Lyrics from the CD A
superfluous man
Lyrics from the CD A
superfluous man
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Mid-life crisis blues My job's so pressured that I can't take it easy, we don't have children we
were always too busy (Ch) (Mid-life crisis), really getting to me My best friend told me 'get a bit on the side, buy some new clothes John and
get your hair dyed' (Ch) I gave up sports because I started to lose, was it my health or mid-life
crisis blues?
I drive upmarket it's a Mercedes Benz, I work all hours and collapse at
weekends
My brain is shattered and my nerve's on the blink, I need a
chauffeur 'cos I'm driven to drink
My stars say 'cos I'm Pisces I've got
mid-life crisis blues
Threw my wife a party 'cos she told me I owe her, we
all swapped wives but I got a lawnmower
I'm not into vices I've got mid-life
crisis blues
(Mid-life crisis), it just
wont let me be
(Mid-life crisis),bleeding my hormones
(Mid-life
crisis),drains the marrow from my bones
I took my P.A. on a business weekend, I just got drunk
and she got off with friend
It's true what my wife says I've got mid-life
crisis blues
Went to my doctor he said 'here's what I think, I just can't
help you what you need is a shrink'
I was told by the psychiatrist I've got
mid-life crisis blues
He said 'my advice is you've got mid-life crisis blues'
In the final analysis I've got mid-life crisis blues
It starts with 'V'
I'm nearly 51 and think I've lost it, I had it just a month or two
ago
It was there the last time it was wanted, but I just don't seem to have
it anymore
(Ch) This is a problem and it's bothering me, I know the answer and it starts with a "V"
I don't know if I'm sad or if I'm happy, it was a regular nuisance at
times
A guaranteed arouser, a bulge unsightly in my trousers
A real
triumph of matter over mind
(Ch)
It would distract me when it was most awkward, intruding with the signals which it sends(Ch)
I didn't use it often when it was there, on the other hand I miss it now its
gone
Perhaps I should have done more when I had it, so I thought I'd better
warn you in this song
(Ch)
I always knew to use it or to lose it, but didn't really think that this
meant me
There's a ready answer to this problem, but why do all solutions
start with "V"?
(Ch)
Victory Vs and Valium, Valderma,Vosene, Vick, Virol, Venos - got them all at
home
Can't continue to ignore it, I know there's nothing for it
I'll have
to buy another Vodaphone
(Ch)
A superfluous man
Outside looking in, sometimes I feel so low (Repeat)
A self-excluding
alien, I'm the stranger at your door
Took me until now to know I'm a superfluous man (Repeat)
It's wanting to
be different that makes me what I am
Bullied in my schooldays, well I suffered teenage angst
Work hard at my
job but my boss sees talking in the ranks
If you're going to be a loser, you
need something to lose
Sometimes I find it hard to live with, living life the
way I choose
Some people watch a thing happen, some don't know it's happened at all
(Repeat)
But I me I make things happen, I won't be bound by these four
walls
Outside looking in, sometimes I feel so low (Repeat)
A self-excluding
alien, I'm the stranger at your door
She's being dumped
When I see you at the bus stop in the morning, I won't care if you don't
say 'hello'
I'm so tired of making all the running with you, now the race is
done and there's no where left to go
(Ch) I'm your fun figure, who's tired of being dumped on
You're a gold
digger and now I dumping you
You don't encourage me when I try to talk to you, and to 'phone you up for me
is purgatory
I can hear you friends all laughing while you sit there pulling
faces and you leave me in no doubt the joke's on me
(And the drinks)
(Ch)
You talk of equality, please don't make me laugh, when did you ever offer to
pay the other half?
The only roll I do is when I bankroll you, I'm going to
pull the plug 'cos I'm not daft
(Ch)
I'm tired of wild goose chasing, and I'm not that self-effacing
It seems
to me I need more highs than lows
(Ch)
What I've got in mind's seduction, by a girl in film productionOh Buddy
Do do do,
do do do do do
(Ch) Oh Buddy it's a shame you took that flight 'cos I need
another song
And I need it here tonight
I've played 'Peggy Sue' to death
even though I really love that tune
Oh Buddy, shame you died so soon
I took my guitar to the party, everybody asked me to play
I knew fine
that's all that I'd been asked for, but I don't have pride enough to stay
away
If you play guitar you'll know what I mean when I say it was the usual
scene
No one pays the piper but they always call the tune
And it's a shame
that Buddy Holly died so soon
(Ch)
(Bridge) I know if he'd lived longer he'd have left us with more songsBut I've heard and played them all so much I'll knock it on the head
And
go and get another drink or find a girl instead
But while you've played the
night away the alcohol's all gone
The girls have too there's nothing
left
Except another song
(Ch)
I do my thing
I do
my thing, you do your thing, I am not in this world to
Live up to your
expectations
Nor you to mine, for you are you, and I am I and if by
chance
We find each other it is beautiful
And if not, it can't be helped, I do my thing and you do your thing
For
you are you, I am I
So if by chance we find, our brothers enslaved, our sisters in chains,
The world ruled by fascists, 'cos we were doing our thing, it can't be
helped?
