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Skeleton Bob lived in a cave
He’d been there ever since that day
They took him down to the waterside
And peeled every last piece of skin and muscle
From his hide
The children in the village all knew the tale
Of a sick motherfucker down in the vale
The things he did to kids no one really knew
Cos they never came back to say if
It was true
The stories went that he’d pick them up
After Sunday school in a big ol’ truck
He’d take them down to his underground lair
No one would ever hear them
Scream down there
Locals said Bob used their skin for clothes
Fewer kids disappeared as temperatures rose
But come the winter months and the need for heat
He’d be swiping those little loved ones right
Off their feet
Skeleton Bob wasn’t skinny or lean
He was a fat old bastard and real mean
But when the mothers and the fathers all took their toll
They stripped his bones white clean and dumped him
In a hole
His heart still beating in his chest
Organs intact – oh, heavens be blessed
Left to live out his days in pain
Like the mothers and the fathers who never saw their
Kids again
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Here’s a little story ’bout Mary-Sue
If she hadn’t been a model, you know what she’d do?
She’d be working in a dead-end job
Wishing she’d listened ’stead of using her gob
Oh oh-oh-oh, what’s a girl to do?
Mary-Sue says shit that she shouldn’t say
Even when it’s not her business anyway
She’s gonna get in trouble one of these nights
Find herself outnumbered in a street fight
Oh oh-oh-oh, come judgment day
Jenny don’t like people talking shite
She hears those whispers every night
What she needs to turn her life around
Is a sharp injection of punk
But oh oh-oh-oh, Jenny’s on the junk
What she needs to turn her life around
Is a sharp injection of punk
But oh oh-oh-oh
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Feel So Good
02:41
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What can you do
If you can't have me?
What can you say
Now I've gone away?
Just treating you the way you treated me
Makes me feel so good
Having you on a doggy lead
Makes me feel so good
Watching you crawling back to me
Makes me feel so good
Then refusing your advances
Makes me feel so good
It's not nice to tease
My mother told me so
But now you're on your knees
I'm not letting go
Just treating you the way you treated me
Makes me feel so good
Having you on a doggy lead
Makes me feel so good
Watching you crawling back to me
Makes me feel so good
Then refusing your advances
Makes me feel so good
You shouldn't be so cruel
That's why you're where you are
I'll show you no mercy
I've taken things too far
Just treating you the way you treated me
Makes me feel so good
Having you on a doggy lead
Makes me feel so good
Watching you crawling back to me
Makes me feel so good
Then refusing your advances
Makes me feel so good
Just treating you the way you treated me
Makes me feel so good
Watching you crawling back to me
Makes me feel so good
Having you on a doggy lead
Makes me feel so good
Then refusing your advances
Makes me feel so good
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Sit and Suffer
02:42
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Thank you for the offer
If I need you, I will call you on the phone
But I don't expect my troubles to be
Anyone's but my own
I'll just sit here in silence
I'm simply not accustomed
To asking for the help I really need
That emotional closeness
You don't know where it will lead
I'll just sit here in silence
I'll sit and suffer in silence
I'll sit and suffer on my own
I'll sit and suffer in silence
I'll sit and suffer on my own
I never wanted to find myself
In this predicament, but here we are
The world turns, and fortunes change
With the twinkling of a star
I'll just sit here in silence
I'll sit and suffer in silence
I'll sit and suffer on my own
I'll sit and suffer in silence
I'll sit and suffer on my own
Do you understand me at all?
Do you hear what I say?
Do you understand me at all?
Do you hear what I say?
Do you understand me at all?
Do you hear what I say?
Do you understand me at all?
Do you hear?
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I’m sick of death, I’m sick of the rain
I’m sick of masking all of the pain
It’s pouring down, it’s hurting hard
I need a fireguard around my exploding heart
I'm drowning in this pit
I gotta get, I gotta get match-fit
My head is spinning, down the drain
I don’t know if I’ll ever climb up again
Look at me, I'm just a chokin’ mess
Oh, how the hell I’m gonna, gonna get through this?
