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0:00 An illusion
4:15 Fizzy Fish
7:29 Dream Job
10:13 Grifter's Grief
13:21 Down By The Stream
17:02 A Vineyard For The North
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Lyrics:
We get down to the sound of a singular mind
and we like criminals when criminals are treating us kind,
for the subliminal freaks with their invisible style,
you’re on trial.
I place a bet on a game knowing no one will score,
and break a sweat watching the greats dragging their feet on the floor.
Is it ambitiously weak to be proficiently poor and still smile?
We’re on trial, but still,
it’s ACE, TOP, MINT, BOSS, CLASS, SWEET, DEECE, not bad.
So lay waste to your superiors to lighten the mood,
or kowtow to your inferiors for fear you’ll look rude,
if you don’t are your interiors as perfectly screwed as mine are?
Maybe I’ll show you sometime.
Oh my GOD, its Ace just look at my face, TOP I’m on top of the world.
Mint? Of course, it is, Boss, why cant we travel in business class?
Pass the pop, because life is sweet, so neat it can't be beat, it's
Deece, that means decent, not bad, it’s alright yeah.
Welcome to the future, the paranoia suits ya.
step into my office. All night long,
it’s ACE, CLASS, SWEET
Welcome to the future, paranoia suits ya.God knows what you’re talking about,
but your eyes never lie when you look at me like that.
Step into my office all night long
let me show you how we do things round here.
Welcome to your dream job,
I’m never gonna give it up.
step into my office. All night long
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Lyrics:
It’s a Bank Holiday so all the hospitals are shut,
guess I’ll have to saw off my own foot.
Send a letter to my son, tell him that I’m drunk again,
tell him it’s a buzz having this much fun.
Tell him that I got stung, tell him that i got burnt because i went to work without my trench
coat on, yeah
on the run, what from?
Promised him a souvenir from every single city I could cop one.
So far, got none.
Just this shotgun shot that I got and all for what?
I was hot property once, but now the promise is gone
because the roots were all rotted from the start.
I’m in love with an illusion.
Once the wheels are in motion,
swear I’ll join the revolution.
So just take the plane James,
it’ll take off regardless,
make hay whilst the sun shines,
having fun doesn’t mean you’re heartless,
hard of hearing, maybe aimless, dark as sin,
whistling past the morgue when the drink kicks in.
think I’m self-destructing,
buying fridge magnets everywhere I go to prove I’ve been
its fucking disgusting,
look at this, a cactus in a snapback riding a BMX atop bubble lettering that reads Venice.
I’m in love with an illusion,
once the wheels are in motion
swear I’ll join the revolution
and I’d hang my head in shame,
but for the weight it bears would see to it,
I don’t look up again.
Before I came here I used to have an aim,
all it takes is a little recalibration to remind me,
I used to have a name,
all it takes.
I'm in love with an illusion
Where’s that utopia I promised ya?
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Lyrics:
Looking like it’s gonna be a hot one, out on the lake today.
You know it rained all day last week?
Yeah, I wonder what the fish think to all this? if fish think at all that is.
Maybe that’s why the opinions gathered by the think tanks always stink.
They only ask the thick fish,
Thick fish with fat fins and toothless grins all mouth no ears,
fizzing with thick ideas.
Do you remember fizzy fish?
you used to drop ‘em in yer drink and watch the bubbles strip the crystal from the gelatine.
Do sick fish sink? They float to the top when they’re dead though,
the things going on in my head y’know.
I’m weird me. Dead weird.
The man I’ve become wouldn’t abandon the boy I used to be
so come down here and talk to me,
I’ve been dragged through the mud until I’m so washed up it feels good,
but you just can’t trust an open book.
Told everyone, everything I’ve ever known now everybody knows I was accident prone.
Cool night tonight out on the lake,
followed on from the hottest day I could ever recall if memory serves correct.
Can’t remember ‘em all see
but I spoke to the fish though and as it goes,
the weather is irrelevant when they’re nibbling at my toes,
still chipping away at the coal face of my own self-loathing,
a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I’m a danger to my own health,
but you’ve gotta love yourself,
so I’m taking my own ego down to the bistro of the soul, come find me,
I’ll be wearing a dead carnation on me coat.
Back again are we?
