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Thank​-​You For Not Discussing the Outside World EP

by The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra

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Outside our walls the very slings And arrows of misfortune soar. Our minds are on much higher things, We leave these troubling trifles for Those of you who'd cry and bawl and grieve. Of this we'd like to stay naive, So with your hats and coats please leave Conversation at the door. No news presents Current events Just as they've unfurled. Do come in, please shut up and don't discuss the outside world. The world may be our oyster But please could it stay clammed shut Let's not roister, let us cloister Spare ourselves from Hell-damned smut. Entrance only goes to those with permits To this bastion of hermits We shan't let the world get her mitts On our quiet little rut. Some strange idea To fight in Crimea: Was the latest news we'd heard. Please come in, do shut up and don't discuss the outside world. If you'd spend your life in traction... To such as that the world is prone. We'd prescribe, instead, inaction. Stay with us or stay at home. It's not enough to down your sabre; You must cease action and labour. To improve life for your neighbour You should leave them well alone. Let's call a truce On the abuse That is regularly hurled. Do come in, please shut up and don't dicuss the outside world.
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Come with me, and we will blow Lots of bubbles, as we go; Bubbles bright as ever Hope Drew from fancy -- or from soap; Bright as e'er the South Sea sent from its frothy element! Come with me, and we will blow Lots of bubbles, as we go. Mix the lather - who can be Fitter for such task than thee, Great M.P. for Sudsbury! Great M.P. for Sudsbury! For the frothy charm is ripe, Puffing Peter bring thy pipe, -- Thou, whom ancient Coventry, Once so dearly lov'd, that she Knew not which to her was sweeter, Peeping Tom or Puffing Peter; -- Puff the bubbles high in air, Puff thy best to keep them there. Bravo, bravo, Peter Moore! Now the rainbow humbugs soar, Some reflecting mines that lie Under Chili's glowing sky, Some, those virgin pearls that sleep Cloister'd in the southern deep; Others, as if lent a ray Form the streaming Milky Way, Glist'ning o'er with curds and whey From the cows of Alderney From the cows of Alderney From the cows of Alderney For the frothy charm is ripe, Puffing Peter bring thy pipe, -- Thou, whom ancient Coventry, Once so dearly lov'd, that she Knew not which to her was sweeter, Peeping Tom or Puffing Peter; -- Puff the bubbles high in air, Puff thy best to keep them there. Now's the moment -- who shall first Catch the bubbles, ere they burst? See, with upturn'd eyes and hands, Where the Shareman, Brigdon, stands, Gaping for the froth to fall Down his gullet - lye and all. See!---But hark my time is out -- Now, like some great water-spout, Scaterr'd by the cannon's thunder, Burst, ye bubbles, burst asunder! Burst, ye bubbles, burst asunder! Burst, ye bubbles, burst asunder! For the frothy charm is ripe, Puffing Peter bring thy pipe, -- Thou, whom ancient Coventry, Once so dearly lov'd, that she Knew not which to her was sweeter, Peeping Tom or Puffing Peter; -- Puff the bubbles high in air, Puff thy best to keep them there.
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released August 1, 2008

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The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra London, UK

Orchestral novelty-prog.

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Based in London, we've been going since 2007. The line-up is around twenty four players.

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