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It's only chemicals
And who wants chemicals when engines and sparks are at hand?
Young Penelope
Fool to biology
Felt sparks of a different kind
Her young man paid attention when she walked the aisle
And the Engine that Played through their Honeymoon
Drowned out the sound of her voice
All her pleas all her letters meant nothing at all
Will he love when she's gone?
He was an engineer,
Who wants an engineer,
when a lover is what you desire?
Young Penelope
Fool to Biology
Wept tears that he never saw
Her young man built his engines while she made plans
And the Engine that Played through their Honeymoon Drowned out the sound of her voice
All her pleas all her begging meant nothing at all
Will he love when she's gone?
When they sold her dreams of princess
They cut away her hopes
Wrapped them up in pretty bows
Sold to someone else
He was an engineer they found his fingers in the teeth of a cog on his desk
He muttered something about what she'd done with a hammer she found on shelf
And the Engine that played through their honeymoon
Silenced and leaking and dead
All the chemicals that mattered, the blood and the oil
Mixed on the workshop floor
Will he love her now she's gone?
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Tonight, tonight The railwayman conquers his heart.
Jack Rage is a master of the sidings
A wreck in the thick of things railwayman
Jack rage is aware of the tidings
Love is afflicting this railwayman
Tonight, tonight the meat tastes bad
Tonight tonight in this vulgar town
The railwayman's haunting the back streets
Beam of grey light
Jack Rage attacks
The railwayman lives for his engines
Circle of light
Grey tattered squares
Tonight tonight the railwayman conquers his heart
Jack Rage is a master of the sidings
He skips through the carriages one by one
Jack Rage isn't master of his own heart
A new blood flows through this railway man
Tonight tonight in this vulgar town
Tonight tonight you shouldn't look down.
The railwayman's haunting the back streets
Beam of grey light
Jack Rage attacks
The railwayman lives for his engines
The weak points are there
Clutch at her throat
Tonight tonight the railwayman conquers his heart
Tonight, tonight the meat tastes bad
Tonight tonight you shouldn't look down.
The railwayman lives for his engines
The weak points are there
Clutch at her throat
Tonight tonight the railwayman conquers his heart
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And I'll confess, I didn't know what I would find
I drew these maps, but I didn't make the marks that you see
Follow, follow said the letter and so I did
And I'll confess, I didn't know what I would find
Drawing maps should lead you so far astray
Hello my love look what I found
Hidden in a hole in the ground
I dug these metal claws out of the earth and I don't know why
I'll confess, it's strangest tale I have heard
I received this map, with instructions to follow and dig.
Dig dig dig, is what it said and so I did,
And now I'm bound to take what I found into town
Drawing maps shouldn't lead me so far astray
Are you the one who sent for me?
The will's executer?
Are you the one who wants these claws,
Are you the man I seek?
Put down the gun, I did as you asked
Put down the gun please
Drawing maps shouldn't lead you so far astray
Goodbye my love, cos what I found
Hidden in a hole in the ground
Has cost me everything that I hold dear
Cost me everything that we shared
Goodbye my love, where I go now
Is not shown on any map
I return to you if only I could
If only I knew the way
I dug those metal claws out of the ground and I don't know why
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I pushed the trolley,
that killed me dead
I pushed the trolley
that carried the corpse
That killed me dead
I pushed the trolley
That carried the corpse
the doctor cut the brain out of
That killed me dead
He placed it in a jar with chemicals
Electric pulses racing through the flesh
I pushed the trolley that carried the corpse the doctor cut the brain out of,
I watched the doctor meet the man that killed me dead
I pushed the trolley that carried the corpse the doctor cut the brain out of
I watched the doctor meet the man that shot the doctor through the head then killed me dead
Placed it in a jar with chemicals
Electric pulses racing through the flesh
Grey matter revived beyond its time
He thinks death’s an illness to be treated, the doctor said to me
Well even the dead can be cheated the doctor said to me
He asked for more than they agreed, the doctor’s dead
But the man in black spotted me, and so I fled
I’ve seen you have you seen me, have you come to shut me up?
His booted feet upon the floor, come to shut me up
The smoking gun in his hand come to shut me up
I don’t remember my last, Only what I saw
He placed it in a jar with chemicals
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It's like you're caught in a fever
Holding that cleaver
Little butcher boy
They're up to their necks,
but is that respect?
Little butcher boy
Say it's coming up roses
Coming up sweet
I bet they'd tell you anything
With you forcing the issue
Tying them up tight
Little butcher boy
Miss Alice has dimples and perfect white skin
She smiles as you let her in
Her smile turns to laughter as you bare your soul
White turns red and she has to go
It's all coming up roses
Spring will be here soon
As you work you hum a tune
Some kind of fever
Holding your tools
Little butcher boy
These bitter little pills they try to make you take
Have opened up doors and helped you escape
These bloody little cubes you're forcing down that drain
Won't help you escape from the law again
They say who you are.
Oh the looks you'll get
When they figure you out
The hearts you'll break
When they figure you out
The holes they'll dig
When they figure you out
And the knives they'll sharpen
When they figure you out
And the words they'll spit
When they figure you out
They shit they'll fling
When they figure you out
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Don't send me out there
With that scent on the breeze
Don't you know I'm hungry still?
Will I have to beg to be locked up again?
Don't want to wake up asking where Am I again.
The feeling starts to crawl
It's something animal
And there's only one minute left until nightfall
Gaps in my memory
Moments blank and red
days later my guts wrenching still
Will I stay a slave to these missing nights?
Don't want to wake up asking what am again?
The feeling starts to crawl
It's something animal
And there's only one minute left until nightfall
Two lovers walk hand in hand tonight
And two lovers walk hand in hand tonight
One lover runs home tonight.
So you send me out there
That moon heavy in the sky
Oh I'm hungry still
Won't ever beg
To be locked up again
The moon is full and the sky is red as blood tonight.
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August and Whiteface both took a bow
And fled to the caravan out back
As the audience roared their applause
They stuffed the corpse into a sack
August and Whiteface took a wrong turn
And met the gendarme on the road
They dropped the corpse, turned and they fled
But the black clad police hunt them down
If we take of our make-up they won't know us at all.
Let 'em swing let 'em swing
Come haul the rope up
They've earned this fate
Let 'em swing, let 'em swing
Stretch their necks out
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
August and Whiteface escaped before dawn
Cut the ropes around their wrists
Distracted guards, two broken necks
And they fled into the mist
If we take off our make-up they won't know us at all
If we take of our make-up they won't know us at all.
Let 'em swing let 'em swing
Come haul the rope up
They've earned this fate
Let 'em swing, let 'em swing
Stretch their necks out
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
Let them swing.
If we take of our make-up they won't know us at all.
If we take of our make-up they won't know us at all.
Let 'em swing let 'em swing
Come haul the rope up
They've earned this fate
Let 'em swing, let 'em swing
Stretch their necks out
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
Without their greasepaint they're nobodies
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released June 6, 2020
