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The Unfortunate

from Ersatzreal by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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THE UNFORTUNATE
The little man sits by the phone
Awaits a call from an old friend
It never comes
He’s staying home tonight again.
Switch on the TV
There’s an old Clark Gable film
He’s seen before. He’s not got cable
He can’t afford the monthly rent - no
He thinks he is the lucky one
But he is really the unlucky one
Go to the kitchen to the fridge,
He gets a beer he checks the date
It’s been so long right at the back
And now perhaps it’s out of date.
Oh yes it is but he don’t care,
He’s going to drink it anyway.
He pops it open and spills the beer
All down his shirt - oh

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from Ersatzreal, released October 8, 2007

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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