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Pamela

by Ellie Bleach

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"As the new arrival in small town suburbia, an axe-wielding doomsday prepper in fishnets and high heels, the song's as much about the local hysteria she's causing as it is about Pamela herself. As the residents gawk with lust and disgust, I see her embodying the 'spiritual bimbo' archetype - hot enough to be desired, but too strange to be accepted. This is my exploration of apocalypse anxiety without being a direct statement on climate change, it's a snapshot of the ambient dread often felt by my generation told through an unlikely prophet".

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'Pamela' lyrics

Pamela digs a ditch in the desert
kitting it out in zebras and leopards
armageddon never looked so good

I remember summers in essex
hotter and drier than texas
she was working at a car wash
i’ve never seen anything like it
every warm-blooded man was driving
a car you could eat a dinner off
as sure as the sun will set in the west
speculation on pamela starts to spread
‘have you seen that she carries an axe?’
‘and the symbols tattooed on her back?’
Is she mad?
I said Pamela how can you stand it?
everybody thinks you're totally batshit
she sat me down and said
they’ll all be dead
Soon

She knows it’s coming and you’re gonna be the first to go
It’s the apocalypse and finally some time alone
Let me tell you something

But the approval of the townies was far from her mind
there’s only one space in the bunker
its for our human swiss-army knife

She knows it’s coming, you’re gonna be the first to go
It’s the apocalypse finally some time alone
She knows it’s coming, you’re gonna be the first to go
It’s the apocalypse, finally some time alone
I’m telling you

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released June 8, 2023

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Ellie Bleach London, UK

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May 4

The 1865

Southampton, UK
May 18

Various Sheffield Venues

Sheffield, UK

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