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XTC - English Settlement

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Release date: 03 March 2003

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Always one of the more interesting and innovative of the post-punk/pop crossover bands...

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Apple Venus Volume 1

The transcendental [B]'Harvest Festival'[/B] manages to make eyes meeting over a table of tinned peaches and digestive biscuits sound as momentous as [B]Brian Molko[/B] being made England manager...

  • Jan 18, 1999

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XTC News

XTC members work on new album

XTC members work on new album

‘Monstrance’ will be released in April

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XTC - English Settlement Lyrics

XTC - No Thugs In Our House Lyrics

A musical in three acts by XTC
Cast of characters
GRAHAM, a teenager
MOTHER, a busy housewife

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XTC - Snowman Lyrics

It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing
This sort of feeling isn't pleasing
And what I want to know, man
Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman?

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XTC - Senses Working Overtime Lyrics

Hey, hey, the clouds are away
There's straw for the donkeys
And the innocents can all sleep safely
All sleep safely

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XTC - Runaways Lyrics

Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway
(Please come home)
Oh run a, oh run a, oh runaway

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XTC - Melt The Guns Lyrics

(andy partridge)


Programmes of violence,

As entertainment,

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XTC - Leisure Lyrics

Leisure
They taught me how to work
But they can't teach me how to shirk correctly
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh

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XTC - Knuckle Down Lyrics

Oh, knuckle down, love his skin
It doesn't matter what color skin he's locked in
Knuckle down, knuckle down and love that skin
Knuckle down, love his race

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XTC - Fly on The Wall Lyrics

Here we go then

I am the fly up on the wall
My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer

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XTC - English Roundabout Lyrics

People rushing 'round with no time to spare
I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there
In this traffic jam, I just want to shout
"Let me off o' this English roundabout"

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XTC - Down in The Cockpit Lyrics

Man acting like a farmer and
He's treated the woman like a poor cow
We got to treat you better from now

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XTC - Yacht Dance Lyrics

We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails
Upon the tops of the seas
That, that would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat
If given half a chance

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