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Every day blurs into one, minds get frozen heads feel numb...in The Self Help Skills Unit

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In the self help skills unit
People learn to dress themselves
Wash them selves feed themselves
Use the toilet by them selves
In the self help skills unit patients form an orderly queue
While the staff sit around drinking coffee
With clipboards recording what they do

Verbal prompt gestural prompt
Physical prompt result
Score the task log the graph
Feed it back result

In the self help skills unit the toasters on the blink
Ted the union steward puts his feet up on the sink
The charge nurse goes home early the student’s tidy up
Practicing their injections they have assessments coming up

Verbal prompt gestural prompt
Physical prompt result
Score the task log the graph
Feed it back result

In the self help skills unit people cannot lose themselves
Remove themselves forget themselves
Become another version of themselves
Its two-way mirror observation take your jumper on and off
Clean your teeth comb your hair
Wash your hands flush the chain
Until they press the stop-watch
They press the stop, watch


Verbal prompt gestural prompt
Physical prompt result
Score the task log the graph
Feed it back result

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from Silver Meadows [Fables from the Institution], track released June 6, 2016
Bobby Kewley - Bass
Paul Tsanos - Drums
David Marsden - Strings, moog, piano, electric guitar
Alan Wilkes - Vocal, acoustic/electric guitars, E Bow, keys

Writer - Alan Wilkes
Producer - David Marsden

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Vinny Peculiar Worcester, UK

Vinny Peculiar variously described as – ‘An under sung national treasure’ [UNCUT Magazine]– a warm hearted Morrissey [Q Magazine] and ‘The missing link between Jarvis Cocker and poet Roger McGough and some of the wittiest lyrics this side of Wreckless Eric’ IRISH TIMES ... more

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