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An Unforgettable Luncheon

by Pea Green Boat

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1.
Cook Robotic Chef 03:54
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Hey hey, it's a beautiful day We never see the sun But we don't need anyway I know we're gonna be fine 'cause life is what you make it And our life has been a hell of a ride Old friend, your mechanical heart Is beating for the both of us tonight Beautiful monster born in hell Forged in the light of the fires of progress The night that the jackboots hammered down All over the city, legions of shadows peeled away You never asked for this But here's to your future... Cook Robotic Chef I want you to save me Before you save yourself You haven't looked too well for weeks Robotic Chef You know that I love you Like only brothers do From the rust of a thousand burnt out scrapyards I've watched you come so far I built you up I'll tear you down before you leave me To die here on my own amongst the rubble and the soil So by design I will align with human cruelty I'm sure, Robotic Chef You'll understand Do you remember the sound and the glare of their flashlights? I wouldn't expect you to know Much except silence and snow Beautiful monster Caught in hell Forged in the light of the fires of progress The night that the jackboots hammered down You never asked for this But here's to your future...
2.
The Worldly Wisdom Of Bertram Topsy 03:00
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Bitter and lime Better the time not spent just chewing at your wounds Here is the future Here is the message Take it from a friend You think he's got it figured out What he says may just surprise you It's perfectly natural To feel you've lost your way Sometimes you dig in deep And come up empty You know he doesn't mind You've made mistakes you can't take back Your past does not define you And Bertram says: In me you've got a friend for life now So don't you sweat it I wasted my time Creating a line by line attack On what was never there Such pointless invective With nothing off my chest I thought I had it figured out But the truth might not surprise you It's perfectly natural To feel a bit afraid Sometimes I look inside And find just cruelty You know he doesn't mind I've made mistakes I can't take back My past does not define me As Bertram says: In me you've got a friend for life now So don't you sweat it When every day feels like a nightmare When you can't get out of bed When all you need is a helping hand And someone who'll be there Who'll care but not pass judgement Don't you feel ashamed Just call and ask for Topsy You've got a friend for life
3.
Kennedy Vs. Nixon 04:29
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Put me in a box Keep your fish inside their barrel Where the shooting gets real easy Once you realise you never have to try Looking for a weakness Always looking for that fault That you can use to swing the voters to your side Let's all embrace the lie Against all odds Unravelled thoughts Escaping my memory You were the Kennedy to my Nixon, they said You win again God bless the American people Who know I've only begun I've only begun We're going live in 60 seconds The minutes turn to hours Ill prepared to state my case The baying hounds smell blood A picture is worth a thousand words A bag of tricks is worth a thousand more I wonder how you're feeling In the cold light of the day Have faith in your faded convictions today 'Cause you're only as good as your last campaign It ain't up for debate Want you to know I'm not out of the running Don't look back 'cause the underdog's coming Get back in your box Keep your eggs inside your basket What it takes to make an omelette isn't fair But I won't be the one to break Swinging for the fences In an out and out offensive Will my character survive another round And just how much can someone take Don't eat that blueberry pie Handshake and a spit in the eye All you get when the river is dry Is "See you again next summer!" You called me tricky indeed Let's see how tricky can one man be? Held on by the skin of my teeth Let's see who wins when the truth will come out Have faith in your faded convictions today I'll be Kennedy, you can be Nixon It ain't up for debate Want you to know I'm not out of the running My knees are weak and my palms are sweaty But watch out because the underdog's coming Watch out Quick march to my heartbeat drumming Deep breath and I'm finally steady Watch out 'cause the underdog's coming
4.
Penguins Holding Hands 02:29
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Moving uneasily We were penguins Holding hands, out in the snow Where the blizzards reigned supreme In our personal winters We'll keep each other steady On our feet Where the cold will eat our bones We'll find warmth inside The folds of an emperor's robes This is what family means to me This too will melt away All in time These castles fall under the lake Fortresses only in name But all that we have will endure To be locked in a dance with the tides Could be beautiful but for the cruelty Of an arctic state of mind Penguins in love journey forever Damn the cold If we separate know I will find you Out in the tundra by any means known All just to see what was painted All over your face All these days, where were we hiding? Slipping and sliding All on our own All feels well under the twilight Green in the half light Guiding us home
5.
Constellations 03:33
