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Ancestors

by Cartesian Jetstream

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1.
Ancestors 02:55
I didn't get where I am today I never get where I am anyway In all directions nothing is near Most days I just wish I was here I wish that I was here Once again I find myself just Staring at the wall The wall stares back and smiles a crack Like it doesn't care at all Tired of dragging my ancestors round Turns out I can't put them down They hover round me in clouds of dismay Wondering how I turned out this way
2.
Limousines 04:31
My drugs csarina You should have seen her Slow dancing with the lord of hosts The lord of the flies And some well-connected guys Picking on a holy ghost Bare-faced messiah Standing by the fire Very much the last of his line Says, I can't feel my legs Can I feel yours instead? Then everything will be sublime Everybody say hi to the red queen Wave and walk by if you can't make that scene Everybody's high except you and me So just take me home in your Pre-Raphaelite limousine My drugs csarina Absinthe & Ribena Shakin' what she hasn't got Assorted media types And the creatures that they hype Just waiting for that perfect shot What’s not to like Well I made a list And at the end there’ll be a test Once more I'm drawn towards My favourite ten of swords These idle hands that never rest
3.
Celebrities 04:43
As the day so slowly turns to face itself I take my 13th Floor Elevators mug from the shelf Fighting with my clothes again And my hands won't fit my fingers All these big celebrities Keep wearing out my favourite shoes They break into my house each night And it's never once been on the news Grab your crayons and come colour in my life Don't you worry there's no need to stay inside the lines Any colour, any old pen Rub me out and start all over again
4.
I’ll serve you right, I’ll serve you right I’ll keep my head down all day and all night I'll serve you right, I've seen the light How does it feel to always be so right? Cat looked at me and then he said, The sky continues right behind my head. You let your hair down and you let yourself go You let the whole class down and now you've made a show The world is written in invisible ink The writing finger slowly turns to drink I’ll serve you right, I’ll serve you right I’ll break my neck to make you feel alright I'll serve you right, I've seen the light How does it feel to always be so right? Dog looked at me and then he said The sky continues right behind my head
5.
Foxes 04:23
Huzzah, hoorah, hurray The fox will have his day With your hounds all held at bay And your horses ran away If you're gonna put me down First you gotta pick me up If you try to lift me up It’s always gonna bring you down Huzzah, hoorah, hurray…
6.
Ashes 03:08
I live just for the ages But I can’t get no sound I just came here to take a look around I’m all covered in ashes And I can’t touch the ground Take a look in my pocket see what I found Somebody, anybody Who should I call for? I crawl up along ledges You meet the best people there They have overcome the need to over-share I’m just a creature of habits Long lost in books and dreams I was ravished by magic or so it seemed Nobody, everybody Who should I fall for? Do you sleep for a reason? Why do you sleep at all? Slip time in a joint and let's have a ball
7.
No mind, no mind’s eye Who’s gonna tend your neglected sky? No mind, no mind’s eye Who’s gonna mend your neglected sky? We flew in on the Cartesian Jetstream We chase ghosts in the mystery machine We got ideals way above our station Les fanatiques sans idéologie I got transparent eyelids No need to open up my eyes I got transparent eyelids And I got an opaque mind Ride hard, die free Only thing you ever said to me You jumped right into my skin Now won’t you let me back in again The sky’s alive and it is teeming I can’t seem to turn off your mind The furniture it won’t stop screaming Unwound so far I can’t rewind …Ride, ride, took a ride
8.
Molten Tin 04:16
The white calm hands of luxury Are at my throat and on my knee And all the things I used to be Are reaching out to smother me Every second you're falling In love and then out again It’s just like breathing Under water, under molten tin Unhang me up Unhand me down The white calm hands of luxury Are at my throat and on my knee As all the things I'll never be Parade around in front of me Shape shifting sun wise With your copper eyes and your Bronze Age skin I can hear you singing As we sip from cups of molten tin
9.
You're so self-assured And you talk a good game Diminishing returns Well, it's always the same You make me feel slightly real You make me feel The unsung and unsound Runs rings round your ears It’s worse than we thought Now you think you're weird The past it changes every day This too will pass away The future always stays the same This too will pass away So I spent a long, long, long time shaving Just a few seconds off each day Spent a long, long time behaving Just the way you're meant to behave
10.
Splinters 04:29
See for miles but I still can't find the way Well I just lie in state all day Let me peel the world away Here comes another freshly splintered day And I don't feel quite to scale You keep trying to sell me your demonic possessions And it's left me all embroidered & frail All the water in the whole wide world Came from out in deepest space Except these tears of laughter That are rolling down my face

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This is Cartesian Jetstream's 2nd album of kosmiche power pop and lo-fi flower punk, filled with garbled mysticism, chiming guitars, driving beats and groovy bass lines.

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released April 20, 2015

Ben Scott - Drums, Backing Vocals
Philip Bell-Scott - Bass, Backing Vocals
Simon Kilgannon - Guitar, Vocals, Noises

With Danny Kneale - Percussion

Produced by Simon Kilgannon & Gypo Buggane
Recorded & Mixed by Gypo Buggane & Simon Kilgannon in the Isle of Man
Mastered by Gypo Buggane at Ballagroove Studios, Isle of Man


Words & Music ℗ & © Simon Kilgannon 2014

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