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Spirals

by Church of Elvis

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    Released June 29th 2015

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1.
LYRICS You can almost sense the worthless act And frustration's there to touch The breaking glass is my mark, see Just a cry in the dark Kicking Inanimate Objects
2.
LYRICS In a typical English town Rows of shops and they're all closed down Pound shop culture reminds us of this, we're not here to live, we're here to exist In a typical English town Welcome to the down and down The multiples decided that there's no point at all and got up and left Pound shop culture reminds us of this, we're not here to live, we're here to exist In a typical English way With a typical English sign 'Closing Down Sale' What you doing? I'm just hanging around What you doing? I'm just hanging around Wasting time and just hanging around Wasting time and just hanging around The multiples decided that there's no point at all and got up and left Pound shop culture reminds us of this, we're not here to live, we're here to exist In a typical English town In a typical English town In a typical English way With a typical English sign 'Closing Down Sale' In a typical English town Down and down
3.
Do It Again 02:56
LYRICS Well hell, it's a brand new thing brand new in everyway No no no american xerox copy no way no influence We don't need 'em anyway We just see what's selling and et voila It's the new sound that we're bound to become eventually Because it's less risky Do it again Do do, do it again Ultimately it doesn't mean a thing we can't do anything We can't consolidate and it's all too late and people have moved on And we must follow now, it might seem hollow doesn't cause us any anguish Cos a fast buck is a fast buck In anybody's language Do it again Do do, do it again We're not leaders we're sheep cos it's cheap and we'll reap the benefits of other's lack of sleep And their toil whilst our toil is really nothing much at all Bring out the fresh faces for the camera forever and ever Cos a fast buck is a fast buck, amen Let's do it again, do it again Do it again Do do, do it again
4.
LYRICS Will the work ethic make us all rich Or is it a trick to dictate the way we live And will we ever get away without our hands on the reigns And will we ever get away when all remains the same Don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head Don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head Don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head I've got a work place in my bed, got a work place in my bed Get away, get away, get away get away now Get away, get away, get away get away now And don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head Don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head Don't make me laugh I've got a factory in my head I've got a work place in my bed, got a work place in my bed
5.
LYRICS The new black It's not a colour it's a marketing concept to sell more Change the image by degrees to sell these Here's the cycle recycled a new lease Here's the new black it's a rebrand it's a remix a repeat a rename It's not the black that we knew before oh no It's the new thing created to replay, replay The present redundant recycled remodelled re branded The past is the only way forward the old thing the new thing the same thing The past is where the future lies and the present lies are to make you buy, and The new black It's not a colour It's a poor excuse for the other Here's the new black it's so different and by different I mean not that different It depends on the marketing clearly, but to me it looks the same exactly And the past is where the future lies and the present lies are to make you buy, and The new black It's not a colour It's a poor excuse for the other
6.
Dark Times 03:08
LYRICS You know the shadows are moving in, it's not making the headlines And the stars are going out, one by one see Must be the seventh time this week, that I've turned the news off It must be the seventeenth time, that I've doubted the future And the shadows are moving in, and the clouds are darkening We've seen these things before, events spiralling It must be the seventh time this week, that I've doubted myself And the seventeenth time, I've been doubted by someone else Dark times
7.
LYRICS Oh pass the past over here, dissect the actions of this year You've let yourself be used again, you've let yourself be used again You've been in a mood all week, you've been in a mood all week You've been in the shade to long, you've been in his shadow The boy's a drunk Oh something's broken pass the glue, I'm covered in it, so are you You've covered up the cracks too long, you've covered up the cracks too long You've gone and left the map at home, you've gone and left the map at home You've been in the shade too long, you've been in his shadow The boy's a drunk Down down Oh pass the past over here, dissect the actions of this year You've let yourself be used again, you've let yourself be used again You've been in a mood all week, you've been in a mood all week You've covered up the cracks too long, you've covered up the tracks too long You've gone and left the map at home, you've gone and left the map at home You've been in the shade too long, you've been in his shadow The boy's a drunk Down down
8.
LYRICS Old lover told new lover don't bother with the sod He'll only push you under End up angry and very very bitter This boy is just a waste of space a useless loser, quitter So open up your eyes girl and do yourself a favour You know who's at the centre of his universal flavour His universal
9.
Spirals 04:42
LYRICS My mojo in the clearance bin Clone towns with zombies working in Fighting over TV screens as the spiral spirals Those bingo wing cackle nights Grown men riding children's bikes Everyone's told what they like as the spiral spirals The silly selling exercise Adds to another list of lies The tower falls before our eyes as the spiral spirals The fruit and fibre flavour five Keeps us all barely alive It's new cannon fodder for the hive as the spiral spirals Oh keep us down where we want to be With alcohol and the Tee Vee It's new surfdom for the free and the spiral spirals And the spiral spirals
10.
LYRICS A 1960s science fiction future In fifty years it's bound to get much better, surely Where it all went wrong nobody can answer Soon devoured by 2000 paranoia A 1960s science fiction drama The hero saves the day in what looks like pyjamas Where it all went wrong nobody can answer Replaced by economic piranhas Oh where's that future gone now I wouldn't call this progress
11.
LYRICS Thanks for being there, to point out my failings Oh and thanks for being there, to prove me wrong again As lovers we spent too much, of our time arguing And the doubt hangs around, but you can't walk away now This is not how it seemed, back in the 1970s This is not what I dreamed, in the 1970s Oh and thanks for being there, to point out my failings Oh and thanks for being there, to prove me wrong again Since the 1970s Back to the start again, through seven circles Round and round and round, like a constant reminder Start and start again, to point out my failings Through seven circles, prove me wrong again Since the 1970s
12.
LYRICS You should aim higher than that You should aim higher than that The people have spoken Yeah But they should aim higher than that We have what we get, We don't complain The people have spoken, Yeah The people have spoken, We don't complain But they should aim so much higher than that Yeah
13.
LYRICS You should be a singer, with a face like that With looks like that, and skin to match You should be a singer, with a face like that With looks like that, and skin to match You should be a singer Oh mannequin, a plastic smiling thing I can sell that face, I can sell that skin You should be a singer Oh you should be a singer You should be a star
14.
LYRICS When they closed the factory down Thinking of the savings And the work just went away Our dreams hang round on corners Let's pretend that it's not real If we close our eyes real tight It's like it never happened And when they washed their hands of this Like it never mattered Let's pretend that it's not real
15.
LYRICS Oh bargain basement, and lack of vision Nicely sums up, our ambition Closing down sale, our admission That pound shop culture is our new tradition, our new tradition Closing down sale and then forgotten How we got to bounce along the bottom And after all these years, realisation Oh I just realised how much I hate this place how much I hate this place Bounce along the bottom like a rubber ball There's no point at all To this new tradition
16.
17.
LYRICS We're made of stinging nettles and the thorns that catch you as you pass And the unwanted things that grow beneath the cracks in the path I'm lord of all that I survey with my eyes firmly shut You know that I'm the king of everything that I can touch, from here The king of nothing much at all, the king of nothing much Oh we're as popular as popular as all those paper cuts, ha ha ha We are thorns in the paws of limping lions at cave doors We are like bits of plastic and the bottles washed up by the sea About as useless as the ads for trips and falls on the Tee Vee We've fallen down the cracks at the back of the settee We are thorns in the paws of limping lions at cave doors We are thorns

