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A Limousine in a Cul​-​De​-​Sac

from Comics and Stories by Vostok Lake (NZ)

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Dark night and slowly moving forward
Cross the wrong side of the tracks
Lights flash on the silver hood ornament
There is no way to relax
Kurtz up the river, the heart of the darkness
Is touching your platinum blonde
Everyone hears when your money is talking
But this is no way to respond

you're like a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
too big to manoeuvre and you can't go back
and the restless natives are on the attack
yes you're a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
you're going down like the Hindenburg a flaming gas-bag
unless you drop your machinery and slip through a crack
it's the only way out

Scraping the fender, the impact reverberates
Somebody fell on the curb
Blood on the bumper and sounds in the alleyway
Things were best not to disturb
You feel the eyes watching from silent apartments
And you see them nowhere at all
But caught on your dashcam, the face in the window
Who lets out an unearthly call

Who? Who? Who? is the cry of the dove
And how can we exit this trap
As bricks and scrap metal rain down from above
Their patience is starting to snap
You crossed into colour out of black-and-white movies
And this is the scene that you dread
The engine roars out like a boat up the Congo,
Hunters are after you out of your head

you're like a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
too big to manoeuvre and you can't go back
and the restless natives are on the attack
yes you're a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
and you had steady momentum on the alpha-track
but you've reached the encounter with the obscene lack
is there no way out?

you're like an oil tanker in a waterspout
or a party bus stuck on the roundabout
and the passengers are puking, they can't get out

you're like a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
too big to manoeuvre and you can't go back
and the restless natives are on the attack
yes you're a LIMOUSINE IN A CUL DE SAC
you'll go down like the Hindenburg a flaming gas-bag
unless you drop your machinery and slip through a crack
it's the only way out

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from Comics and Stories, released September 1, 2021
Words by Daphne Lawless and Patricia Hall

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Vostok Lake (NZ) Auckland, New Zealand

NO GUITARS, NO BOYS, NO BUDGET, NO PROBLEM. Queer estrogen-fuelled Zolo Progwave with a transitional demand of lulz.New album COMICS AND STORIES out 2021.

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