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  • Holes Single CD - Limited Edition Digipack
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    Beautifully designed Digipack featuring cover artwork from Mark Buckingham (Fables, Sandman). The "Holes" single (lyrics by Neil Gaiman), also features "Bones" and "Ready To Heal". Only 200 copies have been made available for online purchase. The CD's will be signed by The Jane Austen Argument and you will also receive a digital download of the single upon the date of release.

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Holes 04:05
HOLES There's a hole, a hole, a hole inside of me the shape of you it's so deep , so deep, so deep inside me that nobody can see it when I try to fill it with other people none of them will fit but I will try to keep trying Maybe I think this one This one can touch like you touch Or laugh like you laugh kiss like you kiss smile like you smile but no-one smiles like you smile... No, nobody smiles like you… It's not just inside me the hole the shape of you everywhere I look now Is somewhere that you are not Holes are always hungry And they eat the things we want to keep eat your life so slowly eat profane and holy eat it till you're wholly hole Maybe I think this one This one can touch like you touch Or laugh like you laugh kiss like you kiss smile like you smile but no-one smiles like you smile... No, nobody smiles like you… I should learn my lesson holes are the illusion presence and absence and emptiness and nothing When I am gone my darling dig me a hole let flowers grow above me and wild berries then laugh and forget me and before I'm cold let someone who loves you fill your... ...hole
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Baby, there's not much left for you to take tonight I've got twenty dollars and a pack of cigarettes And Ma, she's not that far away now But far enough away to seem a comic tragic figure And Dad's not that much older than me tonight And landlord knows that he's no richer And I'm not ready for this close-up, Mr De Mille Oh but I'll fill every corner of this uneven picture Take these bones and break them to make me wings That I can fly away on Take these empty veins and fill them with wind That I can sail away on. This dot-to-dot life is no longer connected The optimist in me has retired And everything's broken like glass; or waves; or girl's hearts And I don't take plastic anymore, so cheque in with me Take these bones and break them to make me wings That I can fly away on Take these empty veins and fill them with wind That I can sail away on. Make me make sense again Kindly won't you wake me when I don't have to blindly drive on Rent me a new lease on life A slightly smoother landing strip Than I can land alive on Give me something concrete Or maybe something to believe in A slightly happy end Or just buy me one more ticket To some place we've never heard of Where we can be free again... Take these bones and break them to make me wings That I can fly away on Take these broken wings and put them in my bones That I might rest my life on Take these sailing winds and put them in my blood That I might shed some light on me Take these bones and break them to make me wings That I can fly away on...
3.
I have all my wounds sewn up And all my bandages undressed I have all my resources packed now In my brown satchel-bag I carry my life inside I'm ready to heal I have all my questions in columns And all my answers fit in the lines I have all your songs in an album And all your pictures ready to fade I'm ready to heal I have all that I need With my extended family You have no right to make me bleed To make me bleed I have an older sister who'll kick your arse If you hurt me one last time I have a younger sister who's got my back Who helped me get myself back From the edge where you left me. I'm ready to love again

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This is the lead single from The Jane Austen Argument's debut album, "Somewhere Under The Rainbow", slated for release in February 2012. The lyrics for the title track, "Holes" were written by award-winning author, Neil Gaiman.

We have been lucky enough to get graphic novel illustrator and artist extraordinaire Mark Buckingham (Fables, Sandman) on board to create some STUNNING cover artwork for the single.

The two B-sides are from our very first single... before we knew how to release a single. We printed and stamped the discs by hand and sold them at a small scale gig in Melbourne. They have never been available for digital purchase before now - and only 50 physical copies of the original single were ever made.

The live recordings of Bones and Ready To Heal were part of a webcast gig where we performed with Amanda Fucking Palmer at MixMasters studio in Adelaide - the same studio where Amanda recorded parts of Ukelelehead and Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under. 20-odd AFP fans were crunched into the studio to experience the recording process as the masterful Mick Wordley worked his magic.

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released November 3, 2011

Holes:
Lyrics by Neil Gaiman
Music and arrangement by The Jane Austen Argument
Ukelele and vocals by Tom Dickins
Piano and vocals by Jen Kingwell
Drums by John O'Connell
Trumpet by Michel Navedo
Violoncello by Maria Scherer Wilson
Recorded at London Bridge studios in Seattle
Mixed and Mastered by Blake Bickel @ Dynamic Sound Service
Audio Engineering by Stephen Michael Hogan

Bones:
Written and arranged by The Jane Austen Argument
Piano by Jen Kingwell
Vocals by Tom Dickins
Recorded and mixed at Mixmasters studio, Adelaide by Mick Wordley

Ready To Heal:
Written and arranged by The Jane Austen Argument
Piano by Jen Kingwell
Vocals by Tom Dickins
Recorded and mixed at Mixmasters studio, Adelaide by Mick Wordley

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The Jane Austen Argument Melbourne, Australia

The Jane Austen Argument are a Melbourne-based indie cabaret duo who combine raw ballads and sharp tongues with chaotic abandon and overtones of anti-folk and punk love.

Recent collaborations have included Amanda Fucking Palmer and Neil Gaiman.
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