A sprawling, dark, dynamic, pace-changing art-rock single by the south London five-piece about their famous local cemetery, inspired by visits during the Covid lockdown, with thoughts of death and the destructive effects of gentrification, with lyrics by singer Sienna Bordello. To explore more of Bordello’s work, visit their Bandcamp page via the embedded link, with their self-titled album.
Nunhead - they’re gonna take me there someday
So then I get to be dead and gone
And I can lay with you.
Unfair - I’m running but I’m going nowhere
And all my dreams have turned to nightmares
And I can’t tell what’s true.
Try to stop the big boys bringing me down,
Every one of us - we end in the ground.
What’s hot Macbeth? Fight for the crown.
Proud men shout loud, I drown out the sound...
In Nunhead, the dead watch living doing their rounds,
The culture we’ve got left is six feet down
And ghosts don’t shout so loud
Breakdown, I tell you im having a breakdown
[‘cause they’re] So dull you couldn’t even call them clowns!
Get in the Thames and drown.
Mother Superior’s head is on a spike,
Daddy and Cutbush lie side by side.
Crack the yuppie heads and fill them with the seed,
Aint sunny peckham a jolly place to be?
Ahhhh ahhhhh
Never let the bastards get you down,
Every fucker ends up in the ground,
Taking nothing making not a sound.
Ahhhh ahhhhh
The boys are on again about their pride
And which bands they don’t want to sound like,
I’ve drank so much I think I’m going blind,
Ahhhh ahhhhh
I know you’re doing bits and that’s so nice!
But I’ve got an affliction of the mind;
I’d rather dwell in fictions far and wide...
Ahhhhh ahhhhhh
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