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Scary Poppins

by The Mad Pride

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Lee Lucas The 3rd release by Rowan comes with quite an haunting title to which Rowan's songs have always had to them with his unique style. Scary Poppins is however no more haunting than its predecessors on that score, and once again contains another fine collection of 12 well written and performed songs. More noticeable on this album is Rowan's use of the piano comes more into play with some great tracks written along the lines of keyboard rather than just his guitar. Sits well in my collection. Favorite track: Escaping.
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1.
Scapegoat 03:38
Out on the lam No one here would understand The shades of grey Some man’s waiving sticks today No one can breathe As you incessantly Drown the truth No one can hear anything You cast blind eyes to Those abandoned by you And it is tragedy And who’s the scapegoat now As you writhe around Trapped under lock and key Breaking free from the leash that you wear Around your neck The price may be high But it’s worth running No one can breathe As you incessantly Drown the truth No one can hear anything
2.
We come with our axes To where you are We can’t help retracting Out offer of A kinship which neglects Our basic decency You can take my hand And follow me No one here can resurrect The faith in me I want to believe To fetch too far This place questions whether Faith could be an art Misdirection It makes a mess of me
3.
Out To Sea 03:26
First you roll the dice And then you see Winning is to lose The irony Escaping fates found far below The depths we were ever meant to go No one has to know Gonna find a boat So that I can go out to sea Anywhere but here’s my destiny It takes us Some time yet No one knows Jaded hearts and hypocrites Almost everything is hit and miss And it’s come to this Walking down a dim lit road No ones got a torch that I can borrow That’s become the show
4.
Malice 04:50
I don’t know Which way is home I left some bread crumbs Around somewhere In my shadow In my shadow’s home I don’t know Which way to go Up hill’s cold But down I’m prone to fall Into callousness Rain helps malice grow One day older and one day shy Of the place we yearn to find One step further Hear the murmur grow
5.
There’s history books I never read They turn the living into dead Repressed everything they said But winners wrote those history books And many truths were over looked I’ve been a saint and I’ve been a crook Tanks and guns are industries Like selling drugs and lopping trees If you think your job makes God pleased Then die and find out This house is built on dead bodies Like the media and companies They spin the slaughter with great ease For those who watch TV But television makes you feel Like medication made the wheel You could believe in what’s real
6.
Fade Away 03:44
It’s gonna be a beautiful night If I can get you away From your telescopic sight The targets are already dead And you’ll save yourself a fight If you can just let them Fade away When we’re apprehended We’ll be holding on To more than what you’ve got It’s gonna be a glorious sight If I can get them away from their Psychotic fight The targets are all in our heads So we’ll set ourselves alight If we can’t just let them Fade away
7.
Here comes alcohol No one here’s a liar They all speak the truth Old debates and cigarettes No one gets me down the way you do And it takes a thousand years But the fires burn and no one turns around To see the Libertine I feel vitriol No one here is higher Tales of my wasted youth Without pain we would forget Happiness imparting debt I wont pay it back to you
8.
Fine until they came To make sure that I wont see the sunshine Only rain But there’s a lion in this cage And you don’t kick a lion in the face Raining down vengeance upon the wicked Tip toe through the day Knowing that you can dish out More than I can take And there’s a lion in this cage And you don’t rub a lion the wrong way
9.
We’re taking steps towards Taking control None of us have asked for war And we’re taking steps towards Taking control None of us have faught for more
10.
Entropy 02:53
None of you have got What it is I really want Gates that never close No one sees and no one knows Where the cliffs meet the sea Silver oceans shimmering Eyes can’t conceal the love No ones watching from above And it gets higher Like a shot from a machine gun And it gets tired like everyone You can’t lose someone Nothing can outshine the sun Holding on to entropy So you can’t lose anything
11.
Escaping 05:50
Who knows which way Which way’s the door It’s a sore point and it’s making my joints ache I just wanted some quiet in my head There’s a reason every day Why I close the door and stay in this place It’s quite nice away from home A long way to go This will be the last time In this world It’s the last thing that’s mine In this world In this time Drink a bottle everyday It might make you stronger when Taking it on everyday It might make you live longer
12.
Monsters 04:04
Over the mountainside There’s a place we left Never to go again And no one No one can right the wrongs We both shared No one wept for the life we left

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released November 27, 2010

All parts written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Rowan Galagher except:
Bass on 'Out To Sea' written by Andrew Smetanin and Rowan Galagher.
Percussion on 'Lion in a cage' written by Andrew Smetanin and Rowan Galagher.

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The Mad Pride Wollongong, Australia

Combining 60s psychedelia, folk noir, art rock, gothic post-punk and baroque pop, The Mad Pride has been described as haunting and ominous like Syd Barrett and David Bowie collaborating on a Tim Burton film soundtrack. Comparisons are often made to Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, Frank Zappa, Opeth, Nick Cave, Erik Satie and Leonard Cohen. It is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Rowan Galagher. ... more

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