Name: Abba and Novocaine
Duration: P00H03M37S
Description: Just for clarity, it IS Abba the band... but not Novocaine the band. It's Novocaine as in "the stuff they pump your gums full of at Dr Gupta's, when she's drilling holes in your teeth".

Abba and Novocaine

from Go Home Dad - You're Drunk! EP by The False Dawns

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Just for clarity, it IS Abba the band... but not Novocaine the band. It's Novocaine as in "the stuff they pump your gums full of at Dr Gupta's, when she's drilling holes in your teeth".

lyrics

What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
It makes no sense – I refuse to give it a name
It feels a bit like chocolate and stomach pain
What am I supposed to say to this emotion?
It sauntered in here but I refuse to let it walk free
Feels a bit like an evening in Casualty
(Not the version on TV)
What I am to do with this emotion?
It can’t be trusted – I won’t put its name on the list
It’s a smiling six-foot anarchist
What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
It makes no sense – I refuse to give it a name
Feels like the English massing at Dunsinane
In the pouring rain

Hey, kitten, you’ve got some explaining to do
Never felt like this before – is it you?
‘Cos it’s ten times worse when you’re in view
And when you not in view, too

What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
It makes no sense – I refuse to give it a name
It smells a bit like Camden at closing time
What am I supposed to say to this emotion?
It’s high on something. I won’t let it into my home.
I guess it sounds a bit like the dialling tone
On some seventies payphone
What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
It makes no sense – I refuse to give it a name
Feels a bit like Abba and novocaine
What am I supposed to say to this emotion?
It makes no sense – I refuse to pass it the conch
It’s counting down like a rocket launch
It’s a queasy hunch

Just remember, I wrote half of Shakespeare’s plays
I invented poker, sex and mayonnaise
Thank goodness this is just a phase
The sort that’s history in days
Or never goes away…

What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
What am I supposed to do with you?

What am I supposed to do with this emotion?
Feels so good, I don’t want to give it my trust
We found a junk shop Stradivarius
Could be the end of us...

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from Go Home Dad - You're Drunk! EP, released October 4, 2021
Written by Dawn Bacchanal.

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