Name: When You Praise Her (You So Secret 12")
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Description: WHEN YOU PRAISE HER . faceless . you don't have to hit with your fist to scar . faceless .

When You Praise Her (You So Secret 12")

from Love Smashed On A Rock (plus e.p/demos/etc) by Martyn Bates

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WHEN YOU PRAISE HER . faceless . you don't have to hit with your fist to scar . faceless .

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* you are a bleak smile - worn to show the world that yr all the while winning as you run - full to over brimming with a precious wine in an empty vessel, choked with dying vines - I listen to yr fevered talk & I only hear the way yr caught - you say nothing you praise her - & yr words are empty then - all you say only betrays her - but you betray yourself the best.
* & yr telling me of bitter disappointments - how yr let down by her, let down flat once more - you can't see how it can be that yr responsible - 'cause yr abusing hindsight to defend yr words - & I, I can't believe what I'm hearing - & I, I can't believe I catch yr meaning - you say nothing you praise her - & yr words are empty then - all you say is to betray her - but you betray yourself the best.

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from Love Smashed On A Rock (plus e.p/demos/etc), released April 6, 2023

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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