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High above the mountain From an asteroidal compound Watching all the fairground The colours start to fade Static on the airwaves As I hide for my protection And sever all connections That I made I will not be saved Carried away on a wave Of my own resignation I'd be wishing you well If I knew where the hell You had been And it's too pretty a night To be wasting the light On my point of view Constellations Maps from me to you I will be the death of me, I know The ticking clock Marking off the seconds Am I halfway past The point of no return? High above the city There's a spectral shadow looming Astral flowers blooming In a light show past the stars Somewhere near Orion I will fly this rocket Straight into the sun Blinking just to miss this All your happy beaming faces Memories of those places Back on planet earth Carried away on a wave Of my own resignation I'd be wishing you well If I knew where the hell You had been And it's too pretty a night To be wasting the light On my point of view Constellations Maps from me to you
6.
Slow Wave (The Grand Old Duke's Last Stand) 03:34
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The grand old duke chose death upon his hill He was neither halfway up nor halfway down 10,000 men to kill In dreary silence they marched away, one by one Don't know where to go from here, my friend These roots have shrivelled dry Start to end, these fires ain't so bright here anymore Eye to eye is tooth and nail to score That never really bothered me before And all that jazz is just a racket to my ears Headaches blossom in the sirens of my years These atoms building tears for all occasions Frustrations and love will carry me home Skeleton keys on a ring for the holidays You know that better days than this Have stripped me down to my bones It's all I can do to behave like I'm okay When I'm feeling like a slow wave Is threatening to swallow me whole Tell me where I go from here, my friend These roots have shrivelled dry Start to end, these fires ain't so bright here anymore This never really bothered me before The grand old duke's last stand was all alone My friend, these roots have shrivelled dry Start to end, these fires ain't so bright here anymore I never felt so powerless before
7.
Interlude 02:21
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Nope.
8.
Ouroboros 06:20
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Almost imperceptibly The end became the start In the blink of an eye Circling around once again And again and again and again... Never go home again Where the river used to sing It's never the same Tugging away at the reigns Up an empty mountain range Sleeping in retrograde We will dream a thousand years Of what we have known All in a sepia drone Drawing the circle again… Here in the garden I have grown a thousand flowers A lily for all I swept aside All my dead potential lies In the photographs of another Lying in a state of circular logic is bliss But it's time for the child to learn And the lesson ain't easy So tell me why I'm chasing my own tail I'm sick to the teeth Of railing against what's ahead When I know damn well The future could keep me in clover It's over now the snake chokes on his tail Rattling the bars of the cage you constructed Looking for the key but it's there in your pocket Unlock it The prison's in your mind I'll never believe I found you Springtime's arrived As love blooms in meadow Feeling so young Now that the circle's broken I'm starting anew I'm so in… I grew from tiny acorns Gathered in his hand Given to the Earth I was free to roam the land Before you there was nothing Without you there is nothing A little like the nothing Before you came around And even now I'm climbing My branches reach the sky The snake is slowly dying But with you I'm still alive Before you there was nothing Without you there is nothing A little like the nothing Before you came around
9.
The Cherry Tree 03:04
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Watching the sun beneath the cherry tree Here with my one true love Sinking beneath a blue eternity Looking to the stars above Down by the cherry tree My baby said to me… "You can't look to the future When you keep on looking to the past for answers You've got to get your act together I'll help with the rest, you know I only want to know you'd promise the same" I've got a reason to dance A little dance Across the moon again I've got the freedom To fly anywhere When I'm with her I got life Sometimes I see that Cherry Tree Outside my window Down where we etched our love Into the bark Down by the cherry tree My honey said to me "You know summer's only 'round the corner Lets watch the sunrise We've got a little night to share Before we part ways in the morning Let's meet again before it rains" I've got a reason to dance A little dance Across the moon again I've got the freedom To fly anywhere When I'm with her I got life Sometimes I look down Outside my window Promise that you'll love me When the leaves fall down Down by the cherry tree My darling said to me That I'm the only man The only the man she needs I've got a reason To dance a little dance Across the moon again I've got the freedom To fly anywhere When I'm with her I got life Sometimes I see that Cherry Tree Outside my window Down where we etched our love Into the bark
10.
Del & Eric 02:44
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I - The Maelstrom Chronicles The fury of the admiral And the patience of the whale Time honoured traditional twists in the tale Plugging the maelstrom Plugging up the hole that's been dragging us down To the heaviest depths Crushing our heads Generals dreaming up schemes from their beds II - The Game Del and Eric were the best at those games All the finest treasures, the magical caves Of the mind and the soul The goblin, the snake and the troll Del and Eric I am full of your love Home is just below us, moving targets above When I'm losing the game Still you treat me the same nonetheless III: The Anchor When the wind in my sails Won't carry me lightly And I feel that I might be out of time Down the line There's a page at the end A pop up reminder you're there Atlas of sores My face is a roadmap I've circled a sun trap by the sea You and me In a couple of weeks We'll meet by the anchor The sun in my cheeks Will tell me I'm thankful To have you around To be able to call you my friends
