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Twelfth Night - Human Being (early version)

from Mannerisms: A Celebration Of The Music Of Geoff Mann by Various Artists

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Recorded 16 March 1982 in Reading - along with other F&F demos.
This early version has slightly different lyrics
Written by: Twelfth Night

lyrics

Tremulous and quivering such victims as there are
Contend with emotions under skin
Fatuous majority swims up against the stream
Hopelessly believing they might win

Here they all come rushing down again
Here they all come rushing down again
Time has only swallowed up the idiots
Always made room for some more to come

History grows up like a weed
Doctrine pinned upon it
Bars across the window destroy human being

Static mind solidifies
Can no longer flow
Stuck against it's borders and unable to pay much attention to...
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being

If in doubt put something sweet and sticky in your mouth
Dribble down your chin and beg a pardon
If every time we tell a lie a little fairy dies
They must be building death-camps in the garden

Pacing back and forwards
Conscience in a box
Closed in from the sunlight getting pale and losing every sense of...
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being

The sum of our best efforts
Shouldn't lead us back to here
On the road to murder
Where we can no longer admit to any
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being
Human being, human being

credits

from Mannerisms: A Celebration Of The Music Of Geoff Mann, released July 1, 1994
Brian Devoil: drums
Geoff Mann: vocals
Clive Mitten: bass, keyboards
Andy Revell: guitar

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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