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This is what I did then...

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Handing in the mobile phone iPod & Dictaphone
Security man in uniform at the gate
Takes a picture like so ID badge you’re good to go
You’re good to go mate

Julie will escort you to the meeting you’re expected
Across the forecourt to the lift
We’re running just a little late I hope that you don’t mind the wait
And there’s a coffee machine, great

Dr Martin says hello Do I know you? I don’t think so
You look kind of familiar he says
The patient arrives and we talk about the contents of the last report
He says he counting off the days

He’s sick of being locked away
Tries to do whatever they say
You have to take it day by day I say
Then the meeting starts reports and pretty colored charts
Are passed around the room this way

The patient walks out soon enough
He says I hate you Dr Marshall not true Dr Marshall not true
He’s sick of being told what to do
By idiots like me n you cause we’ve no idea what people go through

This is what I do now
This is what I do


I make some notes and say my bit
They say he’s getting there but he’s not ready yet
We’ll need to keep him here awhile longer
More feedback from the new OT
She says basket weaving makes him angry
Is it any wonder?

I meet a girl who I used to know on the way out she says hello
Just tell me what on earth brings you back here?
I say I got a new job I took over from Bob
Remember Bob the one with a beard?

This is what I do now
This is what I do

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from Silver Meadows [Fables from the Institution], track released June 6, 2016
Bobby Kewley - Bass
Paul Tsanos - Drums
Alan WIlkes - Main/backing vocal, guitars, E Bow
David Mardsen - Backing vocal

Produced by David Marsden

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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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