Yeah, rise above, above everything
I can’t believe you’ll never make my phone ring
I’m sick of death, I’m sick of the rain
I’m sick of masking all of the pain
It’s pouring down, it’s hurting hard
I need a fireguard for my exploding heart
My exploding heart
I need a fireguard around my exploding heart
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I feel black and blue, and I don’t know what to do
I wonder should I discard you or should I put you in the ground
Twilight’s drawing in, and my thoughts are getting grim
I feel so cheap and dirty when I see you on my TV, baby
But I find I always find the time to view you
You’re so precious, baby, baby
You never listen when I compliment your
Clothing or your hairdo, yeah
I wanna stay with you forever
And I wanna hold you in my arms, oh yeah
I wanna tell you you’re the cutest thing
I’ve ever seen by far
You’re so untouchable, you’re like Eliot Ness
Me, I’m invisible, you never hear me make a sound
I hear you call my name, even though you’re really not
And I still feel cheap and dirty every time I watch the video I got
But I find I always find the time to view you
You’re so precious, baby, baby
You never listen when I compliment your
Clothing or your hairdo, yeah
I wanna stay with you forever
And I wanna hold you in my arms, oh yeah
I wanna tell you you’re the cutest thing
I’ve ever seen by far
I wanna stay with you forever
And I wanna hold you in my arms, oh yeah
I wanna tell you you’re the cutest thing
I’ve ever seen by far
Stay with you forever
And I wanna hold you in my loving arms
I wanna tell you you’re the cutest thing
I’ve ever seen by far
Stay with you for
Stay with you for
You're the cutest thing
You're the cutest thing
I've ever seen by far
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7. |
A Love Song
03:22
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When that girl looked down on me
I swore that I would be all that she would ever need
When I looked up to her and told her that she was my world
Then our story began to unfurl
But it could never come to pass, was surely never gonna last
With so much baggage still left to unpack
But we won't live looking over our shoulders
With the rain forever on our back
And I don't know if any love can really last forever
But I wouldn't wanna live unless we could be together
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and surely that's the same?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, surely that's the same?
I didn't waste any time, I said I had to make her mine
That our hearts should always be entwined
She told me that she always knew that she wanted just me too
And we knew then what we had to do
And I don't know if any love can really last forever
But I wouldn't wanna live unless we could be together
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and surely that's the same?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, surely that's the same?
We made our pact and cast the die
Looked each other in the eye, saw there was no what or why
Came the knock upon the door
We knew what it was for, but we were already at the shore
And I don't know if any love can really last forever
But I wouldn't wanna live unless we could be together
And that could never come to pass, and we are gonna last
Cos there's not so much baggage to pack
And we won't live looking over our shoulders
We got the sun forever on our back
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The Lies You Told
01:29
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The sky's all black, mixed with blue
This twilight scene was set for you
The sky's all black, mixed with blue
This twilight scene was set for you
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you?
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you
So insincere?
The sky's all black with faded blue
This morning scene was set for you
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you?
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you?
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you?
The lies you told, they ring so true
Oh, why is the world like you?
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Sing me a song, read me a book
Give me that hoochy-coochy love look
Write me a verse, give it a tune
Call it a love song, and send it soon
This is what I want to hear
Those words whispered softly in my ear
Words of love, words of love
Words of comfort, words of love
Call me up soon, give me a ring
Send me a lyric, I'll try to sing
Throw me a party, a fancy-dress ball
I'll come as graffiti if you'll be my wall
I wanna be all over you
If you were skin, I'd be your tattoos
Words of love, words of love
Words of comfort, words of love
I just wanna be with you
I'll do anything you want me to
Give me a chance, I'm a nice guy
I'm sure you'll like me if you'll only try
I can't wait forever, I need you soon
You know if i could, I'd give you the moon
I wanna be like a tube of UHU
So I can stick to you like glue
Words of love, words of love
Words of comfort, words of love
Without you, my life has lost its meaning
Without you, I can't learn, I cannot teach
Without you, like trying to touch the ceiling
Without you, there's no way that I can reach
I wanna be all over you
If you were skin, I'd be your tattoos
These are the things I want to hear
Screaming gently for all to hear
Words of love, words of love
Words of comfort, words of love
Words of love, words of love
Words of comfort, words of love
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Remember days of endless football
Headers and volleys on the green
Skins and shirts and six-a-side
And tell me, what does offside mean?
Months of sunlight every week
And breaking into the village hall
I guess it never seemed it at the time
But didn't we really have it all?
I close my eyes, and I'm back beside the river
Sunburned nose and scratched-up knees
Waiting patiently for that greedy old kingfisher
Whatever happened to days like these?
That was so very long ago now
And time has flown by oh so fast
Now all I think about is war
And tell me, wasn't peace supposed to last?
I close my eyes, and I'm back beside the river
Sunburned nose and scratched-up knees
Waiting patiently for that greedy old kingfisher
Whatever happened to days like these?
Whatever happened to days like these?
Days like these
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11. |
Keening (Acoustic Demo)
02:23
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I've seen it in black and white
That spirit, that will to fight
No hearing, no sight
They'll not take me tonight
I'll drag these broken bones
Away from this earthly home
The folks I've always known
Must leave them all alone
Keening
Keening
I never knew the meaning
Keening
Go
I gotta go
Gotta go
Gotta go
Stubbornness like a mule's
Won't suffer any fools
Fuck you, and fuck your rules
I'm sharpening my tools
I'll dream of you still
I'll think of you still
Of your iron will
And acrobatic skill
Keening
Keening
I never knew the meaning
Keening
Gotta go
Gotta go
Gotta go
Gotta go
Go
Gotta go
Gotta go
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The brand-new five-track DAVY DOES KENT EP is now up for pre-order!
Pairing catchy
tunes with lyrics that claw at the human underbelly, Mr Wu's Pigs lays raw but melodic vocals over jagged power chords and unrelenting drum patterns. The songs have led to Mr Wu’s Pigs drawing unexpected comparisons to acts such as Buzzcocks, T Rex, Bauhaus and Nirvana.
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