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Pine (Bang Bang mix)
04:06
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I picked this pine - stuck in my side
I made my head and there I’ll hide
My mouth a-grin - my muscle taut
My mind is clear - devoid of thought
Now, now all the time - | hear you say
I wasn’t meant to be this way
My, my mouth is red - the lies are real
And perfect as the love I steal
You, picked this pine - stuck in your arm
And then you just ran out of charm
I picked this pine - stuck in my side
I’ve made my head and there I’ll hide
My mouth a-grin - my muscle taut
My mind is clear - devoid of thought
Now, now all the time - | hear you say
I wasn’t meant to be this way
My noose is tied - the slack is cut
I picked my pine - my stink is mine
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Swallow Baby - (Maximum Sausage mix)
The more I see, the more I do,
The more I spit, the more I chew,
The more you suck, the more I have to
And when I see the things you do,
The more I want the least of you,
The more I spit, the more you have to
— Swallow baby.
And so you think that I'm a freak
Because I refuse to sneak
Around the back of your dull head is
And maybe you can see me lie
Out of your one good eye
Around the back of your dull head so
— Hollow baby
Ooohh…. Swallow Baby
And now I see the things you do
It makes me want the least from you,
How does it suck for you to have to
But maybe you can see me lie,
Out of your one good eye
Around the back of your dull head so
— Hollow baby.
— Swallow baby
Ooohh….Swallow baby
You think you gotta push it,
You think you gotta push it,
You think you gotta push to make me
Hang Bone? Hang Bone?
I don't need yours, 'cos I got one of my own.
Ooohhh….
Swallow baby
Produced by Lesley Rankine
Additional production & mixing by Scott Firth
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Carondelet (Me Too mix)
05:54
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Carondelet (Me Too mix)
Bawnooo....
I feel like burning this town
This fear is bringing me down
I feel like breaking this town
This fear is burning me now
How can you live with this shit going on - every day is more wrong
I feel like burning this town - I know it's not mine
My fear is walking around - Is this all I can get now
How can you live now
To be there is all i can do - Is that so wrong
Just one care is all i can find - now it's gone
I'd open my heart just to see - What's inside
A mountain of raw that's too big to hide
How can you live now
When i say i love you i know that i lie
But it feels so good to scream it out loud
At least i try
This fear this fear is burning me now - Is this all I can get now
This fear this fear this fear is burning me down - It’s all wrong
This fear this fear is burning me now - Is this all I can get now
This fear this fear this fear is burning me down - It’s all wrong
My fear is walking around..........
How can you live now
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Salt Water Fish - (Red Roof mix)
All I can see is what I've fried
And all the world in your black eye.
I'll run in circles all the time
I'll gather up all that is mine,
Into the room inside my head,
The walls are black, the roof is red.
The walls are black, the roof is red
And fiery like a volcano
I wear it like a massive halo
This pretty speckled length of twine
That's wrapped around your neck is mine.
A ruby rose, stiffed and froze is what I give to you
I'll run in circles all the time
I'll gather up all that is mine,
Into the room inside my head,
The walls are black, the roof is red.
If I could taste your salty head,
And pick the dead hair from your eyes,
Let your smell the sweet despise,
Those peaks and troughs, guts for a valley,
Are a dead Sea in my back alley,
How tall and wide you have to get,
How big and dark and badly lit,
And if I said I did, would you believe me,
And I showed you gold, would you see through me
And if tomorrow didn't come,
Would you?
I'll run in circles all the time
I'll gather up all that is mine,
Into the room inside my head,
The walls are black, the roof is red.
The walls are black…..
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Why can't I feel the things that I'm supposed to
Why can't I steal
Why can't I see what I have to do
To make it real
I laugh when you die
I cry when it feels good
And I scream because I want to
Somethin' tells me I've been here before
Naaeee, Lalala lala la lala lala lalaw
There are two things missing from my life
Love and money
If I could steal then maybe I'd be
Happy
Gimme bread I'll want no more
But give me cake 'n' I'll want cream
And if I scream - It's 'cos I want to
Somethin' tells me I've been here before
Doo bee doo, aw aw aw, etc etc.
