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BLONDE IN BLACK You're my blonde in black You've just laid my caterpillar tracks Butterfly flit right into my heart Tight leather boot upon my kick start We'll beating heart absorb one another's art Part by part by part by part The universe beyond us doesn't exist You're an open circuit I'm a high speed twist You're my blonde in black Who once gave birth to a purple cat Not lamb led astray or off the beam You are not a sterile arctic queen We'll beating heart absorb one another's art .. You're my blonde in black Raised in a belfry in the form of a bat Fission and fusion describe our moves Two uncaged animals on hot tin rooves We'll beating heart absorb one another's art ... I'll handshake squeeze you I'll thank and please you I'll wild horse ride you and I will never divide you I'll supernova dazzle you I'll sunbeam bathe you I'll compose conduct and uniquely arrange you Making love on the airwaves Making love underseas Scoring high on mountaintops Raving up in the trees With honeydew lip tenderness Around you I'll stick Two banana boats In a banana republic We'll beating heart absorb one another's art Part by part by part by part The universe beyond us doesn't exist You're an open circuit I'm a high speed twist .
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Low Point X 04:36
LOW POINT X I'm still in the land of the living But I'm waiting for the hand of death I've given all I had for the giving In my mind I know I've nothing left I'll soon be drawing my final breath Soon I'll be down in hell to burn When I had the chance I didn't learn Since my birth I've taken a bad turn Now I'm past the point of no return I've suffered and been buried by life There's no hope now of any compromise The world is such that I don't know when I'll be able to get back up again But to be honest I know it's the end Soon I'll be down in hell to burn... My house of cards came crashing down My falling tower struck the ground In my last drop of blood I started to drown I turned from the Lord and my soul unwound Now only at a coven am I one of the crowd Soon I'll be down in hell to burn... As ominous as the grim reaper At the peak of all evil A burden on Beelzebub Is what you could become I have regrets I would repent But I'm too far around the bend
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If, If, If 02:42
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One day soon the world will be A home for clones like you and me They might be friends or enemies And they will be used in the factories You are you and you are you And you are ubiquitious Carbon copy cell biology They've duplicated me Identical anatomy in a laboratory Is how our birth will be Man will become the new god The human soul won't carry on Our offspring would fare better in the pod Not knowing their existence was wrong You are you and you are you And you are ubiquitious Carbon copy cell biology ... Clones have got no souls And when they're gone there's nowhere to go Cross breeding makes their descendents forever Lose their one way ticket to heaven You are you and you are you And you are ubiquitious Carbon copy cell biology ...
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I have seen the savage hand of the vortex rider Spreading his final hatred higher and higher Carving out a wild arc of silent death And striking at all with his fiery breath To an all consuming mind absorbing zenith I am on a nightmare journey And now I have started learning I am on a nightmare trip And I feel my subconscious slip I have heard the flapping velvet wings of the demon flyer Sending out eerie vibrations getting higher and higher Smashing down the pinnacles of the dignified fake Digesting the soul of a city in its heaving wake Amid the tormented suffering of a million screaming "Mistake!" I am on a nightmare journey ... I have fought the changeling marauder on the battle scarred land Fought him to a standstill as the rocks reduced to sand Sending him along the way to meet his creator I have put an end now to this cosmic violator Ended forever that star spawned operator I am on a nightmare journey ...
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Sex Kills II 03:16
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I'm late in every morning And have to make it up with Doing lots of overtime And when I finally start It's getting on for half past nine The boss is going crazy He thinks I'm growing lazy It's time I led a different life so Fetch a gaoler I'm a failure And I'm always slow off the mark Fetch a gaoler I'm a failure And ought to be shot in the dark Not a tailor nor a sailor Not even a blackmailer So fetch a gaoler or I'll fail ya If you don't give me a head start At my brother's wedding I thought I'd be the one Giving the bride away But he wouldn't let me stay Not even for half a day He thinks I am no good And maybe that I would Destroy what was his perfect day so Fetch a gaoler I'm a failure ...
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Social climber no Don't you sink so low No clinging ivy now It's time for you to go You're pulling out the stops for Top of the Pops An overnight sensation in the record shops You're using all your friends to get to high places Don't expect me to put masks on all of your faces Social climber no... Moving up the ladder with the other snakes Becoming a yes Ma'am to all of those fakes Fear of failure and of ending up alone Force you to turn to me as your human stepping stone Social climber no... No I'm not your stepping stone No I'm not your stumbling block I am just a paving stone Crazy paving in your garden I step on something on your path It's your gnome he laughs at me HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE I'm a laughing gnome and you can't step on me HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE I am a monkey and I swing in a tree I'm a high flyer I've seen it in my dreams Give me what I need Or be blown to smithereens
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Monster Mash 03:25
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Inner Space 01:32
