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The Devil

from Stations by Naevus

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Recorded and mixed by Naevus at Wooden Lung in 2002 and 2004. Previously issued on the Naevus/KnifeLadder split CD 'Document Three'.

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On your way home you were falling off kerbs into rubbish bags. In an alley, a sign was flapping at the rain with a man in a Bonaparte hat. A false alibi was created, based upon an old, exposed template, with one eye open in an affectation of wisdom. It’s hard to tell from a small sample. For example, it’s impossible to tell how or if things will tie up with previous or later events.

Take a seat or have a piss
Then I’ll tell you what the issue is
Take a look at what you missed
Who could want more than this?

Your cough echoed up the back stairs like a gunshot while the soft oven of your brain described it. A big pie full of leeches. Great big hat full of weeds. A dirty great row of bags, all full of possessions. You cut a rat up to find out how it works. Neeps and tatties. You left your phone downstairs. It hasn’t worked so far, but there’s still enough time.

Take a seat or have a piss
Then I’ll tell you who the devil is
Eaten up by artifice
There really is no more than this

Tin-pots rattle as the man-trap whacks you over the shoulder. Forget it. Cancer is bad today and an onion was used to spot greed. It’s like shouting into a Johnny. As dreams prove, identity and characteristics are not connected. For example, gap-eyed monsters in a holiday stable. Don’t try to account for it if it never actually happened.

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from Stations, released August 18, 2013
Words by Lloyd James. Music by Joanne Owen, Lloyd James and Greg Ferrari.

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Naevus London, UK

Lloyd James: voice, guitar. Ben McLees: bass. Hunter Barr: drums. Sam Astley: guitar.

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