If I could write my name in the snow - Winter to spring
Would it mean that I know - Anything
With my hand on your head does it mean that I approve
Or do I scream.......
Gimme bread I'll want no more
But gimme me cake 'n' I'll want cream
And if I scream - It's 'cos I want to
It's 'cos I want to
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Tiny Meat (Meat Sweats mix)
Fit to burst I’m in love - No no no you silly girl
Fist, a brick in my hand, - A hole, hole, hole, you silly man
I didn't mean to make this mess - This paper muscle in my chest
And stolen thirst will be my end, But then……
Didn't mean that last word, - No, no , no you silly man
I can't help myself I try, try, try and then I……
Crack it split to see inside,
I run because I can't abide
This tiny meat in my hand and the pound, pound, pound, of your bleeding heart
Hand, hole, heart, girl, bleeding
Crack it split to see inside, - I run because I can't abide
This tiny meat in my hand and the pound, pound, pound, of your bleeding heart
(Hand, hole, heart, girl, bleeding)
Crack it split to see inside, - I run because I can't abide
This tiny meat in my hand and the pound, pound, pound, of your bleeding heart
Couln't find the right word to say, say, say,
I drink a hole in my head - it makes me think I have it all
Then if I get caught with my - fingers in the till will fry
This pound of flesh will be my end, but then……
It was mine first
Crack it split to see inside, - I run because I can't abide
This tiny meat in my hand and the pound, pound, pound, of your bleeding heart
Your bleeding heart (Hand, hole, heart, girl, bleeding)
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Bud (The Faberwocky mix)
04:48
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Bud (The Faberwocky mix)
Whatever you get you steal
Start at my toes
For this is where the evil grows
My legs are sharp, might split your skin
And spill the juice that feeds your grin
Eheheh….
Take to walking up my spine
See my love drip down like spit wine
Eheheh woizyffibib sweeshcoobuypedup
And then I'll take your jewels in my bag
And take 'em home to mama
I'll put your jewels in my bag
And take 'em home to mama
Eheheh woizyfffib sweeshcoobuybubububub
Whatever you get you steal
woizyffibibib
Whatever you get you steal
sweeshcoobuybubububub
Take the slaughter to the lamb
Take the hung to the ham and back
Take the neck to the crack and pow
How does it feel?
- Whatever you get you steal
And I'm bored here, rooted to the floor here
And what I want you just can't buy anymore …here
So I'll collect your jewels in my bag
And take 'em home to mama
I'll put your jewels in my bag
And take 'em home to mama
Döh….Eheh eheheh woizyfffibib
Döh…sweeshcoobuybubububub
I want some push to my shove
But your hand is in my glove
And I'm mad, bad, ripped raw and bleeding
Swinging like a beef hook on the hips of hell
And the stains on my boots say my life is going well
To snap your skinny neck in two
Would be the least that I could do
So I'll collect your jewels in my bag
And take 'em back to mama
I'll put your jewels in my bag
And take 'em home to mama
Döh….Eheh eheheh woizyfffibib
Döh…sweeshcoobuybubub
Whatever you get you steal
For this is where the evil grows
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Paraffin (Glowstick Mix)
03:55
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Paraffin
Old man’s ass - Fifty heads wide
Old man's ass - Could stretch a battleship,
Side to side
Are we all wrapped up, wrapped up together
All wrapped up, fit for the kill
All stacked up, stacked up together
Stretch my neck to look up to him
To look up to him
There's a flower thief in my back yard again
I’ll grin my teeth to make him stay
Trap him in my flower bed and then
I’ll feed him with my paraffin.
Feed him with my paraffin
Fit for the kill
Old man got me in the eye again
Got his bony finger in
Turned me round and did it all again
Now I smell like paraffin
Are we all wrapped up, wrapped up together
All wrapped up, fit for the kill
All stacked up, stacked up together
Stretch my neck to look up to him
To look up to him
Fit for the kill
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Heidi (Fondue mix)
04:51
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Heidi (Fondue mix)
You'd put me in the ground.
Your crime is always against me
Do you fear what I could be
I'm bigger than you'll ever be
You'd put me in the ground
I am what I must,
Would you bite me i'll I'm dust.
