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When You Hate Someone

from Birds by M Stevens & The Ghasts

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When You Hate Someone

When I look back on all my young tender years
And think of the players, the parts
It's the bad guys that made all the difference
So thank you for breaking my heart

When you hate someone, when you hate someone
The walls, they close in but the dishes get done
Don't talk of salvation - save yourself, bum
My god's a deaf god, my god is dumb

Every town has its late-night philosopher
And I'm that brown suit that sits on a stool
ANd says to pull up a chair while I spit in my beer
And tell you ten ways that I'm nobody's fool

When you hate someone, when you hate someone
Your needle returns to the heart of the sun
Where I've seen all your turtle doves die one by one
My god's a blind god, my god is dumb

'Cause there's an east wind that blows through the heart of men
And your prayers, they're just paper and ink
'Cause the children still cry in the wet wicked night
And they'll keep on just crying, so let's all have a drink

When you hate someone, when you hate someone
Your mind is a country and your mouth is a gun
Don't talk about healing - healing's no fun
My god's a drunk god, my god is dumb

So hop on to my ship with its purple fins
Hop on! to where the people walk crooked all day
And they eat all the land that they sit upon, grand
Hop on! Wake up sick, and in sickness you'll stay

When you hate someone, when you hate someone
There's a bar in East Mars that serves alien cum
Don't tell me love will come to me, what love may come?
My god's a deaf god
My god's a blind god
My god's drunk god
My god... my god...
My god... My God!

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from Birds, released November 12, 2022
Written by Michael Stevens

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M Stevens & The Ghasts Dublin, Ireland

You may know M Stevens as Mike, that speccy guy from a string of Irish alt folk & indie pop bands like Settler, Groom, Lie Ins and Skelocrats. Or as co-founder of celebrated indie collective Popical Island.

M's band The Ghasts are Mark Jordan, Hugh McCabe, Ciaran Canavan, Donagh O'Brien and sometimes Norah and Anna Stevens and Sadhbh McCabe. ... more

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