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The Giant Octopus​/​Squid Song

from Lingua Franca EP by sleepwalk

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There's kids with strings and sticks they're singing,
Waiting to be paid back,
The brand new shiny record plays,
But the needle's in a haystack,
One of a million pins that meets the plastic as it spins,
One of a million songs three minutes long waits to begin,
And I am listening.

I dove into a bar last night, it was only 9 o'clock,
The inebriated FCUK crowd were downing Aftershock,
While the gelled-up weekend mohawks all descended on a hen night,
And just outside the bouncer got the number of the bride.
One of a million pricks whose brain resides inside his dick,
One of a million heads held back by hair while someone's sick,
And I just don't belong.

Are we the only losers here tonight?
The only lost ones left with something still to find?
Did I forget who I am or forget who I'm not?
I can't remember now exactly who I forgot.

I was talking to a friend last week about this dream I'd had,
I was in a submarine down two miles deep and everything was black,
The headlights shone in front of us, the planes of some abyss,
All we saw were single-cell organisms in the mist,
Suddenly the dashboard lit up, everything turned red,
My co-pilot was screaming, sweat was streaming from his head,
In an act of desperation, he saw me kneeling down to pray,
To pledge my final hours to some God I had betrayed,
He was more of an agnostic man, he just said 'Jesus Christ',
Then a giant shadow grew and rose, and glowed in our headlights,
It was this fucking giant octopus/squid thing opening its mouth,
The submarine was swallowed whole and all the lights went out,
I woke up vastly terrified of ambiguity,
But no matter how much I explained it, nobody could see,
But you understand.

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from Lingua Franca EP, released June 1, 2007

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sleepwalk Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Sleepwalk is Jack Fallows and whoever else they can convince to sing, play, record or perform with them.

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