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Snow White # Ultra Violet

from Sedition by The Sedatives

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Written in a bar in Bilene, Moçambique, 2000

lyrics

Fluorescent light-strip on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
You show up my pimples and open pores,
and highlight the craters of old acne scars
and my beer-belly’s sensual curve.

Fluorescent light-strip on the wall:
fifty hertz strobing insect free-fall
catching mothy glide and mosquito beat.
Bold deceiver; light without heat.
Imitation wavelengths of the sun.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who is the fairest one of all ?
Well please excuse my lack of tact –
it sure ain’t you, guv’, and that’s a fact.
with your crooked nose and balding pate
and smile of silver amalgamate.
Look behind you, me old playmate,
at that fluorescent woman: fluorescent strip-light show.
 
Fluorescent strip above the bar;
bar-flies slump onto the floor.
Starter motor; argon glare,
conjure an image of fairer than fair,
but cold as vodka and vice.

UV flytrap on the wall,
who has the deadliest charge of all ?
Fatal attraction; purple glare;
catch the gloss of your night-time hair
and draw me to your high-tension cage.

UV flytrap on the wall
courts high-flying lovers ere they fall,
your former suitors, at your feet:
burnt-out husks: Garibaldi defeat.
Ground crackling with shattered carapace.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who is the fairest one of all?
Look behind you, me old playmate,
at that fluorescent woman: fluorescent strip-light show.

Five times the life of any common bulb !

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from Sedition, released September 22, 2016
Music and lyrics © David Banks 2000
ISRC: UK-DVB-16-00018

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The Sedatives Chesterfield, UK

The Sedatives are Bjørn Frengstad and Dave Banks.

They first sung together as members of the mythical "Groundwater Boys" in Trondheim, Norway, and continued to write and play following Dave's return to Chesterfield, UK, in 1998.

They have toured their music throughout western Siberia and selected pubs in the eastern Peak District of Derbyshire. ... more

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