Name: Love's Secret Ballot
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: Our erection song… I mean election song. Recorded late 2012 but released during the campaign period of New Zealand's 2014 government elections. Off the 2014 EP The Idiot Birds and the 2018 LP Banana Wine

Love's Secret Ballot

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Our erection song… I mean election song. Recorded late 2012 but released during the campaign period of New Zealand's 2014 government elections. Off the 2014 EP The Idiot Birds and the 2018 LP Banana Wine

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Love's Secret Ballot (lyrics)

We first met on Labour Day last
Two weeks later that day we spent / on the pier
You ran your fingers through the hair / of my beard
And now I learn that you voted for he

We talked and talked / and talked all night
You made me feel like I was 18 again
But those same sweet ears / that listened to my dreams
Listened to the vote for John Key

Now I find those same sweet hands / that held mine
Those loving fingers that traced my sympathetic tears
And headed south into my / underwears
Are hands that ticked the box for John Key

You told me that our love was beyond politics
That it transcended the laws of men
You ripped my beating heart out of my chest
When you told me that you voted for John Key

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released August 1, 2014

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Wendyhouse Wellington, New Zealand

1992: Started life in a Wendyhouse at Auckland's Art Space Gallery, playing songs from the future on toy musical instruments!!! A couple busy years followed, with gallery installations, a lot of gigging, and the release of the album Hot Action Plastic. 1995, core-member EE-monk leaves for Europe. Sporadic activity since, nevertheless resulting in another 10 CD releases and several performances. ... more

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