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Dry Cleaning

Conservative Hell

Release date: 20th October 2022

From Stumpwork
Track 9
3:48
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About This Track

‘Conservative Hell’ by Dry Cleaning is a 2022 alternative track from the album ‘Stumpwork’. The lyrics move through sharply sketched domestic scenes and social rituals, from weddings and plumbing problems to a narrator weighing roles and complicity, with an undercurrent of satire as myth-making and status rules press in. One line sums up the mess of appearances with “Good wedding, bad wedding”, while the recurring images of cleaning and clogging point to a world kept in order by constant effort, even as it resists being neatly explained.

"Conservative Hell" is a track by Dry Cleaning, from the album Stumpwork, released 20th October 2022. The track is 3:48 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Dry Cleaning.

About the Artist

Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning

Lyrics

Conservative Hell

Good wedding, bad wedding
A coil pot problem
A constant mover
They're trying to mythologize everything
She cleans gutters
Cleaning out the sink pipe, a buster and a lover
She loves things, she loves stuff
Sumptuary laws: the story I am making up
Am I part of the meal deal?
A recommended girl?

Conservative hell
Conservative hell
Conservative hell

Public mushrooms
The season's been great for them
Underground crown
To be nibbled by a young child
Shortening, fattening, solid
The main thing I do is moving bags from place to place

Conservative hell
Hell
Hell

Breathe, and remove your shoes
That lot just making different designs in air
No more police powers
Wood worm
A Tibtrap trap
If you think this car's dirty, you should try a night with the driver

Hell
Hell

I wanted to think you for organizing the Edinburgh trip
Which apart from what happened to my Kindle, was amazing
No one ever believed in me until your semi circle eyes

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Track details

From Stumpwork

3:482022
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Stumpwork
Stumpwork
Dry Cleaning
21st October 2022
Track number
9
Release year
2022
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