Produced and engineered by Jack Cookson & Alex Hurr
Mixed by Jack Cookson
Mastered by Josiah Manning
Violin & flute by Joseph O'Keefe
Guitars, vocals, double bass, shruti box & percussion by Jack Cookson
Hand claps by Mum, Dad, Alex & Jack
lyrics
Ironashley bullied me and he winged my inner fairy
Impotent and ignorant in a manner lairy and scary.
Ironashley wears a mask, a hard and sunburned smug
"You're a pack-a-mac ponce and your hair's too long,
you should learn how to handle your booze".
Well now I'm 8 pints soaking and my bleeding scalp is freezing,
which speeding taxi should I let knock me down,
cus I just can't choose?
My Dad was in the army, and the tales he tells do scare me.
He could tell you ya don't need a gun to feel like a worthy son.
When I wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes,
17, skinny and quivering,
but maybe I would have hardened up
and my dick, I would be swinging.
Well now that you have grown some,
you can get 'em out of your purse.
Go give that blister of a sister of yours a mouthful of earth.
I was sitting in the lorry, and the things I hear disgust me.
I wonder what these boys would say to me,
had I been born a lady.
Wonder anymore, I needn't do,
my sister has a hundred stories,
and a savage rhyme for each and every time
she was made to feel de-humanised.
But I ain't sayin' I ain't guilty of feelin' marauding jealousy.
The killer in you is the killer in me,
and Im curing my skin to keep him in.
Here's a reality that I still struggle to accept as truth,
Unless we're called upon, she doesn't need me,
and she sure as fuck does not need you.
I guess I got some points to make and pin pricks they may be,
if you're a lad whose bastard dad told you "tears were your first mistake".
So lucky to live in a generation that acknowledges depression
as something more than just an absent smile,
not a self indulgent fiction.
But this fault in fatherhood, I cannot ignore.
I'm gunna put my heart to good use,
Lay a hand on a brother's shoulder and untie the family noose.
Behind your mask of misogyny and beneath the boot of patriarchy,
the face of a frightened little boy that we both claim we used to be.
This album speaks to the continuum of African diasporic culture that is central to the vibrant canon of Americana folk music. Bandcamp Album of the Day May 29, 2020
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