Palaces and Slums EP, by emperor penguin

Palaces and Slums EP

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1.	Stay Out Of The Sun 03:47 video	lyrics	buy track
Our youth was wasted on the young We didn’t care, we were just having fun Oh yeah Stay out of the sun The nights were short and the days were long We used to play until the sunset song Oh yeah Stay out of the sun In the palaces and in the slums Together in the days to come A little bit Stay out of the sun Stay out of the su n Alcohol, take-aways We couldn’t lift a finger In a sprawl, in a daze We couldn’t make a move In our turn, we were burned It’s written on our skin the things we learned Stay out of the sun You see a face that you recognise He took a drive, to test his eyes Stay out of the sun Now your inhibition’s gone Go out posing with your Ray Bans on A little bit The words of Freud Won’t fill the void The thoughts of Sartre Will only break your heart You’d better stay at home And watch it on your ‘phone Stay out of the sun Stay out of the su – u – un We can track, we can trace We know the place you lingered Keep your hands off your face It’s terminal disease We were lost, but we learned If you play with fire you will be burned Stay out of the sun
2.	Hell In A Handcart 03:42 video	lyrics	buy track
The sun is warm and golden, and our blue marble’s broken The sea is close to boiling point but our reasoning is frozen Pack up your things, they’re calling our number, should we wonder if we’ll make it out alive Seconds out Round None, the fury in the face of Mother Nature tells us no one will survive There’s no way back from here, we’ve all got a one-way ticket to Hell in a handcart, too late for a new start We’re all in the flames and there’s no one to blame but each other Say your goodbyes, can’t say we were not warned, as the icebergs all fall down like dominoes We put a crack in the jewel, this ship of fools deserves to sink beneath the plastic-coated blue There’s no way back from here, we’ve all got a one-way ticket to Hell in a handcart, too late for a new start We’re all in the flames and there’s no one to blame but each other
3.	The Way The Cookie Crumbles 03:51 video	lyrics	buy track
Mr Punch went out and went drinking When he was drunk that night, he was thinking, When I get back home I want to be alone I want to sleep for a hundred years. It’s time to snooze now, my little darling If I could choose, you’d sing like a starling When your mother comes I will strike her dumb the father of your fears For all your faults and frailties, you know we love you still. But that’s the way the cookie crumbles Another day, another tumble I’ll see you in the surgery You’d better barricade the nursery You know she’s my beast and I’m her beauty And every night we fight Like Punch and Judy We teach the kids of this revolution The law forbids a slapstick solution A quarrel has begun And it’s all in fun Until someone loses an eye It’s not supposed to be sentimental Here’s the ghost, the coffin, the devil Now here comes Jack Ketch To give your neck a stretch But you never really die You don’t bear any malice when your head is made of wood. That’s the way the cookie crumbles Another drunk, another stumble I’ll see you back in Casualty When the crocodile gets back to me You know he’s the beast who does his duty And every night we’re Sweep and Sooty.
4.	Blink 03:40 video	lyrics	buy track
No need to act the innocent, you’re born to play the role Someone with a power drilled a peephole to your soul Four and twenty mockingbirds in the road ahead Sing a song of sixpence with your pockets full of lead Fear of almost everything buzzing in his skull Every free conspiracy to feed until he’s full Makes himself a ligature and says he’s short of breath Half the world won’t understand an accidental death Ahhhhh he’s got seven lucky numbers Ahhhhh he can count as he goes under In the blink of an eye He’s almost tempted to say The time has come to give in and walk away Say thank you to the passer by who wrapped him in a rug Still intoxicated by the one and only drug In the blink of an eye He’s almost tempted to say The time has come to give in and walk away

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Palaces and Slums is a four track EP written and recorded by Emperor Penguin at home and at Highbury Fields Forever studios during the great lockdown of 2020.

'Hooky Fountains of Wayne story songs like “Stay Out of the Sun” and “Blink.” Then there’s the pop lushness of “Hell in a Handcart” or, for contrast, “The Way the Cookie Crumbles” with its ska groove and break-out Squeeze chorus.' PopRockRecord.com

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released August 19, 2020

Nigel - guitars and vocals
JT - bass, guitars and vocals
Rich - drums and piano
Neil - guitars, vocals and keyboards
Mixed and mastered by Cameron Lister.

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Savage Frenzy Productions is proud to present those peerless purveyors of powerful pop: EMPEROR PENGUIN.
Nigel: guitar, bass, vocals
JT: guitar, bass, vocals, harmonica, ebow
Rich: drums
Neil: guitar, vocals, keyboards, computer stuff ... more

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