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Summer in Fairyland

from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999) by fiffdimension

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Wasted days & sleepless nights in a land of steel dreams
The composer in his lair writes a wedding dirge
Somebody's feeling restless and somebody wants to kill
The joker has come apart; the knight in armour has no will
Somebody should have told them that the moon got a new tattoo
With a mouth full of broken teeth it's grinning down at you
Cigarettes and bare walls, sweeping up after the disco
Want to repeal the laws of physics and be the star of my own show
It's always summer in fairyland

The father confessor is a voyeur and god is a little boy
I'm the prophet of uncertainty and it brings me no joy
Mr Cheese strolls in with his smile and his dextrous tongue
If I could kick him in the balls with a sledgehammer I'd know my work was done
Psychological nuclear warfare left me bald and sterile
They'll either pin you up or nail you up, and expect service with a smile
My number is 667 and I live life to the empty
I fell in love with the locust queen whose beauty was deformity
It's always summer in fairyland

My life is full of plot holes, I am your ill-fitting shoe
The fat lady's singing and the cows are coming home, just watch me walk right through you
I stagger blind drunk into heaven and try to grope the angels
I laugh in the face of death, and then I headbutt the bastard as well
Heroes frozen into the ice, people shot by shooting stars
The angels can keep their harps, down here we got electric guitars
Happiness is shallow and misery is selfish, that may or may not be true
A dream can be real if you never wake up, is that all there is to you?

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from The Marion Flow (Taranaki, 1999), released August 8, 1999
Dave Edwards - acoustic guitar, vocal
Steve Duffels - percussion

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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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