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LOOT     Running Time: 12:01     ================ Soul Eater Heartless Sweetest Thing 4 P.M.

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Just 12 minutes and it changed my musical life. Yes, these 12 minutes, here on Loot. It's just four silly songs really, but what great songs they are. Three of these four songs became successful singles for the Clouds and finally pushed their airplay and popularity towards where they should have been. After the debut Clouds EP, this four-tracker is much brasher, much sassier and cheekier, which really began fulfilling the amazing Clouds promise of their debut while also coming into some newer territory.

The infectious wailing sounds of vitamin c for dog "Soul Eater" blast off Loot, a smoothly soaring guitar-charged surge. This leads on to the fuzzy tribal/goth essence of "Heartless", the sound of which prompts for me vivid 3D memories of a long-haired Patricia Young on stage rocking that big Fender Jaguar bass back & forth as her vocals coo forth. Cheeky & punky "Sweetest Thing" follows at number three with guitars wailing and wah-wahing in the bridge, flowing through with full-on soloing back to the verse. Finally at number four is my all-time favourite Clouds song, "4PM" (sometimes referred to as "Blood On My Hands"). The lyrics are really some twisted shit, being the words of a psychotic serial killer who is about to slice up a prostitute at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Yet, hear this song while detached from the actual words, it sounds so cooing, so lush and so beautifully feminine with sweet soaring stretches and harmonies to die for.

Ultimately Loot is far too short, it ends right there after track four. It was a teaser to what would be the greatness of the Clouds debut album Penny Century.

Rated: 5.0 stars (out of 5)

Lyrics

Soul Eater (Phillis) 2:38

Hello souleater
Stole my shoes as I walked through the door
Took my heartbeat
Now I'm worse off than before
No more

Hello hellraiser
Said you'd lift me up to the stars
Now I'm falling
Moving faster than your cars
Your shiny cars

"Hello souleater,
Just want you to look back on everything you have ever done for us,
And I want you to realize that it's all there in a bright, tiny, shiny
package,
Just waiting for you to move right in and open it up.
Move right in, take your cut,
Move right in, take your cut."

Well you know we've cottoned on
You know we're catching up with you

Hello moneytalker
Told me I'd be rolling in dough
Now I'm covered in dust from head to toe
Oh no
Just Blow
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Heartless (Young) 3:57

I could spend the evening with my head in a book
I could laugh all night if I want to
Or take out a telescope and look at Sirius
Distant and blue just like your eyes, just like you

At night I lie awake just staring into the dark
A pattern of believing shapes itself
A whisper of cold drifts in and clouds my view
Winter doesn't speak and strangely, neither do you

At night I lie awake staring
At night I lie awake staring
At night I lie awake, awake, awake...

And sometimes I wonder if I've done the right thing
In getting involved with a silent partner

I could spend the rest of my life living like this:
Nobody to suit except myself
Or I could pour out my heart; serve it up in a cup to you
Would you feel safer if I was heartless too?

At night I lie awake staring
At night I lie awake staring
At night I lie awake, awake, awake...
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Sweetest Thing (Young) 2:52

You came out with some surprising statements were they true
You came out with things I haven't thought I'd hear from you
Well I had another drink, and I had another think
And I still think you're the sweetest thing

Told me how I looked to you, I wouldn't call it real
Told me that you shouldn't talk about the way you feel
But I had another drink, and I had another think
And I still think you're the sweetest thing

And I'm not worried about what they will say
Well I don't care if they were looking anyway
So calm down, nobody noticed
And hey, it's not as if we hey, you know we didn't hey,
We never even kissed

If you feel inclined to get us both into a mess
Change your mind and keep your distance, I won't like you less
Oh I had another drink, and I had another think
And I still think you're the sweetest thing
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4 P.M. (Phillis) 2:31 

I'm a bitter, twisted soul
With my hand behind my back
I feel my shiny silver blade
Love on my right hand
Hate on my left hand
God at my command
But they don't understand

I got blood on my hands
So much blood on my hands
I got your blood on my hands

All the work I tried to do
Is in essence what the Good Book says
It's true I say to you
Let the judgment begin
Punish them for their sin
Let the sun shine in
Good over evil we will win

I got blood on my hands
So much blood on my hands
I got your blood on my hands (repeat)

It's four in the afternoon
And you're looking like a whore made up in blue
You're gonna learn
See the look in my eye
Better not start to cry
You know the reason why
You're gonna have to die

I got blood on my hands
So much blood on my hands
I got your blood on my hands (repeat)
I got your blood on my hands
I need your blood on my hands
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