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Hello, I am an ashtray

by Flat Battery

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1.
Anonymous Contribution 01:03
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2.
Nucking Futs 02:31
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3.
Social Security 04:33
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Why do I feel so cold? All these angry lies I've told I said I'm just growing old, and I need some security I just find that every time I just can't seem to unwind Cursing all my feelings I Let go Finally, I can be free I can't let go of you Don't try to make me understand Fuck you, I know just who I am I don't need to make a plan I can I don't really want to say What's gonna be fucked up today I just can't stand all this pain Come out to play Finally, I can be free I can't let go of you
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Children Playing 04:03
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Children playing Sadness inside Fallen, broken Lost, stolen All these memories Haunting me inside Falling slowly I lose my pride Hoping for present To become past Waiting, leaving it All behind All these memories Haunting me inside Falling slowly I lose my pride
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Broken Dreams 04:48
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Now we'll see Find a dream, and Let it all Just float away It's not that I feel bad But that I will Never feel the same Love me Hold me And never let me go Never let me go I wonder how The people scream and shout About nothing at all Nothing at all Yeah, and if you please If I could just get down on my knees and pray I'd be happy today All I see are Broken dreams, and Expressions of sadness In your mind If there's hope Don't let go Believe in truth, and Don't believe in lies Love me Hold me And never let me go Never let me go I wonder how The people all go around screaming and shouting About nothing at all Nothing at all Yeah, and if you please If I could just get down on my knees and pray I'd be happy today- Why you gotta go and go and bring me down? Why you gotta go and go do things the right way? I've come undone You know you've won When I say I give in Oh, don't give up There's too much...
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Feelings Abyss 03:41
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My blood is flowing into an abyss My heart is hoping for you to come in Waiting and hoping for better days Showing no feeling, just running away Love - fuck you get your own Hope - nowhere to go
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Sin Tax 02:16
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E-Malgamate 03:50
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Why do I feel this way? I can't handle this shit today I can't feel anything Please all of you, go away No one wants to be my friend No one lets me feel content No one wants to hold my hand I just feel so thin Can't stand the hate I can't get away, I'm Just trying to feel some pain And this fucking bullshit, and I know that everything I do Isn't okay I long for love I long for peacefulness I long for hope Because I have nothing I wish to find some peace of mind From where the conscious stay Can't stand the hate I can't get away, I'm Just trying to feel some pain And this fucking bullshit, and I know that everything I do Isn't okay I can't stand the hate Need to fuck off, the pain E-malgamate and let it rain Like blood from the sky as My hollow eyes, as I Let my spirit die from my Head to my toes A future that's bleak if I hate the world, I need a Love to see the purity unfurl Make it go away, I can't handle it Make it go away, it's fucking all bullshit

about

This was the first album Flat Battery ever made. Originally completed around early 2006, I think.

Founded by two teenagers who'd attended the same art school, and with very little knowledge of production skills and values, we set out to make an industrial album and ended up with something a bit more eclectic. This set the mixed genre theme for future Flat Battery albums.

The name Flat Battery was my (Liam's) idea, as a hat-tip to South African industrial band Battery Nine.

At the end of putting the album together, we'd smoked so many cigarettes that we'd completely filled up the box that my microphone came in. So we wrote "Hello, I am an ashtray" on the inside of the lid, took a photo and made it the album name/cover. The photo had been lost eventually, along with all the original stems and project files. The only thing remained was the tracks, so I put together the current album cover as a tribute.

This album was made over a decade ago, long before I developed any real skill with singing and music production! Very experimental.

credits

released March 5, 2006

Liam Wiser (vocals, lyrics and guitar), Robert Rumney (vocals, lyrics, programming and production)

Additional credits on E-Malgamate: Ariel Wertlen Spilkin (guitars), Mario Belloni (vocals)

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Flat Battery London, UK

London-based one-man band originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recording music since 2005, many genres and styles have been explored.

Liam Wiser, the person behind this project, also creates electronic music under the name Rectifier: rectifire.bandcamp.com ... more

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