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Glasgow Overture / Beast Be With You

by Kevin P. Gilday & The Sea Kings

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Peter McInnes Excellent commentary on the good and the bad of my home town. Favorite track: Glasgow Overture.
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1.
Impassioned by a Gorbals sunrise Glasgow greets the world Fully formed Streets of perfect symmetry invoke A higher power Erstwhile civic omnipotence The city crashes into motion Pumped full of population An intravenous injection Of humanity While in the west, young mothers And absent fathers Beleaguer the dear green places With earnest exercise And frivolous gossip The remnants of the shipyards lay exposed Titans acquiesce to atrophy A history of rust has colonised The powerhouses of the Clyde Once the envy of the world Tourists grunt and groan over a bridge of sighs To a hill pockmarked with graves In the distance stands two cathedrals Worshipped with a fervour no god could match While John Knox looks down his nose At the dead By this river we flourish In these streets we find courage Gold amongst the grit and the glamour This contradicting reality Our beautiful duality City of the pen and the hammer Drumchapel and Bearsden sit side by side Posterboys of modern inequality A living case study Just a street and twenty two years Of life expectancy between them George Square sits resplendent in the rain Where the tanks once rolled To turn guns on their own Red Clydeside threatened to turn scarlet As the workers stood unbent In Bolshevist flirtation Merchant City four by fours Shop for blood The new bourgeoisie Gentrifying all they see With media fuelled disposable income And dreams of being everything Their parents were not Nomad artists head South Fleeing West-end rent hikes And student encroachment Occupy ragged bar stools Beside luminous jackets And the whimpering ghosts Of professional drinkers Reduced to speaking in tongues The new towns creak under the weight Of broken promises of regeneration Artificial settlements, abandoned Architectural brutalism, beseiged By retail parks and outlet stores The exactitude of corporate living While in a bleak council dwelling Chilled by the Eastern winds A lady of a certain age Gathers china in porcelain hands And curses her late husband With a loving nod With a wry smile By this river we flourish In these streets we find courage Gold amongst the grit and the glamour This contradicting reality Our beautiful duality City of the pen and the hammer
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My father’s uncle died late last night on the Gallowgate He used to set out early and come home late filled up with hate Black brogue shoe shine on dead market streets Razor blade smile and red eyed blue twinkle From the Traders Tavern to the Braemar Bar is a short walk not far But somewhere in between he hit the pavement with a thud Old Alan from the Loch Fyne was first on the scene Outside the woodcraft store they built his coffin as seen From odds and ends bookies pen behind his ear Chewing gum lodged in his throat the mean old goat Had left his ex-wife slack jawed from wear and tear no longer in despair and his children where? Scattered to the four corners of the world blown on the wind from where their ashes were binned My Great uncle died last night on the Gallowgate Every day in his vest and suit of slate Golden Virginia stains on his lips the late night waltz home with a bag of chips His teeth no longer his own the black doubts have been thrown To the floor in a fist fight drunken brawl or cracked on the pavement from a fall No stranger to death his first wife went soon with blood on her chest on a damp afternoon When he’d kicked her to the floor not minutes before and left cursing her and slamming the door He didn’t do long in those days it wasn’t deemed wrong To raise your hands or your feet to your woman she’s just a lump of meat After all witnessed by his son who lay on top of his Ma too young to do anything about his Da My Grandad’s brother died last night on the Gallowgate A conscientious objector drinking amber nectar While his buddies’ bodies were blown to bits he lay cowering in the toilet with the shits Quick with his fists near a woman or a boy and backstabbing drunken enemies destroy All relations, destroy all nations but let him gamble let him drink let him come let him go but no He’d rather outstay his welcome at a distant aunts wandering around her house in his pants Putting in the fear of God hiding from plod Trilby hat laid out flat, cold sweats idle threats holding out on debts Stands there in Chapel distended Adam’s apple not afraid to boast, eat a host, drink some wine everything’s fine Peace be with you, priest be with you and beast be with you

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In a marriage consumated behind a manky Gallowgate pub, Kevin P. Gilday and The Sea Kings bring you their debut collaboration.

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released April 23, 2016

written and performed by Kevin P. Gilday & The Sea Kings
engineered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studios, Glasgow
mastered by Gordon Craig

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In a marriage consummated behind a manky Gallowgate pub, Kevin P. Gilday and The Sea Kings bring you their debut collaboration.

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