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Shuriken

from Taking Hostages by Go Van Go

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Originally a sprawling exercise in ‘through composition’ in which there was no traditional verse/ chorus structures and every segment was different from the last.

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shuriken

oh no what have I done now
I’m out all on my own
don’t think that I can come back
the seeds have already been sown
if I have told you once I’ve told you a thousand times that
you do nothing; it’s getting you nowhere, just sprawled out all over the line

we’re done, we’re gone, we’ve got our weapons drawn but still ‘got nothin’ goin on.
So what, we’ll go? I don’t think so, it’s time to get the going on

Getting round it’s all looking down but I heard they’re getting better
Things are bad but don’t you be sad cause I heard they’re getting better

These pedantic, sycophantic antics are getting me down
I keep on trying to climb up but can’t seem to get off the ground
I think I’ve lost my voice now, so what, I’ll deal without it
I’m your ventriloquist now, get on the roof and shout it out!

looking down at the land saw you starin at my face
things had been going my own way, and I liked it.
I’m just one grain of sand flung into outer space
Seems gravity’s not my friend these days.
‘least it’s quiet
And I’ll get back, get back to where it started, I know I know all of this silence
Breed those violent inventions
The you’ll get back, get back to where it started, you always swore that the riots
have the best intentions.

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from Taking Hostages, released November 1, 2013

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Go Van Go Brisbane, Australia

Go Van Go distil their favourite elements from rock infused with their own unique slant creating a bombastic framework aimed to entice and excite until your brain threatens to explode.

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