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Modern Evening / Subunit / Dead Numbers (live 21​/​11​/​15)

from 034 by Retarder

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Stepping over pools of piss
Trudging through the grime
Hurry past a broken fence
Where swollen children cry
Petty in the patisserie
Bold in the butcher's shop
Rolling over as required
For a steak of for a chop
With strict dynamics
We perambulate along
Moving irrespective of
Our place or of our song
Our independent legs
Are made to stop and wait
Because our heavy crania
Prefer the evening state
Nothing to make better of
There's no need to persist
It is always quieter when
It comes down to this
With strict dynamics
You romancipate your mum
You lean it over as you need
For a mistake in your tongue
You went beyond what there
Was left to go and see
The zoo did not represent
What you thought you should be
So you went to a fucking waste
Of a space of an art gallery
And then you thought that you would be
Befitted by the thing that you see


How many of you
Went to the thing that was on?
When did or could?
Were?

You were at peace with yourself
You saw inside
You were thankful
You thought that was the way it went
Dead numbers
Dead numbers
That was the way to be thankful
Grateful

You saw what was
You saw what went
You took your time
Dead numbers

How many went there?
What did you replace?
Dead numbers
Dead numbers

I took you out of time
I took you there besides
In the layby
And the lorries went
And you lay there, spent
In the layby
Dead numbers
Dead numbers

Dead numbers

credits

from 034, released June 20, 2017
Lloyd James: voice, guitar, trombone
Clay Young: bass
Ro'n: electronics
Loplop (Alla Sol): drums, percussion

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Retarder London, UK

Retarder was founded in 1999, originally as the solo project of Lloyd James of Naevus. The debut album, 'Enquiries', was released in 2009. In 2015, the project expended into a four piece band. The second album, '034', followed in 2017.
Current line-up:
Lloyd James: voice, guitar, other sounds.
Clay Young: bass.
Ro'n: electronics.
Loplop: drums. ... more

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