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Few clarifications regarding the lyrics demanded by our legal people:

i) We already know that 'banal' and 'canal' don't rhyme. But once you've STARTED rhyming them, it's very difficult to go back to the original verison of 'canal' ever again.

ii) The 'town' in question clearly isn't specified - and while keen fans of the Spanish Amanda/Chickpea Darlings/False Dawns might reasonably suspect that it MIGHT be Letchworth Garden City, it should be noted that Letchworth HAS NO CANAL. So maybe it's Stevenage*.

iii) No one in the Spanish Amanda owns a sarong. If anyone in the band plays 'sex games', they'd better keep it very, very quiet or someone may end up having an altogether more revealing song written about them. You have been warned, Ivan.

iv) A free copy of ANY Spanish Amanda release (apart from 'Swingers' or 'Northern Lines' - 'cos they're gone, gone, gone...) will be posted to the first person who can send us a lyrical reference to 'cockerpoos' in any previously-released song (with the obvious exceptions of The Beatles' 'I Wanna Hold Your Cockerpoo' and 'The Long And Winding Cockerpoo' - obviously). Bet you can't find one.

* - yes, yes, we know - no canal...

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Words:

That unexpected blood clot, no matter how banal
And I could end up dying in this town
Or tumbling blotto head first into the canal
And I could end up dying in this town
That funny smell of burning I neglected for so long
A murderous delegation of the women I have wronged
Or crushed to death by cheap tinned soup I hoarded by the ton
Yeah, I’ve already lived here far too long
I could die happy on my yacht in San Tropez
So long
Or freedom fighting in the Palestine campaign
Far too long
My own wicker effigy up in the Scottish isles
So long
Expiring in Miami in my art deco pile

Some crude provincial sex game played with oranges and scarves
And I could end up dying in this town
Some local bus stop no-mark wants to show his mates he’s hard
And I could end up dying in this town
Or drown in supermarket Saint Emilion
Or lose my mind on mushrooms in my search for Avalon
Or fly headlong down the staircase having tripped on my sarong
Yeah, I’ve already lived here far too long
I could die happy on my yacht in San Tropez
So long
Or freedom fighting in the Palestine campaign
Far too long
My own wicker effigy up in the Scottish isles
So long
Decaying in Miami in my art deco pile

I could get shanked by car park homophobes who think my face looks wrong
Or some verminous wee tumour growin’ where it don’t belong
Torn limb from limb by cockerpoos whose owners hate my song
Yeah, I’ve already lived here far too long
I could die happy on my yacht in San Tropez
So long
Or freedom fighting in the Palestine campaign
Far too long
My own wicker effigy up in the Scottish isles
So long
Croaking in Miami in my art deco pile
Far too long
Some Brooklyn wise guy popping caps into my ass
So long
Save me a plot in the Cimetière du Montparnasse
Roll over, Serge
I’m coming home

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from Ça Suffit, Sophie, C'est Mauvais Pour Les Dents EP, released October 4, 2021
Written by Huw Darling.

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