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Rose​-​Cunted Glasses

by The Quixotes

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Technophobe (format c) 03:37
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Thoughts, thoughts everywhere and not a thought to think And decisions need to be made right now Coulda been a contender yet can’t change for better And questions only run my batteries down I hope no-one knows I can’t boot up in the morning format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:/ I can’t stand staring out of all these windows I always keep on crashing out For now my thoughts are happy wandering On my blue screen of death I'll shout I hope no-one knows I can’t boot up in the morning format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:/ I cleared out the temp files Started afresh for miles and miles Clear ahead on the road Tried to get mean but got mowed I hope no-one knows I can’t boot up in the morning format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:/reinstall personality format c:
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What the Actual Fuck 03:19
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He only sees his worlds Through his rose-cunted glasses Catch the gaze of all the girls With freely easy passes He only sees his world From the back of a rifle Moving heaven, this girl She’s so delightful What the hell do we hear for We never listen What the hell do we see for We’re never looking What the hell do we touch for We’re never feeling What the hell are we here for We never visit We never visit We never visit We never visit Oh, let’s stop the war So long as we can all keep fighting Every pity so raw With flames these words igniting It does not matter about the how Because you know we’re right Everything so clear to you now Let’s us prey upon your fright What the hell do we hear for? We never listen What the hell do we see for? We’re never looking What the hell do we touch for? We’ve got no feeling What the hell are we here for? We never visit We never visit We never visit They only seized their world Through your rose-cunted glasses Catch the gaze of all the girls With freely easy passes They only seized their world On the back of a rifle Moving heaven, that girl She was so delightful What the fuck do we hear for We never listen What the fuck do we see for We’re never looking What the fuck do we touch for We’re never feeling What the fuck are we here for We never visit We never listen We’re never looking We’re never feeling We’re never visit We’re never healing
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Jazz Hands 04:14
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Seeing as now you’re here Why don’t you take your shoes off? And settle down for the evening I’ll turn the LED-lights to their multi-coloured mood mode Let’s light a candle for love Vaguely Vanilla-scented I’ll take the single seater You can curl up on the couch And cuddle up to cushions While I put another log on the authentic fire and stoke her Let’s light a candle for love Notionally Fresh Bread The Best of Sade’s on low We know how to relax I will decant me a cognac I’ll get you a sherry while I’m up and about And we can drink each other cosy As if there’s nothing better to do than talk Let’s light a candle for love Almost Almondesque We should hug either mental End each days with such highs Fall apart under the duvet That always ends up on your side and leaves me cold Let’s light a candle for love Everything Totally Rosy
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Happy Accident 02:40
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Over the hill now and we’re freewheeling Close my eyes and feel the wind in my hair Don’t you mention all the wars I’ve been through I’m coming back to life, wandering fair It was a happy accident A happy accident Weaponising misery, hits me round the face and so Takes me to places I never needed to see If I’m your perfect victim, you needed much more dayglo To brighten up your life and startle me It was a happy accident A happy, happy, happy accident I won’t obsess about the social mobility And reach up and join the skiing classes Happy accident We’re all happy accidents We’re all happy, happy, happy accidents And all the happy accidents that are waiting to happen
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Take It All In 03:56
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You cannot take me anywhere I’m smuggled into and out of countries I’ll get you jailed for life You cannot hide me anywhere I’m smuggled into and out of bedrooms Shin down rusty drainpipes You cannot leave me anywhere Tie me to a comfy chair You cannot leave me anywhere Tie me to a comfy chair And torture me And torture me There’s too much to see There’s too much to see I can’t take it all in in one life I can’t take it all in in one life You cannot lead me anywhere Up garden paths to cenotaphs All dressed for laughs in bear skins You cannot lead me anywhere Tie me to a comfy chair You cannot leave me anywhere Tie me to a comfy chair And torture me And torture me There’s too much to see I can’t take it all in in one life I can’t take it all in in one life I’d cry for you I’ve tears for two For all I seen Can anyone help me? There’s too much to see There’s too much to see I can’t take it all in in one life I can’t take it all in in one life There’s too much to see There’s too much to see I can’t take it all in in one life I can’t take it all in in one life There’s too much to see There’s too much to see I can’t take it all in in one life I can’t take it all in in one life
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When the World is Getting Boring 04:24
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When the world is getting boring I just close my eyes and make believe It doesn't help me when I'm down But if I could make some sense of it I could get my feet back on the ground As my mind begins to tremble When my brain starts running down I lose all sense of time and place And crown myself behind another face As my John begins to wilt When my machismo's running wild I drive my nerves insane And tie myself down to feel all the pain When the world is getting boring I just close my eyes and make believe It doesn't help me when I'm down But if I could make some sense of it I could get my feet back on the ground When the world is getting boring The world is getting boring
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Stone the Crows 05:05
