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Lyrics to the Unreleased Demos

Unless otherwise stated, all songs are either J.McColl and/or a combination of band members.

1993

Solve That
She cries herself fast asleep,
For the sets on the street
Does the paper take him away
To some other happier place? (Ooh)
I can't live with you,
I can't live without you
So solve that one Batman
If you can
She rubs her eyes and tries to wake up
Drinks a coffee and puts on her makeup
Runs her fingers through her hair
Someone calls but she's not there (Ooh)
I can't live with you,
I can't live without you
So solve that one Batman
If you can
[Instrumental] [Chorus] [Effects outro]

When I Was In Love
When I was in love
I thought I was in love
It seemed so black and white
No ifs, no buts, no mights
My head is on vacation
My heart could fill the mountain
My smile could cross a river
I thought it was forever
Nothing lasts forever
Oh when I was in love
I thought I was in love
I fell into that canyon,
And found my true companion
My head was in the sky
My heart couldn't fill (feel) a city
My smile could cross a river
I thought it was forever
Nothing lasts forever
But nothing lasts forever
(Aah)
My head is on vacation
My heart could fill the mountain
My smile could cross a river
I thought it was forever
Nothing lasts forever [x2 to adlib]

1994-1997

5 songs

Peacock Song

Those platform boots you’re wearing are much too high,
And I’ve never seen anybody in flares that wide
Your best friend Michael who cuts your hair’s got such a limp wrist
Second hand clothes shops boutiques always top your list
The bills are piling up on your doorstep all the time,
But you strut down the pavement like a peacock in his prime
The colors clash, you’re unabashed
Can I have your autograph?
You take a portable hairdryer everywhere you go
Did I see you last winter in hotpants in the snow?
If there’s a fancy drink, well you’ve already been through it
But like most butterflies that fly you overdo it
The bills are piling up on your doorstep all the time,
But you strut down the pavement like a peacock in his prime
The builders whistle, but you just whistle
Their clothes, their fashions %?
Access or ease or any one of them will do
Yes, it’s all the same to you [Guitar solo]
The bills are piling up on your doorstep all the time,
But you strut down the pavement like a peacock in his prime
The colors clash, you’re unabashed
Can I have your autograph?

Startum

Oh you went to a private school, out in the country
And your girlfriends are so with it
And their boyfriends are so pretty
And your daddy drives a Jaguar because they’re made in Britain
And your mummy she won’t let go, of her little kitten
You’re a startum [x2]
Spoilt little brat, you think you know where it’s at
You pretend you’ve got no money
So you buy your clothes at Oxfam
But you know if you hit hard times
You can always go to your old man
And your politics are so PC,
Yes it really gets to me
You’re a startum [x2]
Spoilt little brat, you think you know where it’s at
And just a phase, that you’re going through
To be a castaway, just like yesterday
[Instrumental]
You’re a startum [x2]
Spoilt little brat, you think you know where it’s at
I’m just a phase, that you’re going through
To be a castaway, just like yesterday
Startum [Repeat]

Robinson
I with I was somebody else most of the time
You smell like sea salt, says you know it isn’t mine
I’ll never be someone you can look up to,
Buy maybe I could mean something to you
Just carve your name on the back of my mind
And maybe we can meet sometime
My tongue is tied up permanently in my mouth
I’m so uncool I even support Queen of the South
I’ll never be someone you can look up to,
Buy maybe I could mean something to you
Just carve your name on the back of my mind
And maybe we can meet sometime
[Guitar solo]
A Ah
Just carve your name on the back of my mind
And maybe we can meet sometime

358
Yesterday I was feeling so low, like a worm’s belly button
I was down in the ditch on a hiding to nothing
It wasn’t so great, like Argentina ‘78
I lost touch with my feminine and I lost touch with my masculine side
But thismorning when I opened my eyes,
I felt like superman, I was ready to fly
Gulped down my coffee, gave the mirror a smile
I could talk to the animals but it’s just not my style
Missed my bus, and I’ve been so true
But these things are superficial since I killed of my blues
‘Cause thismorning when I opened my eyes,
I felt like superman, I was ready to fly
[instrumental]
Oh, oh yeah
Take my hat and walk in the rain
Oh braving those fumes it’s good to feel life again
‘Cause thismorning when I opened my eyes,
I felt like superman, I was ready to fly
Oh, oh yeah
"There’s me chip supper"

