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The Shrinks
OUR GREATEST HITS
(2019)

  1. The Quest
  2. Film Stars Now
  3. Joe & Cath
  4. Emoji
  5. Buddy Holly
  6. On Board Tonight
  7. Our Greatest Hits
  8. Anthony & Lois (maybe)
  9. On A Sixpence
  10. That & The Other
  11. Who knew? (2 minutes 58 seconds)
  12. With Me (The edge of the bed song)
     
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The Shrinks
Kissed By The Queen
(2015)

1. Meville
2. The Age Of Steam
3. Maybe We Did
4. Brighton
5. Children Of The Splice
6. Don’t Ever Say Goodbye
7. Kissed By The Queen
8. Down And Out
9. Who’s Next?
10. Cheap Wine And Daytime TV
11. Lyin’ Lips
12. Tarmac For Breakfast
13. Meet Me In The Middle
14. Bones
15. Because It’s Christmas

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The Shrinks
That’s How It Looks
(2012)

1. Dead Man Singing
2. Good Times
3. Me & McCartney
4. Waiting for Love
5. Unselected
6. Your New Best Friend
7. Talking
8. Sunday Worship
9. The Judge
10. Wrap Party
11. Bumper Car
12. City Sidewalk Tree

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The Shrinks
Modern Sounds of Cotham
& Westbury
(2009)

1. Country Song
2. Closer to the Fire
3. Something Worth Saving
4. Jacket, Shirt & Trousers
5. Daddy's Arms
6. Lucky Shoes
7. Sunday Morning Music
8. My Friend the Cactus
9. Smells Like Elvis
10. Jones Street & 4th
11. Raised by Wolves
12. The Finest Train

The Shrinks
Further Along The Road
(2006)

1. Bristol, Tennessee
2. Further along the road
3. Soul ironing
4. The Devil’s breath
5. Easy in this world
6. Always the way
7. Be strong
8. Nobody listening
9. Yeah, no (I love her so)
10. Best destiny
11. The picture (that isn’t there)
12. The drinking song

The Shrinks
More Damned Lies
(2003)

1. Do like the Bears Do
(Grizzly Business)

2. Trash Cart Trophy Girl
3. The Beetle Eats the Cathedral
4. One too Many for the Road
5. Bigfoot
6. Yeah Yeah Yeah
(Freshly Minted Parlophone)

7. The Nearly Man
8. It Wasn’t Always Like This
9. Wayne & Sandra (Fred & Ginger)
10. The Rat in the Piano
11. Amen
12. Northern Exposure
13. More Damned Lies

The Shrinks
On The Stoop
(2001)

1. Friendly Fire
2. On The Stoop
3. The Badge
4. Wake Up Call
5. Wind It Up
6. Nick Drake’s Pants
7. Glenn Miller
8. While You Were Gone
9. Cool As A Fridge
10. Nature/Nurture
11. Beautiful Machine
12. Hallelieu Canoe

The Shrinks
Horfield to Hollywood
(2000)

1. Archie Leach
2. Coal
3. Where We Live
4. Victim of Crime
5. Maurice Chevalier
6. Anthony and Lois (Maybe)
7. Potatoe Heart
8. Skip inside the Drive
9. Tim & Neil
10. More Money
11. Ahamay
12. Rooster Do

 

Bumper Car
George Smith / David Brown

I watch the people on the merry-go-round
They rise up and they ease down
They go round and round and then
They do the same trip over again
It’s a smooth ride but they never get far
That’s how it looks from the bumper car

I watch the people on the Ferris wheel
Like stones in the tread of God’s automobile
They hit the heights but they know
The next stop is the dirty road
Crushed every time that they meet the tar
That’s how it looks from the bumper car

I watch the people on the Big Dipper ride
I see the fear in the whites of their eyes
They travel fast and they take all the risks
They hold their lives in their white-knuckle fists
They tease the ground then reach for the stars
That’s how it looks from the bumper car

Bumper to bumper, pillar to post
I feel compelled to repel
Everyone, anyone who comes close

I watch the people in the Centrifuge
Stuck to the wall and they cannot move
Their heads are spinning and they can’t find the door
Then somebody takes away the floor
And they’re as trapped as a bug in a jar
That’s how it looks from the bumper car

     
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