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J G Mallard

from Gurglefirst? by Gurgles

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Grappling with society and technology as the sleek ghost of the Mallard train draws alongside. The driver has a disturbing message!

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Here’s a story about the line from Newcastle to London's Kings Cross
Sat with shit coffee dipping into JG Ballard's Crash,
Pissed numpties kneebash my seatback
Jiggle-ing banter with some mild racism or other

And as I anger, my hands start to judder, my heart leaps
and in the corner of my eye I can barely believe
The outline of a spectral train drawing slowly alongside
I stare jawbroke, the sleek blue ghost of the Mallard on the next track

We're both building up a little bit of speed and a little bit of steam
Potential rumbles beneath the terrifying and beautiful apparition, 40 60 80 100
My 125 and the 4468 hit my top speed as one
A featureless driver leans his head out of the future metal wedge
Locking my gaze with nothing where there should have been eyes, His maw opens

They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh and I got the power
They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh, and I got the power
They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh, and I got the power

What in the world could this machine tell me, what in the world
Art deco technology burst my biology
Mallardian fiction …..stoke it up, stoke it up

And we slow to a grinding stop for a signal

The light hit green, and the fire horses are hot to trot,
faster, faster into an Aintree gallop.
The Driver shouts into my face -

”The APT advance passenger train was a worldbeater, until it was stymied by the Thatcher government
who also briefed aganst it by dropping the press stories that people felt sick when it went round corners”

'I understand' I said, and the blue vision vanished with a smell of coke

They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh, and I got the power
They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh, and I got the power
They fooled yeh, they fooled yeh, and I got the power

What in the world could this machine tell me, what in the world
Art deco technology burst my biology
Mallardian fiction …..stoke it up, ...totally stoked

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from Gurglefirst?, released July 20, 2015
Augustin - Singing, Fender Rhodes, Oxford Synthesiser Company OSCar, Piano,
Nanette - Singing, 'Nan of the North' Precision Fretless, Bass Guitar
Bradley - Self-crafted drum kit
Bouzouki by Chris Hladowski
Recorded by Augustin at Saltaire Recordings

Mastered by Joe Osborne at www.joesmastering.co.uk

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Augustin - Singing, Fender Rhodes, Oxford Synthesiser Company OSCar, Piano,
Nanette - Singing, 'Nan of the North' Precision Fretless, Bass Guitar
Bradley - Self-crafted drum kit

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