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Jesus and Jezebel
03:08
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We buy and sell down at Sharkey’s Parade
Paracetamol and cheap cherryade
Sometimes the difference
Is so hard to tell
Heaven can be Hell with Jesus and Jezebel
Snapchat romance and instant affairs
Vodka and comedy, thoughts and prayers
Its a kind of suicide
Slowly killing time
Heaven can be Hell with Jesus and Jezebel
It’s all right here on real TV
Phoney is the new reality
Gossip and opinion
This week’s lucky million
Heaven can Hell with Jesus and Jezebel
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Difficult Girl
03:33
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Oh such a pretty dress
Barbed wire and flowers
The fabric of your success
And your ivory towers
Waving your heart shaped flag
Artful distraction
Pity is such a drag
Such an overreaction
Even the truth is absurd
Life is a beautiful curse
You’re such a difficult girl
Such a difficult girl
Why do you still neglect
Your own affliction
The principal architect
Of your own crucifixion
You say you never retreat
But you always welcome defeat
You’re such a difficult girl
Such a difficult girl
There is no fruit that’s been forbidden
The song you’ve always heard
Is still waiting to be written
You’re such a difficult girl
Such a difficult girl
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Reckless disaffection
Constant disconnection
Squeeze you till you’re almost sick
We don’t have to take this shit
Oh my dear, where’s the revolution now
Resolute addiction
Emotional affliction
A prophet without a horse
A saviour who has blown off course
Oh my dear, where’s the revolution now
I’m sick of all these clockwork clowns
And their silly little paper crowns
Empty, cliched, poses
Obvious psychoses
An anthem that’s way too loud
A statue that has fallen down
Oh my dear, where’s the revolution now
Where’s the revolution now
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We are such stuff as stars are made of
We are the hopes on which dreams depend
So much better than we think we are
When all is said and done
And but a shadow
Of what we might become
We are the latest ones in line
One hundred thousand years in time
We are other
Strangers by name
Ninety-nine point nine
Percent the same
Born in space and time
On some distant star
We are castaways
So good so far
We are blood and dust and wind
We are the stories that we tell
We are the conscious light
That lingers on
A hope that will remain when we have gone
We are such stuff as stars are made of
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5. |
Hey Batman
04:12
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Hey there Batman
Haven’t seen you in a while
Looks like you’re type of crime
Is going out of style
Hey there Batman
Nothing’s going down
Just some big mouthed kid
Thinking he’s profound
How the dark night fades away
In the light of a brand new day
Hey there Batman
I think that bird has flown
Now you’re working for the man
And Robin’s run away from home
Hey there Batman
Has it come to this
The good ones are killing time
The bad ones are taking the piss
How the dark night fades away…
There’s no telling where you’ve been in that disguise
But there’s a kid round here who’s really got your eyes
Hey Batman
Have you heard the news
Some joker on the street
Is walking in your shoes
How the dark night fades away
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Next Time I Meet You
03:48
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It’s never easy to say you’re leaving
But this is farewell you are hearing
All your invitations
Laced with implications
Come as no temptation
To me
I’m worn down weary of all your raging
All the condemnation you are waging
And I’ve grown sick
Of all your party tricks
And the condescending way
You are behaving
Do you still believe
You are so outrageous
I regret it seems
Your conceit has grown contagious
I wish you no ill and may god keep you
But we will be strangers
The next time I meet you
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Nobody Gets Hurt
04:22
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You can take the decorations down
Bring the chairs in off the lawn
This party’s good as over now
Everybody’s going home
You can trust me every inch on this one darling
You can have my word
Just put the dream down darling
And nobody gets hurt
We’ve done everything we could here
Gone right out on the wire
You sang just like a nightingale
But they still won’t have you in the choir
We could stick around forever darling
But it’s never gonna work
So put the dream down darling
And nobody gets hurt
The sky is turning
The sky is turning red
So leave the silent to the almost being said
The rain falls on the living and the dead
And the stranger sleeping in your bed
It’s not what you hold onto
Doesn’t matter what you lose
You can give it all away
It only matters what you choose
You can trust me every inch on this one darling
You can have my word
Just put the dream down darling
And nobody gets hurt
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8. |
Like We Never Do
04:05
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The sky is the same as the floor
I can’t tell which way’s up any more
Flying so low that we should hit the ground
But we never do
But we never do
The words all got stuck in her throat
As we stood on the deck and left her to choke
She fell in the water, rocking the boat
Like we’d never do
Like we’d never do
And much has been made of the clown
Who was never at home in this town
Who reached for the sky and never came down
Like we always do
Like we always do
They found his clothes out by the pond
Couldn’t say how long he’d been gone
He must’ve been troubled, but he never let on
Like we never do
Like we never do
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Don't Drink The Water
03:09
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Spin me a riddle, straight as you can
Write my name, on the back of your hand
Take these lambs straight to the slaughter
There’s blood in the river
So don’t drink the water
Here is a lie and here is the proof
Perfect deceptions always rhyme with the truth
Turn a blind eye as they butcher the horses
Under a sign that says
Don’t drink the water
No, don’t drink the water
No, don’t drink the water
Build your own temple
Build your own shrine
Break your own bread and drink your own wine
Crown your own son
Debase your own daughter
You might be king
But don’t drink the water
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10. |
It's Only Rain
03:27
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Don’t be afraid
It’s only rain
Nothing we haven’t seen before
Don’t be alarmed
Every dying star
Leaves a trail across the universe
Every weary pilgrim goes on believing
And every broken heart
Goes on beating
Don’t be afraid
It’s only rain
Nothing we haven’t seen before
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Jack Henderson Glasgow, UK
Jack Henderson is a Scottish singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist.
Performing and
recording across N. America, Europe, Australia, including multiple tours with Americana band Over The Rhine, rootsy Canadian outfit Cowboy Junkies. Shared stages with Buddy Miller, Sarah Mclachlan and Ron Sexsmith, and recently performed on stage with Patti Smith at Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.
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Jack Henderson recommends:
18 Miles Away
by Jack Henderson
18 Miles Away (2007) - 4-track EP
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