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You, Us and They

by Cassels

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1.
Cool Box 04:34
The ‘you’ in this song is a real person Not just some abstract figment of an overactive imagination A documentation of scars from an old home Innumerable cuts, all too close to the bone You exiled two sons to be lord of your manor Rearranging home furnishings to in some way placate your anger A nameless kind of fury at some invisible population All of whom you hold responsible for your current shit situation And I know that when you hear this you’ll want to retaliate and attack Well go shout at the cats, mate - They don’t answer back You hit my brother Because he saw straight through All of your bullshit and bluster I think it scares you that he’s not scared of you Now your wife’s working weekends to pay for your mistakes That and to ensure when he’s at home her second born is safe And I can’t help but wonder why she doesn’t up and leave I guess that must be the kind of dependency that abusive relationships breed You hit my brother Because he saw straight through All of your bullshit and bluster I think it scares you that he’s not scared But as for our mother Sadly I don’t think that’s true If you really loved her You would have never put her through the things that you’ve put her through
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Apparently our wellbeing isn’t a given right but a state which is transient And I’m a fucking idiot – I got run over by the last remaining ambulance My ersatz ego transplant made me happy for a while But then I wound up in a two mile queue Outside the hospital waiting room I stood there with a bride and groom Who couldn’t afford To abort The baby in her womb To cut the deficit they’ll cut our throats To balance the budgets they will break our bones For their own benefit they’ll crush our hope Why don’t they just gas the polling stations as we line up to… Now I’m renting out my kneecaps to oligarchs as ashtrays And I won’t get those cruciate ligaments back for another dozen pay-day loans It’s so roomy in the private wing, they've got all the ventilators But please don’t take this as chagrin, no It’s just a fact of nature We were born into the wrong class, into the wrong skin Our leaders Have Every right To hate us To cut the deficit they’ll cut our throats To balance the budgets they will break our bones For their own benefit they’ll crush our hope Why don’t they just gas the polling stations as we line up to vote
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Death throws up no surprises these days I’ve become numb and it’s becoming a bore And a chore to invest emotionally in these irksome famines and wars If you could give me a summary in less than 140 characters It’s just life is more digestible when fed through these parameters So turn suffering into a sentence A massacre Into an exclamation mark
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released August 11, 2016

Recorded and mixed by Dominic Rippel at Shelter Studio
Mastered at Metropolis Studios
Released by Big Scary Monsters
Cover image by Grant Sorrell

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Cassels London, UK

A two piece band comprised of two brothers.

Music for misanthropes and malcontents.

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