Model Trains

from "Orwell 1995" (EW004/AH001) by Orwell

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recorded by Tom Zaluckyj (TAR) @ Steve Albini's house, April 8, 1995. Thirteen days before Orwell's first show. Mixed in 2020 by Frank Gilbert.

lyrics

I need wheels
Cause I’ve learned to hate here
Her hair is there, what’s fair is fair
We all train like models train
I’ve whined enough for a gallon of champagne
Bam bam the winds from the lips twist
Sugar candy salty papa pepper gas flyer
It’s a fight till fine in the refinery
Steam vs, gasoline
Cough clean
I’m fine
We show our trains slow
We see so we believe

She can’t lose when she’s in use
We can’t use what we can’t loosen
We all train like models train
I’ve ran the rail but i’m back again
Bang bang boxer lovely gloves and ring finger
Shot this guy cold very down over raid bay
Push a little, pull more
Make the fool seem
Like a bomber pilot smoking a pipe dream
I’m fine
We see what we want

Here’s me in melancholy dress
Confessing to everything I never did
When you find me in the stomach
I’ll be humming
“I guess it depends on which appendage.”

credits

from "Orwell 1995" (EW004/AH001), released January 15, 2021
Bob Nanna- Vocals
Billy Smith- Drums
Fred Popolo- Bass
Sean O’Brien- Guitar
Demetrio Maguigad-Guitar

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A fleeting moment of adolescent excitement from five unfledged twenty year olds in Chicago during 1995-96.

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