Who's Gonna Clean Up This Mess?

by Lach

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	1.	Who's Gonna Clean Up This Mess? 04:01	lyrics
	Who’s Gonna Clean Up This Mess? New Year’s day wears a sarcastic grin “See, I told you, everything still sucks.” She proclaims from her tattered nightgown Cinderella, back from the ball Her feet bloodied from broken glass “See, I told you, everything still sucks.” I’m standing in the doorway half-out, half-in Unsure whether to give a - or want a - fuck A dishevelled knight standing neath a shattered crown Charmingly, insouciantly, I drawl “That’s what comes with a backstage pass” Unsure whether to give a - or want a - fuck Who is going to clean up this mess? And I don’t mean the bottled room I mean this desperate fear of loneliness That drives us from doom to doom In a storm’s port we played a violent lullaby Trusting phoenix ashes to the sun’s bleary rise Betting hearts covering up the moral cost Celebrity role-play by two lost vagrants Running out on the check and into the night Trusting phoenix ashes to the sun’s bleary rise Who is going to clean up this mess? And I don’t mean the bottled room I mean this desperate fear of loneliness That drives us from doom to doom Later at the airport where hope goes to die We play our roles perfectly, saying goodbye We’re sketches of lives, rumpled and lost Paperback lovers, creased and fragrant Ecstasy’s orphans conned by screens of light We play our roles perfectly, saying goodbye

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released March 10, 2023

Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Tingsha
Produced and Engineered by Lach at Eden B Studios, Edinburgh
Cover Art by Lach

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

‘Best punk guitarist since Johnny Ramone.’-Billy Ficca of Televis ... more

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