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All The Cigarettes I Have Smoked

by Electric Jug

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1.
The Tide 04:25
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Swim where it is shallow Go to the gallows with your lover Not with me Sing songs of forever Say something clever to your lover Not to me And every single day I've felt the tide Take your secret lesson Make your confession to your lover Not to me Write your poems and verses Spit all your curses at your lover Not at me And every single day I've felt the tide Buy baubles and dresses Save your caresses for your lover Not for me Drink hearty and revel Go to the devil with your lover Not with me And every single day I've felt the tide And every single day I've felt the tide
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Lancaster Rose 05:40
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I’m keeping watch for The Lancaster Rose But where she has got to Nobody knows If you see her in Angel She’ll be wearing the finest clothes If you see her then pray tell The direction she goes The direction she goes Been searching the hillside For the Lancaster Rose I told myself that she’d hide Where the wild wind blows I came down through the valley I saw the river had froze And on my back, I still carry All my long, broken oaths All my long, broken oaths I ain’t never gonna make it There’s no way I can take it I don’t even know how to fake it Without the Rose I walked through the city night To find the Lancaster Rose Where the noise and the bright lights Say that we never close Best place to get started Was to follow my nose It ain’t for the faint-hearted All these long, lonely roads All these long, lonely roads I think of her nightly Lancaster Rose And I never tread lightly On all of my sorrows I cried to the darkness Tell the night wind all my woes Then I yield to the sharpness That the dawn must expose That the dawn must expose I ain’t ever gonna make it No way I can take it Don’t even know how to fake it Without the Rose She’s putting her shoes on The Lancaster Rose It’s the highway that moves on I suppose You won’t find her in castles She prefers those French chateauxs So I live in the past in Got the love in my bones Got the love in my bones Got the love in my bones Got the love in my bones
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Privileged White 05:12
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I’ll ride along even though I know it’s wrong But I ain’t too bright, I’m a privileged white And I got a choice, so I’ll make some noise But I sure won’t fight, I’m just a privileged white I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect Well I’ve got the schools and so I make the rules I know wrong from right, just a privileged white So I got the cash, and so I buy the hash Now I’m high as a kite, I’m a privileged white I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect I play the game, I ain’t got no shame But I got loaded dice, I’m a privileged white And I know it’s dark and you can hear me bark But I sure won’t bite, I’m just a privileged white I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect I can’t breathe Do you think it might be where you got your knee? Across my neck Your respect I play the game, I ain’t got no shame But I got loaded dice, cause I’m a privileged white So I ride along even though I know it’s wrong Cause I ain’t too bright, just a privileged white
4.
Wages of Sin 03:01
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I was fixin’ to love you it was all in vain I shouldn’t talk about the things you needed me to explain From out of the cesspool of my heart and brain I'm just a product of my own sad past A mediocre boxer who was plain outclassed And now I'm kissing the canvas, I've been handed my ass Heading down the open road Sixteen wheels, heavy load Treads on tyres wearing thin Don't give me a lot of time To spend the wages of sin (And I got a lotta money coming in) Take me to Glasgow in an old Rolls Royce Where I can drown in Mariella Frostrup's voice Yeah, that's the way that I would check out, given the choice It's 'Farewell My Lovely', the best movie to screen It’s 'Casablanca', it’s 'The Searchers', it’s 'All About Eve' When the world is too much for me, I don't know if I'm Jack or Steve Heading down the open road Sixteen wheels, heavy load Treads on tyres wearing thin Don't give me a lot of time To spend the wages of sin (And I got a lotta money coming in) I’m gonna love you forever cos a deal is a deal And you can make me come a running like you make a dog heel Or you can rub my nose in shit, depends on how you feel Heading down the open road Sixteen wheels, heavy load Treads on tyres wearing thin Don't give me a lot of time To spend the wages of sin (And I got a lotta money coming in)
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Tiny Matters (Something New) 07:19
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The world just ‘bout broken Burnt out and spent Something deep within you woken but you’re still busy making rent A vision of something better But do the old rules still apply? Well, if you don't send out that letter you won't get no reply I know the daily grind it’s so unkind It really gets you in its teeth So what the hell you might as well Just instigate the tiny matter of belief Just come on down, let’s go to town for something new The future, it’s a gamble Everybody placing bets Everywhere I look’s a scandal like the price of cigarettes And all the creatures of injustice They roam everywhere unchecked Well when we sit here and do nothing what the hell do we expect? They're gonna kill them all your children They’re gonna choke up all the earth But if we fight them then we might just Instigate the tiny matter of re-birth I tell you what, just grab a lot of something new You block the sky behind your curtain Cos your lover made you cry I know how you're hurting but now someone else has caught your eye They say once bitten Can we put it off for another day? Hey, can you show me where it’s written you've got to hide yourself away I know the pain, I know the shame I know your broken-hearted dreams They make you mad and make you sad But they contain the tiny matter to redeem Just take a chance and learn to dance with someone new So what are you clinging to? You got nothing left to lose After witnessing the demise of our blue suede shoes Hey what do you want me to stop for? Is my change offending you? You think I deserve to be preserved in your old point of view There ain’t no help coming from nowhere Especially not from above But with some sharing and a fair wind We just might instigate the tiny matter of love When it’s said and done, we’re getting some of something new
