Name: Hard To Be Human
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Recorded for a still-unreleased Mekons tribute album, tentatively titled ARSEBOOK, at Ear Candle Productions in 2008-2009. Originally released by the Mekons on the album FEAR AND WHISKEY.

Hard To Be Human

from The Full Disclosure Principle Revisited by The Granite Countertops

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Recorded for a still-unreleased Mekons tribute album, tentatively titled ARSEBOOK, at Ear Candle Productions in 2008-2009. Originally released by the Mekons on the album FEAR AND WHISKEY.

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(Original lyrics by the Mekons. Davis Jones came up with the idea of replacing "punched and beaten" with "tased and cheated" for our cover version.)

I made a mistake
When I looked over my shoulder
Cromwell was right behind me
In the driving rain
I came out of the bathroom
Looking for my ticket
It's hard to be
Hard to be human again

Well I've been tased and cheated
Though it never shows
I'm going up to Sheffield
I don't know when I'm coming home
He took me in a corner
And I don't know why
I was looking for a friend
He shaved me dry

Never been in trouble
Don't call me on the phone
Put the blower in the bathroom
Burn the house and start from scratch
Searching for existence with my red, red wine
It's hard to be
Hard to be human again

There was a caravan
Leaving in the dusk

I saw a man hold a chicken to his head
I'm telling you baby
I go up and I come down
It's hard to be
Hard to be human again.

(Tom Greenhalgh-Jon Langford-Kevin Lycett) Low Noise (USA)
BMI.

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from The Full Disclosure Principle Revisited, released March 18, 2017
(Tom Greenhalgh-Jon Langford-Kevin Lycett) Low Noise (USA)
BMI.

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The Granite Countertops are dark, whimsical, tender existential action heroes J Neo Marvin and Davis Jones, exploring the outer limits of what a duo can create.

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