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Applegate
05:33
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I'll be swimming in the sea when they come around
Climbing uppers through the doorway but I ain't down, I ain't
Keep a key cut for your home
Leave a skylight eternally on
All the days will even out, crush resile fold
Dead aberration cut my brain out
That operation's not the one I'm paying you for
Check it's alive inside my head I'll pay
But I don't want a reason
Dead aberration alkaline veins
Grass me off the promanary
There's no other there's no equal
What you saw was so unholy
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Slipstream
03:38
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Driving around I think I get it, driving around with you
Stuck in a bind, human kind
Stops me in my tracks and slashes at my wheels
Driving around I think I get it, I drive it like you want me to
Sat in a chair by the fire where,
I thought I felt something happening that was real
We're not ready yet, we'll never see the end
Driving round a roundabout precision so sickening
Can't figure what it's all about
Just another lost moment floating down the slipstream
Driving round a roundabout the precision's so sickening
So raw that I need to puke, then the horizon goes green
Lives crossed over like a streak of grease
Stayed so lucid but it's out of reach
Raking leaves, taking heaps
Driving around I think I get it, I'm driving around with you.
Driving around I need to tell somebody about the joy I've seen floating down the slipstream
Driving around, I think I get it, I'm driving like you want me to
But the sound of your voice in my mind is faded
Cause the look that I mistook in your eyes was a passing phase
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Dog's Life
04:01
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And even in the stalls is a rubber man eyes like his son
Can't tell if I'm a seeker or alighter
And even if it hurts take a shoulder I won't fall outta line
To tell you if I feel a little older
So don't fill my time
With your evil eye
You know, even's just a state of mind
And buried out back is a graveyard neon signs for the dead
And opposite a tunnel for the living
A halfway house on the corner I sit and assess it all
Until I hear hey you with the eyes of lead
Follow you down to the source
This ain't alright I know
Take my eyes out and put in yours
And just like you I leave them closed
All that I can see's a bottleneck
Burning like the gates of hell ahead
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Dead Friends
05:54
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Add sun add rain, breathe life again
Time has now arrived, breathe life again
We're all up in the air, buried just the name
Thoughtful eyes, no surprise you will be melted down
Liquified, turn to run the spell's undone survive
When I'm around speak to the other end
When you're around speaks to the other end
Time won't allow talk to the other end
Time won't allow my friend
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Planet X
03:42
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Planet X a distant star see it from my motorcar
Planet X is creeping in I feel it underneath my skin
Planet X don't spin at all can easy rise the eyes and all
Planet X a world unknown the lives you lead are not your own
Planet X a distant star see it from my motorcar
Planet X is creeping in I feel it underneath my skin
Planet X don't spin at all can easy rise the eyes and all
Four walls keep the night at bay, planet X is within range
Wake up in the morning rise and shine
Take a frail moment to ease your mind
Caught inside a world unwelcoming
Remove the planet X from inside my brain
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Badlands
07:10
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Soundbite the night is long
Broadcast your siren song
I won't whither like the words of a preacher damned
Hear the false starts singing along
And you say exile like it's a bad thing
I'm in the armageddon aisle on all fours listening
Soundbite the night is long
Weak knees crawl along
And I won't whither like the words of a preacher damned
We close our eyes in sequence and in the dark they've lost command
And you say exile like it's a bad thing
I'm in the armageddon aisle on all fours listening
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Grindstone
04:22
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Dad and kids outside a TV station
Watch their spectres in the air
And I'm unarmed just came to question
Why's my sleeping soul suddenly so aware
The key won't turn
She stands before me a living child
She's an epitaph unto herself
So I pause to blink I pause to block my eyes
And unwind all the dead and gone
But the ghosts of light are creeping through my fingers
So I steal some air and crawl into the dawn
It's the snapshot of a staple gun, the key won't turn
It's the snapshot of a roof collapsing, the key won't turn
Bottled scent of an instruction manual, the key won't turn
Snapshot of a staple gun, the key won't turn
Well if it ain't broke don't fix it, and if it is then don't compare
He sniggers if it ain't broke don't fix it
Pretty fuckin rich walking up the stairs, but don't compare
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Violent Mind
05:45
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Terrified when I'm gone terrified to leave
I don't mind when you keep my up all night
I kinda like it feel my wings clipped tight
I'm still alive cause I'd never die like this
So hurry hex me leave a ring of piss
Take flight fly low don't worry so
Take flight fly low
Take flight careful cause the skies are unkind
Cautioned the old man to the youth by his side
Beware silky words when the low road calls
You'll never know the truth until your back's against the wall
The kid nodded quick and left his laces undone
Sinking through the sky along with every single word
He hit the himalayas winged lure for the sun
He never saw the light but he smiled as he burned
Drag my face against a barbed wire fence
Dip it in salt
Sprinkle lemons all around my cuts tie me fourways
Make the horses bolt
Lay me out in the searing sun, take away my towel
Prop me up against an abattoir wall, dress me like a cow
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Wicked City Melbourne, Australia
Paddy - drums/vox
Nik - guitar
Patt - bass
Paddy and Nik started jamming in 2004 after being inspired
by the almighty Peeping Tom to create riffs. Lineup solidified in 2006. Have released 4 or so albums and a 7 inch. Wicked City's sound has been described by Ray Ahn (Hard ons) as hard driving, unique, super-exciting rock n' roll. Hiatus since 2022 but may return someday...
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