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Chairs to Tie the Revolution Down

from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999) by fiffdimension

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Dave Edwards - electric guitar & vocal

New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1999

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I woke up sober it was useless deceiving
that midnight walls of the room were not breathing,
cancelled eyes & cancelled mind,
bored with things that I've never tried

Chairs to tie the revolution down
as the tidal throbbing becomes the only sound
forced in upon the silent seas
listening to the pretty pleas

Climbing up infinity's winding stair,
blood drying in your hair -
a million miles down the barrel of a gun
words sneak through a slave to the pen

The corpulence of leisure
seeps through the house & cannot be measured
& I'll be wandering through, filthy with rain,
& the hole in my pocket lets out a mile of change

Growing & crawling into massive mediocrity, the stars upon your side

I'd rain destruction on the hit parade
I'd choreograph death & make them afraid
but everything fades, like it always must,
leaving only hunger & lust in the dust

Surrounded by prostitutes with neon makeup,
stealing from a beggar's cup
I cannot hold them off with a pocket full of rhymes
it's just like a schoolboy writing lines

& when the hall of opposites finish wearing each other down
what else is left but the tidal throbbing sound?
You're a dancer out of control but you will survive
& be burning well past midnight, it's OK to be alive

But there are those who will teach you to loathe & fear the sun
& chairs to tie the revolution down

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Dave Edwards - electric guitar & vocal

Recorded by Paul Winstanley at the TFC Lounge, New Plymouth, New Zealand, June 1999

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from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999), track released June 23, 1999
Dave Edwards - electric guitar & vocal

New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1999

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fiffdimension Featherston, New Zealand

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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