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Old Sage

from Keep Still by Santa Sprees

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Includes a reference to Nancy Reagan's astrologer,
Joan Ceciel Quigley (1927–2014), and other sages.

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Your girlfriend looks like Joan Quigley
La-la-lathered into states of thinking about her
Self-esteemed guides always see you right
She's your lamp in the darkest night

Oh, your girlfriend's own mind
Can't be read by the team outside
She refuses to spill her innermost thoughts
Even for cheques with lots of noughts

Is she shrewd or is she stupid
To deny all that she did?
She's a sage of the old variety
Inner peace and irritating piety
No one gets to her including you and me

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from Keep Still, released September 7, 2023
Written in 1998, recorded in Minami-Kashiwa, Japan in 1999.

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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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