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The Kids Are Creeping Up

from TICKING BOXES by Flying Foxes

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There's hair clogging your basin babe
A hundred a day’s ok
You know you're going to have to face them
The cloak of dusk sure wraps the crow’s feet of the day

It's almost institutional
Like hospital white nights
When everyone younger than you
Has seen a brighter light

Twilight you can shine on through
Your red eyes twitch a richer hue
They haven't got a ray on you
The rinse will sell a brighter blue

You're sinking in the ticket line
They're creeping up like vines
"Pregnancy? Could I provide?"
You quip, "there's always pesticide!"

It's almost constitutional
Like skin throwing the fight
When everyone younger than you
Bathes in a brighter light

Twilight you can shine on through
Your red eyes twitch a richer hue
They haven't got a ray on you
There's post-grad school for you and you

And then you whisper
“I wouldn't say that if I were you
I'd round down to the ten
Don't you know what they would do
If they knew your real age?

They’d shut you out
They'd tease and then they'd pout
They'd calculate your mortgage rate
In ways you never learnt

Calm yourself, collect your coat
You know that's not the truth
If they really want to get you
They'll just slap your wisdom tooth
Calm yourself, and find your keys
And wedge them through your fist
It's the older ones who'll jump you
For your gold timepiece limp wrist

Twilight you can shine on through
Your red eyes twitch a richer hue
They haven't got a ray on you
Sometimes old folks make love too

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from TICKING BOXES, released February 1, 2010

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Flying Foxes Sydney, Australia

Flying Foxes are a musical duo based in Sydney comprising local Benjamin Maher and New Zealand expatriate Rachel Wintle. Their second album Beat Repeat is released on 9th April 2013. Jordy Lane returned to mix, record and produce the album while he wasn't busy with with own bands Shady Lane and Richard In Your Mind. ... more

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