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Heavy Machinery

from Great Expectations by Zwerm & Karen Willems

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lyrics

Heavy Machinery

Verse
Retiring the hurt
Restarting the flirt
Checking out the crust
Beneath it there is dust
A soft kind of regret
Is all you ever get
Grazing on the wall
Belly full, you fall

Verse
Reassign the blood
Rewinding the flood
Unbinding the will
Tickle all that’s still
Reorganize the free
Not like it used to be
Eliminate that shady feel
Telling you: you aren’t real

Chorus
It’s why everyone smiles
Everyone files
All the unwanted lines
In the dark side of the mind
The right ones on the shore
They are left overs no more
And ready or not it’s time to show, it’s time to go
All is not just misery
We are heavy machinery

Verse
The sweaty little palms say please
Just hold me and return my ease
Try the fuck out of yourself
Cry or chuckle choose or else
A basket full of buttons here
And if you push the wrong one: fear
And if you push the right one: love
Or maybe none of the above
And what’s behind door number three
You’ll find yesteryears slumber she
Says go for one or go for two
Wait for a bit and then, your cue

Chorus
All is not just misery, we are heavy machinery

credits

from Great Expectations, released April 1, 2021
all music written & played by Zwerm (Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe & Toon Callier) & Karen Willems and arranged by Zwerm, Karen Willems & Rudy Trouvé
all lyrics by Bruno Nelissen, except No Questions No Lies, lyrics by Charles Dickens
produced by Rudy Trouvé
recorded on tape by Mark Dedecker at Studio Finster, Antwerp, november 2020
mixed by Joris Caluwaerts
artwork by Rudy Trouvé
lay out by Thomas Noppe
mastered by Uwe Teichert
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with the support of the Flemish Government,
in coproduction with STUK - Huis voor Dans, Beeld & Geluid and deSingel
thanks to Cohort & Werkplaats Walter

copyright Time Goes By 2021
www.zwerm.be

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Zwerm Belgium

An exciting, sometimes alienating and always quirky musical discovery you rarely get to hear.
- Goddeau​

​Obvious contender for album of the year. - The Wire

In an nonacademic way they made a fresh translation of the spirit of the experimental avant-garde. - De Standaard ​​

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Concerts in the UK, Europe, Iran, Mexico and the USA
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