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from BLAM! by The Fascinators

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lyrics

Small hands learn quickly
To guard soft hearts
Hiding beneath folds of skin
Packaged up perfectly
Equal parts
Scared to lock out and let in
Dressed up in rosettes and ribbons
The wrapping’s surprisingly thin
The hope is if it’s darling outside
You won’t search for trouble within

I’ll find a known course of action
Have you grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction

If for a gift I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little gift can shout what’s unspoken
Too deeply hidden away
To come out and say
To come out and say

Small hands learn quickly that tender touch
Brings an exile to its end
Caress and embrace both become a crutch
On which they start to depend
And if ardour abandon their body
Then what can they do but pretend
Exchanging some contact for closeness
Is a bargain they learn to befriend

I’ll find a known course of action
Have you grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction

If for a kiss I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little kiss can shout what’s unspoken
Too deeply hidden away
To come out and say
To come out and say

-so speak-
Put some words to my life
Unleash stories I’m frightened to tell
-so speak-
Bravely open myself
Or risk living a personal hell
Just stand up and be counted
-take a stand-
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and be counted
-take a stand-
Stand up and be counted

Reject the known course of action
It would grow in my brain
Drive me to distraction
An all too common transaction
Clinging onto chemical reaction

If for my life I can buy a moment
I’ll crush my pride and I’ll pay
One little life can shout what’s unspoken
Usually hidden away
We’ll come out and say
That we were afraid
We’ll come out and say
That we stood anyway

Stand up and be counted

credits

from BLAM!, released November 20, 2016
The Fascinators are: Al Plant, Emily Snee, Gareth Rhys Prior, Hal Mycroft and Harrison Moore

Produced and Engineered by: Steve Van Niekerk

Sounds and Samples from: freesfx

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The weird glittery mind child of Emily Snee, Gareth Rhys Prior, Hal Mycroft, Al Plant and Jonathan Oliver, The Fascinators are spreading their own bizarre brand of drag rock/metal across the UK.

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