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This Lamb Sells Condos

from He Poos Clouds by Owen Pallett

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    Domino is pleased to announce a remastered reissue of Owen Pallett’s early catalogue. Pallett has built a reputation on live virtuosity, as violinist for the many local Toronto bands, followed by the wild looped-violin songwriting solo project. Has a Good Homeserves as an introduction (and features many of Pallett’s best-known songs), and the follow-up He Poos Cloudsis a string quartet album based on the Dungeons & Dragons School of Magic, and was awarded the inaugural Polaris Music Prize.

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lyrics

No hope for the village, no hope for the village 

A merchant’s in our midst and with a barrel fist 

He’s coloured every surface, he’s slapped up a portrait 

And yes, it is his own, he’s gonna take your home

Have you seen our visitor? Look! Over the treetops! 

Newly conjured erections are making him a killing 

And Richmond St. is illing, so the graduates are willing 

To buy in to the pillage, now there’s no hope for the village 



Prisoners, be silent, be silent and be sharp 



When he was a young man, he conjured up a fire-mare 

And burnt off both his eyebrows and half a head of hair 

And then as an apprentice, he took a Drowish mistress 

Who bestowed upon his youthfulness a sense of champagne chic 

His seduction, his seduction to the world of construction 

Now his mind will start to wander when he’s not at his computer 

And his massive genitals refuse to cooperate 

No amount of therapy can hope to save his marriage 



Prisoners, be silent, be silent and be sharp 



Can you hear them talking? Listen through the wall: 



“Nothing to do, nothing to do 

"Living rent-free is boring me 

"Got no use for my PE Degree 

"Got no use for my pedigree 

"Hedi Slimane and agnès b.

"I’m not content, I’m not content 

"Donna Karan and Kara Saun 

"I’m not content, I’m not content." 



"I feed you every morning and ask so little 

"But you belittle all the work, all the work that I do 

"When you take that walk without permission 

"I’m not defensive, I’m just saying this cause I love you 

"You know I hate it when your friends are in the pool 

"Old money stink, send those faggots back to Forest Hill 

"Contentment? What contentment? I am bald and impotent 

"Is that what it’s about? Oh honey, honey, shut your mouth.”

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from He Poos Clouds, released June 13, 2006

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