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Volume One

by Desert Robot

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1.
Goodnight Sweetheart the time has come for us to sleep Angel raining those tiny jewels as you weep This is my serenade My lover's lullaby Someday we'll wake from this when tears are dry So long my darling, forever you'll be in my dreams Sunlight creeping, perhaps we'll wake and start again Goodnight Sweetheart the time has come for us to sleep Angel raining those tiny jewels as you weep This is my serenade My lover's lullaby Someday we'll wake from this when tears are dry
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Words from the Australian folk song "Moreton Bay" - The song may have been composed at the time of the death of the brutal commander of Moreton Bay, Patrick Logan, (or soon after) 18 October 1830. One Sunday Morning as I went walking by Brisbane's waters I chanced to stray, I met a prisoner, his fate bewailing, as on the sunny riverbank he lay "I am a native of Erin's island but banished now to the fatal shore, they tore me from my aged parents, and from the maiden that I do adore" "I've been a prisoner at Port McQuarrie, at Norfolk Island and at Emu Bay, at Castle Hill and cursed Toongabbie, at all those settlements I've worked in chains" "Of all the places of condemnation, each penal station of New South Wales, to Moreton Bay I've found no equal, excessive tyranny each day prevails." "For three long years I was beastly treated, heavy irons on my legs I wore, my back from flogging, it was lacerated and often painted with the crimson gore" "Many a lad from downright starvation lies a mouldering beneath the clay, where Captain Logan he had us mangled on his Triangles at Morton Bay." "Like the Egyptians and the ancient Hebrews we were opressed under Logan's yolk, 'til a native Black, who lay in ambush, did give that tyrant his mortal stroke" "All fellow prisoners be exhilirated, that all such monsters a death may find, and when from bondage we are liberated, our former sufferings shall fade from mind"
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Taken Under the stars Darkside The Locks and the Bars Redrum NW1 Madness (sought after address)
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Madge Skills 03:59
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Little bits and pieces of my broken time that I will never recover, coz they're no longer mine A train don't stop at this station, a wasted friday night, a wasted conversation - there's nothing in your eyes So I'm taking myself away coz I've got nothing good to say, yeah I'm taking myself away, coz I've got nothing kind to say Those days are long gone So I'm taking myself away coz I've got nothing good to say, yeah I'm taking myself away, coz I've got nothing kind to say Little bits and pieces of my broken time that I will never recover, coz they're no longer mine A train don't stop at this station, a wasted friday night, a wasted conversation - there's nothing in your eyes
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Soup Deluxe 04:49
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Little Plastic Head Infant Electric I should care for you, I know Your scream is going through me Day and Night Getting used to you Baby J
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Sixteen 04:06
Something like an infidel Caught between the sheets again Tossed into a life you don't know I could not pretend myself You couldn't face it on your own If only to return again You think you know enough by now You never want to be like them They show you up and put you down low I could not pretend myself I wouldn't go back there again Even with the things I know now Days to come - You're counting out Days to go - You're counting out The dangers and the thrills you don't know Sixteen Roll Fine You're counting out You're counting out Sixteen Roll Fine
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If I cut my face maybe the scar would look great baby I'm that kind of guy, yeah I'm the best you can find baby And if I raised my hand, Jack You'd better believe you'd stand back And if I raised my voice now, son You'd better get on your toes and run There aint no telling me
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Door A for regulation Door B for Lovers Cloud C for occupation Undiscovered Make way for simulation Engaging buffers Some sense of adulation Unrecovered Amongst the shovel-fed The other songs are calling Stop waiting for someone to make it happen Sit down for what you're given Stand up or shut up Roll over for a ringtone text a Lover Amongst the shovel-fed The other songs are calling Stop waiting for someone to make it happen Door A for regulation Door B for Lovers Cloud C for occupation Undiscovered Prepare for emulation log-in as user Embrace the regulation Don't be a loser Amongst the shovel-fed The other songs are calling Stop waiting for someone to make it happen It's up to you what happens ever after Leave something of yourself
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A frank exchange of views between friends Just who are we kidding again? Once the drugs wore off there was less to be said Those bonds are weak when subjected to stress I can see you're not impressed It's all tells and reveals kind of like being undressed and everyone knows how that feels A frank exchange of views between friends Who exactly are we kidding again?
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Who is the King of the Livewire? Who is the Pixeline Sire? Who put your name on the scoreboard? And how many times did you die? Who broke their way into strongholds? Who has a customised ride? Who made the most of the mushrooms? And which kind of kart did you drive? Who found the glitch to exploit it? Who stopped the rocket in time? Who got the hidden achievement? And how many times did you die?

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released April 7, 2014

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Desert Robot UK

Doom Pop for the whole family.
Desert Robot is a collaboration between Duncan Gray (electronica producer favoured by Andrew Weatherall) and guitarist Stu Mason. This is what happens when ultra heavy doom and sludge riffs get filtered through the world of pop music. Heavy, Psychedelic, Melodic, Cool. ... more

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