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Let, let the colours fade
Procrastinate, delay
Aspire to getting by
That's our way
Why can't you do it right?
Drink and smoke and fight
Pretend you're someone else
Wait, wait

Can I see some identification?
'Cause I don't believe you are who you are
You might have got past emigration
But you won't get too far

Not with that smile on your face
Not with those clothes
When you're on your way up baby
We'll pull you down by your toes

'Cause you've got the wrong blood in your body
You've got the wrong brain in your head
As soon as you start to be somebody
We'll wish you were dead

Yeah, with that smile on your face
With that gleam in your eye
The only thing we hate more than a looser is
Someone whose doing fine

Play fair, team player
We have opened our arms to you
Act slightly, step lightly
Gotta see the project through
And don't stop the rot, embrace it, face it
Nobody here has a clue
Act slightly, step lightly
Credit, where credit's due

But can you believe, can you believe
Can you believe the nerve of this guy? x4

Let, let the colours fade
Procrastinate, delay
Aspire to getting by
That's our way
Why can't you do it right?
Drink and smoke and fight
Pretend you're someone else
Wait, wait

Can I see some identification?
'Cause I don't believe you are who you are
You might have got past emigration
But you won't get too far

Not with that smile on your face
Not with those clothes
When you're on your way up baby
We'll pull you down by your toes

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from Colour, released June 10, 2011

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Sounds of System Breakdown London, UK

Sounds of System Breakdown is a live electronic music project led by London-based Dubliner Rob Costello. It began as a response to passive, head-in-laptop elec- tronica - an attempt to bring live instruments to bear on the flow and structure of dance music.

Now it exists as a kinetic, instrument-swapping three-piece - with longtime collaborators Ed Costello and Richy Kelly. ... more

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