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Doom & Gloom With EMILY HOPLEY And JASPER WEBB From UPSETTER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hello everyone. We're Upsetta. We're a band from man Gin or Brisbane.
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  We play guitar SOB rock music that's a it's all a little sad and emo,
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  but it's all very sincere and shoegazzy and all of the nice little crunchy
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  tones that we like to hear of music. I'm Jasper, I play bass
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  and sit and Emily, who are are over to very greatly Hello Emily.
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  I will play bass in up play play real five string. Yeah, now
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  we're we're definitely yeah, loving the sort of based duo vibe that we've got
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  going on. And yeah to back Jasper up on the on the emo feels.
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  Yeah, it's it's been really fun. Yodulus, thanks for joining us
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  the same name, good man, Thank you very much. I've said it.
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  Recently released two singles, Deserve and Matter, so I don't that hasn't
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  been that long, but how have they been received so far? Yeah,
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  everything's been really good. We've both we've both been making music and producing music
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  and being the periphery of like the music industry for some time now, and
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  it's been really nice having some some friends and colleagues kind of say hey,
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  I saw that thing you did. That's been really cool, and like we've
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  definitely we've definitely kind of achieved what we wanted to achieve with the first few
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  single cycles when in that we kind of just wanted to put our hand up
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  and say that we're here. And yeah, we've had some friends notice and
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  some we've gotten some good feedback, and yeah, it makes us really excited
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  for the EP that we're putting out. Shortly, see run us through both
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  of those songs individually and then tell us tell us a bit about it.
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  But what you're going for musically, we'll start we Deserve. So Deserve.
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  Deserve was the first song written on the like for the whole entire project.
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  It's kind of the song that I found my voice singing with and kind of
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  found a musical style that I really felt fit the project that I envisioned.
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  Deserve started out being it started out being just played on like a Fender telecaster
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  with an octave pedal, shifting it down an octave to make us sound like
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  a base six. And then eventually I could get my hands on a base
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  six and it all started from there. And so Deserve was like the song
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  that I really found myself with for this project. And MA came like the
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  next after that, Like those songs were creatively like started the project. And
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  both songs are taken from your debut EP, Doom Guys, which is out
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  on August eleven. So are they a good sonic representation of what you expect?
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  Yeah, I think the EP is pretty cohesive, but it's got enough
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  diversity with I think with the like with how many voices there are, the
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  amount of sort of features and backing vocals that we've had over the record,
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  I think there's a decent amount of like sonic diversity between them. But there's
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  Yeah, it's everything is sort of familiar yet having its own flavor. What
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  sorts of things do you tackle a lot the EP? I guess Lyrically,
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  there's a lot of there's a lot of self reflection about about like personal growth
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  and development and like personal relationships. It's a lot of the record was written
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  during kind of like that second phase of COVID towards the end of twenty twenty
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  like onwards. Like Lyrically, it kind of I was very much there at
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  the time with because like I work in the live music industry, I'm mixed
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  front of the house for bands and tour for a living, so like I
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  was feeling the situation that the whole world was feeling, and for me it
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  was like, given that much time in that moment, I had a lot
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  of time to self reflect and look at myself and lyrically, and like I
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  think thematically, the whole record is kind of just like I guess a person
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  in his late twenties processing what the fuck just happened? My important it?
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  So this is, of course it is your debut EP. Guys, So
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  what sorts of things as a band do you sit and discuss and consider going
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  into your first EP? Good? Good question, Yeah, very very good
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  question. I think the biggest thing, because I came to the pitch a
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  little bit later and from memory, we really was about creating something that could
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  be listened to by a wide range of people, not just people in heavy
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  or people that you know, sort of like more popular music. I guess,
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  because I think the message is it within the tracks. We kind of
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  really wanted to put out there and a lot of pit for a lot of
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  people to resonate with, because there's some dealing, toying with, some big
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  emotions, some big stories, some bigames, and we wanted to make something
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  that could be enjoyed by everyone as many people as we could. Yeah,
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  we were trying to be sincere about about making something a bit more enjoyable than
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  than our previous music. I guess personally, for me, I've been in
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  a lot of really like alternative even within the alternative like scene, like music
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  adjacent bands that haven't really haven't really been that friendly for all lesson. But
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  this were really going to challenge ourselves to make something adjustable for everybody still have
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  enough enough depth, like you know, like somebody who has like a really
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  experienced music within, really experienced background within music and music production, and like
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  the artists within that they can kind of see that depth that we're trying to
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  put on display. Both of you guys are no strangers to musing your course
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  where you're both having experiences as audio engineers. So how did that lead to
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  you, guys form and upset up? Well? Yeah, well, so
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  we were recording drums and some guitars for what this first record is, and
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  that's when Emily and I linked up. She was not to speak on Emily's
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  behalf, but Emily was manager at the studio that we were working at,
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  and like that alone having having our engineer who's a very dear friend of mine
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  that I've worked with for like over a decade. Having our engineer and our
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  drum would be like, hey, Emily is an amazing engineer and amazing artist
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  and an even better person. Having that background with the people I was working
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  with within the industry to be able to flag Emily and be like, hey,
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  this is somebody really special immediately, that kind of helped how this band
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  came together. I guess, like Emily joined from not not long after that
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  and really had a huge impact on it. And sorry, Emily, I
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  talked a lot about you, but I didn't give you an opportunity to speak.
