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Honestly, I Stole This

from Perversity Is Its Own Reward by He Dark Age

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Word and music originally written by Newsome c. 1997 (apart from some borrowing from Celine).

lyrics

In the rented words we've butchered
The borrowed shoes that we've scuffed
In the broken hues of tomorrow
The touch of that blackened sky
We can feel the pain of each other
As we burden ourselves with our lives
And the time we waste on each other
Our eyes can't disguise the demise

On the train home, yeah
In the checkout queue, oh fucking yeah
In the quiet of the evening's roarings
The glacial calm of my sleep

Whistle stop, the grey beards gather
Eyeing off the platform edge
The great noise of tiny resentments
Echoes on down the line
All hail the kings of indifference
High priests of pointlessness
Not for us the grand gestures
Not for us the final stand

On the train home, yeah
Dead drunk on the lounge, oh fucking yeah
In the quiet of the evening's roarings
The glacial calm of my sleep

On the journey to the end of the night, yeah
Death on the instalment plan
How do we find the strenth tomorrow
To do again what we endured today?

On the train home, yeah
In the checkout queue, oh fucking yeah
Staring blankly at the TV screen, yeah
Dead drunk on the lounge, oh fucking yeah
On the train to work again ...

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from Perversity Is Its Own Reward, released August 17, 2017
Newsome - guitars, synths, vocals, samples
Milner - bass, guitars

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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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