Back in black, mourning the last chance you had in this life to get back on track,
you prat.
yeah not much has changed my end,
though most of my opposable thumbs are now gone.
Eyelids, earlobes, nostrils too.Made mother nature faint.
She was sweating buckets when she saw my face.
Knees shaking again, blood sugar levels remain unstable.
IT WAS A MESS!
She’s on the edge, I wouldn’t wish that on me,
I’m glad you came back though. It’s a long road to walk alone
and God knows I’m accident prone (you acted alone!)
So, sling addiction and a kid in just to sweeten up that mix,
it happened so fast that I broke the one thing I could ever fix.
Purify me.
How about one last crack at it before we quit the biz?
it’s a complete and utter swizz.
But only you know how I feel.
There’s no such thing as mistakes,
just the creation of new situations with which we have to deal.
So, here we are again, and no one’s really checking in.
So, stay strange and be ace.
Keep that silly grin plastered across your stupid fucking face.
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Lyrics:
Disbelief when they got grifted for the prize,
young and gifted,
sifted through the grave for a taste of danger,
got wasted away on a way stranger wave,
see fairer ways to discount the nature,
count yer coffins,
shaft the pallbearers, all’s fair in all areas.
If you’re not all there when I’m all in,
i'll sing through gritted teeth,
If someone beat you to it, NAA NAA.
It’s just Grifter’s grief.
Grifters Grief
How you coping
Grifters Grief
Youre dealing with grifters grief
Grifters Grief
choking on your own tears, Grifter’s grief.
I sleep beneath an ancient tree that looms over the heath,
head of empty threats, bed of stolen dog teeth,
and our prayers will turn to begging
when beholden to a sun that left us sowing seeds
for summer down the barrel of a gun.
I forgot Armageddon stops at the mercy of the chief.
So, taste the tears and prosper or obliterate the grief.
Grifters Grief
Will we fight them on the beaches for the bleaching of the reef?
those sweet creatures of the deep.
Grifters Grief
How you coping
Grifters Grief
Youre dealing with grifters grief
Grifters Grief
choking on your own tears, Grifter’s grief
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Lyrics:
When Peter Pullen turned thirteen,
he threw a party in Partington for the whole team,
it was him and me, Jono Steadman, Connor Cartwright, Doug Duggan and Peter’s cousin,
Dean.
We wandered off into the woods behind the park with Dean’s older brother, Mark,
some cherry cola can bongs down by the stream.
I wore these beige Chinos, swore they were just cream jeans.
Their red eyes, chuckling, when suddenly Jono SCREAMED!
Pellet in his leg, a couple more shots whizzed past,
felt fast, probably not, just the shock of the shots,
still, we ducked behind some rocks,
we crawled through the dead leaves and the moss,
up the path, we ran all the way back
and didn’t let up till we got past the bus stop near Joanna’s house.
Bill popped the pellet out with a hot box cutter.
Jono didn’t cry at all, he didn’t even stutter.
Jono was alright, Jono was a good guy,
I think his dad came over from somewhere else or summat some time in 85 or 86, or maybe
he was from Milton Keynes
I can’t really remember…
but his dad was different to ours
and Jono had been deaf till he was four
because he had this weird was build up in his ears.
and he spoke a little slow and I was a prick about it, and I bullied him because…
well, don’t know why but I did and I’ve gotta live with it.
Maybe it was just kids being kids
or maybe just my inner ape baring its teeth.
But… I got picked on too…
I was a prick, sure, but I was just insecure
and who gets to decide what’s being snide
and what’s just giving you what you’re good for?
We were all good in the end though I think.
He never held it against me,
we ended up at the same parties when we hit sixteen,
sharing cheap pills that weren’t that strong,
but lasted long enough to take the edge off life getting too real,to take the edge of life getting just that little bit more wrong.
And then the sharks started circling and the nights get longer.
Jono, I never said SORRY to your face, so I’ll say it in this song.
I was young, but more so I was wrong, and know this.
If my own son had been picking on someone,
well, when he came home from school,
I’d grab that little fucker by his rucksack
and pin him up to the wall,
and scream in his face
until he could never make another person feel shitty at all.
Because they picked on me too,
so I know the pain never really goes away.
