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He's Very Good At Swimming

from You're Tame / He's Very Good At Swimming by The Empty Page

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A double A-side release of our new single 'You're Tame' and our previous single 'He's Very Good At Swimming' on limited edition splatter effect vinyl. The cover is reversible (sort of!) so you can choose which artwork you prefer

    Includes unlimited streaming of You're Tame / He's Very Good At Swimming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Recorded with Simon Ding Archer (PJ Harvey, Pixies, The Fall) in Manchester and mixed by Andrew Pimblott, HVGAS chokes the listener with equal parts haunting melancholy and seething rage. The song tackles the subject of rape, and more specifically the drag-through-the-mud victim blaming which is so standard it’s ludicrous, along with the media’s habit of foregrounding the academic and sporting achievements of the rapist. An uncomfortable listen, and possibly the only song ever to include the word ‘speculum’.

lyrics

Lyrics

Red dress left hanging
Cardigan no guard

Make your mind up, you're confused
Only a fool would accuse
Somebody so cool

Fresh meat punch bowl
How could you know
He would he would he would

Bright white light
He didn't mean it
He didn't mean it
Bright white light
He wasn't thinking
He wasn't thinking

Wipe clean crime scene
Could have been a bad dream

Except the swabs and the needles
Like brambles
Left blackcurrant bruises

If you don't remember
How can you know?
Prove it prove it....

Fluorescent bulbs pop like pornographic paps
Metal clatters on metal
The cold unfriendly wrench of a speculum
You are a specimen
And all bodies are foreign including your own
Now the blue-black beaks
Peck at the gory deets
Are you partial to one or two?
Have you spent a lot of time in bedrooms?
How was it different this time?
Where is your line
Is it clear?
Was your mind clear at the time?

Boys
will be boys

So it must have been something you said
Something you did
He ran
He ran
He ran
He ran
He ran
He's very good at running
He's very good at swimming

credits

from You're Tame / He's Very Good At Swimming, track released June 28, 2019
(c) The Empty Page 2019
Recorded at 6db Studios by Simon Ding Archer
Mixed by Andrew Pimblott

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