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  I don't know. That's not good. Yeah, I sort of exactly
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  the same in regards to Jasper, I yeah, I met them, met
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  met Jasper during the session, and I sort of like assist engineered and just
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  hung out through though the whole the whole thing and sort of fell in love
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  with like the music and you know, got to I guess, be a
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  part of it still, which was great. And you know I met I
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  met our old drummer Baz for Uni, so I had a lot of a
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  lot of ties to him the past and with thirty being the head engineer at
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  the time, it just felt really right, and you know, we will
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  Will jelt so incredibly and had so much fun making it, and it it
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  only felt right to sort of really be a part of it properly. So
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  yeah, it was. It's been crazy. I can't believe how long it's
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  been since then. But yeah, sometime in the making, mate, sometimes
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  good things come to those who wait. They say, yeah, so,
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  what are some of the main differences betraying working with other people's music and working
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  with your owner? Really? Oh yeah, funny this. I was just
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  having this very conversation a couple of days ago. You know, I love
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  working with people, and I love getting to create something that's so close and
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  dear to them. But there was just something really really special for me about
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  working on this project and being able to, you know, have such such
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  a creative outlet that was my own, that was our own. There was
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  a major chance in a spot something every game, something that excitement that I
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  got. I think when I first entered into engineering and music and every game
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  that which has been really special for me. For me, Like I primarily
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  work with artists on the road and I get to I kind of get to
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  be the facilitator of you know, the endpoint of the of the of the
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  process, which is you know, touring the record that you just released.
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  And I guess we haven't hit the road yet. But everything I've felt thus
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  far with this project has been very affirming, like creative and career wise,
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  and like it sounds silly to be like thirty and say you're burnt out in
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  the industry, but I've been, like I've been doing it since I since
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  I was like sixteen, and like having this project to be that like vent
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  for such a history within music has been very special. And to be able
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  to work on mine and like put that labor in on mine instead of somebody
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  else's is quite quite rewarding. And it's different, but it's it's rewarding in
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  many ways. Totally. Yeah, I agree very much from that. So
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  it isn't hard to sort to subconsciously since yourself from your work as an audio
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  engineer when it comes to sort of creating and having to be critical of your
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  own work. We got we got humbled very recently by we We just did
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  a last week. We did a recording session for some new music that I
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  probably shouldn't talk about but that the engineer that we were recording with is like
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  very experienced, has been doing it for a very long time, and has
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  some very firm beliefs, and we're used to having those firm beliefs and that
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  firm experience, and we're used to being the ones who get to say,
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  nah, that's a dumb idea. But we like with with Cody. Cody
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  is very friendly, so we didn't push back on certain things, but like,
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  but yeah, it's a it's bloody control. Really, I've never been
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  produced before, and it was such a yeah, really odd experience, but
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  great experience being on the other side of the US persone, you know,
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  produced. It's yeah, trying to let go, let go of that control
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  and just really focused and hone in on our on our songwriting, which has
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  been really good. So so much of it is psychology, like getting that
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  client or the artists to like do the thing that you want them to do.
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  And it's really funny, like feeling those tricks work on you and like
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  and being like, ah, you got me, you got me, all
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  right, I got me, Yeah exactly exactly. So do Guy is out
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  on August eleven, as we said, But what's what's the next upset or
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  have you got plans after that? So I think before the record comes out,
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  we might be doing a sneaky Little like single in support of the record.
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  We got our friends in steps On and Dylan from Deadlights to come in
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  and have a sing and a feature on one of the songs, So we're
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  looking to put that out really soon. But yeah, we're going to put
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  the EP out. Hopefully some nice people will have some nice things to say
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  about it, and if they don't have nice things to say about it,
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  let's hope it's constructive. But yeah, we'd we'd love to be playing some
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  shows. We'd love to we'd love to be hitting the road and doing some
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  more recording. We've got lots more in the works already. Emily, what
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  would you What do you have to say? Yeah, I think you know,
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  we've got some new ideas of you know what type of music we're planning
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  on releasing, and I think next year is going to be really busy for
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  us and lots of lots of shows, lots of new new music and yeah,
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  lots of new music. Very good, All right, Rob, thanks
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  for a good time, Jesper and Emily's been a pleasure mate really thank you
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  very much. The tracks I've heard, they're really cool. Like I said,
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  nice and the Emil Rocky, the good little tracks based luck with them.
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  I'm like my tea. Don't frona set from the twist, sun tis
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  back of my nose. I'm set from the rough broke, keep keep pay,
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  hiding us a boy down to loveday. I don't know a long time
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  from never touching the hell my wife, my lad, yet my tea.
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  Don't hide any days. The truth, my inscription quick, the truth inscription
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  cop be tasted any weeks. Don't set those sun by eyes. I don't
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  desire sleep. I'll be basted with in the course of the bloods Creek puts
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  all round away time sa