draw on those influences with my stuff. When Dan sends me a new lyric sheet, its like a birthday.  This set of words can lead me down a path that goes who knows where.  The first day or two chipping away to put a tune to the words are so enjoyable. How can that fun ever finish?  Then the recording and arranging process is like an out of body experience. I’d equate it to going fishing’.   




Influences:

These are vast and include :



RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, THE-GRATEFUL DEAD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY & RICK ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, Ramones, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, Bill Callaghan, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, JJ CALE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, Neil Diamond, The Travelling Wilburys, Jimmy Nail, R Kelly (#/), Chris Chan and Buddy Holly.

REAP/SOW #1

49 Fables

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