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from clean slate by Torture and The Desert Spiders

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Written on the quay in Liverpool, staring at the McDonalds on the morning of my 21st birthday. This track references a lot of what I did back then, moping around the dock skating and drinking whiskey with my friend Charlie. It also references the feeling of getting older and knowing yer not the self-actualised life-guru you might've thought you were destined to be by this point.

Thanks for that birthday party, Emma, it always warms my heart to think about.

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I’ll be an installation conversation piece
and you’ll wrap your words around me
Sit me at the bar I want a front row seat to
the art house jam where we kick up our feet

It’s really not me
I’m sorry to give up so easily.
it’s not our fight
I think I’ll leave tonight

It always takes me two then I sort myself out
Words come together where my brain calms down
It’s not the circus of the world
It’s all in my mind
Wishing i was quicker
That I was unkind

If I procrastinate then it’ll serve my right
Wasting away on the dock all the time
Public indecency is better with whiskey
But I imagine I could die right here.
Pretty content if the sky’s stayed clear

Wind me up then give me the wire
I’ll punch tickets I’ll sell them myself
And the people are great even if you aren’t great but if you manage to escape
They’ll plan your birthday

Sing me the song oh please get it done
I’m not ready to be twenty one
I was born helpless and they gave me the world
I’ll sink to the bottom
Mamas little girl was never gone
Was never here
Was only old enough to drink this year
What a joke
I hardly laughed
I set aside a toothbrush and some cash

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from clean slate, released December 24, 2021
Music / Lyrics by Anna Kunz

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