It just finds new places to hide inside the darkest nooks and crannies of your brain.
Again and again, it surprises you every time you find it.
That old cycle of abuse.
He did it to me, so I’ll do it to you,
but there’s no margin for error in this world
and so there’s absolutely no excuse.
Though the fibres of our very being are frayed to the point of exhaustion for a bit of harmless
fun.
Jesus Christ, I never meant to hurt anyone.
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Lyrics:
Don’t think because I’m not doing more in the moment, I’m not doing more.
I’ve seen what comes from point scoring,
I was born torn between warring factions.
I’m Practically a doormat I’m so diplomatic,
and that’s why I know those that mean well don’t know they’re problematic,
myself included,
I know I'm not easily spooked,
but I still shudder at how far removed we are from moving on.
So go easy on us, nothing to see here people, move along.
Crushing biscuits in the carpet with the thumb of God’s good grace
and no respect for how the fibres frayed make space for new mess.
I look awkward when I’m walking forward even when I’m not,
a static shock of mad propulsion stood convulsing in one spot.
We want tomorrow now whichever way the chips may fall,
coz trust me, one day soon when winter doesn’t come,
I’m gonna buy that valley below.
We’ll build a vineyard in the north.
Under the heel,
heard you’re lower than hell because you’re keeping it real,
is it treating you well?
I don’t wanna talk about it,
I just want be left alone,
still, I’m gonna bug those red tape conversations.
More mandatory sour grapes,
a toast to borrowed time,the wine idea was mine though.
The wine idea was MINE.
Can’t see a way through,
though I hope you know that i fought tooth and nail for you
and if truth dies tonight on the vine tonight so be it.
History never looks the same from both sides
and so when darkness surrounds you,
perhaps it’s because you’re the black hole? I dnno
Keen hobbyist to semi pro, but I still got soul,
Don't let it go to waste, amateur sommelier, I get paid to get pissed these days, its ace.
Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life
until the well runs dry that is,
behold the final dawn flung from the moon’s mad jaws crawling back into his hole.
I made a promise to you all,
A VINEYARD FOR THE NORTH.
Under the heel, heard you’re lower than hell,
keeping it real isn’t treating you well,
don’t wanna met with my maker so I’m quitting the band.
I wanna buy a few acres, live off the fat of the land,
cap in hand I stand before her,
mother nature bring me water.
And they said that from this soil under that sun,
no more could grow, but just look.
Behold God’s green glow rolling over the valleys below,
but go steady,
we’re at the mercy of the storm clouds now.
Under the heel, heard you’re lower than hell,
keeping it real isn’t treating you well,
don’t wanna met with my maker so I’m quitting the band.
I wanna buy a few acres, live off the fat of the land,
cap in hand I stand before her,
mother nature bring me water
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Lyrics:
Are we born for nothing if we die alone?
Only God can answer, so where’s my telephone?
Did someone snip the wire? Didn’t pay that bill?
Well, you know God loves a trier and I’ve got time to kill.
But who made that decision for you?
I told you what you swore too, like you already knew,
if I leave here before you, just see our baby through.
You know I always loved you. I KNOW I’m not around,
but I'm always working for you,
from the cradle to the grave I’m a slave to sound.
Who made that decision for you?
What’s the guilt worth, if you do nothing with it,
what’s the guilt worth? If you choose when you feel it?
what’s the guilt worth?
We’re all bound by our own perspective,
any lows below our own we’ll never truly know.
Pain lingers on by its own measure irrespective,
when one man’s treasure is another’s final blow.
but hope yet may still come to those daring to dig that deep within themselves.
We bare our souls on wax through tender prose,
only to starve them of all purpose when those findings hit the shelves.I made that decision for us
What’s the guilt worth, if you do nothing with it,
what’s the guilt worth? If you choose when you feel it?
what’s the guilt worth? guilt worth?
what’s the guilt worth? guilt worth?
what’s the guilt worth?
The guilts worth nothing
but for the first time in ages I feel safe in the knowledge
we’re all gonna be demolished.
We’re all bound by our own perspective,
any lows below our own we’ll never truly know.
my head above the water,
I was young and I was limber,
I swear I saw you from the shore before I caught the undertow.
