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Bitter Birds (sampler)

by murnie

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1.
Bitter Birds 03:34
Please lighten up long enough for the photograph Say cheese. Brighten up or at least put on an act You say you’re pleased for the happy pair But your smile looks like it’s nail-gunned there And the bitter birds arrive Buzz around like glitter flies Hear them croak and hear them cry The bitter birds and their bitter words keep your bitter heart alive So please even though you’re all ash inside Just freeze, take those poisonous thoughts outside For once will you make like human being? Eat your free lunch and forget what you’re seeing. And the bitter birds arrive Swarm around like glitter flies Watch them drop and watch them dive The bitter birds and their bitter words keep your bitter heart alive And the bitter birds arrive Buzz around like glitter flies Hear them croak and hear them cry The bitter birds and their bitter words keep your bitter heart alive And who hears them but who endears them, the bitter birds And who feeds them but who needs them, the bitter birds And who hears them but who endears them, the bitter birds And who feeds them but who needs them, the bitter birds
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Trouble Is 03:41
You won’t believe the trouble I’m in You won’t believe the trouble I’m in This heap of misfortune, catalogue of sin You won’t believe, so why should I tell You won’t believe, so why should I tell What can I buy, when there’s nothing on sale Trouble is, I’ve seen so much Trouble is, I miss your touch Trouble is a done deal such That I can’t win with this trouble I’m in. You won’t forget the trouble I’ve caused You won’t forget the trouble I’ve caused When I broke your invisible laws You won’t believe, so why make a scene You won’t believe, so why make a scene You won’t believe the trouble I’ve seen Trouble is, I’ve seen so much Trouble is, I miss your touch Trouble is a done deal such That I can’t win with this trouble I’m in.
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Whitehouse 04:16
In a white house lives a nice man in a white suit With his good dog he takes long walks in his jack boots And the people shout And the people cheer The white man is the hero of the year In the white house lives a brown girl in a red dress In the kitchen full of sharp knives she makes omelettes And the people peer And the people pry Must be something sinful going on inside Throw more whitewash against the wall Throw more whitewash against the wall Cover the scars, the cracks and all Don’t let the white house fall In the white house lives a blue boy sad and delicate Like a servant or a cousin or an inmate And the people scream And the people fight And the white man smiles into the night Throw more whitewash against the wall Throw more whitewash against the wall Cover the scars, the cracks and all Don’t let the white house fall We have the right, we want to know We have the right, we want to know Turn on the light, put on a show We want to know, don’t want to know We want to know, don’t want to know We want to know, don’t want to know Throw more whitewash against the wall Throw more whitewash against the wall Cover the scars, the cracks and all Don’t let the white house fall In the white house there’s a black room with no windows

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released June 3, 2015

Condie, Williamson, Wilson

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murnie Glasgow, UK

Murnie is a Glasgow/Lanarkshire-based power trio with a love of strong melodies with idiosyncratic lyrics played loud, and with influences as varied as seventies singer-songwriters and classic metal this is hardy surprising. Their unusual piano/drums/guitar-or-bass line-up might appear lacking, but thoughtful arrangements, harmony vocals and sheer enthusiasm result in a big sound from a wee band. ... more

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