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Quitter

by Quitter

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1.
Start 00:58
The summers we get are never like that. Don’t make me turn this car around. I throw holes into my tv set Go chase my stupid tail around.
2.
There’s a group of white whales that make wind for my sails You’re a chore, we’re a purple patch. I check that freedom I felt along with my keys and belt And hope my face and my passport match. Well I’m sorry Border Control I used to not appreciate what I have. Though the crowds have dispersed we still sing the same verse That takes every day you’ve lived to learn. So if every I burn too far from the sun Take a towel to the smoke alarm. And just remove the batteries. In a rage, sling them at me And say ‘Won’t you put these to better use? Won’t you?’
3.
Is that the sun in my eyes?
It’s hanging low now. Block it with my coffee cup Check is it half full. Let’s go live somewhere else Find a bar with one, bold, bright painted mural of some famous dead actress And wear the varnish off the seats. Literally do nothing else Until we argue. Is that the sun in my eyes?
I tend not to notice now. An oil and water fight. Deaf and rhetorical. At that point I’ve gotta run Me and Paige we’ll go run a few red lights skip over the pavement Cut the city in half. Coz round here anymore I only ever smile with my mouth. When I write I lean to hard on the page The imprints won't rub out I see them there when I speak. Those words were wrong, and the tone Please just forget about it.
4.
Oh No 04:23
Nobody ever goes Be ready for that. They just get More beautiful and fade. I’ll dream all over the learning I’ve done. The dice are getting rolled Who’s ready for that?
Who’s the first boy you ever loved? Life I hear you can take it Or leave it. All the bees in my bonnet Well oh no I trapped them myself. Watch as the world Boils me over When it was only trying To keep me warm That’s not me I hope you know. So take up yourself on that favour. Better not, better not. And push past that learned behaviour. Better not better now. Life I hear you can take it Or leave it.
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6.
Gerald Field 04:38
There’s something blue as your wrist Behind the colourless mist of first languages Drowned by the idle Whirr of your learned behaviour. There’s something just out of shot It’s the beginning of week Same overcast grey-matter-of-fact It’s the most unenthused that I’ve seen your eyes look. So shoot. Just shoot. The scenes at which you won’t look. The most tired and worn in monochrome That I’ve seen your eyes look. So shoot. Just shoot. The scenes at which you won’t look.
7.
Just drink enough of that water Until your piss runs clear. Well did you think of what you believe in Or did you hope to find that here? I gotta say you’ve been quiet now for a while. I’m not saying I don't like your style. A match lit on an open flame And sucked through a cigarette. Yeah I remember your christian name But wish that they’d all forget. I gotta say we’ve been burning through the years. I’m not saying that you look it though. I drank my thoughts alive Swam for a fortnight Woke up with a thirst I hadn’t quenched And a hole in my stomach. We stopped singing compassion Around the sixth or the seventh fight Now we just think the worst of each other Keeps it simple, keeps us right. I gotta say you’re oblivious, you’re obvious I’m not saying that aloud no more. I lost my key to the west end The day I took that salary job Now I must stick to visiting hours Just come drink coffee on days off. I got to stay while I changed that place And it changed me I’m not staying on to watch that reverse. I backed down when I should’ve raged Lashed out when I should behave Like everyone who ever tried to change I’m not gonna make it happen. I drank all of my thoughts alive Swam for almost a fortnight Give it three days of normal life I’m not gonna make it happen. I held my breath and I lived within Made what you exhale what I breathe in All roads lead to oblivion. I drank all of my thoughts alive Swam for almost a fortnight Give it three days of normal life
8.
Every time I get drunk here I wanna hit ‘reset’ Then “I’m just being stupid” Then I wanna hit ‘reset’. Minutes go by I’m staring at the lights switching on and off Across the road in the tenement flats.
9.
Cooler 04:52
It takes one yeah to know one I watch you swap out your trigger finger for a thumb. Blinded by the powder flash I guess you never see how all of the eyes go soft in the room When you walk in. You keep walking yourself to the edge You’re always peering down at questions you don’t have to answer yourself. Remember what we’ve always said How the truth is all of us All the rest is just a sideshow at best. Now if someone could just read this back to me. A pedal back A Ulysses pact There’s the dry rot Burn the model home to the ground. There’s a picture but I don’t know the place. It could be 9 or 10 pm The last light of July on your face. I've always meant to run away I guess I found a way to run from the world by just staying in place. Well now what?
What, don’t you know? The summers we get are never like that. Don’t make me turn this car around. I throw holes into my tv set Go chase my stupid tail around.

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released March 26, 2018

Recorded by Kenny Bates / Kieran Hughes.
Mixed and mastered by Stevie Cossar.
Bass on 3, 8, 9 by Kieran Hughes.
Drums on 3, 8, 9 by Craig Ferrie.
Clarinet on 8 by Peter Russell.

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Quitter Glasgow, UK

Songwriter, lo-fi experiments, yuck vs yum.

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