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Used Culture (Double album from Shapeless Man)

by DavidJohnHull

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Bubbles(ALBUM1) 05:44
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SIDE A 01: Bubbles Hard to explain Hard to say just how and why What is the man trying to say Am I really the same Let the man speak Let him speak hey Who are you to tell who's right Who are you to know who's right Bubbles Bubbles We live in bubbles Eloquently eloquently hear it said I'll set the bench mark today 'Cause I am so well read Draw me a graph Draw me graph Make it plain Statistically sane Statistically sane Bubbles Bubbles We live in bubbles Hard to explain Hard to just say how and why What is the man trying to say Am I really the same Discussions Discussions Discussions In my head Discussions Discussions In my head
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Life's a breeze 05:16
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IDE A 02: Life's a Breeze You are the one that showed me Just who I am This loving never confronted This I've never done Life's a breeze and we don't have trouble So we walk in the park so divine Life's a breeze And we fall for each other As we walk in the park so divine Only for you I'll always have time I'll promise time Always in mind For you Life's a breeze and we don't have trouble So we walk in the park so divine Feel at ease when we leave the clamour Of the city and feel serenity You've got a palace of glory Right up in the sky You've got your own little storey Nest way up high Only for you I'll always have time I'll promise time Always in mind For you Only for you I'll always have time I'll promise time Always in mind For you We fumble for the open door That was left ajar That wasn’t far We welcome to the open door
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Pack of Jokers 04:42
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SIDE A 03: A Pack of Jokers You took your load at this time Forced to your knees for that crime And life gave you a pack of jokers Always going round in circles Couldn't get his hands on a bomb To blow their silly heads off Or stamp on their face's ha ha That's all really very funny But he Still kept his spirit in hard times They couldn't crush everything inside But the outside world was always a fight Trust in the brothers and others short lived Cut the crap I'm feeling well miffed Can't talk about it words don't fit He gave them space to work it all out Deep down the need to give something back Men of importance pull the wool And tattoo figures on your back School that creature of banality Smiled every day with no excuse Was just paper balls and smashed stools Family confusion took its toll A spiral down for this clever soul A spiral down for this clever soul Traipsing home induced to fly Out with the boys out for a fight In silent pockets of the night In semi-detached lands Wastelands Two worlds clash Now systems that fuel this collapse Where guidance was a slap on the back And bird was the final call Now these young men can go to school
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A Mixed Cast Of Loved One's 05:01
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SIDE A 04: A mixed Cast of Loved Ones A Fairy tale Existence dodge show Where tenderness-only for salvation With it comes twilight It's coming on strong Out of show And times are up you're running out of grounds Making sounds Passing through selection To an ever-lower consciousness Low level consciousness Low level consciousness The rock of shame kills the one you love Into submission unthinkable The catcher reaps 'cause the catcher knows That you slipped into the unknown From glitter to dust being blown away Into the nothing of a final day The rock of shame Kills the one you love And that mighty social stress So sacred so pressed By a mixed cast of loved ones Leaves a kind of boredom Pickles fast into resistance Fall into submission So you turned off The threats of the closed ones And the lovers that you didn't choose Just closed it As you lost all empathy You were stunned by The cold of the closed ones And lovers that you didn't choose They chose you As you lost all empathy As you lost all empathy The rock of shame kills the one you love Into submission unthinkable The catcher reaps 'cause the catcher knows That you slipped into the unknown From glitter to dust being blown away Into the nothing of a final day The rock of shame Kills the one you love To an ever-lower consciousness Low level consciousness You're running out of ground Making sounds Low level consciousness With it comes twilight With it comes twilight It's Coming on strong In the end
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Mr Gaye 06:55
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SIDE B 01: Mr. Gaye I'm in a dream When I suddenly hear a gorgeous heartfelt melody Swirling around in my head As I lay in darkness at 6 am I hear the congas taping out a groove To a soft velvet like voice And Mr. Gaye introduces himself This beautiful graceful man is singing for me Mercy mercy me I float to the rhythm in a soft cushion of strings How can I thank him Even if he was here He wouldn't know about the spontaneous treasure He's gifted me The gift some try to put in a glass case in a museum forever But this is for me and you And now he talks of saving the world that is destined to die And how could he know that his words Would echo more than ever in our times All I know is that his words and songs will never die Your gift I received It serenades my understanding Your gift passes on From me to your imagination
