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A new version of the secret track from Monkey Swallows the Universe's first album "The Bright Carvings" (Thee SPC, 2006).

To celebrate 10 years since that album's release, MSTU present Sheffield Shanty II / Groucho as a digital-only single. The full folk-pop five-piece will also play a one-off show at Queens Social Club in Sheffield on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016: www.facebook.com/events/528363097341573/

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You love me like a fashionable liberal loves an Eastern European dissident
You love me like an existentialist loves an empty room that nobody can see inside, that nobody can see inside

You love me like a nihilist loves absolutely nothing at all
You love me like Roderick Usher and I'm locked up now
As the walls are falling down, the walls are falling down

(Ahhh)

You never got the hang of oral sex
The whole procedure was a pain in the neck
Never got the hang of awkward silences
Never read those looks of keep your distances
Of keep your distances

In this light you look like Odysseus lashed to the mast of your own creation
In this light you look like Yossarian bandaging my arm as my guts are spilling out, my guts are spilling out

(Ahhh)

You love me like David Cameron loves discretion as a trait in an abbatoir tour guide
You love me like a nihilist loves absolutely nothing at all
Looks to me like all the newspapers seem the same as last decade's newspapers
And you love me like a market researcher loves to ruin my day

credits

from Sheffield Shanty II / Groucho, released February 26, 2016
Written by Kevin Gori
Produced by Dave Sanderson
Recorded at 2Fly Studios, Sheffield 2016

Kevin Gori: Guitar, vocals, percussion
Nat Johnson: Melodica, backing vocals, percussion

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Monkey Swallows the Universe Sheffield, UK

"Sheffield's loveliest band" - The Guardian

MSTU are: Nat Johnson, Kevin Gori, Cate Tully, Andy George & Rob Dean.

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