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shifts
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impressivelad this has become one of my favourite albums ever. sorely underrated band, there’s never a dull moment on this album, let alone across their entire discography. simply superb. favorite track: epitaph
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primarilyben it’s just so good
the d+mned pond is full of life. favorite track: this is the news
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jacampanman playful, energetic and complex music of the highest order, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. fans of the cardiacs will love this
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poesy rider en fait, je ne pensais pas que tdt pourrait faire aussi bien que l’extraordinaire album drones, mais à l’écoute de ce shifts, je me suis rendu compte que j’étais dans l’erreur…du coup je me dis que, tout simplement, un super groupe est un groupe qui fait de super albums. cqfd
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louis jagger south east london represent! energy, confidence, chutzpah, cardiacs, irrepressibility. and brass, lots of brass. favorite track: epitaph
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epitaph 00:37 / 06:41
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a summer of subservience 03:49
2
mercy nurse 04:10
3
corpus of lies 04:32
4
the indecision prism 04:46
5
epitaph 06:41
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[please note that bandcamp does not preserve all text formatting. these lyrics look better in the cd sleeve.]

everybody else is going somewhere;
i, however, have nowhere to go
if you were to ask me what my plan is:
“i don’t know!”. i don’t know
those who won’t employ me must be laughing
when they read the answers i provide;
it’s my epitaph i’m autographing:
“i don’t know”. where’s my guidebook?
don’t quote me your scriptures
they’re just pretty pictures which
offer me no comfort;
they may work for some, but not
me down in this ditch

caught between the cutting and the thrusting
reasoning that neither holds appeal
i admit i struggle with adjusting
to a world far from ideal…

i can offer zero
in a number+cruncher’s view;
am i doomed to follow
lifelong timecard+punchers who
also did not know?

shiftless drifters graft and grift for food
aimless parents sp+wn a gormless brood:
hopeless heaps of sleepless worker bees
‘f+ckless’ families’ facsimiles
shiftless drifters graft and grift for food
aimless parents sp+wn a gormless brood:
hopeless heaps of sleepless worker bees
‘f+ckless’ families’ facsimiles
shiftless drifters graft and grift for food
aimless parents sp+wn the gormless
on and up rich go, cups overflowing
strong and tall, secure and always knowing
breeding means an easy life awaits them
cushioned by an underclass that hates them…
mother popped me out without a blueprint
father never handed me a script
neither had a clue of what to do, hint or idea;
they were tight+lipped about the truth:
i’d reach the end of youth
no wiser as an early riser
yielding the result + i’m
legally adult but
scr+ping by in apiaries…

why did they keep their line alive +
to send their children to the hive?
i have no wisdom to bequeath
just ugly skin and crooked t++th…
should i be pushed or simply jump
or waste away, a worthless rump?
how else can i escape this dump?

in a way, i pity the careerist:
driven by his greed, not by his needs
i would take whichever exit’s nearest;
i don’t know where it leads to…
capital is nothing but a concept
poverty is positively real;
money is a myth and should be gone, wept
for by those who cannot feel…

no+one is rewarded
after death but sordid worms;
what one sows in autumn
can’t be reaped post+mortem, so
live life by these terms:
if we make it nice
earth is paradise

those on breadlines work to shorter deadlines
too preoccupied to self+reflect
their deaths seldom make the solemn headlines
nor command widespread respect
perspicacious people ponder purpose;
lives end in pursuit of what they mean
parents burp us, children will usurp us;
should not good happen between?

lowbrows in low situations tend to be low+hanging fruit;
low status, low expectations and low self+esteem to boot
and how the high stick the boot in! high+handed, high+hatting hordes
high+minded and highfalutin, on high, claim the high rewards

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