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from Idiopath by Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A 4 disc complete collection of the Idiopath/Omniopath album. 72 tracks in total. Idiopath is the new album from Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures. Omniopath is its companion album, featuring the same 36 tracks covered by artists including The Swinging Laurels, Steve Nieve, Vivien Scotson, Doll Normal, Dawson Smith & The Dissenters and many (well, 31) more.

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    Idiopath on triple gatefold 3XLP vinyl. Numbered edition of 300.

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Lyrics by Kenton Hall
Music by Kenton Hall, Mark Haynes, Chris Ilett, John McCourt & Brett Richardson

lyrics

Tracey was a waitress
With two kids, a heroin habit, a husband who frequented prostitutes, so
She tried out for the talent show
Queued up alongside the hopeless and hopeful
Each of them desperate to dig themselves out of a hole
Tell the whole damned world where they can go

It’s all lapped up
By a bored, boring and indolent populace
Fill their cups, up
With lager, their papers with breasts
Won’t you give it a rest?

Interviewed half in tears by a presenter
Fresh from children’s telly, with fetishes for older men
And a good spanking now and then
Tracey tells stories ‘bout singing with hairbrushes
Plays Cinderella waiting for a ball to attend
Then she breaks down and cries again

Offering crumbs
Of a dream translated from the American
To those numb, from
Bankruptcy proceedings and pregnancy tests
Won’t you give it a rest?

And your fabled 15 minutes
Will be cut down for adverts, you’ll see
Rock ‘N’ Roll stardom in easy instalments
Musical instrument sold separately

Sandwiched between the beleaguered and bitter
‘Tween has beens and harridans,
Belt buckle under his chin, Quentin ushers our Tracey in
She throws her head back, lets loose a vibrato
That rattles his molars and notifies his next of kin
His tongue sharpens behind a grin

And we all get off
Though the punishment’s cruel and unusual
Turn and softly, cough
For the man that we love to detest
Won’t you give it a rest?

Tracey’s hysterical, as they berate her
Begs for another chance, to take her place in The Sun
And prove her worth to everyone
Quentin sees something he’ll maintain is moxie
Has more to do with the zipper he’s slyly undone
Let’s take a look at what she’s won

It’s been fun,
But within a year she’s descending the alphabet
Number one, spun
Into chances to watch her undress
Won’t you give it a rest?

credits

from Idiopath, released January 31, 2023
Kenton Hall: Guitars, Bass, Banjo, Accordion, Melodica, Vocals
Mark Haynes: Drums

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Kenton Hall & The Necessary Measures Leicester, UK

Kenton Hall is a Canadian actor, author, director and musician.

For many years, he was the lead singer of the band ist (istianity.bandcamp.com).

He also wrote and directed the feature film A Dozen Summers and his first book, Bisection, about living and parenting with bipolar disorder was published in 2019.

His first solo album Idiopath will be released in autumn 2022. ... more

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