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From the album "Darkness to Warm Your Heart", Dwarfhaus Records, 2008.

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Let Me Ride

Sitting with Claire
at her mother‘s toilet
Wearing a new skirt
I bought at the mall
Orange suede mini bell-cut
with a heart shaped zipper
I am a sleeper I‘m a keeper
I‘m a Tarzan uptown girl

Claire asks if I want her mascara
and Norma says that I need none at all
I say that girls are like boys
She says that boys are like shit
And all that jazz and all that rock n‘ roll

Chorus:
Anticipation is better than action
On almost every other night in July
We shove ourselves in a taxi
We don‘t care if we‘re sexy
We just wanna be wide eyed and sly

On the stairs of number 14 I am 19
and I don‘t wanna go
To the annual radical carnival
suck-up-to-the-dj show
Instead I put number five on repeat
and tear up through my smile
Sing „let me ride, let me ride,
let me ride on his grace for a while“

But Norma shouts from the bath: „we got tickets“
So I‘d better put some feathers ‘round my eyes
- „but I don‘t feel like it hon‘“
- „well we‘re not born to have fun
and no one knows how you feel in disguise“

Chorus

Go up to his to smoke a joint
and no one knows he‘ll be dead in two weeks
And the paper clichés will say
it‘s so crazy, all the talent we‘ve missed
He brought in coffee on a tray,
what did he look like? tell me, what was his name?
It could have just been me, dead on a line
in Time Out, fifteen lines of fame...

But Norma cares because she really knew him
And Claire just stares, she never has much to say
It‘s 2am and it‘s hot
And I‘m not dead so why not
go out and get a life as long as we may?

Chorus

Just shove me off in a taxi
Tell me I‘m nice and sexy
and you‘ll call me
and tell me bye-bye.
Tell me you‘ll call me and tell me bye-bye.

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from Darkness To Warm Your Heart, released September 1, 2008
Song by Sister Chain & Brother John.

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Parlour Punk Pioneers Sister Chain & Brother John formed in 2005 in Berlin. Since then they've released 2 LPs and 2 EPs, played countless concerts in three continents, supported Lene Lovich, Jowe Head and Michael Dempsey of The Cure and got married, to each other. ... more

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