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Glitter Flies

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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Hooks 04:14
You had to go swimming in my ole fishing hole You had to go wallow and swallow it whole Is it any wonder that you’re sick now? Is it any wonder? You had to hang around my porch swing summertime You had to hear my old guitar sing moonshine Is it any wonder how you look at me? Is it any wonder that you need to please? Is it any wonder when you open wide and look like a catfish looks? Is it any wonder you’re hooked? You had to hang your duffel coat on my Afghan You had to slip your shoes right under my divan, man Is it any wonder that you’re stuck now? Is it any wonder? You had to stick your claws in every day You had to twist your barbs in every way, bring me pain Is it any wonder how you look at me? Is it any wonder that you need to? Please. Is it any wonder when you open wide and look like a lamprey looks? Is it any wonder we’re hooked? Is it any wonder how you look at me? Is it any wonder that you need to? Please. Is it any wonder when you open wide and look like a lamprey looks? Is it any wonder we’re hooked?
3.
Down 03:28
Dusk is burning a rose, water’s kissing my toes And something inside of me knows that anything is possible Teeing off from the dunes, sing it in with your tune And follow it over the moon, because anything is possible Hey let’s strip down, dive down, down, down deep And play around on the bottom of the sea Hey let’s strip down, dive down, down, down deep And play around on the bottom of the sea You and me, you and me, you and me White of skin in the waves, flash of jewellery scales Little chance to be saved, but anything is possible Sand is trapping me down, billows up in a cloud Calling out with no sound, but anything is possible And the fish parts the water, parts the water, like the veil of death And my heart beating shorter, beating shorter as I squander my breath But you look so hot, lining up your shot, clothed in nought but your mermaid’s hair That I’m willing to die, leaking out my life, just as long, long, long as you’re there. So let’s strip down, dive down, down, down deep And play around on the bottom of the sea Hey let’s strip down, dive down, down, down deep And play around on the bottom of the sea You and me, you and me, you and me At the bottom of the sea
4.
Ask me how I want to die I’ll take a single bullet in the eye And play it stricken photo still And tumble slo-mo down the hill Ask the next man in the line Bitter strychnine in his wine Choking, bit part theatre queen No joking, stealing every scene And now you get to choose Who’s best to take the drop for you And it’s Best Man’s Fall After all, after all It’s Best Man’s Fall After all Competition crackles in the air As the next boy takes the chair And as you pull his killing switch See the fool begin to twitch And now you get to choose Who’s best to take the drop for you And it’s Best Man’s Fall After all, after all It’s Best Man’s Fall After all

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released September 5, 2011

All songs by: Condie, Williamson, Wilson
Recorded by David McMahon Jr and Murnie

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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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