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Snakes and Ladders EP

by Animal Circus

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1.
We live where rain can't escape. Where if you want to go you have to wait. Where authenticity is fake. It goes on. Where most of the truths are half baked. Concrete shoes and concrete mates. Antique food on silver plates. It goes on. It goes on. Are you Anti Anti Anti? Just like me. Just like me. Are you Anti Anti Anti? Just like me. There's too many snakes and too few ladders. We walk underneath the streetlights. Wishing we were way up upon the rooftops. Singing Chim-Chim-Cheree. There's too many snakes and too few ladders. Invite new crimes, erect new signs. Cos money goes quicker when your paying fines to the slugs in the city leaving puddles of slime. It goes on. Righteous fools with TT plates. Predict prosperous growth but still we wait. Hemmed in cattle planning how to escape. It goes on. Ply me with wine and costly fun. Turn me over cos I'm almost done. Tickle my stomach, bury me in sun. I'll sit and wait for the end to come. Up on the roof the sun is shining. Down on the streets it's cold and grey. Cos the multiplying buildings stop the sun from coming our way. Are you Anti Anti Anti? Just like me. Just like me. Are you Anti Anti Anti? Just like me.
2.
I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! I... What can save you now. I can't say it... Love won't save you now. I... Don't care anyhow. I can't say it. Cos love won't save you now. I... Cupid's underground. I can't say it. Went and won't be found. So what can save you now? Backed into a corner I can not ignore her fatal gaze. Forced to see a future where it's me and you but in our old age. I already told you. It's not something I owe you. I can't say it. I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! I don't succeed but I try to unravel these damn tongue ties. If I could travel in time. Then I would gladly just hit rewind and tell you whats on my mind. Is silence better than lies? Is silence better than lies? Or should I try to devise some half hearted reply? Will the river run dry If I don't deliver on time? Learn to live and let die. Is silence better than.. I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la la. La la la la la la la la la la I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! I la la la la la la YOU! La la la la la la la la la la YOU! Tell me why I should have to lie? I won't say it. Act like it's a crime Why? I ain't that kinda guy. I won't But she won't be happy with.. Bye So what can save you now. I won't say it. Love won't save you now Why? She went and won't be found. I won't say it. Backed into a corner I can not ignore her fatal gaze. Forced to see a future where it's me and you but in our old age. I already told you. It's not something I owe you. I can't say it. I laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Backwards forwards to and fro. Backwards forwards to and fro. Backwards forwards to and fro. Backwards forwards to and fro. Here we go I know I should know better x2 I should know better. I should know better. I should know better. I know.
3.
Happy Again 03:44
Nothing can matter when your blood streams thick with highs. But it goes like the clappers and to catch up we must try. Nothing can matter for a single day and night. So walk like a leaning tower with a wonky stride. Stop all the traffic I'm happy again. Call off tomorrow I'm happy again. Go tell your family I'm happy again. Pull back the hours 'cos I'm happy again. Nothing to prove or gain nothing to find. I've got nowhere to go, you can leave me here behind. I don't know your name we have never met before. But give me a smile and we'll get on swell I'm sure. Stop all the traffic I'm happy again. Call off tomorrow I'm happy again. Go tell your family I'm happy again. Pull back the hours 'cos I'm happy again. It's a shame that everything good will go in the end. The bottom of the barrel, the sticky bits left in the bend. The gang disperses back into the crowd again. But that doesn't matter now cas I'm my new best friend. Stop all the traffic I'm happy again. Call off tomorrow I'm happy again. Go tell your family I'm happy again. Pull back the hours 'cos I'm happy again.
4.
Eyes like torches of beauty spilling across a perfect surface. Immaculate balance of a banging body, she's a prayer with ever lasting verses. A made up secret between you an I starts a story of misread signs. We could have a future between the lines. Talk shit and shag, two chips drink chai. I'd love to love her, Yes indeed, I'd love to love her. She's confident but pretends otherwise, points out her faults, her dreams her lies and I can no longer tell the difference between her head and her thighs. She exists, she has arrived, explodes, she groans, she smiles. An expensive vacation that I couldn't hope to mention to my friends but I'm happy in denial. I'd love to love her, Yes indeed, I'd love to love her. A kiss on the cheek I pretend means more. She doesn't look back as she walks out the door So what am I living for, what am I living for. At first I'm anybody's then I'm everybody's end up nobody's cold on the floor. At first I'm anybody's then I'm everybody's end up nobody's cold on the floor but I'm sure that I'll dream some more, I'm sure that I'll dream some more, I'm sure that I'll dream some more, I'm sure that I'll dream some more. I'd love to love her, Yes indeed, I'd love to love her.
5.
Darker Days 03:00
You try. Try to live your life. But you can't turn your mind off. Stuck, tough, 7 years of bad luck. Wouldn't make a difference enough. To change anything. Cos nothing is sure, the picture is blurred and soft. But you're hopeful now that something might take off. No more sitting round talking to yourself ever again. This is a phase, these are your darker days. So you try. Try to live your life. But you can't turn your mind off. Stuck. Can't be happy for other peoples luck. Will be happy when you are cut. Out. You love your work, your happier then before. But echos inside say you can't take anymore. And you're sat down talking to yourself all over again. This is a phase these are your darker days. But you get by. stub your cigarette out and sigh. Must be better to live then die. Young. And you try. Try to live your life. But you can't turn your mind. Off.

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released December 16, 2012

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London based Rock/Reggae/Ska band featuring Joel Fry, Keiran Hague, Msimisi Affolderbach-Dlamini and Sam Rigby.

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