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Mouth Wide Shut 04:32
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SIDE B 02: Mouth Wide Shut Over and out overwhelmed astray Here for a chance saved for the day Things on the move things on their way Over and out overwhelmed in a way Friendly in summer in prickly heat Mouth wide shut communicate Tongue well oiled suffice to say Over and out overwhelmed in a way Way to abort you I know You satisfy me Satisfy me Satisfy me
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Denial survival 04:44
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The New intelligence 03:48
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SIDE B 04: The New Intelligence Why do you not think a bit Stupid people think of it Even when they don't give a shit at all Why do you not think a bit Stupid people think of it Even when they don't give a shit at all Don't give me that spiritual shit Like there's always something to get from it God is there and it's all a learning curve If it's all about.. No I'll stop you What is all What is all You don't no Nor do I Oh We are all then I am you Oh god I am you Oh Why do you not think a bit Stupid people think of it Even when they don't give a shit at all It is nice not to give a shit 'cause nothing matters at all And stupid people don't think at all Thinking only brings you problems There’s nothing like a good un-think And it will be alright in the very end Stupid helps you get some anger Stupid helps you and is nice Stupid is the new intelligence Why do you not think a bit Stupid people think of it Even when they don't give a shit at all Why do you not think a bit Stupid people think of it Even when they don't give a shit at all At all
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Patriachal Peril (ALBUM 2) 04:28
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SIDE C 01: Patriarchal Peril Even though it seemed that I'd picked her up She put me on her list of just another beat up storey And even though I said no to an affair I wasn't really thinking that at all Driving around in her old French car Longing to belong to the chosen crowd Staring in my talent of bluff show Blinkered as hell and ready to go The night wore on and it was really something As I stared into her big brown eyes And complimented her far to early She forced a smile Having heard every line a thousand times All I could think of was glory We trundled into the dimly lit club That was full of statue like lonely wolves Lining the edge of the dance floor With their bulging eyes and razor tongues Their aching torsos swelling up Dancing under big glass balls Mixing up the alcohol Fooling around Pruning Choosing Counting Invading Waiting Impregnating Having fun Voyeurs at large Desire and lust As we spoke I heard nothing My mind was askew Only a long empty note Sounding the capture call So she left with a poor excuse As he waited out of view Guess it was just the male gaze That's all I ever knew
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17 llives 04:21
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SIDE C 02: 17 Lives 17 lives I got over a line 17 eyes can you follow my line Make hi 5 For the bottle At your side I am into the signs That come deep from the fire Help me make me Love Into the thoughts All so naked today Can't feel it that way Stirred Dreamt of wings and a fur like skin So hunting time it can begin Make high 5 For the bottle At your side I don't need to walk you home In the evening time I don't need to understand you Or let go Or let go I can smell them all so wash and scrubbed With their bellies full with their bellies full Feels so good when the sun comes out to warm My skin My skin my skin Mother nature went away To the other side And all notions to the key of all emotions She hide
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Compare & Be Free 02:32
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03: Compare & Be Free As I turned the old rusty tap Hearing its screeching I could almost feel a quiescent like essence That was hovering freely above The fleeting past I can't save today Or any day It's winding itself away Forever sanguine Sallying on down To somewhere larger Than life itself The more I yearn to capture it Adorn it Wrap it Stop it The more I see the beating machine With its tick-tock feats Information elites Its summons of no repent Billboard banality of shiny Impostor Inane Catch-phrases Compare and be free Then go depart capricious one You lay to dormant Not striving Clinging Needy Too grey in our tinsel town And poor in status
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Enigma 05:20
