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Back There

from Keep Still by Santa Sprees

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I thought everybody grew up like this.

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(And now, more psycho-historical speculation)

Tumble in thistle and thrash through corn
Show your mettle over nettles and your scars from thorns
Pour fuel on a wasps' nest and climb the highest tree
Hide from witches play with matches
Twenty one kids staging world war iii

Torture insects and make rope swings
Dam the stream and play out dreams
There's nothing harder on the world than the little things

Craft bows and arrows and guns with care
Air-rifle geese and pull girls' hair
You might remember it soft but it's a jungle back there

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from Keep Still, released September 7, 2023
Written in London in 1996. Recorded in Minami-Kashiwa, Japan 2000

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Santa Sprees

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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