You're terrified
You're terrified of me
Why would you kill me?
'Cos I'd cut down your king tree
Why do I frighten you?
Why do I frighten you?
'Cos I'd cut down your king tree
I'd cut down your king tree
You'd put me in the ground
I can speak so softly because I have so much power
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Hoops (Upside Yer Head mix)
You've never seen what I could do.
Like run a mile and jump hoops too
And ruin everything for you
Could make me smile if you want
You can make me smile if you want..
Duckin' n’ divin’, skippin' n’ skivin'
Between the shit and the shovel,
The arse lick and the grovel and God
Oh what a Lord, makes me thankful for being bored!
And everything ye try to do
To make me happy but you could
Make me jump and spin Loops too
And crack a smile in front of you…Oooohh
Duckin' n’ divin’, skippin' n’ skivin'
Between the shit and the shovel,
The arse lick and the grovel and God
Oh what a Lord, makes me thankful for being bored!
You know I hate it when you cry
It makes me want to burn your eyes
Out with a poker every time
And chase my tail to make you smile.
Duckin' n’ divin’, skippin' n’ skivin'
Between the shit and the shovel,
The arse lick and the grovel and God
Oh what a Lord, makes me thankful for being bored!
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The Whole is Equal to the Sum of it’s Parts (Bunny Bird mix)
Fool, what is your name
Should I hang my head in shame
When you say your name is mine
When you say your name is mine….
Iiii….. could fill your shoes
If my mouth of useless words won't do
Would you say those words were mine
Leech on ma belly suck on me daddy-oh
Oh - the mess you've made
If one word equaled one hatchet blade
Would you say that blade was mine
Leech on ma belly suck on me daddy-oh
Fool, how up is high
If a mountain dropped out of the sky
Would you say its mess was mine
Oooohhhh……
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The Whole is Equal to the Sum of its Parts
Fool, what is your name
Should I hang my head in shame
When you say your name is mine
When you say your name is mine….
IIII….. could fill your shoes
If my mouth of useless words won't do
Would you say those words were mine
Leech on ma belly suck on me daddy-oh
Oh - the mess you've made
If one word equaled one hatchet blade
Would you say that blade was mine
Leech on my belly suck on me daddy-oh
Fool, how up is high
If a mountain dropped out of the sky
Would you say its mess was mine
Leech on my belly suck on me daddy-oh
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The Whole is Equal to the Sum of it’s Parts
Fool, what is your name
Should I hang my head in shame
When you say your name is mine
When you say your name is mine….
Iiii….. could fill your shoes
If my mouth of useless words won't do
Would you say those words were mine
Leech on ma belly suck on me daddy-oh
Oh - the mess you've made
If one word equaled one hatchet blade
Would you say that blade was mine
Leech on ma belly suck on me daddy-oh
Fool, how up is high
If a mountain dropped out of the sky
Would you say its mess was mine
Oooohhhh……
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Carondelet
I feel like burning this town
This fear is bringing me down
I feel like breaking this town
This fear is burning me now
How can you live with this shit going on - every day is more wrong
I feel like burning this town - I know it's not mine
My fear is walking around - Is this all I can get now
How can you live now
To be there is all I can do - Is that so wrong
Just one care is all I can find - now it's gone
I'd open my heart just to see - What's inside
A mountain of raw that's too big to hide
How can you live now
When I say I love you I know that I lie
But it feel so good to scream it out loud
At least I try
This fear this fear is burning me now - Is this all I can get now
This fear this fear this fear is burning me down - It’s all wrong
This fear this fear is burning me now - Is this all I can get now
This fear this fear this fear is burning me down - It’s all wrong
My fear is walking around..........
How can you live now
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Ruby UK
Lesley Rankine started out in London as lead singer for indie punk band Silverfish, and then went solo as ruby from '94.
Reaching a wide audience with the album Salt Peter, the single “Tiny Meat” became an alternative radio staple.
Lesley draws from all the parts of her divergent musical career in ruby’s new music. Eclectic as ever, she continues to progressively use technology in song-crafting.
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