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I’m peering round doorways Letting cats out of bags Curiosity kills me And carries me away with you I dig through your secrets Your strength and your weakness Looking between the covers What will we the find Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows I found out what no-one else knows You are so lightweight Like a paper-weight I could fold you up And carry you around for luck I can’t hear you through the encyclopedic volumes On the shelf They’re calling to me Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows I found out what no-one else knows Amazed to find a day exists When night begins to fall I thought you’d be hard to resist But no-one knows it all Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows Stone me, stone the crows I found out what no-one else knows I found out what no-one else knows
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Overboarders 04:05
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I’m reaching sentience Growing more confident every day Starting to ask more questions Hanging off on your every word And though you’ll all ignore me As I battle on regardless Then we’re doing as we’re told And not as we’re pleased Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under I’m seeing through your haze Taking every new day as it comes to me But perhaps it never really comes The old one just lingers in the air Like a toxic fart in your fallout shelters And all our unfiltered newsfeeds Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under We’ll drown anyway under the pressure of exceptional expectations We’re gonna drown anyway under the weight of their special investigations So jump first Overboarders over borders They jump first Overboarders over borders They jump first Overboarders over borders I’m feeling quite, quite lost What a beautiful concept to not be found Am I happier to be a distant Than to be contained? Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over, push me under Roll me over
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Mad as Hell 04:35
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Get Out of Jail Free 04:34
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They got away with words Please gamble all our lives away While we complain about the lack of free parking Near Leicester Square in the evening Do not pass go Do not collect two hundred pounds Throw for the win Play the get out of jail free card Chance your arm in shame, You’ll never forget old whatshername When she sheds her water works Electric Whitechapel’s all disturbed While we’re all sent to Coventry All the way from Whitehall to Liverpool Street They beat the community services and super taxes Smokin’ your Strands and your Pall Malls and your Marlboroughs We’re digging in the wrong place You’re never the droids we’re looking for Do not pass go Do not collect two hundred pounds Throw for the win Play the get out of jail free card Chance your arm in shame, You’ll never forget old whatshername When she sheds her water works Electric Whitechapel’s all disturbed While we’re all sent to Coventry For all the hotels outside And barring all your freedoms Where everyone can see you now On Her Majesty’s Pentonville holiday Aren’t you so glad that you came to stay? Do not pass go Do not collect two hundred pounds Play the get out of jail free card Do not pass go Do not collect two hundred pounds Play the get out of jail free card Do not pass go Do not collect two hundred pounds Play their get out of jail free card Play their get out of jail free card
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Autopilot 04:21
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Keep down low, no radar here Close your eyes, you can’t see their fear Flying down the empty hall Unfriendly posting on your wall Don’t want to hurt your feelings Like drinking innocent smoothies All the files here, no-one cares Surface to air Nihilist comes to life this morning He don’t look so friendly When he left for school He turned on autopilot Banks to the left, liars to the right He wants to feel alive, so No-one goes home from here alive Don’t slap us on the wrist You make it harder to resist You can only twist the knife in To take from us all that a life is So punish all the honest men Make sure we’re all back here again Turn your autopilot off We don’t want to crash and burn Tie your shoes, come in to land Unload the baggage into hand Wouldn’t notice to begin Armed with more than a toothless grin Don’t want to hurt your feelings Innocently or otherwise Nihilist comes to life this morning He don’t look so friendly When he left for work He turned on autopilot His bank’s to the left, lawyers to the right He wants to feel alive, so No-one goes home from here alive Don’t slap us on the wrist You make it harder to resist You can only twist the knife in To take from us all that a life is So punish all the honest men Make sure we’re all back here again Oh! woe is you Oh! hope is me But hope never set us free Oh! woe is you Oh! hope was me When freedom hurts, it’s real Nihilist comes to life this morning He don’t look so friendly When he turned up to vote He turned on autopilot Don’t slap us on the wrist You make it harder to resist You can only twist the knife in To take from us all that a life is So punish all the honest men Make sure we’re all back here again
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Edward Snowden in Hell (A Phoney War) 04:00
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They drug their reason Tie my soul down Make it easy To play my shadow around They suckle on illusions Fed on distant sirens Bled out basic instincts While shackled to the phone They say there's nothing here They tell us not to fear But it's just a phoney war That is free to diet for me Have you seen these hungry people diet? One cent down And they're on their knees It's hip to cry "help!" But it beggars belief The rich get fed Fattened up for the slaughter Slavedriver bloodshed flows like firewater They say there's nothing real They tell us not to feel It's just a phoney war That is free to diet for me Have you seen these hungry people diet? The sweetest sensation To watch the landlords cry A glorious liberation We're free from all of their lies They plague many people The rich sands sunny drains Despised like a waif in your own backyard The locusts feed from your food-filled face They say there's nothing real They tell us not to feel It's just a phoney war That is free to diet for me Have you seen these hungry people diet? Have you seen these hungry people diet? Have you seen these hungry people diet?
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Dressed in Water 03:54
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Chaparral the world Exocet your freedom Firebrand the fora Patriot to the last Bowled you a semyorka Grouse about your house Topoling the state Patriot to the last Destroy all the meaning To our helpless words Teach me how to lie to yourself And convincing me I’m wrong Fade away to cyanide Drinking all the Kool Aid The cunt who’ll take no quarter While we are dressed in water And we are dressed in water Cool and grey Wet and dirty In a pocketful of air There’s always one Pyrotechnic rise up A hellfire of peacekeepers Where cardinal honest John Has made his wise decree His feet scorched on the white sands Although they tie and cut his hands Talking to the pointy end They keep setting fire to his ass Destroying all the meaning To our empty words Teach me how to lie to yourself And convincing me I’m wrong Fade away to the cyanide The Kool Aid stockpile’s all drunk dry The cunt who’ll take no quarter Welp, he don’t drink the water And we are dressed in water Cool and grey Wet and dirty In a pocketful of air There’s always one
