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Strychnine in my rum

from Whale songs in the mountain lake by Jens Hvalsang

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SPOKEN INTRO: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world; and we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning... but it's always the same thing! Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often: we still find it funny, but we don't laugh anymore. (from 'Beckett directs Beckett: Endgame' - Samuel Beckett, 1957)
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Oozin' some venom through sugar cane
I'm loaded to the gunwale again
and I won't stop no I'll run till the end
I like how it sinks
and adore how it chokes
I love how it floats
out of my porthole
and everythin' seems to be pleasin' me to death.

Will you meet me as I'm goin' to hell?
Will you swim with me among life's rubbish and smell?

Let's poison life
it comes better when it's spiced with grams of pain
ain't it nice?

Mixin' some heroin with cheap drinks
for I'm just seventy percent made of this
and that quenches me it fills and sails me
can't help laughin'
about the way all fuckin' hurts.

Will you meet me as I'm flyin' down?
Will you ever dance with this miserable clown?
Will you meet me there?

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from Whale songs in the mountain lake, released September 1, 2014

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Jens Hvalsang Roma, Italy

Jens Hvalsang is a singer-songwriter project started in Rome in the Summer of '14.

My real name is Gerardo, and this actually embodies one of the infinite conceivable evolutions of Kleingott, the neofolk act I've been fondly running over the previous few years.

That's all. Enjoy the whole listening whereas you believe it's worth it. ... more

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