Taken from the acclaimed experimental British band’s forthcoming album Hellfire, a blistering, pacy, dynamic track of stop-start manic rhythmic in guitar, drums and brass, with a theme of hellish military command and its ordered chaos. Out on Rough Trade. More from the band can be found in the Spotify embedded list below.
Listen!
The sweet peals of moonlight-induced lovemaking
On the streets tonight
Listen!
The soft purr of motorbikes
Avoided a strike up the night lights
So don't tell me of your troubles your emotional grief
Take in the sights, this is shore leave
Don't talk of true love, unscrew your frown
Enjoy the entertainments of nighttime town
Experience the red rooms the green tables, the souvenirs
Make memories, haunting or favoured
The gallant mist of red-blooded chivalry instilled in basic training
By standing in line today you secure a place among the saints
Go get them, son, now your life begins
To die for your country does not win a war
To kill for your country is what wins a war
Don't tell your name, don't ask for hers
In this land of oysters you are the worm
The painless plainness of military life
Resumes tomorrow night
If not for you it would've been cholera, Malaria
Or some eastern disease
Forget about it son, a slap is all you need
We did it all, we seen it all, worse much worse, son
The massacres of ages, too many to recall
Limbs rendered birds, by the speed they flew off
A souped nothingness, that once was your best friend
Motherless children and temptress widows
The wild, the useless, the dead, the untameable
Shivering fuck, don't stand in the street
You're lucky I don't shoot you on the spot
Our bullets were made for a man like you
The impotent idiots God forgot
Tonight you decide which corner takes residence
Which room lives forever in your mind
But now you're on your own, we don't need men like you
Tonight you decide which corner takes residence
Which room lives forever in your mind
But now you're on your own, we don't need men like you
Private Tristan Bongo hereby discharged
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