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Donut Life

from DERITEND by Cult Figures

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about

I had to find a job quickly, the trouble was that my CV and tax details were so sketchy for the previous 15 years it looked like I had done a long prison stretch for some heinous crime! ‘Donut Life’ was inspired by my drunken rant about my new job as an in-store baker for a supermarket chain.

‘Donut Life’ describes the bleakness and despair of pre-dawn shifts, and the mind-numbing monotony of a menial, minimum wage life.

A donut life!

Gary Jones

lyrics

DONUT LIFE

It’s a donut life
Going round and round in circles
There’s a row of five
And eight packs on a tray

Up a long conveyor belt
to the deep fat fryer

Out the other side
Into the sugar

Roll them round and round
Into a 5 pack

Put the label on
Stick them on the shelf

It’s a donut life
Going round and round in circles
In the Sainsbury’s
Underneath the Euston tower

Up a long conveyor belt
to the deep fat fryer

Out the other side
Into the sugar

Roll them round and round
Into a 5 pack

Put the label on
Stick them on the shelf

Have you seen the bakery
Where I stand in public view
Waiting for the new day to begin
From 6am to 2pm
Packing plastic trays
With apple pies that no one wants to buy.

It’s a donut life
Going round and round in circles
Here come the customers
Waddling in like sheep

Up a long conveyor belt
to the deep fat fryer

Out the other side
Into the sugar

Roll them round and round
Into a 5 pack

Put the label on
Stick them on the shelf

credits

from DERITEND, track released March 26, 2003
By Gary Jones and Jon Hodgson
Arranged by Cult Figures

Gary Jones – lead vocals
Jon Hodgson – guitar/backing vocals
Barney Russel – guitar
Lee McFadden – bass/backing vocals
Stuart Hilton – drums/backing vocals

Recorded by Liam Watson at Toerag Studios, June 2019, mixed by John Rivers between October 2019 to May 2020.

Released on Gare Du Nord Records garedunordrecords.co.uk
Also featured on LIGHTS OUT EP, released July 10, 2020

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Cult Figures released two classic singles on Swell Map's Rather Records in 1979 and 1980. Now they are back and coming to stage near you!

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