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Doubt

by Dumb Instrument

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badjose420 Yet another magnificently crafted slice of Scottishness from these vastly under appreciated musical maestros. Favorite track: The Darkness Is Your Friend.
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1.
High Jumper 04:32
she is waiting with her father at the top of his skyscraper far below the city lights are glimmering with gleaming spanglings whispering suggesting things, the countless possibilities and in the park even the trees are rustling leaves like they were pleased Simon and Garfunkel meanwhile tell him you will miss the train he decides to disregard them and instead go walking in the rain in his new Chinese coat whose sleeves are long but zips up to the throat quite soon theres Barry White inside his head he smiles instead Superman he flew so fast he ended up back in the past where he rights all wrongs and then makes sure if things are bad that they don’t last yes that was very good of him it’s nice to think that all our problems can be consigned to the bin, i’m just joking see she wears a fair isle jumper hand knitted in Scotland by a white haired lady in a cottage using needles also used for sewing wounds on giants when they come to call just after battle using wool thats harvested from skinny sheep not nice to eat she is fed up waiting makes her way towards the open window looks down at the pattern on her jumper and can make no sense of it she looks round fathers gone to make some tea so she climbs up and stands upon the window ledge and then repeats his worthless pledge
2.
slaving but you are saving for that holiday that is five thousand seven hundred and sixty one miles away obsessed since childhood with that mushroom cloud it’s your very first day in Tokyo and your’e lost but see this face you know it’s that stupid wee lassie from Elderslie and she smiles as she listens and she leads the way to the train that goes to Nagasaki two years later you’re dragged to a to a discotheque lined in cork in the meat packing district bit of New York and there you spot her bouncing up and down she’s enjoying herself much too much today it’s that stupid wee lassie from Elderslie it’s beyond you why they don’t impound her beer and explain very sternly it’s not done like that here not done like that here you were in fourth year and she was in first she would hang around with the plooks just about to burst idling in Lidl in Johnstone and you can’t make your mind up ’tween shortcake and jaffa cakes it’s been a long time but you see her making haste past the crisps and the wine she’s got a basketful of pasta and a box of milk tray it’s that stupid wee lassie fae Elderslie and as she passes she points out your folly to you by picking up shortcake, not one but two not one but two
3.
Crazy Paving 03:37
Crazy Paving is juxtaposed with rose enclosed bungalows inside are festering nails on toes, deformed by those ill fitting brogues toes suffocated by a sock, hand knitted to a clock’s tick tock inside pyjamas flaccid cock and all the doors are double locked
4.
LaDeDa 04:53
Miss Smith, superstar, contact lenses and padded bra went across to America, come back talking all Ladeda who the hell does she think she is, she picks her nose and she cannot kiss never mind girl you’re back home now, so drop the nickers ya dirty cow her nickers they stayed up, says i’ve got ears like the Scottish Cup I get the feeling she’s got a date, she’s pulled some blind guy from New York State He’ll be waiting at JFK, cowboy boots and the old Milk Tray she come back talking all Ladeda, now i’m going back to live with my Ma
5.
who put that lamp post there there’s blood everywhere down my back matting my hair i’m just walking backwards home by jupiter and ganymede i’ll watch the paving stones recede till i can’t walk or I am deed I am walking backwards home so if I do not say hello don’t take it personally no I don’t have extra eyes you know behind my ears just turn your head when you are past and greet me with a smile that’s vast you’ll get a how de do at last i’m walking backwards someone once suggested to me use a mirror you will see that’s manifest dishonesty when i’m walking backwards home I know i’m prone to accidents I cut through campsites flatten tents I tell the folk it wasn’t meant then continue backwards home get out my bed at 5 each day and get the train to miles away be it Largs or Alloway with my back to the engine you have got grand theft auto five to keep you going stay alive at least i’ve found my way to get me through the challenge of each day the young team caught in my slipstream they chant it’s a pipe dream as I walk through the scheme backwards going home Me well I just say to them while wiping off the phlegm they’re blind and foolish to condemn the backwards walk will come to them they all say there’s that backward chap whose shoes are covered in dog crap oh well I may be facing back but i’m moving forward by jupiter and ganymede i’ll watch the paving stones recede till i can’t walk or I am deed I am walking backwards home
6.
he comes home with a great big stick and knocks his wife about a bit he’s a nasty piece of work, he just don’t care he even threw the baby down the stair he’s wicked, wicked, just because his daddy showed him thats the way to do it, thats the way to do it wicked, wicked, just because his daddy showed him thats the way to do it the crocodile and the policeman too, everyone is afraid of you what makes you think though that you’re in charge someone’s got their hand stuck up your arse are you wicked wicked, ‘cos you are being fisted, wicked wicked, ‘cos you are being fisted wicked wicked, ‘cos you are being fisted no, thats the way to do it
7.
I made her a fried egg piece with some tea to cut through the creash she did not begin and will never cease and check her clothes no artificial crease she gave me a coaky back when the future looked extremely black when I get it wrong she cuts me slack she also gives me access to her crack Venus in a Cardigan who so wont do the ironing Venus in a Cardigan who cannot do the highland fling she went through the rubbish when the drugs got accidentally binned then she came back in big cheesey grin Venus in a Cardigan Venus in a Cardigan who so wont do the ironing Venus in a Cardigan who cannot do the highland fling
8.
Drunk in the playground, waiting for my son Drunk in the playground, wishing he would come maybe he can save me though he is only five maybe he can save me cos he is so alive Drunk in the playground, swaying in the breeze Drunk in the playground, with the Three Degrees hooo haaaiiii precious moments haaiii hooooo everyone is smiling, listen there’s the bell even I am smiling, through the bars of my prison cell
9.
Balderdash 03:01
hair upon the barbers floor gets swept up and down falls more theres some Bryllcreme in the drawer, there’s a ding from the swinging door a baldy bearded man comes in, he hardly knows where to begin he sits down and strokes his chin, strokes his chin with his phantom limb hark hear the music of The Spheres, Mrs Mills plays the theme from Cheers then he’ll run, out the door dead fast thats why they all call him balderdash and he’s gone, expeditiously in a flash, the one they call balderdash and as he runs he circumvents all the doubts on the pavements and in his thoughts he reinvents, makes contentments from torments hark hear the music from above, Lena Zavaroni sings Whole Lotta Love he has a rest in the Kings Cafe, he has a cup of tea and a breakaway five minutes max and he’s on his way, hey and he’ll run out the door dead fast thats why they all call him balderdash and he’s off, he’s gone in a flash the one they call balderdash
10.
Where is light when it’s not there? Is it in the press underneath the stair? With the change down the back of the chair? Where is light when it’s not there? And where’s the dark when it’s not there? In the roots of my dyed black hair? Hiding out in my underwear? Where’s the dark when it’s not there? When your bedside light is on turn it off the light is gone, before you turn it on again - smile, the darkness is your friend.

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released August 11, 2019

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