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Wild West

from The Violet Hour by Would-Be-Goods

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Stucco cracked and peeling

Now it’s new and clean and smooth and white

What is it concealing?

What strange crimes are going on out of sight?


Read the morning headlines

Banker’s wife has disappeared

Caught him on the camera

Haven’t found her but it’s feared…


There’s the old Electric

That’s where Christie used to change the reels

Up the road near Golborne’s

Where he went to buy his mash and eels


You can feel the darkness

Where history has been

Filthy like an old cloth

That no washing can get clean


Times have changed

And places rearranged

But it will always be the Wild West


Near that two-star restaurant

That’s where Oswald Mosley preached his hate

Standing on the same spot

That Kelso Cochrane met his fate


Luxury apartments

Next to councils boarded up

Exiled to the seaside

Gentrifying never stops.

Times have changed

And places rearranged

But it will always be the Wild West

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from The Violet Hour, released March 27, 2021

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Would-Be-Goods London, UK

Would-be-goods are usually a four-piece band but this is a solo project which I began in October 2020, trying to trick myself into being more productive by treating songwriting as a game or challenge. Peter, my partner, acted as my daily title generator. I then had 24 hours to write and record the song. ... more

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