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Decaying Functions

by Scale and the Galvanics

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1.
Lyrics: BALLAD FOR A LOST FRIEND I broke my journey To be with a friend He’d lost the will to follow Breathing out with breathing in With one eye on the optic Wrapping bacon round the veal So his bladder did the thinking And time took everything that it could steal CHORUS My face is honest What you see is what I feel Whatever I was thinking I was obliged to reveal If looking right through me Is all it takes to get you through the day I could gladly be transparent Or better still just go away The last time that I saw him A matter of a few short weeks He went screamng through his twenties And wound up sodden on a beach I read the letters that you wrote me A second time, what could they teach My naive eyes, to my surprise All their meanings had been breached CHORUS
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Lyrics: OXBLOOD SHOES Love me Love my ox blood shoes Love the words that I use Love my cynical tone The fact that I never phone Love me Love my psorytic skin My unbelievable shins The way I burst into tears Frequency grows with the years CHORUS Just like my ox blood shoes My sole is cracked And my tong is loose Will you throw us away Or will you dry me out On that rainy day Love me For trying too hard to please For what nobody sees For my perpetual rage Why must things always change Love me The bad directions I take The fact that I cant recall A date you write on the wall Or even anyone’s name Dear god its always the same CHORUS Instrumental Love me love my runcible face My lack of measurable grace To see you need to be told Your heart and soul are both gold CHORUS Repeat VERSE Love me Because I love you true Because I love you so hard My love could flatten the Dales I could love for Wales Could draw oil out of shales VERSE Love me Because without it I’d cease To believe in myself Or in anyone else My ox blood shoes Would remain on the shelf Beside my will to exist Doubt my hands could make fists Doubt my breath would persist CHORUS Repeat VERSE Love me Love the dog we don't have The bike I sold for a song Our kids who all turned out strong Our coffee table’s a log The way it works when we snog
3.
Lyrics: ALL THE ANIMALS Take a look at all the animals Living in my zoo They’re a part of my irascible Psyche too One day there’s a cane rat Ocelot and pookie too They may never be seen again Till I see them in you CHORUS Take care of my fate Whatever you do Whatever I am Depends on you We set off on an incredible Journey through Time space and an infallible Road to you If things could be different Then where’s the clue I could move the whole of Switzerland To get to you CHORUS Repeat As middle eight. CHORUS Repeat Take a look at all these animals Living in my zoo Some sit in muddy water holes Some are just swinging through If the box full of memories Could be pulled in two Would the part thats attached to me Resemble you?
4.
Blue flame 03:23
Lyrics: BLUE FLAME There’s a blue flame Burning daily in my heart And I can't tell whether Im failing The slightest perturbation Will blow it all apart You’ll see my whole life Tied to the railings Band of brothers and Band of gold Ban the bomb and Bambinos Is there still such a thing as children's clothes Sacred cows And the life I chose? I’ll hold the taxi While you lock up all our dreams Where is that fruitless stand We’ve been making There’s an ice cold finger Picking at my seams What is left Is ours for the taking Bottled water and Battle scars Women love babies And men love cars I never did feel Relaxed in bars Even open sewers Can reflect the stars If all I am is a zillion Vibrating little strings And all the mass and force That they carry If there’s a god There wont be much room left for him Until he shows that he cares For my family Bread of heaven And toast and cheese Excuse my reticence I’ll save my knees Who will benefit Who gets rich? Which omnipotent Would stone the bitch? Yes I'm a traveller And I carry this for you I hope the noise you’re in Lets you hear it If we don't do the things We really ought to do They will remain undone In our children Six remotes in the living room You really should try to cross it soon Of course it matters How you make him feel He’ll take the charity But hates the deal There’s a blue flame Burning daily in my heart And I cant tell whether Im failing.
5.
I’M HOLDING MY BREATH I’m holding my breath Till I know you’re alright And I’m staying awake All through the night Till I see a shooting star Towing trailers full of love And everything you’ll ever need Including time to be yourself Including time to be someone else Chorus I know my destiny Is closely woven in with yours There’s nothing left of me when you’re gone I’m concentrating hard And I’m going into work ‘cause I know beyond a doubt I must finish this thing off Im expecting only hail But you bring me sunshine in spades You bring me sunshine when it rains Chorus I hope you have a world Of fifty years ago With its wilderness intact As a place where you could go May your days last as long As they did when you were small As they did when you were young Chorus We’ll watch the moon loose weight We’ll watch it put it on again You’ll see the passing of the years When you look into my face And we’ll break the link with time By running fast around the bed Yes we’ll break the link with time Or was that something that I said? I guess its something that I said Chorus (alt) My only legacy Is in the memories that you hold You’ll find the rest of me Will soon be…
6.
WISH UPON A CHICKEN BONE She kissed me square on the teeth While I was smiling and to my relief Things happened In spite of me Love grows like a coral reef Hold on for long enough And every thought that ever there was Will cross your mind In a fork lift truck Just looking for Baggage to pick up CHORUS Superstition Suspicion Contrition Sanctimony My ambition A quick incision And remove them all From the dictionary The whole truth takes a running jump And perception morphs Into nothing but A self fuelling dichotomy Wraps itself round your cable TV Can she just shrug it off Or will it all just become too much Love, faith, hope and trust On a die And you can throw it twice CHORUS Repeat You might wish on a chicken bone Knock on wood hope you’ll find her home Will and want your mobile phone To come alive and show her face Meanwhile back at old Methuselah’s You drop your paunch and all pretence Can you be as happy now as then Decaying functions waiting round the bend CHORUS Repeat
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The fairway 03:17
Lyrics: FORGOTTEN BY THE FAIRWAY Your DNA is twisted You never had any sisters You were rushed into existence And spent years finding shapes You might fit in An unnatural education Delivered like abrasions One reinforcement rule The more you need it, you’ll Find the more you have to wait And if the river’s so wide You cant see the other side It might as well be an ocean And all the sailors say If you pay off today You’ll be forgotten by the fairway And every person you befriended Have all eventually surrendered When your nihilism rendered Them devoid of any energy or hope And if free will is an illusion Lets all relax and go on boozing And if the little voice Is all that counts for choice There must be a (vacuous) silence In your head CHORUS Repeat
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Lyrics: BECAUSE I SAY SO So she’ll say Wipe your mouth North, east and south ‘Cause I say so Yes I say so Make a list And what you call this? Didn't I say so? Yes I say so Why’d you always See the faults and the worst in everyone Just for once Wont you show some faith What didn’t you pack I’m not turning back ‘Cause I say so Yes I say so Of course I do And I know you do too ‘Cause I say so Yes I say so I can feel the warmth Of a dozen different suns Every time I look at you Grab your coat Take life by the throat ‘Cause I say so Look its unalloyed A single crystal and doped with joy My love’s faithful I freakin’ say so We might have Just a little bit longer To joke And mess around There’s no turning back So take up the slack And kiss this cake hole ‘Cause I say so Yes I say so And you say so Go on an say so…

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released January 10, 2016

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