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same cigarette

from first steps by bushytunes

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Dystopia is a fertile, seductive area for artists, and I reckon the master of dystopia in popular music is Gary Numan in his Tubeway Army phase. Check out the first two or three albums: alienation and dehumanisation, machines out of control, dirty electronic swirling sounds, sex robots, loose playing, and the manifestation of a Philip K Dick style reality – powerful, exciting, scary stuff.

So: mechanical europop drum sounds on a rock bass riff, a Cuban bit with the promise of exotic cocktails and escape, oodles of disturbing imagery: cyanide brides, towns of dust, a fractured world. This is the world where ‘Sin City’ meets ‘Blade Runner’ and the character singing the song is the ’king’ of this empty, fractured world which has tumbled beyond the reach of hope.

If I hadn’t come up with this one, I’d wish I had. I like it a lot.

Disturbing? Chilling? Prophetic? You tell me...
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I strut like a peacock through the oozing slime
With my Blitzkrieg Boys
We are the rulers of this town of dust
I am the King of this fractured world

They know we’re here
And what they got
And what they need
And what they want
Everybody is in love with me
’Cause I’m the King of this fractured world

It’s the same cigarette
In the same old ashtray
And time can’t move
It’s the same cigarette
In the same old ashtray
And time can’t move

Tell ’em what they want and
Give ‘em what they need
Rooted in like trees that bleed
And then the cyanide bride
Is looking for a ride
She won’t make it there
She’s a suicide

It’s the same cigarette…

Winding down and we go to this place
Where everybody leaves when we appear
There’s a new girl
Looking through the yellow glass
She turns
She’s forgotten who she is
Looks at her hand
It’s full of ice
She’s hoping she can find her soul
But it’s gone, a long time ago
Where everything is possible
And nothing is allowed
And it’s the same cigarette

How do I get out of here?

It follows you around
Like a dog you killed
It’s the same cigarette

Yeah it follows you around
Like a rotting corpse
Or the soul you lost
In that game of cards with the Devil
It’ll never be the same

And it’s the same cigarette...

It’s the fly on the paper
It’s the beetle beneath your boot
It’s the butterfly in your hand
It’s the same cigarette
I’m the King of this fractured world
Everybody is in love with me
Everybody
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from first steps, track released April 16, 2013

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Once upon a time there was a crazy idea: to create, record and upload a musical track every day for a year. And the idea floated round and round the planet, looking for a place to call home. After a long time of searching and wishing and watching, the idea chose to make a nest in the brain of a bushy fellow, coming to his aid and guiding him out of the doldrums, back to a magical pathway... ... more

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