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SIDE C 04: Enigma Sorting him out in the dead of the night In the palm of his hand In shadows of dark alpha play masquerade Borrowed a mask and jewels from the past With a thick face His hazel green eyes framed by thick lines Chose how to gaze He got what it takes and took what he could He took what he got and got what he took A denizen of the mystic in drag Taking his hand he did lay down some facts You're Trapped in a body of a hooligan But an artist man Swayed and obeyed terribly vague Swayed and obeyed terribly vague Enigma man he took his chance Enigma man you got your last dance He’s informed by his way and not by hearsay And views of the ones Who never say boo And fall on their arse in the god-ridden past You're all so sentimental You're all so sentimental You are He's half like a man Half like a witch Half like a stranger Groomed for a heightened Sense of course Pin upt and clear And he talks up his face cheers when he makes This sage in a cage He got what it takes and took what he could He took what he got and got what he took A denizen of the mystic in drag He wore it well Handbags and gladrags Enigma man he took his chance Enigma man you got your last dance Enigma man he took his chance Enigma man you got your last dance Swayed and obeyed terribly vague Swayed and obeyed terribly vague You're all so sentimental
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We Came From The Stars 02:26
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SIDE C 05: We Came From The Stars Are we spiteful are we vain Or never really thought that way Are we taken are loved Making out we're not alone We might be fragile some of the time Or and indestructible kind Never wanting to speak your mind Call it what You like Mesmerise born to do Or hide behind a trauma or two Making it up as you go along Then realising so does everyone Pencil it in for another day Or get some sleep or take a break Save the planet by flying to Mars It's all the same we came from the stars
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It's Not About To Be obvious 01:19
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SIDE C 06: It's Not About To Be Obvious Dead leaves not wanting yesterday's meanings Pathways Illusions Nostalgia Only destined to live and die No meaning to closure Struggle invents random help Hapless in grandeur Chanced glitches occupying control Clever in diligence Recognised Salvation deemed brings the preacher man By chance As guilt surrounds absurd and profound To the folly of the falling fools In niceness aloud Happiness hitting faces It's not about to be obvious
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Alberts Song 04:10
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SIDE D 01: Albert's Song (Text by Albert Camus) Get scared it will do you good and smoke and write Beat your head against some walls refuse Refuse to see people Refuse to see people Allow your mind To do Don't care what you do Stay scared Function I don't care what you do But stay as scared as hell You're never be able to experience Everything Experience everything Get scared it will do you good and smoke Stare blankly At some ceilings Beat your head against some walls refuse Refuse to see people To see people He had been bored that's All bored like most people Hence he had made himself Out of whole cloth A life full of complications A life full of complications A life full of complications A life full of complications Something must happen and that explains Something must happen and that explains Drama in your Something must happen and that explains Drama in your Something must happen and that explains Drama in your Drama in your Life Most humans Commitments Something must happen Even Loveless slavery Even war or death hurrah Even war or death hurrah Then for funerals Then for funerals Poetical justice Experience yourself I don't care What you do but stay as scared as hell Experience yourself I don't care What you do but stay as scared as hell Experience yourself
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If You Don't Believe Me You don't believe Much 03:51
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SIDE D 02: If You Don't Believe Me You Don't Believe Much Take care you don't push me and yourself Over the edge As you're scrolling down enough to read Just about what every idiot says Tell me about your deep and meaningful Understanding of it all I'm intrigued about how it never really happened Never really happened at all I felt like a catalyst for a bit of that break through But then it got unpleasant for me When you questioned the staring truth We all can keep our points of view I'm not one to judge If you don't believe me You don't believe much I felt like a catalyst for a bit of that break through But then it got unpleasant for me When you questioned the staring truth We all can keep our points of view 'I'm not one to judge If you don't believe me you don't believe much You shaved all your hair off and marched along with 'em It's funny that happened on the same day As you showed me a book about Neanderthals You should have seen us on You Tube Us shouting and kicking aloud It never really happened It wasn't really allowed You said don't take things so seriously and lighten up I think too much with all my psycho book stuff It's not about the facts 'Cause you can't prove them Go rest your case 'Cause it never really happened It never really happened at all I won't go on too much to muck out all your dodgy theories Social intelligence is not your thing You have other qualities At the end of the day it's a game of two halves It's about keeping control And that's sort of alright And it never really happened Never really happened It never really happened At all