There’s More To Life

[Squeak effect]
You’re looking out the window
Trying to hide your eyes
I’m covering up my mouth
Trying to hide the lies
There is an emptiness that can’t be filled
There’ll be no substitute for you girl
There must be more to life than this [x4]
It’s going to be so miserable
I feel like a pimple, on an elephant’s backside
I should be up in the goalmouth,
Instead I’m stuck on the trackside
The possibilities that I will never see,
The sense of missing things is getting to me
Are we pretending to hold things swings
But there’s a poison, a poison in everything
There must be more to life than this [x4]
I’m going to be so miserable
I feel like a pimple, on an elephant’s backside
I should be up in the goalmouth,
Instead I’m stuck on the trackside
There must be more to life than this [x2] [Outro]

1998-1999

7 songs

She's The One

She’s like a breath of fresh air
Or the wind in your hair
When you’re going nowhere,
She’s like a glimpse of the light
Or Angel Delight
On a hot summer’s night
She’s the one [x4]
She’s the one you’ve waited for
She’s like a favorite tune
When it lifts up the gloom
Like the man on the moon,
She’s like Christmas day
When you were a child
And you got your own way,
She’s the one [x4]
She’s the one you’ve waited for
She’s the one [Solo]
She’s like skiving off school
And saying you’re ill
When it was so cool
First verse
[Outro]
She is the one, she is the one.

Me And My Big Ideas
Just to see her get dressed
First thing in the morning
Me and my big ideas
Eating her Rice Crispies while I’m sitting here yawning
Sadness is this year’s new drug,
They’re selling it instead of love
At least it doesn’t let you down
And I have crossed that blue-leaved coast
All trace of her has gone except for a pair of training shoes
Me and my big ideas
She’d be reading a book
I’d sit and watch her
Me and my big ideas
She was my Lawrence of Arabia
She was my savior
Happiness is last year’s fad
The school bully made me sad
But he never made me cry like her
And I have crossed that blue-leaved coast
All trace of her has gone except for a pair of trainer shoes
Me and my big ideas [x2]
Make a lake full of tears
Me and my big ideas
Sadness is this year’s new drug,
They’re selling it instead of love
But at least it doesn’t let you down
And I have crossed that blue-leaved coast
And all trace of her has gone except for a pair of training shoes
Me and my big ideas [x2]
Make a lake full of tears
Me and my big ideas

My Hometown
I’ve got a new t-shirt under my coat
It reminds me of you when I’m not at home
The buses have stopped
Up in the snowfalls
So many people but I still feel alone
My heart is back in my hometown
But I’m stuck here and it’s getting me down
My heart is back in my hometown
Hear the wind whistling through the trees
I can hear you calling me to come home
Home
Watching two raindrops roll down a window
See which one gets to the bottom first,
Thinking about you far too much
It is so stupid because I only feel worse
My heart is back in my hometown
But I’m stuck here and it’s getting me down
My heart is back in my hometown
Hear the wind whistling through the trees
I can hear you calling me to come home
Home
[Guitar solo] [repeat chorus]

Grooving in the Sunshine
Winter’s gone back home
Left us all alone
With love late in summertime %
She will send her rate
Across outer space
They will get here in the nick of time
And we’ll be grooving
Grooving in the sunshine
Yeah we’ll be grooving
May June and July [x2]
T-shirts in your drawer,
Take them out once more
We’ll sit out in the park and hold each other’s hand till after dark
She’ll kick off her shoes
Put on a swimming suit
Here after year after year she looks so cool
And we’ll be grooving (grooving)
Grooving in the sunshine
Yeah we’ll be grooving (grooving)
May June and July [x3]
Bada ba
Winter’s gone back home
Left us all alone
With love late in summertime %
She will send her rate
Across outer space
They will get here in the nick of time
And we’ll be grooving
Grooving in the sunshine (grooving)
Yeah we’ll be grooving (we will be grooving)
May June and July [x2] [repeat]

Doing My Best
Well I phoned your mother 7 times
And I phoned your sister too,
I phoned everybody who’s vaguely connected with you
You cloaked yourself in secrecy
Like a Klingon spaceship
Remember the time when we were joined at the hip?
So don’t sat that I’m a loser ‘cause I know that it is true
We cannot all be winners,
Some of us are beginners
And I’m doing my best to live without your love
Yeah I’m doing my best.
Stayed up till 7 this morning
Wondering where you are
You’ve taken your clothes off in the back of some guy’s car
I said I wouldn’t get jealous
Whenever we split up
Maybe I was being naïve form the very start
So don’t sat that I’m a loser ‘cause I know that it is true
We cannot all be winners,
Some of us are beginners
And I’m doing my best to live without your love
Yeah I’m doing my best to live without your love
Without your love
[wah guitar solo] [repeat chorus]