And I made that decision for us
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Lyrics:
I let my friend live upstairs in the spare room for a minute,
he needed space and he paid,
never relayed to our letting agent that we did it.
I sublet, yeah, I admit it, document on tape,
the greatest crime this nation’s saving grace devised and then committed.
I just wanna make a point,
that the culture would’ve died,
and post punks’ latest poster boys wouldn’t have got to ride
on the coattails of the dead
and claim that their derision is a vehicle for their vision of subverting it instead,
now subliminal exposure is exploding in your head
because you know that we were goading you.
One night up in the attic listening to Grammatics,
drinking cans and shooting the shit,
we reeled off all of our hopes and dreams and made a list
and there was one singular ambition we had
that most musicians of our ilk aren’t willing to admit,
and it was to this mantra we would commit.
We MAKE HITS.
Two broke millennial men,
and we’d do it again,
every night on the back of the bus,
you know it ain’t no fuss, we’re on the same wage
and we ain’t afraid to get paid on the stage,
fan fiction caught in the act is a fact.
if you get your back backed up at that
you won’t be missed,
now we make hits
(but not hits like Nile Rodgers, just that we ain’t hook dodgers)
we make hits, we make hits.
Right, so when we were done kissing
we finally formed this band and signed to a subsidiary of Universal Inc.
Because the water keeps on rising
and we know there’s no surprising
anyone with eyes and ears round here
that we’re all gonna sink.
And we just wanna have some fun before we’re sunk,
and if that’s the attitude you exude then you know you’re really…
We MAKE HITS.
Two broke millennial men,
and we’d do it again,
every night on the back of the bus,
you know it ain’t no fuss, we’re on the same wage
and we ain’t afraid to get paid on the stage,
fan fiction caught in the act is a fact.
if you get your back backed up at that
you won’t be missed,
now we make hits
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we make hits, we make hits
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Lyrics:
Imagine if I had to give you my soul,
in a moment when my soul was asleep.
For it happens sometimes through no fault of our own.
It’s just a momentary blip in the passing of time,
it’s not a sign that the embers of passion are dying.
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.
I’m grateful in ways
I could never explain,
in a moment I can never escape,
but I can’t phone it in.
No, I could never begin,
yeah I could never tell you how I’m feeling, if I’m not feeling it,
it’s a standard that I set myself to ruin relationships.
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.
And if I knew how to control it I would
My bones burn
and the brain that’s controlling them
knows that the soul needs petroleum,
that’s how it goes.
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Lyrics:
We get down to the sound of a singular mind
and we like criminals when criminals are treating us kind,
for the subliminal freaks with their invisible style,
you’re on trial.
I place a bet on a game knowing no one will score,
and break a sweat watching the greats dragging their feet on the floor.
Is it ambitiously weak to be proficiently poor and still smile?
We’re on trial, but still
it’s ACE, TOP, MINT, BOSS, CLASS, SWEET, DEECE, not bad.
So lay waste to your superiors to lighten the mood,
or kowtow to your inferiors for fear you’ll look rude,
if you don’t are your interiors as perfectly screwed as mine are?
Maybe I’ll show you sometime.
Oh my GOD, its Ace just look at my face, TOP I’m on top of the world.
Mint? Of course, it is, Boss, why cant we travel in business class?
Pass the pop, because life is sweet, so neat it can't be beat, it's
Deece, that means decent, not bad, it’s alright yeah.
Welcome to the future, the paranoia suits ya.
step into my office. All night long,
it’s ACE, CLASS, SWEET
Welcome to the future, paranoia suits ya.
God knows what you’re talking about,
but your eyes never lie when you look at me like that.
Step into my office all night long
let me show you how we do things round here.