© Music: John Scott Cree; Words after Fritz Perls and anon.
Grievance (no sense) Get this track free online - from Peoplesound.com
If your life is like four seasons, mine's the 2nd of October,
all I know as I grow older is what I don't know
We once called our dog Rover
but it's changed to BMW, we are moving with the times, the old ways must go
And it's thumbs up for the young guy who drives the XR3I, for the lack of
manners which begets the bully
For the mobile phone and laptop user, the
money blown by lottery losers, and only "Haves" can participate fully
And there is no sense in a sense of grievance
Foucault and his pals knew
all along
Do what you like unless you harm another
Everything is right and
nothing's wrong
But this self-regard of the consumer, exotic foreign holidays and gym
This
freedom without harm to others, eclipses doing good to brothers
Was the Live
Aid spirit just a whim?
There may be no sense in a sense of grievance
But we must learn from the
past to get along
The worthwhile things are what we do for others
Foucault
and his pals have got it wrong
I'm lumbered with you
When my friends said 'don't let your heart rule your head', I didn't
really know what to do
I thought 'that'll be the day' but now I have to say,
I can see their point of view
I was in need of a cuddle but I've had too much
trouble, and the rewards have been too few
When they said 'start again' I
should have used my brain, but I didn't and I'm lumbered with you
I think I took the wrong tack and made a rod for my own back, because usually
I'm pretty astute
But I was so full of booze I felt quite confused, in fact I
was confused as a newt
My heart was just a vacuum 'til I saw you in that back
room, looking as if you need someone too
I should have been led by what my
friends said, but I wasn't and I'm lumbered with you
(Bridge)
I think I've got a fair moan you're eating me out of house and home, and I
mean that quite literally
It was hunger made you start it but you could have
left the carpet, now I've kissed goodbye to my settee
You see my front door's
too small and you're stuck there in the hall, I can't get you to take you to the
zoo
And you keep getting bigger if I'd a gun I'd pull the trigger, but I
haven't and I'm lumbered with you
I said, I haven't and I'm lumbered with
you
© John Scott Cree / Richard Digance 1978
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A bunch of drunken Normans came on a day trip from
Boulogne,
They bought their duty free fags and a couple of bottles of
woine
They had an English beer or two which filled them with such
zest
They thought they'd buy red noses for this was a Norman conk quest
(Ch) Run this by me once more, the pith of history
There were no noses to be bought for they had not been invented
And with
their bellies full of beer the French were discontented
So Bill the boss told
all his lads to go out on the spree
Kick some plate glass windows in and bash
up OAPs
(Ch)
King Harold was at Stamford Bridge though West Ham were at home
When first
editions carried news of vandalism done
But he was north and they were south
so he didn't go like he oughter
He thought it was excessive prose by tabloid
press reporters
(Ch)
By the time he got down to the coast a battle was in full swing
There was
bits of bodies flying about and lumps of dirt and things
And one of his
blokes says 'what'll we do we can't just let things lie?'
'Hang about' says
Harold 'I've got something in my eye'
(Ch)
Pink sunglasses (Ch) She said "Always take a hankie when you're going out somewhere, mind
your manners, don't be heard just seen Mum I hear the other kids laugh, they tell me that I look daft, because I
wear sunglasses that are pink (Ch) But Mum the other kids all mock me, without glasses I can still see, (Ch) she
said 'nothing's ever right for you (Ch) Off the peg (Ch) Got a twenty-six waist, twenty nine inside leg When we go shopping they tell our mums lies , they say 'Your boy's an
irregular size' (Ch) Got a thirty-six waist, twenty--nine inside leg Don't want them to order don't want them next week, I want them right now and
I want them real quick (Ch) Got a forty-four waist twenty-nine inside leg All lyrics Copyright © John Scott Cree except where indicated
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My
mum told me when I was a kid, she said son I have something to say
Just hear
my song and you won't go far wrong, if you're lost you will find your way
You're on your best behaviour but in
case you get runover, make sure your socks and underwear are clean"
I know I've just had measles and this won't
last forever, but I'd rather let my eyes go on the blink
They cost a lot of money, you must wear
them 'cos it's sunny
They're all we could get they'll have to do'
When I
was a child it was the '50s decade, there was free milk in schools and free
orange for babes
Now in my teens I stand tall in my shoes, and all of my
friends they're all six foot too (two)
I want to buy my
clothes off-the-peg
Buy made-to-measure - you'll pay through the nose, that's why
I want to buy some off-the-peg clothes
I want to buy my
clothes off-the-peg
And if you don't have them then I'll go elsewhere,
don't want made-to-measure I want ready-to-wear
I want to buy my
clothes off-the-peg