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Detective Instinct - 2​-​2​-​3 Fridges

from Detected Stuff Or Otherwise by Various Artists

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G.W. Sok - vocals
Oli Heffernan - the other stuff
originally from the 7" Detective Instinct #3 (Sickroom Records, SRR 058, 2009)
check out detectiveinstinct.bandcamp.com for more

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2-2-3 FRIDGES

A car per person, will that be the rule
or a private jet for every other fool
and does each home need 10 rooms and a swimming pool
and why do we think that two to three fridges are cool
and these homes with those rooms, where we gonna build them?
and once they are built, how we're gonna fill them?

We lay claim to human genes
public archives, village greens
and we retreat to our gated communities
with sensors, guards, and closed-circuit TVs
we're not even surprised
why so many fences rise
we just lock ourselves in to lock others out
forgetting like fuck what life is all about
and all the junk we collect are substitutes and fractions
of what we used to call human interaction
we're not even surprised
why so many fences rise

Talk to your neighbours instead of to your telly
think with your heart and not with your belly
the nuts in our heads, are they brains or jelly
why not admit that the rats are too smelly
the rats are too smelly?
the rats are too smelly!...

When do we start facing all the damage we've done
when do we stop pretending that in fact there is none
when do we start doing things right instead of wrong
when do we stop pretending we can solve it with a song
talk to your neighbours instead of to your telly
think with your heart and not with your belly
the nuts in our heads, are they brains or just jelly
the rats, they are smelly

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from Detected Stuff Or Otherwise, track released November 10, 2009
words by G.W. Sok
music by Oli Heffernan

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G.W. Sok Amsterdam, Netherlands

G.W. Sok co-founded The Ex in 1979 and was their singer and lyricist for 30 years (www.theex.nl). Since 2009 he is involved in various other projects, such as Action Beat (UK), Zoikle (NL), Cannibales & Vahinés (F), King Champion Sounds (UK/NL), Coddiwomple (F), Oiseaux-Tempête (F), L&S (F). And there's some solo stuff as well. ... more

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