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One line later re-used in "Cedar."

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though your trousers are pressed
what now is more pressing
is the shameless hope
that i'm hopelessly lost
in your news-anchor hair
and your Windex eyes

i'm taking in air
but i can't catch my breath
i'm walking on air
but i can't catch my breath
as your cigarette curls
around my head
closing around me
like a frightened girl
when home is so far away

your ether hands wash over me
your eager hands wash over me

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from Love Songs for Late Bloomers, released January 1, 1999
Written, produced, performed, recorded + mixed by Kent Burt.

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The Linger Effect St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Reputedly abandoned as an infant on the unforgiving permafrost of northeast Newfoundland and raised by sasquatch, TLE is the type of one-man music machine that arrives only once per generation. Velvety 6-string chuggalug, chilly Teutonic synth, Eurodisco, & Mancunian post-punk bound together by a sticky, spunky aplomb that only a lifetime of being switched on and streetwise can engender. ... more

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