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Eleven Seconds, Give or Take a Battery

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Malibu Barbie Death Squad · CAD

The sealed wing beneath the Country Mart finally said something worth hearing.

Every eleven seconds the old alarm cleared its throat—attention shoppers, nobody is coming—and the tile answered one beat late, which is how we knew the wall still had one friend left.

Barbie 2 caught the chirp in her compact and swore it was the old world paging us; Barbie 3 read S-O-S in the glare; Barbie 1 just buffed the static and reminded us that beep means beware, beep means nobody cares, beep means we were never really there.

We count it anyway: eleven seconds, give or take a battery, like a low-battery heartbeat for a place that already flatlined.

Tape chirp_11 is at Zuma Beach, eleven paces past Tower 12, tucked under a pink shell—dig at twilight, reapply your loyalty first, contour the signal, and thank the low-battery ghost for shining.

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Catalog: NM-00117

You've Been Through To Parts

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Liner Notes
[Intro]
(dial tone... three tones, dead air)
Out of hours. You're through.
(click, click, click — that's the catalogue, that's the keys)
You've been through to parts... parts... parts...

[Verse]
Counter shut at half five, love, we've just stepped out the back
Kettle's on in the office, someone's having a sit-down
If it's a bolt, a bracket, a gasket or a clip
It's in the warehouse — it has always been in the warehouse

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Verse]
Our trade counter is currently busy (busy, busy)
Our trade counter is currently busy
We'll ring you back just as soon as somebody's free
And somebody is always free for a part

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Bridge]
Hi, you're through to Reg— (he hasn't, he hasn't)
(modem handshake rising... Reg picks up internally)
If it's metal and it once went on a van
There's one in a bag with the year wrote on it
The sun comes up, the part is in
The sun comes up, the part is in
Please leave the make — the make, the model — the model, and the year

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Outro]
Thank you for holding for nobody
Somebody's holding it for you
(beep)
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