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Skull Beneath The Smile

from Moon Stand Still - Us Fools Prefer Darkness by Kreeps

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    On their first album proper in seven years "Moon Stand Still - Us Fool Prefer Darkness..." sees Kreeps return to the surf inflected, doom-laden hinterland inhabited by their previous release 'Spirit Clinic'. Echoing, sixties girl-group rhythms pulsate alongside swooning tremolo guitars and droning strings, as ghostly choirs carve out spiritual hymns of dissolving nightmares.

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lyrics

Well I cut the devils head off but you know it grew right back
My insides turned to jelly like a cave of nervous bats
I was levitating - hovering around just like the dead
And that skull beneath the smile was always living in my head

It’s all divining with my fingers and my broken x-ray eye
Remember me to them before I die inside yr mind
There’s no money in the cure - no there’s no diamonds in the mine
Just a magnifying glass above the skull beneath the smile

Yr crucifix is hanging upside down upon my wall
And those bible girls keep coming round and knocking on my door
I’ve been covered up in cobwebs - been exiled for the last time
And I tell you I can recognise that skull beneath the smile

So what’s the use in drinking poison?
What’s the point in endless dreams?
Yr sufferings just echoing a terrible reprise
You can try to fight against it - fill your belly full of bees
But you know that sticky blood was never truly worth the squeeze
And dreaded though she was she had to choose a sacrifice
I was drinking from a jar as I handed you the knife
Are you gonna leave me baby?
Are you gonna take your Life?
Are you gonna cut a hole down to the skull beneath the smile?

Yr crucifix is hanging upside down upon my wall
And those Bible girls keep coming round to try and steal my soul
I’ve been tangled up in spiderwebs - cast out for the last time
And That skull beneath the smile was always living in my mind

So what’s the use in drinking poison - what’s the point in endless dreams?

What’s the use in drinking poison?

What’s the point in endless dreams?

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from Moon Stand Still - Us Fools Prefer Darkness, released March 2, 2020
Choir - Sisters Of Providence Community Spirit Choir

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While Dazed and Confused described Kreeps as "the best of the dressed in black bunch", Loud and Quiet magazine hailed Kreeps' doomed surf pop as "the best soundtrack to a Pulp Fiction that was never made or David Lynch's next feature". A real best-kept secret for longer than most bands sustain entire careers, Kreeps are an enigma wrapped up in a ball of dark, dark wool. ... more

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