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A Moment In Time With DANNY WORSNOP From ASKING ALEXANDRIA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. My name is Danny Wassnop. I occasionally singing a band called Asking
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  Alexandre, and we just released an album called Where Do We Go From here.
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  You can listen to it and buy it everywhere. Besides me, everyone
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  has children. Apparently they're very expensive and they require food, so listen to
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  it so that they can feed their children, and so that I can buy
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  sports cars. I'm very good, many thanks for joining us today. Absolutely
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  so we've got here that it comes out over his trire on August the twenty
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  fifth. But is it already out over there? No, it's no,
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  it comes out twenty fifth here also three days. Very very cool. So,
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  like, I know you've had a few albums out there already, mate,
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  but like, does it get any easier the more you put our us
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  the racious or does it sort of? I'm easy to deal with. No,
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  I don't. It always sounds bad to say, but I don't mean
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  it in a bad way. I don't care about releases. This has been
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  our album for the last year, and as of three days from now,
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  it's not our album anymore. It's everyone else's album. So a lot of
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  people look at the release date as the as the start of the album.
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  For me, it's the end. So on what is it Monday morning when
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  it comes out or whenever it is, no go on Friday, that's when
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  I get to start the next one. Kah, very sure. Well before
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  you start the next one, we'll talk a little bit about this one,
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  mate, So tell us a bit more about our way from me from a
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  musical point of view and what you're going for with it. We very much
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  didn't want to try anything new. We didn't want to rein in the wheel.
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  We didn't want to to be anything exploring or an adventurous. It was
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  supposed to be a look back on the last fifteen years and kind of be
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  a snapshot of everything. Thus far from sonically touching on everything we've done prior
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  to thematically going back to that two kind of subjects that have been that have
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  resonated with people from those albums. Instead of being a kind of a personal
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  record for us, it's it's a definitely for them record. I mean the
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  title more men as a statement or is it a question? It's questions want
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  to ask myself a lot, and I think everyone should be asking themselves all
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  the time. I'm very goal motivated and orientated so, I mean, in
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  my life, that's the question that I ask the most because it's regardless of
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  a success or a failure or a winner of loss. That's kind of the
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  first question because you've got to figure out what the next step is and even
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  down to you know, when things are good, when things are bad.
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  That's the that's the only question we can really answer ask ourselves. And to
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  date, you release the songs Psycho, Bad Blood, and Dark Void,
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  So say someone, that's all someone said of the album. Are they a
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  good sonic representation or what to expect? Yeah, especially Dark Void. I
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  feel like that's a good amalgamation of everything from the last fifteen years and a
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  good representation of what the album is there to represent as a whole. Notice
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  looking through every single, like the single covers have all got an image of
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  the same car but in different landscapes. Did they tell a story when they're
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  all put together? Yes? And no, I mean they'll they're representative rather
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  than they're not a cohesive story in themselves. But it's it's it's the same
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  car from the music videos from the fifth album. It's the same character figure
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  from the third album. It's the same color palette as the first record,
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  so that as well as the as the sonic aspect to it was again just
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  reference to the last fifteen years and all the records that have that we put
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  out during that time. We've sort of touched on this already. Maaybe we'll
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  go into a bit more detail. Like you've said yourself from the press release
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  also says that the album is a culmination of the band's soul career. So
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  along those lines like, did you set out to make it like with different
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  parts of the band's career in mind, or did it just sort of it
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  just sort of stage you're right with life? Yes and no. I mean
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  it's it's obviously clear to us which are particularly important parts of the career and
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  parts of the discography. So knowing that we want to touch on those was
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  clear, and it was clear which songs they were in which aspects of sound
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  they were, But it was also capturing the the feel of what those things
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  were and the kind of sonic palette of what they were, rather than specific
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  specific moments. What track that really stands out to me is kill It with
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  Fire, which is one minute and six seconds of pure intensity made like what's
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  that song about? I couldn't tell you, I didn't write that one.
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  I didn't sing on that one either. That was what that was all Ben
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  Bruce. There was a minute edition that he threw into the album. I
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  didn't even know it was there for a long time, so that was yeah,
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  that's that's all him, and he pieced that together and recorded that himself
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  and kind of put it in the last minute. Wow. Yeah, it
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  stands out amongst the rest of it, like it's it's a beautiful album on
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  so many levels, and then that one comes to just picks it straight into
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  faces. It was quite a shock, but it was a good shot,
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  thank you very much. And I think it's it's quite poignant that the title
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  and the closing track is a beautifully soothing ends to where do we go from
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  me? You're like, why did you choose that song to represent the album
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  as a closer? So that that song wasn't supposed to be on the record
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  originally. I wasn't originally wanting them to be a ballad or a slow song
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  on it, purely because that's always the song I love on the album,
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  which doesn't mean it's a great representation of what the album was supposed to be.