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Deft in Glorious Headlines 03:17
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SIDE D 03: Deft in Glorious Headlines A fixed batch of assorted folk Come fleeting in the midst of the sum Some stay some leave As the going gets tough Time ticks and we're stunned into a mess And it's randomness Ultimately fitting Then falling surprised In pursuing establishment It's full of security It's full of security Going aground and copying Reacting to reactions Something we couldn't control Something we couldn't control Threadbare home issues pulled taught and stretched For our god made simple A smear of faith One flag is not enough Then claim partial withdrawal To a twilight made simple To a twilight made simple And all leaders in the game We pick 'cause we feel the same Their unstoppable Likeness The external in their eyes That is optimised Filled sacks of new values Rant then crave congenial meanings And exact incursions So deft in glories headlines Transitioning to glitter Made tingly Thrusting Claiming So deft in glories headlines Quality is the official behind the wall Dominate That's what he'll do And love seeps through Love seeps through
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Percy's Song 07:33
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SIDE D 04: Percy's Song Born out of wisdom Slummed in the shadows Squalor lived on A roller coaster Raised by the belt in joyless sorrow Learnt by himself There was no act to follow To work culprit condemned Those of towns and fields Go make the steal Cut at the face know your face You made the blades So now go plunge 'em Grey clouds on the horizon drew in And the bugle sounds the call For bona fide patriots The papers headlines Glory for all Go parade in scarlet fever Through the streets in pomp and valour Go to war you might as well There’s nothing left to fight here for Fear not young ones Preached the man in black Brave hearts can always meet their maker That's a fact He likes the sons that fight others battles And it's never a disgrace to die in hast And with youthful hands you're be remembered Ragged trouser brigade So out of the smog filled streets Stepped a young man Who said he' d keep his head down An exotic war he'd rather fight It meant a go away Not a prison stay He wasn’t brave he wasn’t strong Didn’t know what the fighting was for But had a quick mind A savvy one He would never lift a gun They left Southampton for the fields They could never have dreamt of But the winds of glory quickly paled As slaughtered lambs Sailed back through the fog Fresh off the boat hoarded like cattle Into the bullring they did go They got the shit scared out of them Unlawful mental abuse unlawful mental abuse Unlawful mental abuse unlawful mental abuse They kept their lines did the best With Blanket cover human flesh Over the top An ordained suicide Over to the other side And mercy went and hid all day Was never there For the ones that slipped away And all for one and one for all Became an inevitable None at all And thousands fell like sitting ducks A stale mate stuck in blood-stained mud And a private who saw the madness unfold Devised a plan tall and bold He called upon a mutiny To end the fruitless pain He said our rivals over no-man's land Were hyped up foe It's all insane Word got out and news spread fast And Parades were suspended in hast And local towns were taken over By so called rebels who'd lost faith And 20,000 escaped to the forest A sanctuary Men from both sides living in harmony They lived in hollows on their wits With berries and hope Not hero's The ruling classes promised much An amnesty was spoken of The tricked worked well Rebels downed their arms But no one lived past the firing squad The search was on for the degenerate one The corporal in wolf's clothes Who changed his name a treason act This most wanted man Was now on the run Now Percy Topless was hunted down From high to low from north to south And finally killed without trial by an illegal shot Percy's storey will live on So men in the corridors of power Denied all happened And wiped the records clean You can blurt out history all you like That's how the state works this machine

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released July 26, 2022

David John Hull - Vocal Melodies, Acoustic Guitar & Words
João Clemente - Composition, Guitars, Drums, Bass, Keys, Sampling & Arrangements
Marta Ramos - Backing vocals on Mr. Gaye and Denial Survival
Album Produced, Mixed and Edited by João Clemente
Album art work by Mariana Pontífice
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released July 16, 2021

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David started playing double bass in various folk, rock, and chanson bands in Berlin. In 1991, he turned to writing songs and has released roughly 17 albums to date. In 2017, the band Golden Dark was formed, and in 2018, the project Shapeless Man was initiated. In 2020, he began working on the radio play "The Pigeon House." In 2023, he started improvised voicing with various projects. ... more

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