Welcome to your dream job,
I’m never gonna give it up.
step into my office. All night long
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Credits:
DIRECTOR - JAMES SLATER @jamesslaterjames
EXEC PRODUCERS - JACK HARTLEY @thechampionsparkplug & ROSIE FORD @rosieford_
PRODUCTION COMPANY - ZOMDIC FILMS @zomdicfilms
PRODUCER - TIM ELLIS @timbotimbo
1ST AD - EDDIE LEADER @eddieleader_
2nd AD - EMILY PRIEDITIS @emilyprieditis
CHOREOGRAPHER - DAISY SMITH @daisyjtsmith
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - PAUL MORTLOCK @pjmortlock
STEADICAM OPERATOR - GARY KENT @karygent
1ST AC - SAM JAMES @samuel_j_james
2ND AC - LIAM LYALL @liamlyallcamera
1st AC (day2) - SEAN LOMAX @sean___lomax
DIT - ELLIOT TAYLOR @elliot_taylor21
GAFFER - CHRIS SARGINSON @chrisdropcity
GAFFER (day2) - CALLAN DOOLEY @callan_bd
DESK OPERATOR - TOM SHELPY
SPARK - CRAIG SHANDA
ART DIRECTOR - SOPHIE BARROTT @sophiebarrott
ART ASSISTANT - OLIVIA WALTERS @visualart_olivia
PROPS ASSISTANT - JOHNNY BILLINGE
PROPS ASSISTANT - TOM EDWARDS
WARDROBE STYLIST - BETHANY GOWLAND @bethani_stylist
WARDROBE - ASSISTANT ELISHA ARDAYFIO @elishaharlow
HAIR & MAKE UP - EMMA TIERNEY @emmavtierney
HMU ASSISTANT 1 - ASHLEY JONES
HMU ASSISTANT 2 - SOPHIA PERGOULI @sophiee_per
RUNNER/PLAYBACK - FIN MULLIGAN @finmulligan
RUNNER - ISAAC MORETON @isaacmortonmedia
WORK EXPERIENCE RUNNER - BEC CHOW @bec_chow
MEDIC - KEITH GRIFFITHS
EDITOR - JAMES SLATER @jamesslaterjames
GRADE - ANDI CHU @andikdc
ONLINE - NATALIE MEZIANI @cut_by_natalie
CAST
DAISY J.T SMITH @daisyjtsmith
KAMAL MCDONALD @kamalmac_
LAUREN FITZPATRICK
HARRY RULE @harryrule00
REGINE PHUA @r25679
MATTHEW CHAN @matthewchan93
ELISE HADGRAFT
TOMMY McALEER @steve__evets
CHRISTINA CHEN @christinachenactor
WILL WILSON @willwilson.exe
MARK NEWSOME @newsome89
LEX LINTON @hang_linton
JENNIFER BANKS @jenmbanks
BASIL TIERNEY @basil._.tierney
Lyrics:
I’m reclaiming the trench coat
Who from and what for?
I wear it when I’m headed off to war
The longer the cut, the tougher you are
And mine drags along the floor
Through the sweatshop shrapnel
It gets trapped in my car door
And I’m tall next to small people
And I’m not as poor as you were
And I still get positively sick when all the bellboys call me Sir
Cause you never get used to the power
That a proper trench coat brings
The way that it swishes and swings
It sings
Do you know the history of the trench coat
What it represents and who it’s for
What I want to know is who would want a coat
so close to the floor
I went to the trench coat museum to see ‘em
A thousand different cuts
Like pelts from another dream
Stuffed and bursting at the seams
Cause I’m fishing for a theme
If its somewhere in between
A days honest graft and constantly fleeing the crime scene
The trench coat got banned for a bit
Does that conjure up any weird feelings
Knowing all kinds of twisted mind could find it a prime coat in which to conceal things
You can’t ban a coat can you?
Can you ban a coat?
Nope, they’re just running a racket
The only coat that matters now is a floating coat
So get yourself a life jacket
Can you hack it
Can you hack the heat?
