Clutch "Minotaur"

5th track and personal favourite from "Strange Cousins From The West" released today, July 14th. £9 at HMV in "New Releases" I found it, awesome gatefold cardboard packaging & lyrics sheet/poster.
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Lyrics

In a city of crooked alleys,
Crookeder women and wicked men
Dim lamps in the rumour mill
Suspicious kith & unkind kin
Haruspector General
Sleeping soldiers in the field
Below the elders conspire
To turn the merciless & massive wheel

Strange cousins from the West
Overstay their welcome

Locked in among skeletons
Broken hearted & damned
Sorry to have to break it to you friend
But life seldom goes exactly as we plan
Strange cousins from the west overstay their welcome
Peculiar manner & strange dress
Who will ever dare to tell them?

The city's always thriving
Hungry bellows of the Minotaur
Everyday more are arriving
And everday it requires more

Unexpected circumstance
We must not delay
You have all been so very kind to us
And we will return the favor one day
Fate is the idiot's excuse!
Freedom is the sucker's dream!
But we hope you find some measure of comfort
In considering us to be your family
Strange cousins from the west overstay their welcome
Peculiar manner & strange dress
Who will ever dare to tell them?

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[ijf18c]

This song highlights both sides of the capitalism/socialism conflict.

The first part sets the scene, the second part cites the flaw in a capitalist system, the last cites the flaw in a socialist system.

Americans are the strange cousins from the west

[IRISHprik411]

fate is the idiot's excuse ... freedom is the sucker's dream ...

[johnbad1000]

@UnkleAlbert tool is cool but clutch have the touch

[LiceeanulZburator]

@IRISHprik411 I guess each person is just another brick in the wall

[UnkleAlbert]

@psyckla5 Tool is Cool, no dowt abowtit! I need music "with-in whistlen' distance," and CLUTCH seems to know your sposta come home when the street lights come on. They know about the gnarled southern spirit and describe a life I recognize. Obsessed- I feel like CLUTCH happened only in my world. And to think, spacegrass was the first song ever i heard. I thought it sucked. But i gave it a 2nd hearen. then a 3rd..then hooked for life. I'll almost listen to nothing else.

[weathermaker91]

@IRISHprik411 a wise man once said....

[psyckla5]

@UnkleAlbert what about tool?

[ihaveallseeingeyes]

ALTERNATIVE RIFF IN YOUR FACE

[UnkleAlbert]

Clutch is by far the most coolest of all bands to ever surface from the spooge of sub-human tyranny. I found them for myself almost 6 yrs ago, and havent heard or seen another group who clings to my psychci as they have....they are a gift.

[Telamonfan123]

i agree one of their best albums!!!

[electricpigeon28]

@ItsYourBlood I'm with you, man. This album is a little better than Beale Street (too tragic for me to listen to), but OK isn't good enough from Clutch, at least not for me.