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Takes A Long Cold Look And Then The Kitchen Sink

by The Noise Who Runs

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Takes A Long Cold Look And Then The Kitchen Sink You’ve been taking up my time funny man You’ve been wasting all that’s mine funny man Drag your habit on your knees off my street I know the line, so not one more, off once more into the breach Hey - start of the breakdown Say - bridges to take down Say now - what are you after? Hey now - what do you have there? Takes a long cold look and then the kitchen sink Don’t believe you caught the score funny man No one’s laughing anymore funny man Drag your habit on your knees off my street Leave me smiling by the skin of my teeth A long long line of just one more - out of touch and out of reach Hey - start of the breakdown Say - bridges to take down Say now - what are you after? Hey now - what do you have there? Flashes hollow smile and fixes self a drink I know the line, so not one more, off once more into the breach Hey - start of the breakdown Say - bridges to take down Say now - what are you after? Hey now - what do you have there? Takes a long cold look and then the kitchen sink Hey, hey, hey now

2.
Beautiful Perhaps Heaven needs water
 To short out the nausea
 And to dampen the token contempt 
Heaven needs water
 The party is over 
Hung, drawn and quartered and toxic with cul-de-sac intent
 The narrative seeks redemption
 But it’s a picture book version, censored to fiction, as the demons pull us apart The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps I translate my pain down 
A little structure and a little shape now
 A record needle in a defective groove
 My pain becomes language 
An echo of disadvantage
 The art of detachment in an open wound
 The scars can heal to perfection 
But it’s a picture book version, censored to fiction, as the demons pull us apart The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps Heaven needs water
 But kindness is in short order
 Just a lotus flower in the mud
 Heaven sees misery
 With outraged but hollow sympathy
 And happiness is a single raindrop swallowed in the wretched flood
 The fairytale of salvation 
It’s just a picture book version, senseless, bewildered, as the demons pull us apart
 The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps, The truth isn’t pretty but it is beautiful perhaps - the truth isn’t pretty

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released March 14, 2023

Written by Ian Pickering.
Recorded, engineered and produced by The Noise Who Runs.
The Noise Who Runs are Ian Pickering and Felipe Goes.
Mixed and Mastered by Colin C at The Cell Studio thecellstudio.com
Drums by Julien Guyot.

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The Noise Who Runs Lille, France

Anglo-French dark electronic rock and pop with heavy influences of indie, EDM and trip hop.
Formed in 2019 by Sneaker Pimps’ lyricist Ian Pickering along with guitarist Felipe Goes.

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