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All Very Twenties Said The Asp

from Sum Total Of Insolent Blank by Santa Sprees

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written and recorded 25th to 29th March, 2020
Dedicated to Philip Scowen

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All very twenties said the asp
Took a plumbline to cut your bob
I could rest a Bible on your eyelashes
Roaring lioness, where is the catch?

The Weimar Republic was always dear to her
Her words fog the crystal ball
Its browny glass shatters rather rudely on Kristallnacht
Her butcher beheads a fawn rather proudly
Sticks it over the mantel
Calls it a ritual
Proclaims it natural
Why wouldn't you follow in line with the wrecks and clergy?
Beggars born to only ask for money
Sequinned lioness, where is the catch?

Took a global pandemic to lose my job
Under snowflake martial law
Me and Karl Marx have got the whip hand now
My caring forever withdrawn

Red tide to purify
And blood-rinsed collection plates
Along an unlit fire escape
The march to April ends in May

Gather wood and fill your flask
The pyre will singe unholy flesh
We could burn a Bible while we're at it
Greying lioness, you just don't get it
All very twenties said the asp
Joined the breadline to look the part
He said the food banks were just like a club
We could come along if we were good

Took chest high seawater to change our ways
Under the wilderness of natural laws
Sod and Groucho Mark have got the last laugh now
Our labour finally withdrawn

All very
All very twenties said the asp
All very twenties
All very twenties
All very twenties
All very twenties said the asp

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from Sum Total Of Insolent Blank, released July 17, 2020

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The Anglo-Japanese band Santa Sprees have been advancing the art of unpopular song since 1994. Making questionable progress from the low-skilled, no-fidelity, no wave of their earliest cassettes to the largely futile primitive avant bubblegum of today, releasing ten collections to date on a trail of defunct labels and media. ... more

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