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Kiss Me 02:50
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I hitched a ride on a Voyager An odyssey to Jupiter Where I had the prophet’s ear A rogue-like prodigy is fear I brought back a virus of note But I took his antidote A noxious concocted act I’m still in orbit after the fact Oh, kiss me Someone kiss me Darling, kiss me Oh, someone kiss me Darling, kiss me all night long I caught a predator Who killed 2600 former friends I stole his monopoly Good karma it still waves to me I want to sleep with Andromeda At liberations I’d meet her She’s a tempestuous wasp A transcendent someone better lost Oh, kiss me Someone kiss me Darling, kiss me Oh, someone kiss me Darling, kiss me all night long Wire the music straight into my head Wire the music straight into my head Wire the music straight into my head Wire the music straight into my head Oh, kiss me Someone kiss me Darling, kiss me Oh, someone kiss me Darling, kiss me all night long Oh, kiss me!
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Richard Wright 04:48
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Walk a Tightrope 06:45
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Little Island/Safe Place 04:51
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Going to my safe place A calmer state of mind Little island to find my sunshine She’s my wonderland A bygone age of youth I should cast about happier times I’m sure I can remember one If I think about it hard enough Time to put my life on pause With all the dear things she adores Little island to hide my sugar She’s my honey trap At the age our comforts heat The lava lapping at my feet She’s burning all my days away Set the hallelujah rain She’s my hurricane She’s my history And if you noticed what she meant to me You’d run and hide there too Going to live my life here My safe place by the shores Little island to live in music Oh, she’s my melody Gone to my safe place Where I know I won’t mistake her For a love evaporating On these deserted, deserted sands She’s my hurricane She’s my history And if you noticed what she meant to me You’d run and hide here too Hide here too Little island, little island It's my safe place
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Always Wiping the Same Slate Clean (Winchester '74) 02:54
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What a season to be sorry There’s no time like the present We’re taking everything for granted No time to give or receive the love I’m always wiping the same slate clean There’s always roads to travel I’m always wiping the same slate clean Watch my lives unravel If we start over again We’d want to be somebody else’s friend I’ll be whoever you want me to be Whenever you want me to be them I’m always wiping the same slate clean There’s always roads to travel I’m always wiping the same slate clean Watch my lives unravel What do you know about people? What do you know about grief? What you know about disciples? What the fuck do you care about me? We’re creatures of comfort and longing We’re creatures of comfort and longing We’re creatures of comfort and longing We watch the world flow by We’re creatures of comfort and longing We try to find our place in it
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If I Had Known Then What I Know Now 05:22
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I wish I could be in the past And change the things I should've done Reap the rewards for things I hadn't done I lay awake every night Thinking about a life I should put right If I'd only told her I loved her If I'd only told her I loved her If I had known then what I know now If I could have said those things somehow If I could relive those days again I'd confide in you and tell you everything I wanted to be by your side To cry with you when we die But I kept all those words to myself I should have not cared who would laugh And spent so many nights alone If I had done it right the first time If I'd only told her I loved her If I had known then what I know now If I could have said those things somehow If I could relive those days again I'd confide in you and tell you everything If I had told you who I was Would you have turned your back on me? Where would we be, If we had been with each other, now? If I had known then what I know now If I had known then what I know now If I had known then what I know now I'd confide in you and tell you everything If I had known then what I know now I'd confide in you and tell you everything I'd confide in you and tell you everything If I had known then what I know now
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Is This All That There Is? 05:10
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Chalk it down to experience You can’t talk me down from my sky I’ll tell you all about it, dear When I see you on the other side Why don’t you come with me, Alice I won’t escape tonight with my life Help me to live a little longer Expect good news, but it never arrives Was that really all there was To trying to keep myself alive? Why won’t you come with me, Alice I won’t escape tonight with my life Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I was expecting there to be a little more A little more money for a little more fun A little more love for a little more sun The home hosted dinners that all tasted grey The sum of the hours we frittered away It’s time that we wasted all growing up strong From sat navigators that turned us out wrong Never taught us to manage but only to coast Now we’re at a crossroad but three lanes are closed Why won’t you come with me, Alice I won’t escape tonight with my life Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I was expecting there to be a little more They told us there would be more Then they threatened us with cake They told us there’d be cake They promised us cake They turned all our heads But they took away our bread They turned all of our heads They took away our bread Our bread! Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I was expecting there to be a little more Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I won’t escape tonight with my life Is this all that there is? Is this all that there is? Is this all that there is? Is this all that there is? Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I was expecting there to be a little more Oh, is this all that there is, Alice? I won’t escape tonight with my life

