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What do we do when the bank burns down
All of our money carried up in a cloud?
What do we do when the sterling smoke
Covers all our babies’ clothes?

When the air’s so thick and ashen
We can’t see to stoke the fire
We’ll take our many feet
To the Grand Old City Bank
And tramp around the embers
And take our warmth from that

What do we do when the sunrise comes
In the middle of the afternoon
And it starts raining cats and dogs
And all the people that we knew?

When waterfalls appear to fill the bowl where once the city stood
Sweeping up the mothers and the children from the neighbourhood
We’ll do what we have always done
We’ll hold on by our nails
Like poppies in fresh furrowed ground
And then recount the tales

What do we do when the tv stutters?
What do we do when the candle gutters?
What do we do when the premier utters words of looming fall?
We’ll do what we have always done
Take our comfort in the one
Thing that gives us comfort
In this carnival

What do we do when the soil has settled?
What do we do when it all gets better?
Will we only have the weather in common to complain about?
What will we do when we hear our voice?
Will we recognise the noise, or clamp our hands in horror over our distended mouths?

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from We went to the bottom of the ocean, released August 11, 2010

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The Sound of The Ladies London, UK

The Sound of The Ladies are the indie-schmindie alt. folk stylings of Martin Austwick, except live where it's him plus a bunch of cool musicians. He likes Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, and some other bands and solo musicians.

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