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Centre of the Concrete Sqaure

from Singles by Poeticat

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Centre of the Concrete Square is the tale of childhood reminiscences and adventures that weave in and out of present day observations. The music bounces along with the groovy bassline, experimental sounds and voices only to be interrupted by a catchy rock chorus.

The video plays on the alternating of past and present with a mash up of original home video footage from the 1970s and Poeticat, being filmed somewhere in the English countryside, all cunningly blended together to form a time hopping visual accompaniment.

"Centre Of The Concrete Square" is part 1 of a double A side which, along with part 2 "Kind Words Soft Kill", will be Poeticat's first release of 2013. Go to www.poeticat.co.uk for more information.

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​Centre of the Concrete Square

Here we sit on your old sofa
The ends of your eyelashes are blond
I wore my mothers cardigan
you bought me rubbish flowers
Spin the world around with our palms

My mother never knew
If she bought my clothes from charity shops
I would be teased
My father never knew
If he kept teaching me how to ride a bike
One day I would take off

And you should all bring your children up on council estates
Because they can have a gang and that’s important for children
We used milk crates to speed down the concrete hill
Even the boys enjoyed the dolls' tea parties
The centre of the concrete square was a deep lake
And we dove in and saw the future
It was separate and tangled and responsible
So we dove a bit deeper and found a shell to sleep in

And my mother never knew that if she let me get my ears pierced
I would hang silver hoops from them
And my father never knew if he kept shouting at the prime minister on the telly
I’d grow up to be a socialist poet

On one occasion when we were asleep in our shell
Someone shone a bright light down in on us
And our tangled legs unfolded and our eyes opened steadfast
They grabbed my arm and pulled me up up up
They removed the seaweed from my hair
And scrubbed my skin until it shone
But my gang were too far down to see
And slowly the lake looked more like concrete
Until I cautiously tiptoed over it and smashed my fists into it until they bled

And my mother never knew if she kept letting my crawl into her bed
I would never want to sleep alone
And my father never knew that by teaching me kindness
I would grow up to cry more often than people are supposed to.

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from Singles, track released October 28, 2013

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Stemming from London and Lisbon Poeticat are an original mix of honest, thought-provoking poetry and catchy, genre-hopping music. Rebellious, authentic, exciting and theatrical Poeticat’s mind-bending, visceral journey will keep you whistling all the way home.
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