Kae Tempest - Three Sided Coin lyrics
[Kae Tempest - Three Sided Coin lyrics]
Retell the old tales
Retail’s complete hell, we need some detail
That’s why I’ve been staring at
The stem of this plant
For like the last day and a half
The last day and a half, the last
Now the three sided coin buys
The bow legged calf
And we’ve been sucking out the milk
From it's mother’s teat incessantly
So come on, pump us full of nothingness
And hear us sing the melody
And watch us dance the thin line
Between the in thing and integrity
Vacuum packed, shrink-wrapped
Wartime spam-bots
Following the stories of the day
In a hands-off
Dandruff-in your-sandwich kind of way
Infinite distraction
Now the distance between objects
Can be measured out in fractions
But the distance between people
Is a scale that we can’t balance
We’re frail
Our hearts haven’t had time to try fathom
The scales of old dragons are
Nails in gold coffins this island of England
Oh, England we set out from this place
For murder and murder
And then we squared it away
Like it did not occur
Now when people are lost
They need people to join
But beware of the three-sided coin
And when people are hurt
They need people to blame
But beware of the fear you can't name
I take the bins out, it’s raining
The kids are on the pavement
With their hoods up waiting for buses
And on the radio, someone’s complaining
Saying until now
They never discussed it in public
Same thing as yesterday
Careful with the hot tap
Cold to burning in a second
Clothes on, stare in the mirror
Aware of the process of life
Slipping out of the eyes deodorize
Mentholated paste on the bristles
Scrub the enamel, now shoelace
Hands like somebody else’s
Where are the hands from before?
I was 10 years old once
Life got quiet last night station platform
Coffee from the man in the
Hut with the stutter
I see a friend from school
But we ignore one another
I flick through the papers instead
Aching legs, pounding head
I can’t wait for the weekend
I’m staying in bed
In the mouth of a breaking wave
In the mouth of a breaking storm
Shaken, thinking something is coming
The sky’s an unusual colour
The weather is doing unusual things
And our leaders aren’t even pretending
Not to be demons
So where is the good heart to go but inwards?
Why not lock all the doors
And bolt all the windows?
All I am are my doubts and suspicions
I against you against we against them
This is how it begins
And this is how it will end
Retail’s complete hell, we need some detail
That’s why I’ve been staring at
The stem of this plant
For like the last day and a half
The last day and a half, the last
Now the three sided coin buys
The bow legged calf
And we’ve been sucking out the milk
From it's mother’s teat incessantly
So come on, pump us full of nothingness
And hear us sing the melody
And watch us dance the thin line
Between the in thing and integrity
Vacuum packed, shrink-wrapped
Wartime spam-bots
Following the stories of the day
In a hands-off
Dandruff-in your-sandwich kind of way
Infinite distraction
Now the distance between objects
Can be measured out in fractions
But the distance between people
Is a scale that we can’t balance
We’re frail
Our hearts haven’t had time to try fathom
The scales of old dragons are
Nails in gold coffins this island of England
Oh, England we set out from this place
For murder and murder
And then we squared it away
Like it did not occur
Now when people are lost
They need people to join
But beware of the three-sided coin
And when people are hurt
They need people to blame
But beware of the fear you can't name
I take the bins out, it’s raining
The kids are on the pavement
With their hoods up waiting for buses
And on the radio, someone’s complaining
Saying until now
They never discussed it in public
Same thing as yesterday
Careful with the hot tap
Cold to burning in a second
Clothes on, stare in the mirror
Aware of the process of life
Slipping out of the eyes deodorize
Mentholated paste on the bristles
Scrub the enamel, now shoelace
Hands like somebody else’s
Where are the hands from before?
I was 10 years old once
Life got quiet last night station platform
Coffee from the man in the
Hut with the stutter
I see a friend from school
But we ignore one another
I flick through the papers instead
Aching legs, pounding head
I can’t wait for the weekend
I’m staying in bed
In the mouth of a breaking wave
In the mouth of a breaking storm
Shaken, thinking something is coming
The sky’s an unusual colour
The weather is doing unusual things
And our leaders aren’t even pretending
Not to be demons
So where is the good heart to go but inwards?
Why not lock all the doors
And bolt all the windows?
All I am are my doubts and suspicions
I against you against we against them
This is how it begins
And this is how it will end