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JOIN THE SYSTEM Why don't you all join the system? Plug yourself in it today Why don't you all join the system? Link up into its mass grave Beat - yeah -beat - yeah beat the system Before it beats you you you Beat - yeah -beat - yeah beat the system Or it will grow inside of you Shall we all work for the system Sweat and labour to earn our pay? Let us all work for the system And become unthinking slaves Beat - yeah -beat - yeah beat the system ... When you're all part of the system And your minds all think the same There'll be no hope left for resistance And it shall be a crying shame Beat - yeah -beat - yeah beat the system ... . Rape the red tape rape the red tape Get back into shape or end up in a scrape Rape the red tape rape the red tape Kill big brother and make your escape Rape the red tape rape the red tape Or it will grow - grow - grow Yes it will grow - grow - grow Oh it will grow inside of YOU!!
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Insatiable 02:54
I drive you round the bend As I smash your Bentley in a dead end I'm always driving you to drink You only want action when you ought to think Insatiable you make me crawl You think your human but you're off the wall In fifth gear I burn the rubber And clock up the miles to an absolute number Your demands chill me to the core In a car I'm above and beyond the law Insatiable ... You're only wanting lust While I prefer driving at ninety through the dust I press the pedal to the floor I'm lapping it up and I'm begging for more Insatiable ... So go on back to bed Because I love to be on the road instead I love your body as you know But you want it so much that I have to go Insatiable ... Insatiable you're gonna fall Too much of a woman no more beck and call
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Blinded by delight and I got a La La La La Lousy fright She dragged me down wanted me to drown Seduced me in a black leather gown She made it worse than a ride in a hearse And tore me apart with her devilish curse Used me for sex then threw me out of bed And drove off round that private road bend She sucked me she sucked me She sucked me into sin She sucked me she sucked me She sucked me into sin And now I'm in I cannot win Blinded by delight and you had no right To make your stand for just one night Don't play around why not stay in town Together we could still settle down You wanted a bang 'cause you were underhand And not the love of a real fine man You led me along now I know I was wrong To trust you not knowing you 'd soon be gone You sucked me you sucked me ... I'LL NEVER TRUST A WOMAN TILL SHE'S DISCONNECTED I'LL NEVER TRUST A WOMAN TILL SHE'S DEAD AND BURIED
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Triggerman 02:07
Triggerman you don't give a damn If it's a woman or if it's a man You are always on the attack You jump the gun triggermaniac With a smith and wesson 357 Snub nosed combat magnum Your kind never go to heaven As hired killers are all scum Triggerman though you've been paid Don't put me on your hit parade Your soul is dead your heart is black You're a shot in the dark triggermaniac With a smith and wesson 357 ... You share the views of the Khymer Rouge The Yakuza the Mafia the Nazis too You'd love a blood bath with the Shining Path I've never met a bastard as bad as you With a smith and wesson 357 ...
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My heaven is the highway my home no fixed abode I always follow rainbows and find my pots of gold Don't expect me to remain as I haven't got the time The chains you use to hold me are only in your mind My home is the horizon my heart a step beyond Dedication to St Christopher is my one and only bond It's impossible to pin me down or make me a slave The moment that I settle down will be when I'm in my grave My roots are wheels you can't chock them My hopes are real you won't dash them My ties are wings you can't clip them My thoughts run free you won't catch them With a toothbrush and a suitcase and a wave goodbye As I pass on again into yet another life With the dawning of another day I'm in another place And every time I smile it is to another face With a sea blue sky and a sky blue sea And hills and valleys and cities between All the glory of the Earth unfolds before me As I constantly change my view and my scene My roots are wheels you can't chock them ... So give up your jobs and put your houses up for sale You'll be as happy as I when you set out on the trail Sever your connections and tie up all loose ends And find an adventure around the next bend Fly by night drive by day or sail with the sun Just buy a one way ticket and your life has begun Turn the golden key for an existence nomadic Why keep your safe security if you can be erratic? My roots are wheels you can't chock them ...
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ALBATROCITY by the Oxford group Nero's Acolytes - featuring Martoc - contains a wide variety of different type of song, from indie rock to punk to Monster Mash! Martoc has also produced a punk single, two relaxation music album and several solo albums. This album is an 18 song off-kilter alternative rock album. Released 18th October 1996 on the Exoteric Music Label.

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released October 18, 1996

Martoc: Vocals, Synthesizer, Percussion

Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Tabla, backing vocals by members of Nero's Acolytes comprising::
Katherine Drake-Torrance
Tom Varnos
Steve "Geezer" Watkins
Alan Russell
Michael Hyder
Adam Larking
Simon White
Sid Jordan
Des Ogilvie
Dave Smith
Kev Marshall
Tim Bishop
Clifford Watkins
Caroline Howard-Jones

Produced by Martoc
Engineered by Steve "Geezer" Watkins and Vicky Whitehead
Recorded at Warehouse Studios Oxford May 1995-August 1996
Digitally mastered by Tim Turan
Artwork by Ruth Crocket
Overall concept by Martoc

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Inspired initially by the Channel Islands with a soupcon of mental illness (an enduring interest), Martoc has launched 8 solo singles (vinyl versions now collectors items) and 11 solo albums plus a group album 'Albatrocity' and the recent Arc Rocket duo. Coverage has included John Peel playing 'Navigator through Nowhere' off the debut album 'For Alien Ears', and 'Love is Dead'. ... more

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