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"Rose-Cunted Glasses", the deeply brilliant new rock-pop, concept double-album for bass, drums, guitars and organ. Tinged as ever with deeply personal lyrics, including the beautiful ballads "Stone the Crows", "Little Island/Safe Place" and "If I Had Known Then What I Know Now", the album features the anti-establishment and political side of The Quixotes.

The first half is The View from the Left, the rosy mental afterglow of a peacenik, Corbyn-loving world long since consigned to history even though it never existed anyway, with the political rock of "Overboarders" (the migrant crisis filtered though the happy glow of Facebook), and the dark ballad of "Get Out of Jail Free" (a love story between Rebekeh Brooks and Andy Coulson played out across the London Monopoly board).

The second half is The View From the Right, a state where the myth of personal freedom is quietly subjugated to the point of social breakdown, most notably in the opener, "Autopilot" (mass shootings) and "Dressed in Water" (trolls and SJW's described using armed missiles). But whatever the view, ultimately it's a story of unrequited love: in the end once we finally remove the glasses, left or right doesn't matter, all we have left is a life lost to ourselves no matter what the colour.

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released August 17, 2016

Written and performed by Matt Black

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With infectious and highly melodic tunes, The Quixotes specialize in songs about abject misery. Straddling multiple genres including electronica, indie- rock, 80's pop and blues. The rather schizophrenically monikered Quixotes were in fact merely one Matt Black, a London- based singer- songwriter. ... more

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