Courage, For Tomorrow Will Be Worse

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1.	Good Shop Shuts 02:39	lyrics	buy track
This is such a pretty town when the snow is falling We queue up for our loaves and pies We never find it boring And the independent record shop is rolling in gold pieces They’re queueing ‘round the corner for the more obscure releases While we moan like owt then a good shop shuts We’d take the blame if we had the guts While we moan like owt then a good shop shuts We’d take the blame if we had the guts For the money we never spent The times we never went No one would admit that the superstore was easy There was everything under one roof So pleasing when its freezing And now they’re selling records though most of them are shite Lowest common denominator Fills the shelves just right While we moan like owt then this good shop shuts Well take the blame No you don’t have the guts While we moan like owt then a good shop shuts We’d take the blame if we had the guts For the money we never spent The times we never went Now this is such a quiet town Cars just drive straight through Past the historic market hall The war memorial too And there’s dignitaries on the local news and they’re talking up some plans to regenerate Regenerate Regenerate Regenerate
2.	In a Yorkshire Call Centre I Knelt Down and Wept 03:26	lyrics	buy track
In a Yorkshire call centre I knelt down and wept On the endless night shifts that I’d tried to accept After days in a pub when I really should have slept Regretting my youth and the company I’d kept In a Yorkshire call centre I swung on my chair I was talking to people who weren’t really there There were tears in my eyes, desperate despair Avoiding the truths that I could hardly bare And I was struggling to make sense of it all All their slogans on the wall Their slogans on the wall There were slogans on the wall In a Yorkshire call centre I was stabbed in the back She was a friend it was a surprise attack Torn apart for all the things that I lack But after ten times it had lost its impact And I was struggling to make sense of it all All the slogans on the wall There were slogans on the wall Slogans on the wall And I was struggling to make sense of it all All their slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall In a Yorkshire call centre I was dismissed There were targets and I was bottom of the list They were quite civil but I got the gist You don’t belong here You won’t be missed And I was struggling to make sense of it all All their slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall Yeah I, I was struggling to make sense of it all The slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall I, I was struggling to make sense of it all All their slogans on the wall The slogans on the wall They had were slogans on the wall
3.	This Boat Is Going Nowhere Tonight, Son 02:50	lyrics	buy track
Plans revised and plans forgotten A child spent wrapped up in cotton Grandparents who spoiled you rotten The Sun shone from your tracksuit bottoms School was just a place to go To shelter from the rain and snow You never listened to what you didn’t want to know And all of a sudden it was time to go But this boat’s going nowhere ‘cause the canal is frozen I’m stood there with not that many clothes on That is the late night price for my early evening posing This boat is going nowhere tonight Did time for an agency You might as well have worked for free Existence is just temporary You never found a place to be Drunken nights in awful clubs You couldn’t come up with the goods Judgement wrecked, your mind is mud You’d stay at home if you could But this boat’s going nowhere, the canal is frozen I’m stood there with not that many clothes on That is the late night price for some early evening posing This boat is going nowhere tonight What to do I find it hard to decide And when I toss a coin it always lands on its side What to do, its hard to decide And when I toss a coin it only lands on its side Walk the streets Some kind of daze You were wrong-footed by a roadwork maze Confused by flash window displays Fear sets in Your concrete ways Daylight strikes Avoid the sun Could it be your chance has gone Every day could have been the one Opportunities here Fun, fun, fun And this boat’s going nowhere ‘cause its out of season And I’m still out for no real reason The Sun is coming up but its still freezing And this boat is going nowhere tonight Well what to do I find it hard to decide And when I toss a coin it always lands on its side
4.	Some Slum Clearances 04:34	lyrics	buy track
And where did you think we’d go when you torched our miserable huts? When you bludgeoned us in the guts When you freed us from our ruts And what’d you think we’d do when you showed us all your wares? Tried to catch us unawares And you showed us that you didn’t care Despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled by your slum clearances And despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled by your fooling What’d you think we’d say when you took our fun away? When you told us where to play And you lengthened our working day And when did you think we’d know that you’d left us nowhere to go? Our clocks would always be slow Our favourite word would be no Despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled by your slum clearances And despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled by your fooling I was left behind And despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled by your slum clearances And despite deceptive appearances we weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled We weren’t fooled by your fooling We were off course and planning excuses I was dragged in by your easy paranoia Did you enjoy all the endless talking With me saying nothing? Maybe I could have warned you Often on target We were wearing barbed wire Bleeding on cue It was a strange performance And I fought the battle with no sense of a cause Clutching at straws And hiding ‘round corners

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"exhilarating rant-rock… a deceptively indie-rock format soon giving way to an enjoyably psychotic temperament." - Artrocker
“not only a band whose vision is obscured by a grim drizzle that just won’t shift, but also a gift for sharp storytelling via explorative and cunning lyrics" – A New Band a Day
"This is the kind of band that bashes you on the side of the head with an Oxford Press Guide to Paleontology and then reads to you from it." – The POP! Stereo
"It‘s funny and tragic and bleak and angry and it’s genuine and that’s why no fucker will buy it." – Unpeeled
"Articulate, aggressive, and determinedly northern indie rock. They place the spotlight firmly on their wordy ‘singer’ … his approach places him within a lineage of urgent, literate, speak-singing frontmen which began with Mark E Smith and includes talents like Art Brut’s Eddie Argos … The band provide a perfect backdrop, taut and tense when they need to be, crashing and furious at other points. You’ll be singing the choruses to surging opener ‘Good Shop Shuts’ and angry political rant ‘Some Slum Clearances’ long after the EP’s last note has sounded." – Contact Music

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released December 6, 2010

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