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The Artist and the Model

from Ducks and Drakes - 22 song album! by PO!

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    Mammoth 22 track album recorded on Saturdays January-July 1993 and released on Ruth Miller's tiny independent label Rutland Records. Although the songs have a happy jangly feel to them, the lyrics reflect ordinary female experience that includes unfulfillment, loss, bullying, questioning and the class struggle. John Peel played tracks on his show and invited Po! do do a session for his BBC Radio 1 show.

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lyrics

The artist and the model stroll hand in hand
Drawing my attention
Changing my perspective
A long time ago you used my name
And the money’s rolling in.

I sat around for hours in your studio
Drinking in the sunlight
Smoothing out your madness
I was young and I didn’t know
What the future held.

I would give anything you like to live
Anywhere but on your wall
In a frame of gilt.

And if I worked all year at the hospital
Someone would outbid me
For a picture of me
I don’t own the flesh on my bones
Or a picture of you.

I would try anything but I can’t buy
Images of you or I
In a frame of gilt.

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from Ducks and Drakes - 22 song album!, released November 1, 1993
Song written by Ruth Miller. Recorded at White House Studios Syston Leicestershire. Bass: Gary Gilchrist, Drums: Paul Knight, Guitars: Terri Lowe, Singing/Guitar: Ruth Miller

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PO! Leicester, UK

Ruth Po! set up her own record company and writes incisive songs from an ordinary female perspective. Themes are often dark yet the tunes are singable, jangly and very English-sounding.First formed in 1987 with punk roots and an indie-pop style, PO! is not a typical band. After a Peel session and an NME single of the week, Ruth gave it all up 1999-2016 but the band are back with new songs! ... more

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