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Jackets full of steak knives, monkeys eating French fries, dancing under street lights –
Can you hear the brawl?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Stopped inside a shipyard, signed up for the mainmast, sail by the North Star –
Can you feel the cold?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Trapped inside the fish-tank, sink inside the quick-sand, reaching out for dry land –
Can you hear the call?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Frowning like a broad bean, soaking in the soup steam, boiling in the bad dream –
Can you feel the scold?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Lost inside the tower, holding on for power, dying like a flower –
Can you smell the rose?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Sailing past the sirens, all the men are die-‘n’, all the souls are fly’n –
Can you see the souls?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!
Boiling up the broad beans, boxing up the bad dreams – close my eyes and scream - SCREAM! –
Can you hear the screamss?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Loading up the shotgun, careful not to have fun – this old world is past done! –
Can you hear the squall?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALWAYS!

Sinking in the o-cean, drinking all the po-tion, fish with no emotion!
Can you see the shore?... (Echo)
(To audience) ALLWAYS!
ALLLWAAYS!!
ALLLLWAAAYYS!!!
ALLLLLWAAAAAAYYYYSSSSSZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!

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from Songs Of The Hollow Bone Moon (songs only), released August 20, 2014

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Pete and the Tar Gang Melbourne, Australia

Pete and the Tar Gang (2006 to 2011) made songs about the sea, obsession, the wild man, ghosts, love gone wrong, post apocalyptic scenarios, the sublimely self deluded and characters pushed to various extremes.
The musical styles are as diverse as blues, folk, rock and operatic cabaret.
The Tar Gang was a posse taking various shapes, according to the material mined by Pete. ... more

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