The spirit of the devil is in Canajetta He can't help it He can't
He sits upon... waiting... metal firestick Halfway, halfway, waiting He breaks the stick He takes refuge in Deserts, deserts him Don't forget Rememberance R He sits upon fire escape The icon doesn't work He smothers his own, own tomorrow Remember the trance Rememberance, rememberance Rememberance R
And the sadness comes The train to spite With objects that worth He sees visions in gothic club Awake here And the house is keeping up He doesn't realise Rememberance R Sitting on the black steps of the fire escape Rememberance R
Has to go home He's forgot his guitar But his soul break loose And become a tree Make me sick at a bar Rememberance R Rememberance R
You play in the winter sun with replacement teeth The cackle has The cackle has landed Like R Rememberance R And a screw will break loose
How can I start to tell you, like my favourite bands, there's hardly any They just reform after seventeen years, and like they've forgot about the sweat and the long journeys in the back of vans They're just running on rememberance, and reminiscing of encore time at the end of the ninety minutes on the stage They appear out of nowhere and like expect you to treat them like an equal Whilst they've been decorating or teaching for the last ten years having a life and a wife and kids And they say, [ ] a tenner an EP, get home before half three I smell the brown mews in the dark, I recognise the sparse carpet weekend eighty-nine Deep-seated, early finish Rust, rememberances are dust, the early push, the fear of parking fee
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