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The Beta Band – Simple Boy (1999) | Track profile | Dork

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Simple Boy

Release date: 20th June 1999

From The Beta Band

Track 3

2:18

Alternative Music Indie Rock Jazz

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"Simple Boy" is a track by The Beta Band, from the album The Beta Band, released 20th June 1999. The track is 2:18 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about The Beta Band.

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Simple Boy

Well I'm a hunchback superblack tower block core
Fine tooth whale bait cowering boom bait
Simple boy, simple girl, simple world, so I heard

Landing down feet first smokey Joe *cheeba* thirst
Hairy back tracker side step a little further on the
Floor for the more
For the more more

She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you

Little did you know that who said that
Silver ship floating on a *coker* smack bloating
Ride around the rock on the face of the clock
Its a shrill ringing singing in a pig pen mission
So she said
So she said

She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you

So old the time so young the boy
Why do they scream why do they boil
It's all unknown I must perform
The window ledge to which I'm drawn
The ocean which I try to swim
Stretches out and sucks me in
It's all *superoceanicministerialdivinity*
36 Chambers in this vicinity

She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you

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From The Beta Band

2:181999

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Track number

3

Release year

1999

1The Beta Band Rap
4:41
2It's Not Too Beautiful
8:30
3Simple Boy
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