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Archbishop Ferdinand - Shana Durand

from You Do it I Can't Be Bothered by Various Artists (The Songs of Tom Smith)

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Can’t go back, frozen in time
Can’t stop here melting away
Can’t move on, vapourise
Vapourise, vapourise (vapourise)

Archbishop Ferdinand, once a humble clergyman
Takes a trip down memory lane, in the parish his career began
Flashing lights distract him, if only for a second
Ticking off his checklist, to recall his roots or be damned

Street kids perform here daily, under camera surveillance
Coke bottle sniffed inhalants – punishment rarely refused
With paint in cans of aerosol, not just to serve as medicine
Dissatisfaction’s bounded and grafitti’s the deed of truth

Drinks at the office party, the weekends off and started - once an idea is planted, the girls are set to find
A group of young men herded into a big screen sports bar; luck is not exhausted – return to the scene (of the crime)

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Too cautious yet to smile, the ATM pauses silent
Yellow notes all pile up – Quentin could never replace
His violin at the pawn shop; his very last installment’s
Receipt is signed and torn off – on the final day to pay

A passenger says excuse me, just as she’s finished spewing
When a cabbie’s having a bad run, a coffin takes a final nail
Drunks move slowly past him; the queues are moving faster
Next time he’ll take no chances, at the hint of a face so pale

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Lonely Alexander, in darkened city back streets
Entranced by foreign banter and the sense of a world away
From the backroom Turkish men’s club, a thick aromatic smokescreen
No English will be spoken, just tobacco and coffee craved

CHORUS

Archbishop Ferdinand, once a humble clergyman
Takes a trip down memory lane, in the parish his career began
Flashing lights distract him, if only for a second
Ticking off his checklist, to recall his roots or be damned

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from You Do it I Can't Be Bothered, released September 20, 2014
Shana Durand with Kieran Waters. plus Henry Waters, Vanessa Nielsen, Camille Nielsen and Frida Nielsen.

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The Songs of Tom Smith Brisbane, Australia

The Songs of Tom Smith is a recording and performance project created by Tom in 2012. It has a large pool of musicians across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

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