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Only Bad Actors

by Alex Brenchley

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1.
Stop complaining About the children on the telephone Let's make enemies That's how I pretend to be Friends with rhythmic entities
2.
Punctuation 03:02
Hiding your serious face You put your anti-suit on Now that we live in the two thousand and teens Too many are hyper aware of avoiding irony Now your suit and your tie are a question mark And that glint in your eye is a stab in the dark You remind me, my love, of several times we gave up We were the drain and the dreamer Caught between disdain and misdemeanour Now that your skirt is something to hang your wife from You play in the dirt with a semi-colon
3.
Mozarts 04:00
She huffs and puffs about the horizon Enough for us to rest our easy eye on The buckle of the belt flashes as it dangles Wasting away and everything we gambled. The bust cries for the torso England for the lasso Sometimes people call you (a giraffe) The criminally kind never go to prison But patronise the blind with modern ways to listen Stubborn tiny minds fall into position Sharpening the scalps with their quick decisions The shimmer of the skin as the day departs Each one of us a million Mozarts
4.
Joking Apart 02:32
Listening to the window is a pane I think the two of you are off on one again I could paint a thousand words But surely you get the picture If the joke comes at no one's expense Surely we're none the richer You should know you're too forward with your background story I'd interject if it didn't bore me I'll stand up for the sitting out Raise your glass to the rising eyebrow Just when I think I've nailed it You come at me like a hammer I try to avoid being impaled Me and my reflexive grammar I wish that I could rhyme mature with manure I think it's funny But then again, I'm not sure
5.
In between the city and the stone surrounding Underneath the ruins left to rest There's a home in you A home always near Stranded by the district and the burrough Baffled by the king and by the brother Dividing seasons by the daylight Hiding in the crossfire of the clouds
6.
Of The Roses 02:18
I I could dream That things aren't what they seem But I, I could not believe That people don't want masses and masses and masses to grieve It doesn't have to be of the roses Let's rub noses It doesn't have to be of the roses We don't have to be the Red Sea As it's seen by Moses Though all of the rights to the land's been agreed Confusion lays bare When Want becomes mixed up by Need
7.
London 01:36
Oh darling, You come from the north of my country But everything comes to the south To London Town Can you cast a country-wide silhouette? Can you turn a teardrop into a river-ette? Can you make the north and south connect? Oh darling, come to London Town Can you reduce the rails on the train track? Can you cut London a little slack? Can you make my only love come back? Oh darling, come to London Town Can you find a way to mend this polar rift? Do you remember before the Great Vowel Shift? Can you make London be more uplifted? Oh darling, come to London Town Oh darling, come to London now
8.
Broadcasting 02:32
You and your own Telephone In the corner Calling you In the corner Confusing your ABC with BBC
9.
I Know 01:37
I know you've got to make it by yourself But don't you think so does everyone else? I know, I know It's different 'cos it's you Well we both know that That just isn't true
10.
Graduate 01:28
Little boy, I saw you graduate And become the boy you thought you'd always hate And you were right because now you hate yourself Time to take the history book of the shelf And write it again You don't have to be the boy you know you'll always hate
11.
I'm with Alex Groves on this one When you're with your friends Sometimes there is a pressure to be yourself Something Martin said to me People only think of others As having one personality Unfinished stubs will burn you out Have your fill of dreams Half fulfill your dreams This is the end of you Because there's nothing left you have To say or to do What a stupid thing to say you know there's so much...
12.
The wind chill's picking up It's time to go This is no domestic drill It's a house in disrepute We have met the enemy and it is us Calling out the names of mum and dad's designs Flicking through the pages Only reading down the sides We have met the enemy and it is us Fighting yourself for all that your worth Defeated, you have won the right to drive your own hearse Duty sits beside the accolade's you're due Filtering the voices til all you hear is you We have met the enemy and it is us
13.
The sun is your skin Don't let too much in Safety first We're traveling at night, somebody let me drive I'm sure I can Cover me with holes Smother me for a long time in your water I'm on the mend I'm always arriving It takes just one of your love's initials to make slaughter laughter Sicko

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released May 7, 2015

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Alex Brenchley London, UK

Alex Brenchley is an artist & musician based in London. A cartoonist for many British publications including New Statesman & Literary Review, his work fuses low-fi comedy, spoken word and electro-acoustic songs into an open-ended parcel of silliness, sincerity and non-sequiturs. ... more

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