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Strange Sugar

by Invocal

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1.
Bubblewrap 03:35
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Sugar, you are pushing your luck You’re a silly girl, you- You are not all true Fast forward to the 9 word squall “It’s all gone wrong and it’s not my fault!” You’ve made a lovely home with attractive fabrication Marzipan insulation, white washed walls Everything is sweet until your enemy The Truth Comes knocking at your door like the Big Bad Wolf (Chorus) Stop the show Words to you are bubblewrap and sprinkles and snow Time to let me know or let me go Yes or no, yes or no Yes or no yes or no-oh-oh-oh-oh La da di! Yabba dabba doo I got an answer from you! I wonder if it’s true Or more protection, confection, eventual rejection and gloom Oh you may kid yourself your problem is You’re trying to please everyone But is it more that everyone should always think you’re the special one? The difference is significant, and you my friend magnificent – Un-altruistic narcissistic patronizing **** Mandolin! ..... Cello! You’ve made a lovely home with attractive fabrication Marzipan insulation, white washed walls Everything is sweet until your enemy The Truth Comes knocking at your door like the Big Bad Wolf (Lovely home, super show, sugar glow, pretty snow Everything’s pretty sweet…) (Chorus) (it is time) Words to you are handy tools They help you out and keep you cool They’re sugar sprinkles, pretty jewels They’re bait for strangers, sweets for fools They’re bubble wrap, smart deflection Nobody is grateful For your protection... you b***h (Chorus)
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Josie oh Jo 04:17
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Josie oh Jo you’re a helluva girl You’re a star You’re strong but I’m certain We’re gonna get hurt in this bar Your skin has gone pale And your jeans won’t stay up past your arse The customers notice and laugh “get ‘em off, get em off’ - Jose People are gory And terrible stories get passed Bout girls that have needs And the time of the night When yes and no aren’t that far apart Our new friends aren’t true friends Of that I am certain enough The leers and the cheers “get em off get em off get em off” Jose (eeeeee) Josie oh Jo it is impossible to understand everyone (Josie Josie oh Jo you’re a helluva girl) Most of them are cool, most are harmless and like you (But you’re lonely – I’m lonely too and it’s) But one or two are in fact actual scum (making me do things I won’t be) Decisions are made in the most indecipherable way (Happy I’ve done but I’m still going under oh) Distorted importance the bubble, the trouble we face (stop me) Josie oh Jo get em off get em off get em off me (Josie oh jo get em off get em of get em off get em off…) Get em off get em off get em off get em off get em off me Distorted importance the bubble, the trouble we’re facing It’s enough it’s enough it’s enough it’s enough it’s enough see It’s insane to think we’ll handle Any of this plan This is stupid smash and grab and get em off Jose Places take and people change Hale devolve and the mental age At an alarming speed are we harming people Or are they harming themselves? People take and places change Try you may, can’t recreate a certain Balmy evening, that parting feeling Or that safe little spot on your own (get em off…) Be faithful Be thankful We’ll take a spiritual angle This empty trust becomes us Oh just enjoy the numbness Your darkness, your lessons Your Hans Christian Andersons You shout inside your head But never say a word out loud to me (eeeee) (get em off…) I shout inside my head But never have I said I am not as strong as you, Josie.
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Love's young dream 05:48
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Som-ni-o tim-our… You have the smile of a doomed woman Tortured and tired but strangely euphoric That’s what I thought when I met you that night In the Black Prince You have the look of a terrapin Solemn face, hard case, soft on the inside That’s what I thought on reflection It might have been the absinthe I miss you (I miss you) I miss you more (No I miss you more) I miss you so much I’ve been crying Throwing myself against a wall Screaming your name Ok it does sound like you miss me more But I love you (I need you) I love you more (No I miss you more) I love you I want you I worship you Follow you Haunt you and swallow you Dote on you God it’s a shame that… We are so badly matched its unreal A simply terrible cosmic error will Surely explain this appalling arrangement We’re so unsuited it’s untrue Venus and Mars will have rolled around laughing When they programmed me hopelessly in love with you You are so… good (…thanks!) You have the way of a cabbage-patch kid Yes you are unique but you’re really not that sweet Oh no no no no And you give me the creeps You are as bad as a black… -Woh! That’s Racist! …widow -Oh sorry. Devout carnivore you devour those that bore you Your venom goo is seeping through You have the manner of a