Water rising
Look at your feet man
AAAAAAHHH
Cause whether rented borrowed bought stole second hand or brand new
Mines water resistant and heat proof
My trench coat will see me through
And when I’m gone I want all of my trench coats framed
And my knackered boots and dirty glasses
Tastefully arranged on the plinths in between
Cause when they get to the final exhibition that celebrates my good name
I want you to be on display too
Cause all that really remains of me is
You
Music video by Yard Act performing The Trench Coat Museum (Visualiser). An Island Records recording; © 2023 Universal Music Operations Limited
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Director - James Slater @jamesslaterjames
Producers - Rosie Ford / Jack Hartley @rosieford_ / @thechampionsparkplug
Model maker - Ruta Staseviciute @ruta_creative_design
Art Director - Lucy Gregory @lucyrosegregory
Casting Director - Jack Hartley @thechampionsparkplug
1st AD - Ben Eve
Floor Runner - Lydia Shenton @butter_prison
Floor Runner - Georgia Brown
DOP - Aaron Dunleavy @aarondunleavy
1st AC - Sam James @Samuel_j_james
2nd AC - Brodie Salmon @brodiesalmon
Costume Designer - Beth Gowland @bethani_stylist
Costume Assistant - Joanne Johnson
HMU Artist - Emma Tierney @emmavtierney
HMU Artist - Louise Hood @louise.hood.makeup
HMU Assistant - Leanne Bartlett
Gaffer - Chris Sargent @chrisdropcity
Spark - Jordan Beaumont
Location Manager - Rosie Ford /Jack Hartley
BTS - Mike Curley @mikecurley1
Editor - Matt Prickett @matthewprickett
Colourist - Andi Chu @andikdc
Island Records
Commissioner - Sam Flynn
With thanks to David Thewlis @officialdavidthewlis & all our lovely cast!
A special thanks to:
Promotion @promotionhire
Drop City @drop_city_ltd
Black Kite Studios - Jade Denne
Work Editorial - Lola Cookman
DC Coffee @dccoffee
Supreme Caterers
Blackpool Council
Everyone at the community centre
Tracey, Denise & Kathy
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Right, because we had to push it back a few weeks we thought we'd sling you all one more tune off or debut record by way of an apology / peace offering. This one is called Rich.
It's a hypothetical song about me accidentally becoming rich, and contemplating what I might do with all the power it brings. It's basically saying, c'mon let's have some sympathy for all the millionaires out there, it's tough for them too.
Obviously it ain't really saying that, but as we all know, money doesn't really bring you happiness, and even the rich have feelings to process and therapists to feed. Don't get stuck on simple ideas... Also, i should make it completely clear here that I am in no way defending the rich. They deserve all the stick they get, the rich bastards.
(Unless you're a rich bastard who wants to preorder The Overload)
Y.A. x
Almost by accident,I have become rich
Through continued reward for skilled labour in the private sector
And a genuine lack of interest in expensive things,
It appears I have become rich
And since I have become rich
I have been constantly living in fear, of losing everything,
That the bubble will burst and falling from my perch
I will return once again to the life I used to live
With the things I didn’t have before I had become rich
I put a pinch away each week in a place my hand won’t fit
So I cannot reach it, It is made of solid steel
A square foot deep with a slit, no bigger than an inch
One day, when the seams split in such a way that it can’t be restitched
I will scratch that insatiable itch. I’ll buy the whole hospital,
And everything in it.
It appears I have become rich!
You twitching like some headless bird
Whilst the witch doctors poached for the stragglers in the herd
Pitching for business down on skid row
The line goes out the door, and you’re right at the back
Man, two more poor kids dead in a ditch
I fucking love being rich!
(Can’t pin that on me)
It appears i have become so rich
I’m literally drowning in it
But no matter how much I’ve got
I’ll never lose the plot on top of the hill
Looking over the valley you can see for miles and still get shot
The farmer doesn’t want his cows getting what the other cows have got
He keeps his livestock
Stuffed in his sock, that’s why he’s rich
It appears we’ve both become rich
It appears we’re both very very very rich
It appears we've now got gout
It appears we have no shame
Lord have mercy on my soul, never
No one ever tells you, how tough it really is
Please teach me, How to be both modest and rich in equal measure
I’ve done some terrible things because I am rich,
Looking for opportunities in ventures that are bound to bring the silver rain
Sure it’s a rush being kush,
But then again, life is a bitch,
Yeah people hate you for it, people really hate you for it
You run a real risk being rich
It appears I have become rich (woop!)
It appears I have become rich (woop!)
Rolls off the tongue real nice, RICH!
Flip the switch, kill em all
Scratch the itch Kill em all, Kill em all
Own it, embrace it, Be it
RICH RICH RICH
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If only Monday was Payday hey? What a world it would be. Obviously it's not, but we are pleased to present the 3rd track to be taken from our debut album, Payday. We wanted to release this on Friday to coincide with Payday but Steve Lamacq wanted to play it tonight so you get it 4 days earlier than intended. Cashback. Please also enjoy the fabulous new music video by the wonderful James Slater
Lyrics:
What constitutes a ghetto?
