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Little Beast

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The whole towns slippin down a hill
Like the spine of something dead
Slide in shadow cobble-creep
Burn your mark and leave

The trench conventions yellow eyes
Follow her the local flower
The girls a priest [ to me at least ]
Since baptism peroxide

And fear is not respect
Correct
But it's the best you're gonna get
Sharp blow to the bridge of the nose
Sharp blow and anything goes

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bmerz On Jan 08, 2002

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2002-01-08 21:19:38

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by persa

24y ago

Nice one

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by louisagiffard

20y ago

This is a brilliant song. One of the first Elbow songs we got. But my brother had it wrongly labelled as Asleep in the Back. When I looked up the lyrics, I realised it wasn't. It took me ages to work out which song it was. I went to the itunes music store in the end and played the song samples until I worked out that it was Little Beast. I thought Guy Garvey sung something about Sebastian for a while, but I think that's actually since baptism. I was worried about the album Asleep in the Back. I thought it sounded dodgy, but I think I'll buy it now.

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