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Launchpad to Now
08:49
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Part 1: Gentle Rain on my New Porsche
Part 2: I Remembered You:
I remembered you, the day before tomorrow
Remember me
Part 3: Andromeda Samurai:
She sends sparks of blue devotion shimmering in silent pools of joy
And the warrior who meets her hails the Space Force admiral "Ahoy"
Lonely was the voyage on her way from Mars
Skipping past the comets and the quasars
Meet me yesterday, I will find you (Andromeda samurai)
Journey homeward to yon galaxy within you (warriors in the sky)
Meet me yesterday, I will find you (Andromeda samurai)
Journey homeward to infinity within you
Part 4: Lift-off to Now:
I remembered you the day before tomorrow
When I found the hidden console on the launchpad to Now
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Screens
04:31
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We didn't read that much or watch too much TV, so I guess we talked or we just sat around with tea
But now I'm glued to my chair and I'm glued to my screen
Cos I've got it all there, and as long as I keep myself high I'm steady
How did we know about so much stuff? Was our memory better when we couldn't look things up?
Losing the will to move, my brain feels older
I try to turn over a brand new leaf but it feels like a boulder
My mind shuts off too much to dream, but if I dreamt I'd dream of screens
Before there was radio, before there was print, they had to make their entertainment but now I wouldn't know where to begin
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Oh Diego
03:19
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Oh he had the ball stuck to his toes as he danced around defenders with elbows in his nose
Oh he was a diamond from the slums, with injections for his back pain and cocaine on his gums
Everybody loved him and everybody cried except the ungracious English who childishly denied that the tiny Argentinian was as good as it got
They hated him cos he was hot
Oh Diego, the gammons still call you a cheat
Oh Diego, they're jealous of your magic feet
Peter Shilton, footballing history's chump, he's still complaining about a 5'4" player by whom he was coolly outjumped
Send my regards to Fidel
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Took a Rocket
02:28
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In Outer Space you're free to rock wherever you like
I took a rocket to the other side: space warp, standard speed by 9 (take off your jacket, take off your jacket)
I commandeered a Vesuvian jet: heat shield, force field, no sweat (take off your helmet, take off your helmet)
I rock hard in the asteroid belt: full frontal, full tilt, full pelt (take off your trousers, take off your trousers)
I got a circuit breaker on my lovin' cup, I go ballistic if the beat lets up (I said your trousers: they're not your trousers)
Fly into the sun
I kiss the ladies then I teleport, I heavy pet like a stegosaur (take off your moon boots, take off your moon boots)
I boogie freely but I pay the cost: I never asked to be the star fleet boss (take off your space suit, take off your space suit)
I got a roll-top mother ship, I won my woman in a lucky dip (I want your space suit, your sexy space suit)
Little mama, have you heard the news? I got a neutron blaster interstellar cruiser, got a (but first the trousers: where are the trousers?)
Come fly into the sun
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I was looking for somebody but everybody was really ugly
So I stopped looking and what do you know: you showed up with the undertow
We don't dress the same, you think my music's lame, I can't even begin to pronounce your name
But again and again I find myself saying we get on like a house in flames
You don't know much about things I like but surprisingly I'm not that bothered
All it took was your wide-eyed look, and everything fell into place
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Big Man
03:00
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You don't really want to fuck about and push your luck
You can pay what you like: big man takes a cut
I may not look nasty but I'm a man who kicks his dog
I won't square up outside: I'll get you when you're on the bog
I like my din-dins: that's why I'm so fat
I do what, I take what I want or the big man burns your flat
Do I give a monkey's? It never even crossed my mind
You can talk all you like: big man sleeps just fine
Big man sleeps now
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Fuc* Me Proper
00:48
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Whether you're a fascist or a commie, an Aussie or a pommie
You can be a Catholic or a proddie, a peacenik or a squaddie
You can be a robber or a copper as long as you fuck me proper
Whether you're a wimp or a bruiser, a self-made man or a loser
You can be a nun or a slag, you can be rugby forward in drag
You can be a qualified pilot in a chopper as long as you fuck me proper
You can be smooth, you can be blunt, you can be really nice or a cunt
You can be vegan, you can eat chops, you can dig the proms or Top of the Pops
You can wear your long john or your jodhpur as long as you fuck me proper
I said you can wear your jockstrap or your jodhpur as long as you fuck me proper
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Nonsmokers are Strange
02:47
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Let's Go to the Fens
03:04
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Let's go the Fens
We could get off our tits and look at straight lines with no bends
See the reeds by the river, and wonder where it ends
Black peat, big skies, drainage channels that go on for miles
We could go AWOL in the washes
Geometric shapes in the landscape, not a sound but a distant airplane
See the flooded fields, how they shimmer around a lonely pussy willow by the river
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Hunker Down
03:56
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We didn't help you but we bought lots of guns and bombs
But you didn't seem to mind cos we gave you Captain Tom
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pando London, UK
Pando has been making solo records since 2000, lost between genres. So good it's "Like Jesus farting in your ears"
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