Is it growing your own lettuces in the potholes on the road
Do the locals have to eat them all if they don’t sell em
I call potholes concrete meadows of the soul
What constitutes a ghetto fetish?
Is it growing your own lettuce but not filling in the potholes
The local council will be getting an earful believe me
I call their lugholes concrete bollards to the soul
We all make the same sound when we get mowed down
And there are starving children in africa so go send your toy guns to bosnia
Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
Take the money and treat your mother right
What constitutes real change
Are we even vaguely aware of when we’ll terminate the muse
If all offers are final
Then how is it even possible
For you to be both flush and completely principled
Yeah well, I didn’t do any of it for you
I did it for the little boys and girls
Pulling lettuce from the pothole hosing off the engine oil
Wax apples at christmas, next year they’re sniffing glue
All of a sudden I was blinded by a powerful light
Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
Take the money and treat your husband right
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The second single from our debut album is out in the world and we are absolutely buzzed to share this music video with you. Our second video with the ace James Slater, further exploring the Yard Act universe. Land of the Blind is a serious song with a serious meaning, and there felt no better way to represent that than through the medium of cinema, with me glueing on a fake goatee (sorry it ain't real) and donning a sequin jacket, performing bad magic tricks to an audience of hoodwinked bystanders in a cafe in Clitheroe... This is 7/10 satire even if it still feels a little on the nose to me. Enjoy babababa x
Lyrics
Killswitch indifference to a liquid narrative
Obviously I tried writing you out of the will
I just hadn’t the guts to lie through my teeth
Though only because I’m susceptible
To the truth on the bleakest of moons
Though there is beauty in a whole truth
The knotty roots of a shameful past,
Will never let it be
Each new shoot is an escape root
Loot the debris
And make no mistake we are living out our last days
In the land of the blind,
Where the one eyed man was king
Until he lost his fucking mind
Baba bow
Baba bow
We cram clammy hands into empty pockets
A quick whiparound for the long suffering house band
Whilst peace treaties are breached
So we can all fuck about half naked on the beaches of
Some far off foreign land
We all get a commemorative fifty pence piece each
For the peace treaties breached
And the palms greased, which are never on the ends
Of the elbows digging the graves of the recently deceased
Please have a seat,
I’m going to show you all a magic trick but it’s sort of a surprise
So if you just lend me that fifty pence piece in your hand
And then close your eyes
I’m going to make me, and this fifty pence piece disappear
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Lyrics:
I’m Shaking up my eight ball coz I’m trying to see
What tomorrow’s world has got in store for me
freedom don’t come cheap,
I’m bartering hard with no room to give
Living my life as if my head ain’t a complete sieve
Hold your horses, bandage up it's bloodied knees
poor thing’s been exhausted since 83'
But from the causeway it’s hard to see the full extent of the damage
You couldn’t see the woods for the trees
Fuck me how am I supposed to cope
In the age of the gentrified savage
There’s no hope
Kids these days they think they’ve been hard done by
But they’ve never even looked at an iron lung like I did once
They’ve got the whole thing wrong, just bumbling along
On the bottom rung sucking each other off and huffing designer bongs
Constant hit, it’s not worth what they paying for it
in my day, the gear on the street was so weak
It could eat your ambition in a matter of weeks,
Just trying to envision the peak, and that's bleak
The overload of discontent
The constant burden of making sense
It won’t relent, it won’t repent
How to remain in dissonance
Look, what you need to understand is
If you wanna make some decent money from it
You’d be better off kicking that dickhead singer you’ve got out the band
And getting yourself a gig down The Grand
I know the landlord Fat Andy,
And I bet he’d be up for giving you a leg up
If you just give him a hand
Just don’t be doing originals
Play the standards
And don’t get political
I know what that dickhead singers like
He’ll end up in the back of an ambulance
With the mic stand rammed up his arse
Twice over
All because he couldn’t ignore the flag and be polite
Show some respect and listen to my advice
Because if you don’t challenge me on anything
I'm actually very nice.
I’m very fucking nice
The overload of discontent
The constant burden of making sense
It won’t relent, it won’t repent
How to remain in dissonance


