Refusal of the Return

from The Hero's Journey by The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra

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The clock ticks a tock like a snare as we prepare to play Brahms
The bell takes its toll on our souls as we all sit our music exams
I'm sick of paying some guy twenty pounds an hour to be conservative in the conservatoire
I want the sort of song that makes me move my hips
The music I love never came on manuscripts

They can bar the guitar from the music block and make us play Bach
Enrol us, control us, patrol us, but we came here to rock
No more weighing scales and no more arpeggios
No more taking bows and no more stringing bows
I want the sort of song that makes me move my hips
The music I love never came on manuscripts

So long, I'm playing cool
No no no no not going back NO! No NO! No, I'm leaving school

This is our goal stoke the coals with the force of Bikini Atoll
They'll dictate, indoctrinate, but it's too late we're gonna rock and roll
I think of all the education that I missed
But Hendrix never played a squeezebox quite like this
I want the sort of song that makes me move my hips
The music I love never came on manuscripts

So, so long, I'm playing cool
No no no no not going back NO! No NO! No, I'm leaving school

But before I leave, I’ve written a song
I wrote it at the back of the class
With just the truth, seventeen chords, and a twenty-four piece orchestra

I'm sick of paying some guy twenty pounds an hour to be conservative in the conservatoire
I want the sort of song that makes me move my hips
The music I love never came on manuscripts
So long, I'm playing cool
No no no no not going back NO! No NO! No, I'm leaving school

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from The Hero's Journey, released July 17, 2017
Words by Reggie Chamberlain-King
Music by Martin White

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The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra London, UK

Orchestral novelty-prog.

No! Wait! Come back!

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

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