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Are You Living in Legoland?

by The Unbelievable Truth

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1.
Smoke 02:46
One tiny thing she says One tiny thing she does And it all goes up in smoke again One little move she makes One little song she sings And it all goes up in smoke again She's dancing on a high wire She's tripping on a dream She's living off tomorrow And it's ripping at the seems And it all goes up in smoke again And it all goes up in smoke again I can't help the way I feel and I can't help the way I am And you can't help the way you feel and you can't help the way you are And it all goes up in smoke again And it all goes up in smoke again One tiny thing she says One tiny thing she does And it all goes up in smoke again She's dancing on a high wire She's tripping on a dream She's hanging like a scarecrow That's ripping at the seems And it all goes up in smoke again And it all goes up in smoke again And it all goes up in smoke again
2.
The bat-wing girl flies around the room she is caught a thousand miles from the moon but she is happy, happy as a bat-wing girl can be because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me The bat-wing girl says, "shhh," I am a bat-wing girl and bat-wing girls don't talk in bat-wing world I'd like to fly, just bat-wing girl and me, and be bat-wing girl's bat wing boy, for she is caught a thousand miles from the moon and she flies, she flies around the room but she is happy, happy as a bat-wing girl can be because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me bat-wing girl and me
3.
You look like porcelain lying in my bed at night you look like porcelain to me I'm afraid that you might break like porcelain, late at night I'm afraid that you might break for me And when the daylight comes I wake to find you in my arms and when the daylight comes it's porcelain for me And when the sun rises it's porcelain in my eyes and when the sun rises it's porcelain for me You look like porcelain lying in my bed at night you look like porcelain to me I'm afraid that you might break in my bed, late at night I'm afraid that you might break for me And when the daylight comes I wake to find you in my arms and when the daylight comes it's porcelain for me porcelain for me porcelain for me porcelain for me
4.
Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland is suburbia Suburbia: A place where they tear down trees and name streets after them; Where we pay our taxes so politicians can build towers – monuments to themselves, phallic symbols for a pompous gits. Bigger fish: Like a dead man staring at me and asking why I put him on TV – Why? Why is he dead for being black? Like I said, bigger fish. Like bodies in a river – thousands of bodies in a river, thousands. Bigger fish. Like, why does money ruin everything? (I would like to ask Juan Antonio Samaranch that one) Like I said, bigger fish. And just what did happen to the Waltons? (at least we could laugh at them, if nothing else) I can’t laugh at a dead man on TV, or BODIES IN A RIVER! Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland is suburbia Apathy: So it gets harder to understand why things are really getting worse when they appear to be getting better. Like, why is my local pub serving overpriced imported beer? And why are all the bar staff young, barely dressed, blonde females? And why has Germaine Greer come out of reclusion if things are so much better now? And why are the young so vacant? (didn’t we learn anything from LSD?) Acid, yeah man, acid is back in fashion… if you can afford it. And if you can’t, you just get more vacant and less enlightened – UNTIL YOU DIE! Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland is suburbia Vacant smiles: No one knows the end product anymore. Hell, we could all be making Atomic bombs but we wouldn’t know it, no siree: ‘Just tighten that screw, weld that join, add another piece of that gunk there, Jim-Bob; and hide that plutonium when the inspector comes around.’ Because we all know those inspectors are spies anyway. Inspector – spy – inspector – spy And they all have bigger fish to fry, anyway. Bigger fish. FUCK! … Soon there’ll be no bigger fish If we don’t stop dumping our shit in the ocean And cutting down all the trees And pumping noxious crap into the air. And we’re doing it all with vacant fucking smiles So we can build our own grown-up version of LEGOLAND! Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland … Suburbia Legoland is suburbia Legoland: genetic engineering biological warfare weapons(?) of mass destruction CIA (Contra’s and missiles) IRA FBI JFK Terror is the truth And the truth is a crime. Open your eyes, people It’s OK to criticise, people Look around you, people Do things confound you, people? Then confront you local Member of Parliament Ask difficult questions And demand direct answers After all that is what they are there for Our taxes pay their salaries And if you’re not satisfied with the answers Don’t be afraid to break the law if that is what it takes Your conscience is more legitimate than any arbitrary rules Lock-on to a bulldozer if a Tuart forest is about to go under its blade. Demand an environmentally friendly tidal power station Don’t let politics dictate that a gas or coal or nuclear are ‘better’ They’re fucking not! You have the power to control your own destiny I have the power to control my own destiny WE have the power to control our own destinies. The power is in your voice The power is in my voice The power is in OUR voices. So stand up and be heard, people STAND UP AND BE HEARD AND BE LISTENED TO PEOPLE! Open your eyes, people It’s OK to criticise, people Look around you, people Are you living in Legoland?
5.
The bat-wing girl flies around the room she is caught a thousand miles from the moon but she is happy, happy as a bat-wing girl can be because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me The bat-wing girl says, "shhh," I am a bat-wing girl and bat-wing girls don't talk in bat-wing world I'd like to fly, just bat-wing girl and me, and be bat-wing girl's bat wing boy, for she is caught a thousand miles from the moon and she flies, she flies around the room but she is happy, happy as a bat-wing girl can be because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me because tonight is bat-wing night for bat-wing girl and me bat-wing girl and me

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released January 18, 2013

All words & music by B M Hunter, except Legoland in Suburbia - words by B M Hunter, music by B M Hunter, D DIvall, V. Samuels & J McCleary.


Musicians:

Smoke: B Hunter (guitar & vocs), J Rowbotham (drums), M Carl (bass)

Bat-Wing Girl: B Hunter (guitar & vocs), J Rowbotham (drums), M Carl (bass), E Morrison (guitar), I Donald (keyboard)

Porcelain: B Hunter (guitar & vocs), J Rowbotham (drums), M Carl (bass), I Donald (keyboard)

Legoland in Suburbia: B Hunter (guitar & vocs), C Cooper (bass), M Rodrigues (guitar), C Fell (drums)

Bat-Wing Girl (Acoustic): B Hunter (guitar & vocs), J Rowbotham (drums & bass)


Smoke, Bat-Wing Girl, & Porcelain recorded and mixed at Song Lounge studio, Reservoir Vic by Matt Collyer

Legoland recorded and mixed live at Soundsuite Studio, Bassendean WA by Brett.

All songs mastered by Simon Paul at ninety nine 100, Melbourne Vic.

Produced by Bradley Hunter & Matt Collyer

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The Unbelievable Truth Melbourne, Australia

The Unbelievable Truth is a Naarm (Melbourne) three-piece alternative/post-punk style band with a slightly dark edge, but with catchy melodies and danceable rhythms. Along the lines of The Smiths or Joy Division. They have been described as "Kinda like a modern Depeche Mode". ... more

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