Track Listing
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1. Ambulance Chaser
Your a human debaser
You’re an ambulance chaser
And we know what you’re after
In the fleeting final chapter
Of this monologue
It’s a recipe for the dog eat dog
There’s a siren this morning
Like a distant early warning
And there’s blood in the paper
Where the sky meets the scraper
When all you can feel
Is the cum and the cash and the glass and the steel
It’s all gone to hell
Suicide city
And all you can smell is the piss and the pity
In this dark city, this dark city
But it’s all gonna fall man yeah don’t you worry
The hammer and the claw
The filth and the fury
In this dark city, this dark city
In this dark city, this dark city
2. Church of the Chemical DJ
Quicksand Ativan razor blade
Wonderland of the free
Coma of the brave
Uptight satellite soldier boy
One day home from the scene
One foot in the grave
If you can’t go blind… then get saved
In the church of the chemical d.j.
A grenade
In search of a reason not to detonate
Square root parachute opioids
A generation in cold free fall
Stage-fright water-tight alibi
Hey kid, stick to the “script”
A chemical curtain call
If you can’t get lost then get saved
In the church of the chemical D.J
Kickstands and handlebars
You threw ‘em all away
Now it’s crash landings and bumper cars
But if you ain’t got nothing you can’t give nothin’ away
The Commissar of chemicals
Seduce and then sedate
Like ten thousand tentacles
So just keep your lip buttoned
And watch what you say
If you don’t know nothin’ you can’t give nothin away
Get saved in the church of the chemical d.j.
(Quicksand Ativan razor blade)
The d.j.
(Stage-fright water tight alibi)
The d.j.
(Uptight satellite soldier boy)
3. RIP Van Winkle
Pull the blind
Can you still see the colours in my eyes?
Do they dance in the prism of the light
Slipping silently into that gentle night
Been and gone
I’m a prisoner in this body from now on
What was once a choir is now a monologue
Dustin’ down the dirty attic of my thoughts
Like the thrum of a rumour
Like the hum in the space between the songs
Through the years
Grinding like a pair of rusty gears
I’ll be sliding slow and sleeping at the wheel
Till my soul is repossessed and then revealed
As the love that we’re given
Is what life is to living
Like the bars of a prison facing outside and in at the same time
All the time
Liminal
Neither fair nor foul
Subliminal
It strikes me just like how the quest in the question
Never comes when it’s bidden
Like the ink in the sentence
Keeps a few secrets hidden in the lines
In the lines
4. Can’t Be Love
Too many people with a broken heart
This can’t be love, this can’t be love
A sad salvation in the moon and stars
This can’t be love
Bruised and broken and pulled apart
This can’t be love, this can’t be love
A million bad apples in the apple cart
This can’t be love
One drop of courage in a sea of dark
But you keep swimming like a Great White shark
This can’t be love
This can’t be love, this can’t be love
This can’t be love
This can’t be love
I – wear the burden of proof
Love be confused…could be your blues
Drugs or drama, cold stoic armour
Tell me if you want me to
Groove theory interventions… had to break the records
For the longest time spent… in neglect and abandonment
To heal the deep cuts of self reflection
Now I know if it belittles then it can’t be love
Yeah, now I know if it belittles then it can’t be love, love
5. One Horse Town
Put the face to the name
Put the feet to the flame
And it’s all eyes down
With your back to the wall
Tip the scale, make the call
And they all fall down
Last jockey in a one horse town
Trash talking at the speed of sound
One more iron in the fire
One more lie
One more liar
And we’ve all lost count
But the truth is immune
Like the sun and the moon
When it all comes out
Four horsemen in a one horse town
Ghost riders when there’s no one around
Trash talking at the speed of sound
Last jockey in a one horse town
6. The Undertow
Hey you sweet little undertow
Why do you lie in wait for everyone
Who knows where all the shipwrecks go?
And why they turn their back upon the sun?
While we strain, we strive, we bail, we dive
We wipe the salt out of our eyes
You sail upon waves to deep and dark to fathom
Hey you sweet little avalanche
So cool and yet so ready to explode
If you just give us half a chance
We’d find a way to lighten the load
We’d search, we’d call, we’d dig, we’d crawl
We’d shine our lights across the snow
We’d scale the highest heights to bring you home
And it’s hard to begin
When you’re strange in your skin
And you live on the moon
Such a terrible wound
So you breathe deep and slow
I don’t know, I don’t know
If it’s hard to be young
But it’s hard to be anyone
Hey you sweet little hurricane
You twist and then you turn away
But we’ll stand, astound, we’ll bend, unbound
We will remain and hold our ground
And each day we’ll stay that way till we nail it all down
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- Ambulance Chaser Ron Hawkins 2:33