You Will Miss Me when I’m Gone
Plastic frogs will fall from the sky and birds will forget their songs
You will miss me when I’m gone
Planes will fly backwards and cars will walk
Robots will cry and statues will talk
Oh, you’ll regret this for the rest of your life
Baby you wouldn’t know a good thing
If it dropped on you from a B52 with a note saying quote This man loves you.
You will miss me when I’m gone
Roundabouts will all be square and people will build castles in the air
You will miss me when I’m gone
Battleships will fall from the sky and third world dictators will break down and cry
Oh, you’ll regret this for the rest of your life [Instrumental]
You will miss me when I’m gone
Will miss me when I’m gone [x5]
Planes will fly backwards and cars will walk
Statues will cry and dogs will talk
You will miss me when I’m gone
Roundabouts will all be square and people will build castles in the air
You will miss me when I’m gone

Reconsider

Speak love as a foreign language
With each phrase I’m unsure,
I’m sorry for the hurt I gave you
It was pathetic and immature
Baby, baby, please reconsider me
Don’t get out your scissors
Cut me out your life
Please get out your Sellotape
And fix what isn’t right
Baby, baby, please reconsider me
I want you to know
I still love you
Want you to know
I still love you
Oh yeah
I want you to know
I still love you
Want you to know
I still love you
[Effects instrumental]
Baby, baby, please reconsider me [x2]
[Repeat]

Second Thoughts

These words fly like birds down telegraph wires
Life’s country spires
I put pen to paper to try and persuade her that I wasn’t a liar
If you have second thoughts
Don’t let me wrong
If you have second thoughts
Don’t let me rock
You might just get this through the post
While you were eating your toast
You turn around and you say I had my chance
I had my day, I had my joy I had my fun,
I had my season in the sun
Now I’m ancient history
There is no you, there is no me
There is no room for anyone
If you have second thoughts
Don’t let me wrong
If you have second thoughts
Don’t let me rock
If these words fly like spears through the soul of your tears
Life’s country spires
I put pen to paper to try and persuade her that I wasn’t a liar
If you have second thoughts…

Sunflower

When she wakes up in the morning
And she looks like a sunflower
Pretty on the outside
Ugly on the inside
I was too much in love with her
Let the girl go, you should let the girl go,
Jesus Christ I’ve tried you know
And every minute of every hour
I still ache from my sunflower
When I wake up in the morning
Oh I reach for my sunflower
And all my daysreams are filled with sadness
Well I still ache for her
Let the girl go, you should let the girl go,
Jesus Christ I’ve tried you know
But every minute of every hour
I still ache from my sunflower
Do do do do do
When she wakes up in the morning
And she looks like a sunflower
The only one she loved was herself
But I was too much in love with here
Let the girl go, you should let the girl go,
Jesus Christ I’ve tried you know
But every minute of every hour
I still ache for my sunflower
Do do do do do [to fade]

2000

4 songs, of which

This Heartache

At least you were honest with me
And for that I love you more
But it still doesn’t sweeten the pill
Now you’ve walked out the door
There’s so many things we didn’t say
Now it is all part of yesterday
This heartache can’t last forever [x2]
I know, I know someday it must go
Come this time next year,
I’ll be right as rain
My clouds will all have lifted
And I’ll feel alive again
You’ll find a Romeo for your Juliet,
And I’ll learn to forgive and forget
This heartache can’t last forever [x2]
I know, I know someday it must go
I can’t stand it
I can’t take the pain [repeat]
[Chorus x2]

Rhinestone Cowboy

(by G Campbell) [Simulated crowd noise]
I’ve been walking these streets so long
Singing the same old song
I know every crack in the dirty sidewalks of Broadway
When hussle’s the name of the game
The nice guys get washed away, like the snow and the rain
There’s been a low of compromising
On the road to my horizon
But I’m gonna be with the lights shining on me
Like a Rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse on a star-spangled rodeo
Like a Rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know
And offers coming over the phone.
Well I really don’t mind the rain
And the smiling can hide the pain
But you’re down when you ride on the train
That’s taken the wrong way,
And I dream of the things I’ll do
With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoes
There’s been a load of compromising
[Chorus x2]

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