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The Human Touch

from Sedition by The Sedatives

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All our yesterdays,
strung out like amber jewels on the necklace of the Fates' feckless delight.
Pools of sodium vapour light on the high-road of our lifelong journey into night.

Beneath the streetlight the infant lies in a cardboard box
kicking and crying for a mother's breast. He sucks
his hand and screams for the warmth and comfort of the human touch.

All our yesterdays,
strung out like amber grains on a Baltic beach washed by time and tide.
Pools of sodium vapour light on the high-road of our lifelong journey into night.

Beneath the streetlight a couple lean and grope and snog.
Salvia flows while a mangy battered dog
pisses against the lamppost, and longs for the stroking human touch.

All our yesterdays,
strung out like amber drops of Lagavulin that run down your neck so white.
Pools of sodium vapour light on the high-road of our lifelong journey into night.

Beneath the streetlight, a woman lifts her skirt and shows her wares
to curb crawling drivers' long and leering stares.
Legs too fat ? She asks too much ? This brutal business of the human touch.

All our yesterdays,
strung out like amber jewels on the necklace of the Fates' feckless delight.
Pools of sodium vapour light on the high-road of our lifelong journey into night.

Beneath the streetlight, an old man lives in a cardboard box,
seeking his roots. He chews his false teeth and sucks
in his breath. Stretches his hand for coppers and for the human touch.

All our yesterdays.
The Fates break their home-spun thread, the amber jewels fall & glitter & flash.
The sodium lights go out and leave us foolish, groping, turning to dust and ash.

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from Sedition, released September 22, 2016
Music and lyrics © David Banks 1998
ISRC: UK-DVB-16-00025

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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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