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Two Sides Of The Brain

by The Living Brain

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    Two Sides Of The Brain is a retrospective look at the band’s music, initially released on their two albums, Life Sentence On Planet Earth and Bad Present Day. Available on limited edition 180g heavyweight vinyl.

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1.
Bland Planet 02:54
sobering up all alone in my flat getting oh so wound up with myself getting high, coming down coming up, coming round not that all of the world’s turned its back on itself well they’re putting you on the TV you tell me your music can free me when all that I ever get to see is bland beautiful trash baby’s soul is up for grabs but your pretty face lasts not much longer in these parts well they’re putting you on the TV you tell me your music can free me when all that I ever get to see is bland jail the cop pay the man get a job while you can give it up don’t give in to the bland
2.
Burnout 2000 02:59
We forged something good We forged a phoney Escaped from no one through realistic tinted glasses Too much safety Back yard and two gardens 2012 legendary ex-earth Unknown for its light and hot light the universe around Wants calming down broken half crown just be skint or get out Who’s calling the superficial shots who’s pulling the strings? let them all out tell them the news the world is half dead People content to live with barcodes on their heads We speak to people who act politely and fade into backgrounds become insignificant here come the police and they think you’re holding 8009 there may be no time and none of that dog eat dog stuff from anyone around No solid ground or a crime ridden town give it up or get out who orders the governmental plots? I’m pulling the strings let me all out tell me the news the world is half dead people burn out and live with 2000 on their heads
3.
Fence 03:44
sit there with nothing to do trying to make amends with you sit there with nothing to say say it on another day sit there with nothing to say the future dream has gone so stale I can see right through you the trouble that you’re going through oh yeah without beginning without end the world will keep on turning but you are going round trying to fence my world in trying to fence my world in sit there with nothing to do let it wash all over you happiness will find you whatever you are going through oh yeah without beginning without end the world will keep on turning but you are going round trying to fence my world in from a hole in the ground with nothing to believe pick me up when I’m down with something to believe in something to believe in something to believe in
4.
It was a lonely time and it was growing heads He said ‘sit down my friend and we’ll assess the past ‘ and in the cupboard that was seen the world became obscene I just took off my boots to wear them in the dream A distant sound was heard above the pubs he dreams And in the paranoia there that swept right through his home Die he said as he was going home I do not like your kind create another one and in the paranoid room I swiftly take my place
5.
Off its head in an alley waiting for the man to be seen who took his shares in your mind now but he’s never been While over here in this place now things are all as they seem but the normal world in its essence lives like a dream It won’t take long cold as I’m saying Xmas time for the tax complainants searching for all they own while Brown Sorcery lies in the entry with nowhere to go In case of everything I’m taking everything but.......... Far from home on the outskirts of Disney lands broken dreams Safari park cryogenics waiting for me Save some for me Save some for
6.
Stride 04:27
When the sleeping sun awakes Let it carry you away And forever new it’ll come to you Through the darkest of your days Take it in your stride Whatever fate decrees Take it in your stride And pick yourself up off the ground When they told you what to do And then put the blame on you And the whole rat race is more than you can face There is trouble on the brew Take it in your stride Whatever fate decrees Take it in your stride Get your share and blow your mind Blow your mind Count to seven, go to heaven Count to one and catch the sun alive Count your luck and cook the books The cup is full it doesn’t look too bright And forever new let it shine you Babble on in Babylon it’s such a shame you couldn’t come tonight Take it in your stride Whatever fate decrees Take it in your stride Get your share and stay around Get your share and stay around Get your shirt and stay around Take it in your stride, take in your stride
7.
Bad present day only lose Bad present day only choose Gets in ya way only lose Gets in your way only choose Bad present day only lose
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Irony Bar 01:58
As we climb in this atmosphere Of belated hatred waste of Times change, not for the best, as a bunch is traded Why we pay all the staff For the un-back-breaking work related Short changed, not for the first time, the band is raided I will share out my irony bar With fragrant vagrants maybe Lecithin in the pack will consume the able
10.
And in this time for all the while we know we see but cannot get The empty promise of a life that’s been curtailed done in and yet Our correspondent told us a fact or two that sounded true The state of me has found rewards with the ability to shirk As I’m the one who feels unhealthy as I’m on my way to there Our days are numbered and we can only count them through Count them through And in the end we find ourselves in an unfortunate dischord As only people standing timely as they wait outside God’s door Into the heavens go they In the crap we shine Well Rock the world is fine Click your mouse in time Mark the spot you want In the ransom pot of Golden dreams that drive Strangers eat their words hot As a sledging breakbeat dies Music never lays down La la la la la la la la la la
11.
S.O.M.B. 02:23
12.
Slow Knife 01:38
save me from the living save me from the dead save me from the living from the living dead save me from the living from the living dead save me from the living save me from the dead no life, no life, low life and all low life, no life, low life, gave up save me from the living save me from the dead save me from the living from the living dead slow knife, low life, no life and all slow knife, slow knife, slow knife, come on god
13.
tapir, tiger, elephant turtle, seahorse, pelican all not feeling very well all not being very well waiting for a sunny day waiting for a better day ah ah ahaha reindeer, rhino, rattlesnake potwhale, zebra, stripey horse all not feeling very well all not being very well waiting for a sunny day waiting for a better day ah ah ahaha spider, beetle, butterfly ostrich, walrus, rat and me look at them and you can tell they’re not being very well
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Two Sides Of The Brain is a retrospective look at the band’s music, initially released on their two albums, Life Sentence On Planet Earth and Bad Present Day.

All tracks were recorded in and around Liverpool, in the mid- to late-nineties, using a variety of studios, facilities and engineers: Steve Powell (continuing his working relationship with Ged Lynn post-The Stairs), home four track recordings, LIPA and Harry ‘Melodien’ Sumnall.

Two of the tracks – Burnout 2000 and Stride – have been remixed especially for the release by original engineer Steve Hillman, formerly a LIPA student, now resident of New Zealand.

Two Sides Of The Brain is being released by Steeped In Mystery Recording Company, the band’s own label.

The album artwork has been created by founder member Lars Gabel.

The 13 tracks have been remastered in Hamburg under the watchful ear of Lars Gabel.

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released April 27, 2020

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