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quami

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I Don't Wanna Grow Back

Jan 06, 2021, 23:08

Hey everyone, first time writing here.
Does anyone here have by any chance the lyrics to Julian's "I Don't Wanna Grow Back"?

Thanks!

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Andfurthermoreagain

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Jan 08, 2021, 13:04

Here ya go (not sure about the 'mummies' line but that's how I hear it - figuring mummies as in mothers not the egyptian burial method)

I'm a haircut
I been cut too short
Now I dont wanna grow back
I'm a scorched earth
Where some mummies have been
I dont wanna grow back

Been razed to the ground so many times
Been an age since I felt some rage
I'm a home to the wretched and the destitute
I'm a sanctuary for the insane

Cos' I need to leave my last instruction
Need to leave my youngest child
Need to leave, cos I am old and blind

I'm a manicure
I been cut to short
Now I dont wanna grow back
Becoming ingrown on the woman I own
I dont wanna grow back

Nine days did I dwell in the realm of the dead
Nine days did I greet the insane
In every heathen temple, every oaken grove
I was annointed by the pouring rain

Cos' I need to leave my last instruction
Need to leave my youngest child
Need to leave, cos I am old and blind

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quami

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Re: I Don't Wanna Grow Back

Jan 08, 2021, 23:16

Thank you SO much Andfurthermoreagain!!!

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Mrs Ahab

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Re: I Don't Wanna Grow Back

Jan 12, 2021, 18:23

i allways heard it as Read to me - my last instruction etc?

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Andfurthermoreagain

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Re: I Don't Wanna Grow Back

Jan 17, 2021, 14:44

Mrs Ahab wrote:

i allways heard it as Read to me - my last instruction etc?

You may well be right on closer inspection. I do often misheard Cope lyrics because he's one of the artists I like where the music distracts me (always listening out for those ingenious little bits behind the song). I've been absorbing Cope music into my psych for both on 30 years and yet I'm always singing one and halfway through going "why do I not know the words here but I can hum the bassline from start to finish?" .

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