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Desperate Journalist are an English, London-based post-punk band, formed in 2012. They released their debut album, the self-titled Desperate Journalist, in 2014, on Fierce Panda Records. A second album, Grow Up, was released in March 2017. The band's third album, In Search of the Miraculous, was released in February 2019. more »

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Oh you venerated writer
Could your knighthood be much whiter?
Caricature, yeah for sure
You write the eloquent charismatic poor

Oh how we shiver to defend
The sweaty words of celebrated men
I will suck your poison pen
To bring the novel back again

Hero, nihilist, jailer
You are oh so tall and sesquipedalian
Tell me more about alienation
You laureate of your station

Oh how we shiver to defend
The sweaty words of celebrated men
I will suck your poison pen
To bring the novel back again

(With hard-edged narrative, history, geography
Protagonist's progress, not autobiography
His introspection cannot be indulgent
An objective sun, he glories effulgent
I've waited for years to speak truth to power
How fashion's excluded the man in the tower
How fashion eludes the man in the tower)

Oh how we shiver to defend
The sweaty words of celebrated men
I will suck your poison pen
To bring the novel back again

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