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Emotional Blackmail (Harper/Garratt)

Recorded at Underhill Studios during January 1980.
Officially released on the album Brand New Age. The song is split into two parts and appears on the first and last tracks of side two (tracks one and seven).
Gem Records. GemLP106. Clear vinyl. April 1980.
Below are the lyrics to Emotional Blackmail and Emotional Blackmail II

Emotional Blackmail

Yeaaaahhhh
And you died the other day
They took you away
To your hospital bed
Keep screwing up my head with

Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail

In this game of survival
There's too many rivals
You sink or you swim
Why bother jumping in

And now I can't go home
To razor cuts on bone
Rooms splashed with blood
Needles dipped in mud and

Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail now
Emotional blackmail



Emotional Blackmail II

Needles, knives and bottles
Standing on the stair
I turn and walk the other way
there's nothing for me there
And now I can't go home
To razor cuts on bone
Rooms splashed with blood
Needles dipped in mud and

Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail
Emotional blackmail