Emerging From Gorse

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 Well, it must have been about half 
past two in the morning, and just 
sitting there in the front
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room, with Carl and Brendan and 
Adrian. We’re just sitting listening
 to music, drinking tea,
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talking about the Palace Brothers, 
Bonnie Prince Billy, that kind of 
thing. All of a sudden the
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room fills with a harsh brightness 
and in barges my sister mob-handed 
from cream. She points
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at the speakers on the stereo and 
starts chanting: “Shit band, no 
fans. Shit band no fans.”
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Well, I’m just about to defend our 
corner when her mate Natalie at the 
back pipes up with:
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“Yeah, the windy minimalism of that 
last track recalls some of 
Labradford’s isolationist period.”
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Thoroughly defeated, I retired 
upstairs to bed, left them to it. 
However, step forward three
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years into my secret hayloft, shot 
with shafts of afternoon sunlight:
Continúa después del anuncio
D                           
Brendan’s changed his name to 
          D7
Federal Metronome.


A7        D      G        A7   
  Did you see me, being 
            D
escorted round the ground?
        G       E            A7  
Motorola in the pocket of my 
   D       G
Wampum jeans –
         A7         D     G      
Over the amber Continental I made
   E             Eb
 a comic bid for freedom.


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There are a million retired liberals
 watching “Countdown”. And in the 
adverts the close their
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eyes and they go to Umbria with 
Carol.
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Oh Carol. Oh Carol.

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They subscribe to “Erotic Review” 
because it’s broadsheet acceptable, 
and they can read it
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in bed with their partners and 
perhaps try out suggested oils. Ah, 
but they still feel the need
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to board an EasyJet to Amsterdam 
every now and again.
         D                         
‘Cos you can’t get “Teenage Eskimo”
    D7
 in Wantage.


A7        D      G        A7   
  See the keepers hanging 
         D
rancid in the glade
        G           E      
Arconada, Pfaff and Bats and 
         A7      D    G
Joseph-Antoine Bell.
           A7             D        
I hope for answers in the distance,
G      E        Eb
 far beyond dim sierras.