10-song album in a card digipak gatefold sleeve designed by Dave Pope. ALSO, you get 'Kolibri', the 9-song CD of Hamilton's original demos, in a card slip wallet (again, with a Pope design; one of the record label's best). VERY LIMITED SUPPLY! (Cat. No. BITE10.)
Includes unlimited streaming of Relaxing At Gunpoint
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On June 30th 1934 Joseph Goebbels telephoned Hermann Göring and said 'Kolibri', the password to initiate the murders of 85 people who stood in the way of Adolf Hitler and total supremacy of Germany. This event is now known as The Night Of The Long Knives.
A kolibri is a type of hummingbird.
This song is in memory of Troy Davis (9/10/68 - 21/9/11).
lyrics
KOLIBRI
The envelope was tramp tooth brown
Stabbed on its back, a blood red wax seal
Slitting the side, I removed ghost white paper
Unfolded it to reveal
The names of well-heeled debauched perverts
Plotters and traitors to the State
I reached for the death black telephone
And consigned them to their fate
I dialled the number
The receiver purred
A friendly voice said, "What's the word?"
… "Hummingbird."
I hoisted myself out of my chair
Limped across my office to the fireplace
In the mirror the glow of the flames
Dance in the bones and hollows of my face
I brushed the dandruff from my shoulders
Pick a strand of blond hair from my trousers
And I ejaculated on my father
To visions of dead men in burning houses
I dialled the number
The receiver purred
A friendly voice said, "What's the word?"
… "Hummingbird."
Eleven years on I kill myself
Cremated with cans of paraffin
But beware, you dogs, the game's not over
I am airborne and what you're breathing
I'm in the syringe of pancuronium bromide
Pentobarbital and potassium chloride
I'm the power in the chair that gets you fried
I'm the hot air that moves waves of genocide
I dialled the number
The receiver purred
A friendly voice said, "What's the word?"
… "Hummingbird."
credits
from Relaxing At Gunpoint,
released September 10, 2012
Lyrics: Paul Hamilton
Music: Andrew Petrie & Paul Hamilton
Orchestrated and performed by Petrie
Vocal: Hamilton
Göring voice: Petrie
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