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Sounds Strange When I Say It Out Loud

by Mannequin Mannequin

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Heat Haze in Lamlash 02:57
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We don't talk a lot You try and change my mind While you feed the fire A mindful walk along The Ayrshire coast we crave Gone down to the wire Cos you still seem torn apart in Lamlash Underneath the waveforms the decades float along But you can hardly see the sunset, you're on red alert, in Lamlash Underneath the moonlight I knew you were right When I saw you smile through the heat haze I've got years on you And you will trust in time Don't dull your senses I don't mean to give chapter and verse But you could be something else The future is all unwritten yet in Lamlash Underneath the waveforms the decades float along But I'm still torn Paralysis of the lips in Lamlash Underneath the light so strange it's hard to change When it all looks right through the heat haze
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The Fluke 03:32
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This must be a fluke it's too good You're crimson, you're thiamine A long, wild addiction But I cringe so hard when you ape my style You can write me right now Wax lyrical, I'm yours You can corner me right now Here at Arthur's seat, I'm yours You vibrate through my bones when I'm bleary When you're touch seems so strange You're a masterpiece in shorthand Pariah by proxy but my heart won't melt You can write me right now Wax lyrical, I'm yours You can corner me right now At the Grand Canal, I'm yours I kinda like you right now Light the candle, blush, I'm yours And we could couple up right now At the Parthenon, I'm yours Dopamine/you know I'll never make a fuss/you hit me like a sucker punch You're in-between/say what you mean I've never met anyone like you/I crave the things I hate about you/I lose my train of thought around you
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Elephant Tongue 03:22
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There's a weakness there No, it's a call to arms, I'll fall for my own charms You said I can't have fun You've got an elephant tongue, I'll bite my own thumb The Grand Platz is covered in glass We veered off track then we doubled back I never know what you think, you thought You're a selfish slur But now your face is a blur, face is a pure blur, your eyes off centre You know we can't return You're like a chemical burn The Bruges mist saddened your eyes Cherry beer for the atmosphere At midnight it didn't feel right But your skin feels soft But I love your eloquent tongue Wanna hear the sound we become When we're not fingers and thumbs By the canal in the sun You're breathing air in my lungs Eloquent tongue, elephant tongue, it's our love to spurn by the Dutch border turn
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Rose Thorn 02:39
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We watched 'Vertigo' You fell asleep then I walked you home But still, you keep me forlorn When will you come back You drink coffee black But we're dead and gone Instincts so wrong You let your hair grow long A prologue, prolonged Got pricked by a rose thorn We trade pheromones And you left some stuff inside my drawer But we got trapped in a ghost-note, in an anecdote that's stuck in my throat
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Francois' White Dove 03:40
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You told me once I prefer the both of us in polaroids Those scenes I love, the feather from the whitest dove But I'll go insane In my own refrain Francois, I'm fucked I've dreamt too much, I'm out of luck It's too grandiose, I fawn atop my fainting couch And my own refrain Can't numb the pain You're loveless Trapped in the picturesque Rewind now you fool Figure it out or don't bother me again, don't write me anything, go hide inside a footnote
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Dreamt It/Continuity Error 02:43
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Meet me at the carousel Dizzy now, held a dream in my hand Knock-back amnesiac Then all of our words fell off the edge of the map Spiral/we sketched out the scenery/kill the lights Lovestruck/we both want so much more We'll stay up and talk like we're on the cusp Walking past the lemon tree Why can't you write a song about me? Knock-back amnesiac Are you lost in thought or have I lost the plot? An error in continuity/I resist Love-shy/jump cut/mea-culpa/luck Let's stay up now we're talking off the cuff
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Ad Nauseam 02:21
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You wrote it all down wrong In diagonal lines you're trying to hide your crimes But did it all go wrong? Fake, fake nerves or miles from the Midas touch It's such a gamble now To find you falling for me You break the fourth wall now Where did it all go wrong? A mannequin, a talent so paper thin While you sing along You slowly suck, suck marrow from bone It's such a gamble now You love to play lonely You break the fourth wall now The cold comfort zone The plebiscite didn't feel right But I want to feel something else And then you said Call me up I will call your bluff Has your right brain finally had enough? Or will you sing it again ad nauseum? Then write it again ad nauseum? Round and round ad nauseum
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Major Minor Miracle 03:17
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Crawl past the crosshairs you pish take paradox You keep leaving me unaware honeybear/it's so hard to bear I'll scrap another This haiku just won't do Got no syllables left for you/you turn the screw Turn the world askew/well out of view/i'll never get my head around you We could be dead by Summer The coral reef was one huge step too far Your love it pulled me under I've never been an anecdote You're the words I can't misquote Sometimes there's no hope I mope, you're my go-to trope Watch me milk it through a tape-delay Stop the bleeding turn the tourniquet I'll always say you're my best cliche I thought you did care but now what you said I swear It's a major minor miracle I'm still lyrical And on the third repeat So indiscreet Don't dream of me when you're asleep And fuck your Indian Summer A souvenir of sunshine seems sub-rationale I wish we died that Summer Cos there's no way to leave you Yeah I still miss that kiss
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Dopamine 03:04
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The last word The dopamine/you're the dope I mean Trust me A tussle to trade tragedies You're gonna ruin me It's so lonely loving you You're a bone spur Are you even on my side Temper/our tempers won't temper Forget me The ampersand and the amber sky Hate me Hate the very thought of me Burn the polaroids Scowl the apple of your eye But, did you want it to die? The crippled orchids, the bell making a sound The last word The dopamine/you're the dope I mean
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The Empty Gesture 03:19
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The talking stopped, the penny dropped, I'm leaving In dead air, I melt into a mood swing, so still Our symmetry, interned in an instinct We overshare I hate the way we laugh it all off But there's a brief pause at least So far away from sentiment we stray Then we hang up our tired, old empty gestures And walk around Hands clasped, disconnection Fast twitch, full glitch But you're a paragon of style Did you expect me to say virtue? But there's a brief pause at least This parody so farcical to me Frame this hideous glance of yourself to admire But in the brief pause at least We'll stay cocooned and ignore it for a while

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released March 25, 2022

Recorded at Gargleblast Studio, Hamilton, between February 2020 and November 2021
Engineered/Produced by Andy Miller
Songs by Martyn Sargenson
Artwork taken from 'All Across The Harbour' by Kerry Souter

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