the girl in the kid a top

from Bruised Pilgrim by To The Boats..!

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A lengthy fantasy inspired by a five-second glimpse of someone from a bus in Manchester.
How Can You Be Sure? is the odd one out of the songs referenced, because it's not on Kid A, it's a The Bends era b-side.

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Getting on the bus
The piccadilly groms
Thinks that life is tough, but
Knows that she belongs
She's better than the rest
She stands out from the crowd
Although she's dressed in black
'Cause colours aren't allowed
Although they look the same
I find myself drawn to the
Long-haired one on the far left
Though her friends are wearing Korn hoodies
and some of them are celebrating Green Day, and they've been shit for years

But the girl in the Kid A top, I bet she's great
I bet she likes to get down when the beat form Ideoteque hits the ground
And I bet she likes to stay up late and listen to Motion Picture Soundtrack
And knows all the words to the third verse

There's something about those moshers
The large and lumpy huggable girls
That you know are just above you
and You just want them above you
and 'Though her friends still idolise Curt Cobain
don't you dare take his name in vain
She'll prefer meoltonin to lithium
and Campaign for fairtrade
In her boudouir i'd get dirty
Put the stereo up to thirty
I'd give her my three fingers
To the soundtrack of Treefingers
And in the morning i'd wake up
With my Morning Bella
She'd find herself next to and Optimistic fella

Oh the girl in the Kid A top, i can wear the frock
We can hit the floor, if they ever play How Can You Be Sure
And we can go to Jilly's Rockworld and sit around and mock, girl
As they jump around and lose it to that naff nu-metal music

I'm just sick of being human.

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from Bruised Pilgrim, released September 9, 2009

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Grilly has been writing, recording, and performing music since about 1998.

DJ Gallowslutt is the psuedonym grilly uses for remixing.

To The Boats were the grilly-fronted band that thrived from 2006-2010. They discorporated before their second album, which became 'In Case of Emergence'. ... more

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