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Linoleum Smooth To The Stockinged Foot

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Barrie Cadogan

Background Vocals

D.C. Collard

Keyboards

James Eller

Bass

Earl Harvin

Drums

Gillian Glover

Background Vocals

Matt Johnson

Vocals

Sonya Cullingford

Sonya Cullingford

Vielle

Terry Edwards

Horn

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Matt Johnson

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Warne Livesey

Producer

Matt Johnson

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Eyes closed, mouth open

Watching closely, nothing spoken

Beneath glass, the world hushed

Is a dream still a dream if you can't wake up?

Brain fevered, body limp

In altered states, the truth is glimpsed

Descending stairwells of the mind

Drenched in morphine and iodine

[Instrumental]

Linoleum smooth to the stockinged foot

Corridors dark, seeing what I could

High priests in white lab coats

Evangelise the disease as the antidote

Science by day, prayers by night

Belief now stretched sausage-tight

Boiled in the bag, drip-dried

Then sewn up with the poison still inside

[Verse 2]

Condemned as sick, though healthy

The weak are despised by the wealthy

Endlessly nudged to scrub their hands

To bang their pots and beat their pans

Then driven idiotic with fear

While dissenters are herded, then smeared

Tyrannised by quislings and shills

To self-censor till the silence chills

[Instrumental]

Mandates from self-appointed elites

Growing more demonic by decree

Yet the veil is lifting for all to see

This ice-cold grip of insanity

What will remain of these nameless people?

What will we name their remaining evil?

Beneath the light that casts no shadow

The path is forked, but the gate still narrow

Written by: Matt Johnson

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