Public Holidays

from Tourism by McQueen

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lyrics

The still point of the turning world
is wasted on the young
and lines of poetry dissolve
like sugar on your tongue
and I could disappear for half an hour,
slip out somewhere in the back,
but tiny characters under Cable Co. towers
are your passive attack.

And all you ever wanted from anyone
was their pity on a public holiday
so on the year's first one,
you crawled under covers to watch
TV, half-awake,
film rereuns of Hepburn in her black and white and grey.

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from Tourism, released March 1, 2013

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Coastal EP

Mar 2024
Firmament

Apr 2022
Eve Of Destruction

Sep 2021
Don't Run

Jan 2023
Drifts Tape

May 2021
Ecotone

Dec 2021
Unholy Dream

Nov 2020
Demo Tape

May 2020
Easy

Feb 2020
Mammon Machine

Dec 2021

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