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  So I just wanted it to be high energy start to finish, But
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  when we wrapped up, everyone separately and individually called me basically saying they felt
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  like it was missing the Danny song. And I was actually writing that song
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  already for my next record, so it was it was kind of on hand
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  and on deck already, and it felt very appropriate based off conversations we'd had
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  as a band internally for a long time and kind of different things going on
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  in our lives individually and personally, So it was kind of the universe stepping
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  in and putting that song in front of us at the right time. But
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  yeah, as soon as I sent it through to everyone, they were very
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  moved by it and wanted it to be the title track, which you know,
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  feels good. I could tell it was a personal song for you too,
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  bro, just by the words drowning in tequila were in there, because
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  yeah, tequila, I do. I mean, I'm not sure if I
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  told you the story and I but when I was with you is in Brisbane
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  show and you had that that tequila has like I was beautiful tail, I
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  ya, you're drinking anyway, I've never heard of it before, but yeah,
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  that night, I believe it was at the class of it was all
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  the big blue light bottom. Yeah, yeah, well I remember, yeah
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  it was. It was a pretty cheap bottle of Tequel, or wasn't that
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  expensive. But a couple of weeks after you went home, I went in
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  and didn't even look at the price tag. I grab dropped a shelf and
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  bought it, and it was like one hundred and eighty dollars. And that's
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  what I thought. Like your version of not very dear, I had my
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  version of not very dear, and two totally different things. No, so
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  what so what I mean? That is a sliding scale, I've always told
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  people, But no, No, what it was is the bar we were
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  drinking it out was selling it for so cheap. It is usually an expensive
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  bottle, but they were selling it. It was like, I think it
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  was like three dollars a shot. Yeah, it's fucking good. You've got
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  me hooked on anyway, roight, Like every time I go out to buy
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  a bottle Tequel and now I don't feed the kids for three weeks. Listen,
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  I'll help you fix that, because I have my own Tequela now and
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  we do not but we're not as expensive as them, but we are better,
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  so I can help you where there's one, get one's hands on those
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  man down there. I'm not nowhere yet down there, but I'm working on
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  it. Actually. I know a guy that runs a brock Lords over here
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  and they bring over all the Motorhead whiskey and all the Iron Maiden beer and
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  all that's. So, I think I've still got your phone number on what's
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  that broad So I'll hit him up and i'll see if he's interested. I'll
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  shoot your message ability. Yeah, Well, what's going into international distribution over
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  the next over the next three or four months, hopefully rolling that out in
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  the new year internationally. Betiful. So back to the album, bro Like,
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  we said that it is a culmination of the band's career to date.
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  So in a way, like, are you looking at putting that that part
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  of the Bend's career to bed and moving on with something different now or is
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  that sort of giving you a refreshed perspective? I guess I mean we've we've
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  done that with every album ever. We've never put out an album that sounds
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  like the one before it or like any other before it. As much as
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  people kind of like to hold on to certain periods of time, like asking
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  to Stand your definitively sounds like these two albums, It's like, well,
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  those twolbums don't sound like getting anything like each other either. It's always been
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  what we do. But there is going to be a next There's going to
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  be a a change coming. I can't speak on what that will be because
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  we haven't started that yet, but I think it's it's that's just the natural
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  process of this band is. We just keep changing and exploring and what artists
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  were songwriters. That's what that's what we've gone into this to do, and
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  it's all we really want to do. We're not interested in making the same
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  thing over and over again. Personally, I would rather not make and make
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  albums. I'd rather than not make albums than make eight of the same fucking
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  record. Right. Would be easy, wouldn't it? Yeah, before you
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  go, mate, have you started like our three new Spotify playlists based on
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  artists we speak to? So using your own songs. It could be ask
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  Alexandria, it could be your solo songs, but given us some different songs,
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  one to get the party started, one to save your marriage, and
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  one that could potentially end your marriage. Oh Jesus, uh, getting the
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  party started. I would go don't have a drink it or feel like ship,
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  which is gonna be Danning mossop one because their party songs. Yeah,
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  probably don't want to get it would be the one. And if you can
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  keep up with the video, don't because you because I don't. I can't
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  tell people to do it because I don't get soon. But I think I
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  think I did three and a half minutes in that video. It may be
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  more so there's a pretty strong argument for a party start and then to save
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  the marriage angels easy also give you up asking, So one of those two
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  and then could end your marriage. I'm gonna have to go with mine again
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  and it would be actually save your marriage. I'm gonna go another year,
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  and then that would end your marriage. I probably love you more than I
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  was asking, But I write really sad songs. That's that's so good,
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  my friend. Now, do you mind if I use the video this in
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  the view? I think it would make a pretty cool one, haven't you
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  in the tatter shop? Yeah? Absolutely? Can we have a quick lot
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  of what you getting done? We are bunch. We got my tequila down
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  there, we got microphone, we got guitars, we got a whole bunch
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  of stuff going on as brother. All right, Danny, well, thanks
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  very much for joining us. Say mate, where do we go from here?
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  Thank you? And she's an absolute pearl, So take care, keep
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  drinking tequila, mate, and we'll see you next time we come over the
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  emptiness inside, I felt the oldest guise's tracking under all the glass, sleeping
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  gottree fire fall to the darkness to spread me dark Slarus. So I fuck
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  inside last time. Dr Slarus, your fucking lie, far oh lie.
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  It's also give my mind homebut start to let me. I'm trying risen.
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  The sire is burning in my face. Love, I feel sad and say
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  my saf trade my truth, and you too, get on for me.
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  I swear it, so I fucking side you me time me. I swear
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  it's good. Fucking my god. Why can't you just get the picture You
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  left me blouse, left this bind life. Now you got me feel in
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  hoe like this most a country. There's no to you, my child cancer