11.
Irish Waterfall 02:36
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Feel it slipping past my teeth Between two lips that chatter promises Chewing on the entrails Of citrus coloured mannequins I feel it carry me away to charcoal skies Feel I'm losing all control of my designs Burn the line again Takes away the breath and leaves me desolate Swimming on the ceiling, broken poetry Whispering ghosts Tell me where I go from here, my friend This room has left my dry Start to end, these strings will barely fly me anymore They never gave me any problems before Those cats weren't lying When they said the well was drying The dogs don't even come here anymore And we were singing So hollow and beautiful A gentle Irish waterfall By half past seven, I'll never have been here at all Those cats were lions As the pride declared a riot The wolves backed up from clawing at their doors And we were singing So hollow and beautiful A gentle Irish waterfall By half past seven, I'll never have been here at all
12.
Henry VIII 05:00
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Known, but never knowing anyone How can I trust you When I can't trust myself? Infinite loyalty, honour and grace Coralline shame in the pale of my face Things would be different in every way If I could be king for a day Tell me I'm wonderful, powerful, brave and majestic Bring me the heads of my enemies braised in the fire You were my glory, the jewel in the crown of my winter I'll say what I mean when I tell you that this is goodbye This aint my kind of party This ain't my point of view That axe will come down swinging Make sure it doesn't land on you This is my execution too And you know I've got far too much to lose This is a call for action I'm sick of idle threats Take arms and go down swinging I'll make you pay for all this blatant disrespect My portrait ages with the weight of my regrets I'll take collection for those debts This castle has no place for pretenders For king and for country All of the towering empires we built up between us A stately reminder that this is the story so far Destructive and childish, furious just like my father Henry VIII without all of the power and charm Things would be different in every way If I could be king for a day All this insanity grows on you once you surrender (All this madness, all this sadness) Inside of my chambers my echoes lay waste to the walls (One day this will all be yours my son) Wrap me in purple and gold and declare me the winner (In purple and in gold and) Divorced from reality, gravity kingdom and all (Down comes kingdom, all)
13.
Spirit Valve 06:44
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It's not that I'm not listening Disinterested or bored by your company No, I don't think I've ever needed you more But that's just me, anxiety and cortisol A cannonball that's threatening to ruin the moment Ensuring destruction of all that I know Tunnel vision, my admission of guilt I haven't been paying attention Asking you all the wrong questions All of my life, I was snow in the globe I am present for now Too soon the blood will flow faster I'm giving all the wrong answers Living my life like a fish in a bowl With a head full of styrofoam Packaging nuts, bolts And all that pressurised noise I'm ready to blow, so open my spirit valve I just want to love With all that I possibly have If I'm drifting you'll know where to find me Out in the tundra where blizzards run free Surely you see that it's written all over my face The internet has ravaged me Transparently a means of escaping what I can't control And the feeling of knowing I can't be alone But that's just me, the voice behind the astronaut And Mr. Dinosaur The telling stories of implausible heroes All just to share with you what I cannot say With a head full of styrofoam Packaging nuts, bolts And all that pressurised noise I'm ready to blow, so open my spirit valve I just want to love With all that I possibly have When Skinner said: "I hope you're prepared For an unforgettable luncheon" The superintendent would never have guessed The lengths that someone would go to just for acceptance My core is stress The key to success Is trusting your family to be there And to be there in return Then the horrors we go through Might fade into essence Tell me I'm doing alright and I'll try to believe you Say you'll forgive if you feel I'm not meeting your eye In our personal winters, we'll keep each other steady This too will melt all in time This is what family means to me

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'An Unfortgettable Luncheon' is the fifth album by Pea Green Boat.

PGB is a recording project started by Joe O'Neill and Roger Heathers in 2012. The project isn't based in a particular style of music, but instead experiments with various genres, production approaches and songwriting styles.

This album was started in 2017 and concluded tracking in 2019.
It's the first PGB album to feature Itunu Odetokun (HiteeSticks) as drummer.

With huge thanks to our crowdfunding supporters:

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Artwork by Trifia

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released February 7, 2020

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Pea Green Boat is an experimental rock duo.

Joe O'Neill (vocals) and Roger Heathers (multi-instrumentalist) produce DIY 70s influenced rock, pop, doo-wop and electronic music.

Influences include Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Mike Patton, 10cc, Kate Bush, Carpenters, King Crimson & Ween ... more

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