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Lanarky

by Tommy Mackay

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Cliques 03:30
Don't run with the clique Expand your mind and chase thrills Life should be a feast Not prescription pills Welcome to a New Lanark No more dark satanic mills Just dear green faced panic Elitism kills This may be a hellish place But it's all we have Bonded by mutual hate Cynical and sad Look at me On my balcony Don't look at me On the balcony Sucking on the knuckle of my thumb Nowhere else to be Staring at the sun Sluddenly I see
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Dragonhide 02:31
If I lose my way I will shut my eyes and turn my head If I lose my way I will shut my eyes and turn my head Dragonhide Dragonhide What filthy tricks do you play on the sick? Doctoring the patients Are you thick skinned or just thick, thick, thick? Just an observation Dragonhide Dragonhide A man is dying naturally Purging the intake Shedding scales gradually She's a dragon with a headache
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The Key 02:38
Everything is hate We are all hate Tied together by Ruth's hair ribbons Men are pies that bake and eat themselves And the recipe is hate Asthma Coulter says Life's easy when you're a robot
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As Britain lyes in guilt, you see Tis asked o reader, art thou free? Are we free, Mr Rennie? Of course we are We're making our own model of the universe and nobody gives a damn for us Eenty teenty haligalum The head is hatched, the sky is crackit and John Knox boozed up a kee-kark lum John Knox boozed up a kee-kark lum We're making our own model of the universe and nobody gives a damn for us and all the Gods are humpy kee-kark, kee-kark, kee-kark
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Glasgow 02:24
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Chaos 02:22
I wish I was a duck on Alexandra Park pond I could swim, and fly, and walk and have three wives, and everything I wanted But I'm a man. I have a mind, and three library tickets, and everything I want is impossible. No kindly future will ever repair a past as vile as ours, and even if we do achieve a worldwide democratic socialist state it won't last. Nothing decent lasts. All that lasts is this mess of fighting and pain and I object to it! I object! I object!
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Domestic Man 02:28
The cake she baked me bit me till I cried The bed she made me was so hard I nearly died The shirt she washed me folded its arms and tied me up inside She's going domestic She's got a great big domestic plan But please baby believe me lady I am not a domestic man She cleans windows till they shine so I can't see She polishes floors till they suck my foot in up to the knee She papers rooms till the walls start squeezing in on me She's going domestic She's got a great big domestic plan But please baby believe me lady I am not a domestic man not a domestic man not a domestic man
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Notebooks out, plagiarists Here we fucking go (here we, here we) It's one of those songs that's just a list of people you should know oh oh oh Anon, anon, anon, John Bunyan Angus Black and John Glashan William Blake, Borges, James Joyce Franz Kafka and Christopher Boyce Robert Burns, Lord Goodman Joseph Conrad, Jim Kelman Thomas Carlyle, Joyce Cary Sigmund Freud and Walt Disney George Douglas Brown, God, Ibsen Hugh MacDiarmid, John Milton Lewis Carroll, Liz Lochead Arthur Koestler, Tom Leonard Notebooks out, plagiarists Here we fucking go (here we, here we) It's one of those songs that's just a list of people you should know oh oh oh William Makepeace Thackeray William Shakespeare, Tina Reid William Golding, Thomas Mann Flann O'Brien, Xenophon Coleridge, Hobbes, James Hadley Chase Sylvia Plath, Norman MacCaig Goethe, David Hume, Carl Jung Joan Ure, Ralph Waldo Emerson Li Peng, Edgar Allan Poe Tom McGrath, Lord Monboddo Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell Alan Spence, Edith Sitwell Notebooks out, plagiarists Here we fucking go (here we, here we) It's one of those songs that's just a list of people you should know oh oh oh Marx and Melville, Wilhelm Reich Zoroaster, Heinrich Heine Catriona NicGumaraid DH Lawrence, Brian McCabe Col. Stukely Younghusband Imperial Gazetteer Of Scotland Reverend P Hately Waddel Dylan Thomas, Carl MacDougall The Guardian, T.S. Eliot Archie Hind, Kurt Vonnegut Marcella Evaristi Reverend Charles Kingsley Notebooks out, plagiarists Here we fucking go (here we, here we) It's one of those songs that's just a list of people you should know oh oh oh F Scott Fitzgerald, Dan Propper Donald Goodbrand Saunders Bill Price Turner Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer Reverend George MacDonald, Alexander Pope Amos Totuola, Nearly there Don't give up hope Rev. Henry James Prince Angus Nicholson WC Smith HG Wells, Dr Philip Hobsbaum Aonghas MacNeacail Marcus Fabricius Quintillianus Not everyone here is famous Notebooks out, plagiarists That's yer fucking lot Every single citation From Lanark's epilogue Oh
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Lanarky 02:32
Here's the thing, here's the list I am a lanarkist I'm well hard and I'm well read I'd rather be unthanked than undead Hey Mr Gray I wanna be Lanarky parupapumpum

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A musical imagining of Alasdair Gray's 'Lanark' featuring samples from Neu Reekie's 'A Gray Day Broadcast,' excerpts from the 'Gray of the Day' project by The Alasdair Gray Archives and readings by the man himself. 100% unofficial.

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released April 25, 2021

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Tommy Mackay Edinburgh, UK

Scottish comedy performer and editor of The Daily Reckless - the paper that sings the news.

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