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Gentle Chunks

from Green Ginger Wine by Robin Elliott

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about

I'm always in the kitchen at parties.

lyrics

Baby is an artist someone's drawn pictures on her neck
she takes whatever drugs come along with style
she'd mean a little more to me I think as she walks in
maybe I'll take her out to dinner in a while

and everybody's smiling
the party's taking hold
somewhere applause is dying

I stood in the corner
and tried to act mature
more mature than I was given credit for

outside as gentle chunks of vomit splatter on the ground
and the stars are spinning circles in the sky
my friends and I smoke spliff and chat shit lying on the lawn
and our conversations start to pass us by

and di not good men of Rome some say
along the marble colonnades of yore
you know that we can't carry on like this forever, lads
but still it meant fuck all

and in the darkness in between the trees beyond the garden wall
the music and carousing far behind
the breeze between the leaves begins murmuring

and Uncle Bob never came 'round to our house
but I heard him say a lot
but in a book he'd written later on on it I read
that he hadn't said exactly what I thought

and I'm stood in the corner
swearing I'm for real
but I swear on my tape recorder and my middle name

and Baby knows the way it goes
she doesn't even really seem to mind
but somewhere applause is dying
and we're running out of time

© Robin Elliott 2015
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from Green Ginger Wine, released September 14, 2015

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Robin Elliott London, UK

Extraordinary songwriter and performer.

Funnier and more self-deprecating than this makes me sound.

Forthcoming album There is a Land is awash with novel narrative strategies and novelty Brexit tunes.

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