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Who's Gonna Clean Up This Mess?

from Who's Gonna Clean Up This Mess? by Lach

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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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from Who's Gonna Clean Up This Mess?, 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, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

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