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written and recorded 26th to 29th April, 2020
Dedicated to Graham Darnell

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This slowed-down age of gifted months to fill
Kept all awake by wormholes being drilled
Into the nothing years of drifted time
Scenes of friends lost in nightclubs fluffing party lines
Still mortify me in my adult bed
Think of all those empty hours with her instead

This arrested era of time stood still
Is a chance to indulge in nostalgia for the unfulfilled
Expanses of your life where hope still applied
And not the daily resignation in which you now specialise
You say you'll catch up...and that's touching...but it's always late
Were all those empty hours worth the wait?

Another minor role for a bit part player
With all the advantages you had
Your underachievemnet was spectacular
A lie lip-synced with relief
Collides with this unpopular belief

A dose of corrosive boredom is good for your health
No need to journey inside yourself
Those twisted figures cannot apply
For they could never equal you plus I
Regret retreats with lust and loss
So young schemes can be filed away
All those empty hours were worth the wait

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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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