kiss-a-gram at a funeral Brazen, bizarre and deeply inappropriate Every caress brings another fine mess But the good bits are stopping us Stating the obvious… We are so badly matched its unreal One should never kiss one’s nemesis What can I do, you are such a good screw We are so unsuited it’s untrue Aphrodite went all spiteful and premenstrual Determined me terminally in love with you It’s just so….gay You have the look of a drunk who wants to Change their past with magic potion Got to love the talent of a lady who Doles out advice for other people’s lives But when it comes to pathos doesn’t have a clue You’re such a little hero in your kaftan But sanctimony doesn’t make you Batman Da-na-na-na Gotta keep on running If we stop and think we’re done in This is bloody Armageddon And you bloody do my head in This is evil and unnatural And I thought we wanted casual This is not exactly what I planned I thought you were a one-night stand We are, we are, we are so-o-o We are, we are, we are so-o-o in love
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Madalini (Live 2009) 04:43
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a-1 a-2 a-1 2 3 4! I heard a woman took carrying a cross-bow, That way no-one was inclined to try and speak to her Small talk, niceties and tittle tattle only made her mean Good girl It wasn't that she was averse to interaction, More that years of serving beer and bar banalities Meant her tolerance had wavered over certain things Over most things actually. "Oh shame! Symptom of society or Some same sentimental piety This country's just gone down, down, down. I say - another scary tale have you Read, in The Daily Mail is this Seat free?" I wouldn't recommend it. Peyow! Peyow! Pwyow! (INS) A-ha-ha-ha-hha-ha-ha-ha hoh! Now don't you worry Madalaini's little cross bow Only launches rods with little orange sucker pads She makes a point of never using actual weaponry Not since the accident But even still, poor Madalini gets an ASBO, Who'd have thought her charming silence loving subtlety Would lead to an encounter with a WPC I don't think they're called that anymore. Shut up, Rachel. "Oh shame! Symptom of society or Some same sentimental piety This country's just gone down, down, down. I say - the world's gone mad and everybody's gay And have you seen the weather Is this seat free?" I wouldn't recommend it Peyow! Peyow! Peyow! (INS) No fair - they took away the cross bow Life's tough but you gotta learn'a let go We all do - it's kinda good for you These towns'll get ya if ya let them Close you in with fumes and threats then punish When ya get a small bit screwy and Oh GOD enough - I don't want this fuss Maybe read my look Let me read my book……..or die.
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Tinnitus and me (Live 2009) 05:04
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We were watching street performers in the sun And I cowered as you proclaimed "Oh the things you see when you've not got a gun" And wondered why I walked away You see, you're not comedic You're a let down You're a plagiarist at best and Either you learn now Or some juggler's gonna get you good The girl that works at alldays Will smash in your face And the man from Marks'll finish you - leave you with tinnitus and Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee You were born of those almost reptilian And with climate you can change I am colder now then you have ever been And you're conveniently deranged It seems that as an actor And a musician Your plans don't come to fruition But as an addict You're surprisingly pro-active You steal - you're not bohemian 'cos you've no freedom You can't leave the sleaze you're buried in You may well be running - you can't stop the ringing … (eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee ) "ooooh lets just get wasted, baby ooooooh you look like you need it, darling oooooh lets just erase this, baby ohhhh and go somewhere seedy… darling" (spoken) Well now I have a headache And I didn't want this anyway The squalor in the attic And the death in the living room I didn't want the sound of a key in a door to cause a rush of despair And a bolt for the first floor The man who we owe money to's Not even in the country And the bitch who shares our House won't stop complaining 'bout the humming And I dunno how you're doing this, But she can hear your tinnitus And I can just hear promises that bond us then evaporate You've really done it now you know, You've gone and got it wrong again The sea's full of disease and all the streets are full of people Who would kill you soon as see you And they'll hurt me if they hear you so just Keep the ruddy noise down and just drop it and Christ, let's just GO

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*Gasp* Invocal's tantalising and titillating (we imagine) new EP. It's an exclusive album preview plus two marvelous live tracks, chronicling the band's irrepressible live wonderfulness.

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released December 19, 2009

Music & lyrics by R. Swayne

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