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SMOKE THE TELLY

Everybody wants a piece of the cake
And let them eat it, eat it, eat it

Smoke it, smoke it!

Everybody wants a piece of the cake
And let them eat it, eat it, eat it

For all the love you’re gonna get in this world
You might as well just smoke the telly
For all the joy you’re gonna get in this world
You might as well just smoke your telly
Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke your telly

Reading the papers, their photographs and headlines
Same news as yesterday and the day before that
The barons of the public conscience dictate their opinions
Sanitized phrases for their beastly, beastly acts
Journalistic jargon substitutes for real pain
Summing-up a situation with a generalized slur
Confident and loud and stupid, bigoted and smug,
The editor has to fill his rag to keep his punters happy

Do what?
Grind it up now

For all the love you’re gonna get in this world
You might as well just smoke the telly
For all the joy you’re gonna get in this world
You might as well just smoke your telly
Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke your telly

Switch on the television - gentle light of violence
Same tosh as yesterday and the day before that
Keeping up the standards of consumerist idiocy
Of course they've got to buy a scoop -an exclusive must be found
Calling scandal-mongers; some celebrities to hound
Learn how to join the in-crowd. What's fashionable this year?
Selling modern fairytales, the people lap it up
And of course, the shareholders expect to make an honest buck

Do what?
Grind it up now

Everybody wants a piece of the cake
And let them eat it, eat it, eat it

Smoke it, smoke it!

Turn off the radio - tune in to the airwaves
Same music as yesterday and the days before that
The plastic politicians secrete their slippery, slippery speeches
Their self-righteous attitude it plays the honest thief
A hopeless Royal Family of antiquated ways
Can’t even keep the pretence of the nuclear-family way
Careerist Tory ministers caught with their trousers down
So, ‘Discreet Hypocrisy’ - an example for you and me

Do what?
Grind it up now

Everybody wants a piece of the cake
And let them eat it, eat it, eat it

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from Five Pints (Farm Fresh Remaster), released June 26, 2022

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Herb Garden Bristol, UK

Welcome to the Herb Garden campsite. We will share lots of frenzied frolics and scrumpy-ous sonics with you here. Check out our sites too - we'll talk on Wordpress, lark about on Facebook, shimmer on Flickr, and glimmer on YouTube, natch.

We've remastered 1989's Eponymous EP, often known as 'Bulldozer Jones', and all the tracks that led to Warner's DNA mini-LP. We've loads to reveal!
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