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    Tracklisting:

    1. FUWSH
    2. Night Rip
    3. Champion? Sound
    4. She's a Wee Witch
    5. The Invisible Woman
    6. Recycling
    7. Undo Redo
    8. Where They Lie
    9. Airborn
    10. Exciting Lives
    11. Love Letters
    12. KILLSWITCH
    13. Bill Oddy
    14. Best Pals

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lyrics

They lie in riverbeds and at the bottom of the ocean
In ditches, in coffins, in stasis, in motion
They lie in under bridges, underpasses and subways
On cold slabs, on demand, on Sundays
They lie with us, they lie with each over
They lie on a bus an’ they lie under covers
With fathers an’ mothers, sisters, brothers
Bare naked lies when their lying’s uncovered
As they lie in their beds on pamphlets and forms
They lie in their heads, on floors and chaise longs
They lie for their country, lie on command
They lie down for money, lie where they stand
They don’t lie on their feet, they lie in the streets
Then go on holiday for 6 weeks, and lie on the beach
While broken bodies of children lie on the beach
They lie through their teeth with anti-migrancy speech
Every day they lie between sheets of paper
On laptops, phones, in dreams and in vapours
In broad daylight, in offices, on policies
Schools an’ colleges, on beds of broken promises
They lie in dark alleyways under cover of night
And outside buildings with anti-homeless spikes
While they lie on the ground an’ they lie where they stand
And this is the lie of the land

The planet’s on fire
And there’s cracks in the sky
And they lie

We’re so tired of the games
And them rolling the die
And they lie

Wringing hands getting fatter
Chucking scraps to get by
And they lie

Then they look in yir face
And they spit in your eye
And they…

They lie on benches, they don’t lie in the trenches
They even scribble their names as they lie in their menshies
They lie with beasts, they lie with man
They lie on their feet, lie with their hands
They lie on their backs, they lie on their fronts
An’ compete with each other for the ‘lie of the month’
They lie on the carpet, lie in the free market
They’re lying on targets, and they lie in the darkness
They even lie in the morning and they lie in the light
Plus they lie on recordings and they lie into mics
Then they… lie on the page, on air and the stage
They’ve been lying so long they forgot how to stand straight
They continue to lie if you catch them lying out
And there’s no place to be found that they won’t lie around
Lie in. Lie out. Yes they lie with their mouths
Thinking of the public spaces where they could lie about
Lie asleep, lie awake, lie in court, lie in wait
They lie in locked rooms and fill the lie on lie on tape
Then they lie on the surface, ignorin’ underlying problems
And lie in people’s faces at the same time they rob them
They’ve got empty lies, they’ve got full lies
They’ve got long lies, they’ve got school ties
They lie on Egyptian cotton and sleep through the night
While the innocent lie awake in fear for their lives

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from STAY ODD: The Magic of Everyday Things, released April 12, 2021

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