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Black as Alexanders

by The People Who Run The Country

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A song about trying to trust yourself to love again.

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Black as Alexanders


Ranting for the cheap seats
twerking for the Royal Box
being bled to lily on boards
I just want something that will cover me up
slip the night right over head like a hood

I crave the good opinion of fools
who doll out their likes like gongs
narcissus staring, drooling in his pond
at the ragged end of my complicity
like film flapping in a projector
I clutch the lectern at the lecture like an altar
slurring like Churchill at Yalta
hand on my holster at the volta
poised on the threshold, ah but here I falter
I just want to be good
I just want to be good
I just want to be good but bits of me are …

black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed
black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed

ranting from the hedgerows
reaping through the wastelands
scything down these happy country lanes
the night waits crouching like a jack-in-the-box
and when its springs you won’t tell us apart

but when I bury my head
in the meadow of your breast
i know the scent of wild flowers is the one that I like best
and i don’t like to think of
all the forests I’ve asphalted
the metal that i have smelted and the creatures that i’ve pelted
ah, but I’ve never felt this
too much helter skelter
i’m dizzy now and i’m begging for your shelter
I know that I can be good
I know that I can be good
I know that I can be good when everything is …

black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed
black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed x2

a solid stem becomes hollow and grooved with age

black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed
black as alexanders
black as alexanders seed

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released July 10, 2022
Wright / Taylor

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The People Who Run The Country Sheffield, UK

The People Who Run The Country roll their misanthropic fun wagon of pop into 2022 and suddenly things don’t seem that bad any more. Sure, life might be a shit show but just look at the lights!

Their debut single gained Radio 6 airplay and this Autumn they’re bringing out their debut LP.
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