Brutalise

from East of Eastlakes by The Southend Rainbows

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lyrics

brutalise me
put your head on my shoulder
tell me you'll be there when we get older
brutalise me
don't tell me the difference
between real and appearance
love and endurance
and the temperature's rising like the price of housing
so we're moving out and into the pines
and the great unknowing is on us, bestowing
a happiness glowing like the twilight of life

i can feel it coming down
i can feel it coming down
from the outside to the underground
i can feel it coming down

brutalise me
you sit at your meal
while i go hungry on the love that i steal
brutalise me
we've been friends and lovers
but now we're just strangers to one another
and i think we've forgotten
the paths that we've trodden
from old to modern, and into the new
and the hands that we're taking
are not all that is shaking
i wish i could make it all up to you

i can feel it coming down
i can feel it coming down
from the outside to the underground
i can feel it coming down

credits

from East of Eastlakes, released April 1, 2021
thomas "tj" cheen - lead vocals, guitar
damien fitzsimmons - piano
chooka buckley - guitars, synths, bass, string arrangements, backing vocals
hans "hands" hansen - string arrangements, backing vocals

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deedee day - drums
choger renard, the marshall - energies

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The Southend Rainbows Brighton Le Sands, Australia

Australia’s first Communist band since Men At Work, the Southend Rainbows have taken the barren Urals of Australian music and reforested them into a blooming pleasure garden.

"sound like a broke ass Clash lol" - @j_carls80 on Instagram ... more

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