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My Old Friend

from Sluggerhand by a truth called nothing

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Dippy smile on your face
Well, I gave you a mystery
The lux of the tedium
Let's not borrow trouble

A grand old time
A sundress, radiant and clear
On European front steps
Someone to make you fall

I used to see the world in fragments
And so this is my tale
Transient as fire
And enraged at life

Old buddy, only the kings rise
Smell the stink of the great question
Stop hanging onto this god damned mess
The circus lie is fun, but it is tough

Disrepair in an indifferent embrace
It's for another time, in another place
And friends, you don't recognize this face
The times are different
Disconcerted and wildly ambitious

Now I heard you got married
Maybe that's true
A little tuneful reminiscence
But now, I'm whistling a different tune

You were the one I really wanted
One of those you can't forget
But now, I'm throwing it wild and free
Reusing old graves

A townhouse in a luxourious city
Locked in a photographic box
The vice of the commonplace
You will walk away alone tonight
Reusing old graves

Oh baby baby baby, only the kings rise
Stand up and smell the stink of the great question
Nothing to be gained by an explanation
I miss the caressing touch of your flesh

Once, there was only darkness
But look around, let the light surround you
Stop hanging onto this god damned mess
The circus lie is fun, but it is tough

You know, it's for another time – Another cry
Shadows and dampness in a cold embrace
And mother, you don't understand
The absurdity of the contemporary
Windy, ambitious and puffed up with pride
An unwavering belief in our virtues
This combination of recklessness and discipline
Virtues, subverted in something darker

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from Sluggerhand, released July 2, 2015

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a truth called nothing Stockholm, Sweden

The European atheist art-rock band, a truth called nothing, is made up of contrasts: they combine hi-i with lo-fi, death with joy. They have been active since the new millenium began, collaborating heavily with the european movement to legalize assisted suicide, as well as emerging at the forefront of the online phenomenon "Borgarkrossarna" ("The Bourgeois Breakers"). ... more

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