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A
Kicking Inanimate Objects
Typical English Town
Do It Again
Factory in My Head
The New Black
Dark Times
Boy's A Drunk
Universal Flavour
Spirals
B
1960s Science Fiction
Seven Circles
The People Have Spoken
You Should Be A Star
Let's Pretend That Its Not Real
Bounce Along The Bottom Like A Rubber Ball
Kicking Inanimate Objects (Reprise)
We Are Thorns

Recorded at Vale Studios March 2015
Engineer - Chris D'Adda.
Mixed at Blotto Studio May 2015
Engineer - Simon Reeves
Produced by CofE

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released May 26, 2015

Nic Beales - Guitar / Lead Vox / B.Vox
Jonathan Cooke - Bass / B.Vox
Antony Cook - Drums / Radiator / Roland SH-09 & JV-80 / B.Vox
Neil Jenkins - Guitar / B.Vox
Catherine Hey - Violin
Chris D'Adda - Keyboards

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Church of Elvis England, UK

Church OF Elvis (everybody's 90's support act, nobody's darlings) reformed and released Submarina in 2014 and the brilliant Spirals in 2015. They are back during lockdown with the melancholy Rotten Fruit. Their back catalogue is enormous, but you won't find one Elv the Pelv cover version lurking anywhere!
They will also drink your rider, you have been warned.
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