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Little Victories 03:46
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If you find your luck is changing for the worse and you can't find your bed You must listen very carefully to all the things she leaves unsaid Don't give me any advice cause I need it like a hole in the head This world is going all to hell and I'm already two steps ahead When you're slipping down the steep and rocky road with your shoes worn to the sole And you drop onto your ass because you think that it will ease your fall But you’re picking up speed and you’re heading for a smooth brick wall And all your precious little victories they don't seem to matter now at all California used to seem like paradise when you saw it on TV But the sand gets into all your dirty clothes when you’re sleeping rough on Venice beach That’s the kind of guy you’re dealing, the one who is always out of reach And you look lovely in your pink dress though you still insist to me that it's peach Pretty soon the cops will find out where I live and be breaking down my door They got a lot of unsolved crimes that someone somewhere has to answer for And if you want to throw the book at me, go ahead cause I ain't running anymore I hear the judge is pretty fair unless you've been up in front of him before
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All The Cigarettes I Have Smoked 05:48
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On a cold winter night Mother gave birth to me Sometime way back in the last century Born into hunger Mortar and bricks Born on the wrong side of the river Styx There’s only one way out If you want to escape from the dale Put your foot on the gas and the wind in your sail Head north of the border You can take what you find Where the accent is strange but the people are kind Hang up the phone You've got your heart broke It’s just one of the many cigarettes I have smoked When you're down on the bottom It's a question of faith Got the dole in your hand, now go get your eighth It's a curious thing When your dream comes true It's just never the way you expected it to It comes with a punch in the gut It comes with a sweet tender kiss Sometimes you think that God he's just taking the piss Have kids of your own Find happiness unbound But careful they're sleeping so don't make a sound Take the applause For some lines that you spoke It’s just one of the many cigarettes I have smoked Find someone who loves you Settle down for a while You can move on its easy you just break someone's smile Put your feet on the sofa And just settle back It's a matter of time before you crack Yeah, you can take a vacation Yes, you can go down and lay in the sun You never know what you might stumble upon Go visit the Goddess She's taking her bath You can ask her to help you if she needs a laugh Inhale deep Careful now not to choke On one of the many cigarettes I have smoked
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Sounds Right Feels Wrong 04:55
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Fire up the engine I’ve got a new app for your phone Filled with like-minded people So you don't feel all alone You wanted to blend in This is the new cool space Keeping you healthy Track and trace You can watch a beheading You can download a song That sounds alright Feels all wrong Smile for the camera It’s on every street And we only shit out All of the things that we eat And all of my scandals My chauvinism It ain't me baby It's just my algorithm This ain't no Big Brother It ain't no King Kong Sounds alright Feels all wrong A thousand ‘likes’ on my timeline For my really witty tweet We're taking you live now to the West Bank Netanyahu washing feet Money for nothing And your chicks for free You don't need to be Einstein to know that It’s Dire Straits we're in You want to be an influencer? Take a selfie in a thong Sounds alright Feels all wrong Take a closer inspection The numbers they don't lie Unless they're from government channels In which case just watch those pigs fly And don't talk of my protection It don't carry no weight You're gonna wake up in the morning In a police state There nothing to see here Just move along Sounds alright Feels all wrong
9.
Light 03:29
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I read between the lines, I didn’t see the light I never realised the morbid aspirations of my inner child Gave me a lonely life I watch the moon and tide, I didn’t see the light I went and crawled inside the sordid inclinations I had fantasised I got the second prize What we do in darkness must be brought into the light I float above the sky, I didn’t see the light Instead I weaponised my maudlin dedication to a sense of style Got me a suit and tie Digging for buried lies, I didn’t see the light Murder or suicide, the bored investigations of my private eye Gave me no alibi All your hidden secrets must be placed within plain sight What we do in darkness must be brought into the light
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Searching Every Corner 03:34
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The world in which I placed myself is crumbling before my eyes The ones to whom I gave myself were hatred in disguise I tried to make them love my heart but my body they despised My love was so sincere they had to bury it in lies I wrote myself a letter to tell me of my shame But I also live with cowardice and so the letter never came I cannot pay the price of joy, the price of joy is pain But if she comes back to my door, I know I’ll pay her once again I was blinded by the darkness, so I didn’t see the gold I couldn’t hear you Jesus, never did what I was told The room in which I live is filled with emptiness and cold But I’m searching every corner for someone I can hold

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released February 25, 2022

Electric Jug are Jack Lord, Martin Gilchrist and Alistair Brown

All lyrics by Steve Lord and music by Electric Jug; except drums by Richard Brown on tracks 1, 5 and 10 and backing vocals by Sara Gatland on track 2

Recorded between May 2020 and November 2021. Produced by Al Brown

Thanks to Andy, Bjorn, Dave, Gordon, Jim, Nicky, Paul, Rich, Sara and Steve G

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