Category: Diary
They might have been the biggest hyped rock band of 1999 (oh remember the glory days, Darren, when you had FUN), but this tune is pretty neat for namechecking Aerosmith and Kraftwerk. The album “Leisure Noise”, a title that sounds as if it might have been nicked from Brian Eno, wasn’t THAT bad. Quite spacey and accomplished for 1999.
But the upbeat, balls-in-your-face, euphoric drive of this song always gets me by the scruff of the neck and pulls me upwards towards the light. The dying coda, complete with some of the most sensible lyrics ever penned, have been helpful in these rough times and have been my mantra.
It’s so easy to complain
Take a look around
Everything’s OK
Make it easy
Take your time
Let it go
And drift away…
Very zen, very buddhist…and ain’t it daft to take solace from a song by a band that everyone hated? Thank goodness for YouTube and its loyal users for uploading these occasional and hard-to-find treats.
The Missus often says to me: “Oi fat git, you know we are still the same people we were when we met. We are happier with nothing, just keeping it simple, just walking the streets, record collecting…”
But then you get a big idea and suddenly make everything so complicated for yourself. Alex the Wonderdog keeps looking at me with an accusatory stare, he says to me: “Why did you have to go and ruin everything? We had a sweet thing, we had a nice life, you know.”
Currently, entering the third day of stomach cramps…probably the stress. Oh well, decisions are slowly being made. Endgame approaches soon…I hope.
Here is yesterday’s track with added words. It’s a pithy little number. Like I said: a bilious, cathartic, purge of a song. Not sure if it works. Here are the words so you can sing-along, yes indeedy…
It Seemed Such a Good Idea at the Time
What was I thinking?
It was the perfect plan
A way to take control
The best way to be a man
Stand up and be counted
Don’t get pushed around
But punch above your weight
And they’ll only knock you down
I never make mistakes
But this was the biggest and best
All that could go wrong went wrong
It all seemed like one big test
And you stumble
From one disaster to the next
And start to wonder
How you got into this fucking mess
And you hope
That everything turns out fine
It’s funny how
It seemed such a good idea at the time
You saw me coming
A fool and his money
To be parted quickly
But that joke isn’t funny
They sold off the family silver
Before you arrived
Death by a thousand cunts, more like
Wondering how you can survive
But you have your hand
The one that’s dealt you
And you play the game to your rules
And not the way they want you to
And you stumble
From one disaster to the next
And start to wonder
How you got into this fucking mess
And you hope
That everything turns out fine
It’s funny how
It seemed such a good idea at the time
Then you came out of nowhere
Found us, no surprise
I could sense it coming
From the moment I arrived
To see the stars through the missing wall
You running into the night
The smell of brick dust, gas and plaster
The car on its roof, smoking alight
A warzone brought to my door
You could have wiped us out
Lucky just my home was smashed
With us evacuated into the night
And you stumble
From one disaster to the next
And start to wonder
How you got into this fucking mess
And you hope
That everything turns out fine
It’s funny how
It seemed such a good idea at the time
So the process to begin again
And men who don’t care for you
Argue over the value of your sorrow
So you sit and wonder what you can do
I’ve learnt that there is no insurance
To fix the pieces of a broken mind
No compensation for the mental scars
As you wait for the healing time
Seconds into minutes into hours
Into days into weeks into months
And after a year you are back at the start
With no map, no compass or hope in your heart
And you stumble
From one disaster to the next
And start to wonder
How you got into this fucking mess
And you hope
That everything turns out fine
It’s funny how
It seemed such a good idea at the time
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This is the latest track I’ve put down for “The Luckiest Man in the World” album. The lyric is written, so I’ve just got to find the right time to sit down and yodel it into my microphone. It’s a story of doom and gloom – you’ll like it. It’s all carthartic and part of the process, I guess. But this is just do-it-by-numbers song writing. I’m not very good at crafting proper songs so they always feel a little half-baked to me.
Anyway, I hope to bring the full version with all the lyrics here soon. Enjoy!
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Being a stat-whore, I just looked at my download stats for the past 24 hours and it seems that there has been nearly 1700 downloads of my latest podcast, shifting a whopping great 50200868 Kbytes (or 48 Gbytes) of data shifted. If only I had a quid for each download. 🙁
If this rate of data download continues, I wouldn’t be surprised if my host closes me down for a breach of terms…
Well it has been four years coming and now you can feast in the auditory delight of me speaking about various songs I’ve done in an attempt to engage and enthuse my audience with the last four sets of recordings I’ve released into the wild. The stories are faintly amusing, there’s a realistic sound effect of a firework going off and you have 1 hour 20 minutes of pure Lock action. It’s too good to miss. Download it today and send the link in an email to someone you don’t like.
DO IT. DO IT NOW!
And for those of who you actually know how to use the Internet, you can lock onto the actual podcast feed via this handy linkoid:
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