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"Less !​!​!​"

by He Dark Age

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1.
Stabbed 05:52
Here in the quiet I'm staring at the edge Of the dawn appearing Too late or too soon For redemption or rescues Or reasons for the words I cannot or will not Ever say ... These are memories That are distant and clouded Like the letters and photographs Strewn now across your floors Strange lives lived before Their stories mean nothing now But you cannot and will not ever Let them go CH: Pour another wine then step on outside Whisper your bitterness to the fragile sky Stand then fall, stabbed to the frozen winter ground Raise your fist, then slowly, slowly let it fall Back down
2.
Links 03:15
In the cold Of your Alone And the low birds In weak dawn Light You return to your dreams Your only Sanctuary Now your hands Aren't where they're supposed To be And your eyes Follow a floating World CH: The corners of my room Loom large in my view And report back to me Of links to the simple things like Love and loss Love and loss CH
3.
Song/s 03:21
I was happy and I was sad In the one breath The one that I had Just as I ... died Up there alone Destroying my own songs Songs that nobody knows Or will ever want to know Just like, just like this song Or any song yet to come I think of life and I think of death In the one breath, repeatedly One is here and one is near Small comfort that I know That my atoms (will) dissipate Into the universe Just like this song or any song yet to come CH: Accept, regret, effect, regret, forget Accept, regret, effect, regret, forget
4.
Intangibles 05:24
This is what it is Goodbye tomorrow, you've never meant a thing Goodbye tomorrow, and don't you come back Again (Largely inaudible ramblings) CH: I'm never right and I'm always wrong Doing things that will bring me undone I'll go now and leave you alone Thank me later when you're coming 'round Well that was what it was The rude mechanicals of velvet friends The remains of dismay Goodbye tomorrow, you never meant a thing Goodbye tomorrow, and don't you come back (Largely inaudible ramblings) CH (Largely inaudible ramblings) CHx2
5.
Galler 02:38
Ode to Joy Whoever that might Born into nothingness In 2023 And this nice young girl Killed the elderly Smashed them with a tyre iron Set them free, she said CH: The good gift to us The gravity of their time And so in tune are they We must bow, scrap and flagellate But no more And this nice young girl Killed the amutees Wrote 'born to die' On their bloodied knees CH M/8 CH
6.
ITC 03:34
Into the city The swollen city Where the people don't know And the people don't care About what you've done Or haven't done Outside the city In your shitty little town Where the people all know And the people all care About what you've done Or haven't done Now in the city The supine city Whrere the people don't know And the people don't care About what you do or don't do In their city This indifferent city Where you'll never get on And you'll never belong With anyone Or anything So you leave the city The failed great city And the people don't know And the people don't care That you've gone That you've left their city Their beautiful city Back to your home Your shitty little home
7.
Mirror 02:43
8.
A! 04:40
When the glasses decide that it's time to play And the air is silent in its long dismay No pipes are calling, no semaphores are raised Inherent sadness destroys the good that might be If there was any good in the world Destroys The world Two men on a train, smacked out, speak of love It would be kindness to kill them, but I don't I turn instead and watch the outside fly on by All is relative I know, them, me, the sky Fly away now On golden wings Seek out the stars See what tomorrow might bring Oh, fly away now On golden wings Seek out the stars See what tomorrow might bring Oh, and fly away now Fly away Oh, fly away now Fly away
9.
Fault 05:03
I think its gone this time Removed from all their tiny minds and Forgotten like the breeze that blew On the day that we first met CH: You and I The drunks The manic punch of our first kiss We fell into a deep abyss of lies We disguised with too soon calls of love Taken from the handbook Of how these things are meant to go Oh, no, no, no You can see now Its not our fault Sew the pillows of my disgrace Whereupon I can hide my face from The memories of the low life things I've done Or haven't done or could not do Not then and not now In this sad little place The curtain down on an one act play about CH: You and I The drunks The manic punch of our first kiss We fell into a deep abyss of lies We disguised with too soon calls of love Taken from the handbook Of how these things so often go Oh, no, no, no How these things so often go Now, oh, you can see Its not our fault Oh, no, no, no Its not Its not our fault

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A return to more guitar based songs. The title is a nod to the late Des Johnson who typically commented on any of our releases with the beautifully succinct 'Less !!!' ...

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released July 23, 2019

All songs written by Milner/Newsome

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He Dark Age Brisbane, Australia

He Dark Age is a collaboration between Paul Newsome (Pork, The Sump etc) and Tony Milner (Swell Guys, No-V-Bleet etc). We were mostly active from around 1986 to 1990 or so in Brisbane, but have started working together again with new releases from 2013. ... more

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