[Verse 2] Sailors straggle back from their nights out on the town Hopeless urchins from the city gather around Spies from imperial China wash in with the tide Every battle heads toward surrender on both sides
Transcription: “Sax Rohmer #1 / Written in my cave-like office in Durham / Sax Rohmer wrote pulp spy novels, and there’s lots about them that’s pretty objectionable, the character Fu Manchu is his best-known invention. / But there’s a feeling of menace and threat in his stories that’s kind of addictive, and the tight-frame atmosphere he crafts has a real appeal to it, especially if you’re working in a room with concrete floors and without any natural light. Second guitars here, the electric ones, are by Annie Clark of St. Vincent.”
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