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You Can't Complain
06:01
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The air is poisoned, fouled and polluted
The Earth itself is raped, pillaged and looted
You want to yell, protest and bomb things, 'cause everyone else is insane
But you drive a car don't you? You're guilty you can't complain
You open up a plastic container of some processed food
The stuff contains frog DNA and some chemical you can't pronounce
You don't even know what it is, but you want to throw it down the drain
But they warned you in small print on the label, so you can't complain
It looks like the offices and four-wheeled coffins are grinding you into the dirt
It seems like the computer tax collectors are out to get your shirt
But it's fair and written out in the rules, they will explain
You can't stand against the fine print and you can't complain
See the Americans taking over, with their Coca Cola and their rap
See the Japanese taking photos, see your home become a tourist trap
But you can visit Japan if you want, if you've got the money for the plane
If you don't like Coke you don't have to drink it, so you can't complain
If you go ahead and protest they'll put you in jail for a couple of months
The plastic people in suits were hairy rebels once
If you don't like civilisation, go live in the forest in the rain
With no power, no running water, either way you can't complain
You worry about freedom, how your feet are chained to the ground
Nah, your feet are free, you can do what you like but will bring the consequences down
You are almost totally free, to do anything but rage in your pain
If you're angry you can pay to see a doctor, no you can't complain
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Dave Edwards - electric guitar & vocal
Tim McVicar - bass
I say 'I love you', you say you gotta go
You got a date with some guy I don't know
Then it turns out it's my brother you're screwing
I don't know know what you're doing to my head
I don't need you to grind me down
I'd like to teach the world to sing discordant out of key
Against the city noises and the brainwashing TV
The fascist pop stations and the government lies
Superior is just inferior in disguise
I don't need you to grind me down
Spank me O God for I have sinned
But trying to talk to you is like pissing in the wind
You never listen to what I say or sing
You have the power but I can say anything
I don't need you to grind me down
'cause I can do it myself
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Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, vocal
Tim McVicar - percussion
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Everything you want you can make it come true
With a steel fist & an iron shoe
Smash all dreams like a pane of glass
See a shooting star, let it go past
Counterrevolutionary, shitting on the sky
No remorse in yr television eye
Engineered greatness and make thoughts out of plastic
Prepackaged happiness, bright & fantastic
Fairystomper, Fairystomper, open yr mind
Full moon up there, wasting its time
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Dead Eyes
03:35
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Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocal
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The Ghost
03:18
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Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, vocal
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Little Miss Metaphor
03:05
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Dave Edwards - electric guitar, vocal
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Killed in a Graveyard
05:59
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Dave Edwards - acoustic & electric guitars, vocal
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Midwinter Night
02:47
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Venus wrapped in rags lights another candle
Huddled shivering in a corner, with a limp wrist waves her magic wand
But the dark around is silent, closed in all around her
The sound of her breathing does not go far
They stood there to watch her slamming gracefully into orbit
The lovely ballerina, the butterfly under glass
Now the winter is upon her, she is undone by her own glory
The night is so deep, and the spirits do not answer her calls
The night is so deep, there are gravestones in the sky
She sits in military mindlessness, looking out from the tunnels of her eyes
Inside the cloud, her shooting star has fallen
Farewell to all good things that burn
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Yo Yo Song
03:08
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Dave Edwards - electric guitar, harmonica, vocal
Tim McVicar - bass, vocal
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Cold Mountain Blues
10:38
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Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocal
Tim McVicar - electric guitar
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King Street Boogie
04:51
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Dave Edwards - electric guitar
Brett, Ross, Tammy - percussion
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Eat the Noise
03:01
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Dave, Brett, Ross, Tammy - percussion, didgeridoo, vocals
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Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, kazoo, harmonica, vocal
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Outsider music from Aotearoa NZ and beyond, by Dave Edwards and collaborators (from 1856 to 2024).
Spans acoustic & electric noise, rock, folk, spoken word, postpunk, free jazz, gamelan, lo fi, electronica, & ethnomusicology.
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