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Baby, I Don't Want To Go

from Ramshackle Heart by Lach

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Lach: "The sliding D chord inspired the whole thing musically. Marc Bolan had the sliding D on Baby Strange and I always dug it. Quite often I'll learn something new on the guitar and then i write a song incorporating it. The harmonica break is Neil and I trading leads on the Hohner harp. Lyrically, I'll leave you on yr own except to say that the Artcops line was inspired by NYC's Mayor Giuliani trying to shut down a museum exhibit involving elephant dung."

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I Don't Wanna Go

When you've smoked your last tear and the salt has you thirsty for more
And you've swam in your beer and you found yourself drugged up on the shore
And nothing is solid since someone left you long ago
Don't come moaning to me
Baby, I don't wanna know

Me, I tickle the spicy road with no hesitation
Back then you could hallucinate with frisky abandon
But now they want diaries or they won't subsidize your mission
Don't come moaning to me
Baby, I don't wanna know

Cornflakes and Applepops come down for the new school exhibit
Magistrates and artcops looking for shit to prohibit
And all the cupboards are bare but nobody there will admit it
If this is truth and beauty, I just don't get it

So, take your pain confections and the pills of mad expression
Take all your sexual confusion. Take all the things your used to using
Take your heroes and your sideshows and your dreams of gold tomorrows
Take the clatter of the gentry as they tumble about for your entry

Take it! Shred it! Shoot it! Bed it!
But please, don't take me
Cause baby, I don't wanna go
Babydoll, I don't wanna know

credits

from Ramshackle Heart, released February 14, 2013
Lach - Vocals Guitars, Piano, Harmonica

Adam Parfitt - Mandolin

Ben Hall - Bass

Caroline Banks - Drums

Neil Halstead - Backing Vocals, Harmonica

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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
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