ENDLESS RE-RUN SOCIETY (live)
from FRANK' S LAMENT (EP) by BABAL
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One of the favourites on this EP has to be “Endless Re-run” – maybe it’s the track that epitomises the Babal world-glance at its most acerbic and zany. “What do we want? We want what we had” is the opening line, and Karen proceeds to whirl us through a broken Britain that has an almost innocent desire (initially) to destroy itself with pleasure and addiction.
As sharp guitars change the backdrop, the story changes, giving vent to the inequalities of the endless re-run society that will always be there to pick up the pieces. Where no-one really cares about you unless you have money – again, Karen recalls a Brechtian view of a community lost in its inability to value anything beyond cash, property and addictive lifestyles. And yet it is funny! It bubbles along with hellish guitars and great rhythms – this world has life and refuses to be squashed! The manicness and elitist madness flows through the song, leaving you excited and exhausted. A stand-out track.
As sharp guitars change the backdrop, the story changes, giving vent to the inequalities of the endless re-run society that will always be there to pick up the pieces. Where no-one really cares about you unless you have money – again, Karen recalls a Brechtian view of a community lost in its inability to value anything beyond cash, property and addictive lifestyles. And yet it is funny! It bubbles along with hellish guitars and great rhythms – this world has life and refuses to be squashed! The manicness and elitist madness flows through the song, leaving you excited and exhausted. A stand-out track.
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Endless Re-Run Society
What do we want? We want what we had; we don't want the future, and we care little for the journey ahead.
We are content with the big fat, overblown nowness of NOW.
The James Bond-Skyfall world where Adele sings us a hash of old tunes, sewn together with whale-oil lipstick and horse-tail eyelashes.
No equine products have touched our mascara at any stage in its UK manufacture. (It's on the package it must be true!).
Play the movies JA!, the three little pigs call endlessly from the screen, and cannot be terminated - even by Arnie; who has total recall, total recall, total recall, again and again and again and again.
Who needs a second Wizard of Oz - only a country so shattered by sleep deprivation, eyes encrusted with the sour milk of human kindness,
That they cannot find the poppy fields of forgetfulness,
Cannot walk toward the Wizard with hope anymore.
Coz they know that the curtain will reveal a stunted little man in a green suit, lining his pockets,
Who doesn't give a fuck about your latest disaster.
Even our dramas are on loan from the Bank of Eternal Repeats, run by the media corporations.
Early evening entertainment -watch this, watch this - brought to you by Viking river cruises, another repeat, another repeat.
But this time, instead of violent death by axe and fire, we are conquered by luxury.
Overfed, over-entertained, maxed out on desire, and retching on silk cushions.
The rich vomit in private cabins of capitalism; while the poor puke from the dinghies of desolation.
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But the endless re-run society will always be there to pick up the pieces.
Parliamentary debate continues apace as England carries on, working at 3 jobs to keep 4 people to feed 1 house.
The House of the Rising Slum!
That will always need feeding, that will always take the majority of all you earn.
But in the Garden of the endless re-run society, there is someone playing on the lawn,
Naked, unashamed, growing stronger every day,
The child of time, all-singing, all-dancing
Waiting to step into the limelight.
Maybe this time, the rhythm will be slower. the dancing will engage us all in a beautiful, entrancing Bolero;
That must be learned; step by step, by each and every one of us
Not copied, not rehearsed, unjudged and strictly not an endless re-run, strictly not an endless re-run....
Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance.....
Crazy paved corporate fun (x6).
Karen Langley/Rob Williams (18/3/13)
What do we want? We want what we had; we don't want the future, and we care little for the journey ahead.
We are content with the big fat, overblown nowness of NOW.
The James Bond-Skyfall world where Adele sings us a hash of old tunes, sewn together with whale-oil lipstick and horse-tail eyelashes.
No equine products have touched our mascara at any stage in its UK manufacture. (It's on the package it must be true!).
Play the movies JA!, the three little pigs call endlessly from the screen, and cannot be terminated - even by Arnie; who has total recall, total recall, total recall, again and again and again and again.
Who needs a second Wizard of Oz - only a country so shattered by sleep deprivation, eyes encrusted with the sour milk of human kindness,
That they cannot find the poppy fields of forgetfulness,
Cannot walk toward the Wizard with hope anymore.
Coz they know that the curtain will reveal a stunted little man in a green suit, lining his pockets,
Who doesn't give a fuck about your latest disaster.
Even our dramas are on loan from the Bank of Eternal Repeats, run by the media corporations.
Early evening entertainment -watch this, watch this - brought to you by Viking river cruises, another repeat, another repeat.
But this time, instead of violent death by axe and fire, we are conquered by luxury.
Overfed, over-entertained, maxed out on desire, and retching on silk cushions.
The rich vomit in private cabins of capitalism; while the poor puke from the dinghies of desolation.
Page 2
But the endless re-run society will always be there to pick up the pieces.
Parliamentary debate continues apace as England carries on, working at 3 jobs to keep 4 people to feed 1 house.
The House of the Rising Slum!
That will always need feeding, that will always take the majority of all you earn.
But in the Garden of the endless re-run society, there is someone playing on the lawn,
Naked, unashamed, growing stronger every day,
The child of time, all-singing, all-dancing
Waiting to step into the limelight.
Maybe this time, the rhythm will be slower. the dancing will engage us all in a beautiful, entrancing Bolero;
That must be learned; step by step, by each and every one of us
Not copied, not rehearsed, unjudged and strictly not an endless re-run, strictly not an endless re-run....
Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance.....
Crazy paved corporate fun (x6).
Karen Langley/Rob Williams (18/3/13)
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from FRANK' S LAMENT (EP),
released January 16, 2020
Written and produced by Karen Langley & Rob Williams
Karen Langley - Vocals
Rob Williams - Guitar/Synthesis
Jon Sharp - Drums
Guest musicians:
Paul Smith - Bass
Eric Hej - Percussion,
Recorded live at BABAL's Bread & Circuses show, Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester, November 30th , 2013
Live recording - Vic Curtis
Engineered by Martin Nichols at The White House
Written and produced by Karen Langley & Rob Williams
Karen Langley - Vocals
Rob Williams - Guitar/Synthesis
Jon Sharp - Drums
Guest musicians:
Paul Smith - Bass
Eric Hej - Percussion,
Recorded live at BABAL's Bread & Circuses show, Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester, November 30th , 2013
Live recording - Vic Curtis
Engineered by Martin Nichols at The White House
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everything has been said but no one has understood
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