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Screensavers (feat​.​/ Harry Mold)

from The People Who Run The Country by The People Who Run The Country

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Screensavers


I board the red-eye
clutching my coffee
shooting off the bile
from my bony little thumbs
at dog-whistle pixels
self-obsessed journos
so fasten your seatbelts
and stay something vile

But it’s cosmic up above the clouds today
I want to tumble through them
it’s hard to think I’d fall to earth.
And I want to write it down
to make you see what I see
I want to paint that scene
but I cant’ I can’t I can’t

Don’t try it at home, kids,
you’ll only get
an inbox full of instapoems
stick with your regrets.
Trying to make it beautiful
won’t do you favours
filling up the world with more
screensavers

Alexa, show me a beautiful view

And it’s bad enough
that I run from my trauma
clutching these sheafs
like loot from the vaults
but my words are emojis
when faced with this vista
dismantle your cameras
Cease you attempts

Cos who cares about me anyway
I’m a stain on this blue
I’ve nothing to say
I just want to submit
I’m dissolving like an aspirin
in the clear lake of the sky
I’m dissolving like an aspirin
in the clear lake of the sky

Don’t try it at home, kids,
you’ll only get
an inbox full of instapoems
stick with your regrets.
Trying to make it beautiful
won’t do you favours
filling up the world with more
screensavers

Siri, play me music with emotion in it
no, music with emotion in it


A Tuscany village
cut in the hillside
an Aztec temple
and all that New Zealand
Art as a sedative
art as a pick me up
art as a bubble bath
art as a snack

Don’t try it at home, kids,
you’ll only get
an inbox full of instapoems
stick with your regrets.
Trying to make it beautiful
won’t do you favours
filling up the world with more
screensavers

Hey Google, play me
The People Who Run The Country
Nice.

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from The People Who Run The Country, released October 26, 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. ... more

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