The People With The Telly Heads
by The Wind-up Birds
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Another stand alone signal.
Recorded and mastered at Hohm studios Bradford.
Watch the vid if you want: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7Ls1YKH9Q
Recorded and mastered at Hohm studios Bradford.
Watch the vid if you want: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7Ls1YKH9Q
lyrics
They're just these diffident dissidents
Different and diligent
Difficult
Not up for rent
Disavowed and heaven-sent
Tongue-tied
Intolerant
Talented
Intransigent
Mealy-mouthed
Malevolent
Making wishes
Inconsistent
But then
Who are we?
We are volatile and virulent
We virtually represent
Everyone cross-continent
Valuable and violent
What can you do?
When the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
The people with telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stay still
They never change
They never will
We
Sanguine
Somnambulant
Sordid
Steamy residents
Special case
Significant
Heavy on slug repellant
Bowlderised but brilliant
Boiling and incandescent
Blinded
Sometimes bilious
Staggeringly serious
But them
Compared to them
They
Coddled and cantankerous
Globular and full of gas
Guilty
Grim
Gregarious
Guaranteed to get the last laugh
We never laughed so much as when
When the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
Oh the telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stayed still
They never changed
They never will
What if that big branch
Broke off in the storm and impaled me
Would you help me?
What if that said branch was so big
I wouldn't fit in a taxi
Would you carry me?
Would you guide me through wards
Heading towards oblivion
For a while?
Would you sit there and wait
With me all sedate
In my dream state?
I'm imagining things
Catastrophic happenings
Apocalypse weather that might bring us together
In the storm in my mind
Impaled
Entwined and contented beside you
Still the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
The people with telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stayed still
They never changed
They never will
Different and diligent
Difficult
Not up for rent
Disavowed and heaven-sent
Tongue-tied
Intolerant
Talented
Intransigent
Mealy-mouthed
Malevolent
Making wishes
Inconsistent
But then
Who are we?
We are volatile and virulent
We virtually represent
Everyone cross-continent
Valuable and violent
What can you do?
When the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
The people with telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stay still
They never change
They never will
We
Sanguine
Somnambulant
Sordid
Steamy residents
Special case
Significant
Heavy on slug repellant
Bowlderised but brilliant
Boiling and incandescent
Blinded
Sometimes bilious
Staggeringly serious
But them
Compared to them
They
Coddled and cantankerous
Globular and full of gas
Guilty
Grim
Gregarious
Guaranteed to get the last laugh
We never laughed so much as when
When the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
Oh the telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stayed still
They never changed
They never will
What if that big branch
Broke off in the storm and impaled me
Would you help me?
What if that said branch was so big
I wouldn't fit in a taxi
Would you carry me?
Would you guide me through wards
Heading towards oblivion
For a while?
Would you sit there and wait
With me all sedate
In my dream state?
I'm imagining things
Catastrophic happenings
Apocalypse weather that might bring us together
In the storm in my mind
Impaled
Entwined and contented beside you
Still the people with the telly heads are here
It's only a collage but it still brings the fear
The people with telly heads abound
Don't tip them off
Don't make a sound
The people with the telly heads came round
Broke the mood
They brought it right down
The people with the telly heads stayed still
They never changed
They never will
credits
released February 28, 2025
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New single - THE PEOPLE WITH THE TELLY HEADS - out now
More gigs on the way as well.
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Jun 28Cleckheaton, UK
discography
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Dec 2021
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