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Between the Silver Rails
03:55
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Between The Silver Rails
Far along the Cosmic Trail
A million miles beyond the veil
Dividing night from dreams of day
We’re spooning sunlight into pails
Here it is the Milk of Dreams
A dozen shady roadhouse scenes
The gift that turns you into rain
Cloud-high and down again
Here between the Silver Rails
A trip by stellar train
We ride the comet tails
And drink
The stars’ infernal ale
I didn’t mean
To take you
To the secret place
Up high
Here on the edge
Of everything
The sign says:
“Here it is Eternity”
Drive until we reach the sea
The road beneath us burns our eyes
We all live... well we all try
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Miranda
04:00
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Miranda
Miranda sex is a picnic
Roll in the blankets free
Burn in the insect heat
Miranda sex is volcanoes
Volume of lust is lost
Unsubtle metaphors
Miranda sex is religion
Fuck all the gods you see
Ours is eternity
Miranda sex has a death toll
Lost in the crossfire fun
Two of us became one
Miranda sex is a new toy
Eager to unwrap bliss
Cross off a birthday wish
Miranda sex is a fine art
Drawn in our darkest hour
Critical faculties flower
We hunger for touch...
We are starved for delight...
I don’t want to wake up feeling
Nothing remains in the light
Miranda sex is an instinct
Join up the missing links
Genetic code in winks
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3. |
Cheese and Liberties
03:11
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Go!
The coast is clear
The cats are busy
Licking all the cream
No!
The cats all scream
The mice have taken
Cheese and Liberties
Whiskers twitch
With richest smears
Cholesterol hari-kari
Safe in our own Roquefort here
Dreaming of Red Leicester Square
Fake the bravery
The cats surprised
Flee far in disbelief
Break the feline tame
The mice have beaten them
At their own game
Cats resort to dirty tricks
And launch Limburger Gas Rockets
Mice have all they came to steal
Take to the skies
In Wheels of Cheese
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4. |
Swarm
02:03
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They came out of the sky
And swarmed the night
A rain in flaming points of light
Their engines like a Storm of Years
They landed aeons earlier than planned
Bent to shake our fish-lobe hands
Our blood was barely warm... it seems
They kindly brought a gift
Of Zip Machines
Built to rip apart our genes
And put their minds in Monkey Things
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5. |
Feeds Birds
04:10
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Was a man so he said... so he said
Used to fly with birds
Or wanted to I guess
Was a man disagreed... used to mean it
Used to mean it or he wanted to
I guess
Feeds birds crumbs and seeds
And honey-words he don’t mean
Tortoise-shell…
Hello friend come on in
What I mean is hello live with me
I guess
Tortoise-shell… you got under my skin
I will let you pick the furniture
I guess
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6. |
Hirsute 1
04:52
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You try to look up
At what’s going down
You try to look out
At what’s in...
You clown
The Circus is a lair
For the Ringmaster of Thieves
But the Midgets have got the lowdown
The chase is on
I’m hot in pursuit
The Bearded Lady
Looks hot in hirsute
She is lucky in love
Her suitor’s cards
Are on the table
While I am tangled
In her ladybeard
While Pitiless Pete
Throws knives
Of deceit
At Mary-Girls
Tied to Fate’s spinning wheel
He denies your civil liberties
Three times before the cock crows
Then climbs into bed
With the jury
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7. |
Crystal Land
02:48
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Drop your rocks
But make your stand
And take your place in Crystal Land
With feeble cars on needle wheels
And jagged dogs that stalk our heels
Is there nowhere left to run?
Will we fall into the sun?
This season of dreams
Has only just begun
In Crystal Land alive beneath the sun
In a box on the 14th floor
With lots of rocks
To stone the Kings of War
Whose fists mean Business...
Eyes the Bitter Clown
If we miss
This world comes crashing down
Eyes on stalks that wilt with dawn
A steel egg unbinds all form
A field of glass...
A double sun
What once was two
Has now been joined as one
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8. |
Logic Fails
04:19
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Logic fails
Lost all faith
All belief swept away
Menace in him
Menace in him
No telling if he’s told tales
Drama to weave
Drama to reap
No telling if she’s told tales
Knows darn well truth has failed
Well-forged lies take their place
Last offer
Easy meat
Stripped of fur
Left to bleed
Jester is trained
Test of restraint
No telling if he’s told tales
Circus of Hate
Circle of Apes
No telling if she’s told tales
That’s when Logic fails…
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Sawdust
04:15
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Rockjaw Brickwall
Makes a fist like pig-meat
With his knuckles dragging
He could be a road-sweep
Catfight Wreckball
Makes a mark on impact
With her sawdust brain
She can outthink concrete
Sperm race is won
By the dumbest one
Willing to beg for your stupid egg
Alltalk Bookboy
Wears his socks in sandals
With his wall of words
He could be a landmark
Bigwit Nofriends
Leads a life on paper
With her flowerpress frame
She could be a bookmark
Splash of fuel
Keeps the friendship warm
Sawdust fire on the butcher’s floor
Burger meat is all eyes and paws
Tender pets on the butcher’s board
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11. |
D.N.A.A.O.K
04:13
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Opening line...
Go out and find
What you want protected
Go out and play... put on display
The love you collected
Lousy segue...
Well anyway so what does it matter?
Kinks in our genes left human beings
As mad as a hatter
Did you know that we are mostly
Just made up of water?
Did you know that flies share
More of our genes than they oughtta?
Did you know that there’s
A comical twist in our nature?
Did you know that we are
Really all chimps in our makeup?
Just another genetic gamble
I couldn’t afford to lose
One final thought
Now you are bored
And then this is over
What would you say if we could change Instead of evolving?
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12. |
Unlike Vera Lynn
02:50
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Unlike Vera Lynn
Dirty water... dirty feeling
No use trying to conceal it
We may not meet once again
On the face of it unlike Vera Lynn
Can I hang off you
Like a piece of lint?
Once again
Keep the questions open-ended
Wear me out like a new dress
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Instrumental
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14. |
1000 Years and Rising
04:34
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A thousand years and rising
Has taken us up so high
The stars have lost their faint glow
And burned their fuel to guide us
Met Icarus... clipped his wings
And snuffed the sun in slipstream
We gorge on rich emptiness
While sipping Milky Way drinks
A thousand years and rising
Beyond the Realms of Finite
So hold my hand tight as we flee
Together through the unknown
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15. |
Softly Came the Rain
00:33
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Softly Came The Rain
After all these years
Softly came the rain
To fall on all the Seeds of Hopeful Dreaming
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16. |
Hirsute 2
11:55
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While Jesus wept
The men slept deep sleeps
The women were left
To pick up the pieces
Herod was harried
So he hacked the heads
Off the firstborn
And Judas was King of His Own Defeat
You got a new pair
Of Gold Nosehair Ploughs
To daintily sow your seed in the ground
Now you’ve got a patent
On that Free Will Power
You can generate some interest
From your friends
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Purple Avengers Brisbane, Australia
Formed in Brisbane, Australia 1987 & influenced by psych, heavy rock & improvisation. Lineup: vocals, guitar, organ, bass &
drums.
They played & toured extensively. Phantom Records reissued their album Starlight’s Journey Home, then EPs Emma Peel Sessions & Dragonfly. SJH was remastered & released on vinyl in 2023.
3 further albums include Let The Compass Sink (Clostridium Records, Germany).
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