Dead Ringers

from Her Mind's Awake E.P by Gerda Blank

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Look at all the time that's locked you up
Lockers and the clocks all bleeding out
A peasant in the city with a poor mans luck
Lucking to the stitches falling down
& even if the dogs come round
Even if a square world's found
The best you know will be the best you had
If you ever even noticed that you had a head

Taking all yr devils out for lunch
Starving & their stomachs howlin' loud
I tell you, its better than a beggars hunch
& when the crows start scroungin' around
And they can bleed the Gulf of Mexico
But you & I will never know
The best we had was in the Junk we lost
(Like when I woke up in a toilet wearing permafrost)
When I'd never failed love...

Kick him in the balls and make him beg for it
Now ladies! Just untie him, now!
You know yr just wearing him on a string
Dead ringers from the lost and grounded crowd
Even when the dogs get here, yeh
Stinking of their icecream beer
Pot-bellied and in pantyhose
Who you never even notice
When they're wearin' the clothes...!
But they've never felt love...
They've never found love...
They've never failed love...

Look at how time has locked you up
The Clockers and the locked up bleeding Owls
A beggar in the city with a blind man's luck
Walking with his stitches falling out
So even if the Gods come round
They'll never find a world that's round
Disfigured by the well-to-do
And the busybody nobodies
Who never had a clue...
If they ever felt love
Have they ever found love?
Have they ever failed love?
If they ever felt love
Have they ever found love?
They ever failed love?

Look at all the time that's locked you up
Lockers and the clocks all bleeding out...

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from Her Mind's Awake E.P, track released April 18, 2019
Written and produced by Rhys Braddock and Stuart Mills. Recorded at Indies Studio, Brno with Dušan Souček.

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Gerda Blank Brno, Czech Republic

GERDA BLANK was a German woman shot attempting to cross the Berlin wall. It is also the project name of Rhys Braddock & Stuart Mills, one New Zealander and one Eng lander.

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Her Mind's Awake E.P

Apr 2019
RITUALS

Sep 2013
NUMBERS

Sep 2012
O

Mar 2008

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