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The Cat Likes A Good Box Set

from Poets' Day by The Chickpea Darlings

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"For other English-language songs casting casual side-swipes at members of France's premier fascist dynasty, I thoroughly recommend Bill Pritchard's lively little 1989 head-tapper, 'Kenneth Baker'. Jean-Marie Le Pen - a sick man, indeed." - Huw.

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The cat likes a good box set
He likes it best when we don’t move around too much
He likes it best when we’re all in it together
Prefers cotton to cold leather
The cat likes a good box set
Except sometimes when it’s late summer
He likes some company in the garden
A warm car that he can sit on
The cat likes a good box set
He likes a yarn with unexpected twists
A tale with a strong resolution
Something he can get his teeth stuck in

The cat likes a good box set
The cat likes a long weekend
The cat likes a day in bed
The cat likes a good box set

The wife likes a home-cooked meal
She likes it best when the cat has a little
She thinks the weekends just aren’t long enough
For taking photographs and making stuff
I like the wife and the cat
There’s fish, too, but they’re a different gang
None of us are fans of mindless violence
We like the closeness and we like the silence

And we all like a good box set
We all like a long weekend
We all like a day in bed
We all like a good box set

The cat doesn’t like Philip Green
He don’t care for gentlemen with sticky fingers
The cat’s choosy about the places he feeds
The cat don’t take any more than he needs
The cat don’t care for Marine Le Pen
He don’t care for ladies with blood on their hands
There’s something sweet about his catty breath
But none of us cares for the stench of death

But the cat likes a good box set
The cat likes a long weekend
The cat likes a day in bed
The cat likes a good box set

Six Feet Under or Twin Peaks, Happy Valley and Cold Feet
The Sopranos, Life On Mars, Game of Thrones and House of Cards
Luther, Fargo, Frasier, Cheers, The Simpsons and the Wonder Years
Happiness and Breaking Bad, Mongrels and the Likely Lads
This is England, Father Ted… Auf Wiedersehen, Pet… and the cat likes a good box set.

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from Poets' Day, released June 6, 2017
Written by Freddie 'T' Bear and Huw Darling.

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The Chickpea Darlings Letchworth Garden City, UK

'Riot' has OFFICIALLY left the building. Thanks, Darrin.

The Darlings: Middle-aged bedroom miserablists with C86-ish tendencies, The Chickpea Darlings have seen the future and don't care for the cut of its jib. Their dry-as-a-biscuit pop vignettes provide the perfect soundtrack for speculating on the madness to come. Viva Donald Trump, global warming & the death of democracy. Viva the Darlings. ... more

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