FROM "FAG ASH AND BEER"
MORNING TOWN
Look out the window, how the area’s changed
But not indoors it’s roughly the same
The streets are alive with your friends tonight
Stay out till dawn, have a really good time
I don’t know if it means that much
Some say it doesn’t mean a thing at all
But it’s good to be above the ground
The right way up in Morning Town
I walked the long long walk of shame
I drove the endless roads of regret
There’s no u-turns on the one way street
I sought the trail through all the heartache
Don’t know if it means a thing
Some say it doesn’t very much at all
But I know that I love you a lot
Tonight in Morning Town
Then Death was standing on the other side of my door
I looked up at him, he was ten feet tall or more
He’s dressed in black in his moth-eaten rags
I reached for the shotgun that I kept close to hand
He swung down with his gleaming scythe
I gunned him twice, he shot up into the sky
The people came running from all around
When they heard the sound in Morning Town
FAG ASH AND BEER
The Moon rolls back and it’s right on time tonight
Trying to find my way back from your place to mine
Following the old disused railway tracks
The rusted steel and the mossy slats
We came to the cemetery after a while
and lay down by the broken tomb
The ghosts had long since flown, leaving just us two
Your tongue’s in my ear, and your scent’s in my clothes
The lust rose from our throats akin to fear
And the fag ash and beer wasn’t a sacrament
But it was pretty damn close
GENEVIEVE ALRIGHT
Genevieve’s alright
She’s like the sun tonight
Genevieve’s alright
She’s like the sun tonight
I didn’t know what I was looking for
But I’d seen your face before
Strumming chords, feeling low
Swimming in fjords
The day gave into night
The night broke into day
I had second sight
But I didn’t see you coming this way
The days are getting longer
Your heart is full of hunger
The days are getting shorter
You can’t hold back the water
Down the hills
And the falls
The animals take fright
And the birds all take to flight
From the fear deep inside
At the road you shouldn’t go
In case you turn to stone
The days are getting longer
And your heart is full of hunger
Wild woods and thunder
Tear your heart asunder
You’re gonna need some armour
If you wear your heart upon your sleeve
Genevieve’s alright
Like the sun tonight
Genevieve’s alright
Like the sun tonight
Through the night you have to go
Keep on going on your own
See her, expecting so
JONAH PART 1
In the days when the heavens were closer to the earth
And voices from above were more frequently heard
The Lord called down to Jonah one afternoon
He said “listen up, I’ve got a job I need you to do
I need you to go to Nineveh, thirty days to the east
You won’t believe the sinners living there,
the men are worse than beasts
I want you to preach to them and get them to change their ways
And if they don’t, you can tell them I’ll lay them waste in forty days”
Jonah said he’d get right on the case
But he had a change of mind,
and he took a boat that was bound for Tartish instead
And the Lord wasn’t so pleased about this turn of events
He sent a great storm across the seas to teach him some sense
And the sailors couldn’t believe the scene before their eyes
Some of the waves heading their way were a hundred feet high
The ship pitched and rolled in mountains of the sea,
and the Captain cried out “This is like nothing I’ve ever seen”
They threw off everything they could to lighten the fatal load
And they prayed to their gods above to save their mortal souls
And Jonah was asleep below the deck
“How can you sleep on this nervous wreck?”
Get on your knees and start praying too
So they all prayed in the howling wind
but their prayers just blew away
They said “one of us has got to be to blame for this,
let’s draw lots and get a name”
The Captain took a fistful of straws for each one to choose
And when it was Jonah’s turn to draw, the shortest one he drew
So they asked him “Who are, and what you have done?”
And he said “I’m on the run. The Almighty one,
has sent the storm for me. Pick me up and throw me in,
it will calm the raging sea”
But the sailors were the decent kind,
they had no blood on their hands
So they tried to make it back to land and save every man
They rowed till their backs packed in and had to drop their oars
They prayed for forgiveness, and threw him overboard
“Oh Lord I’m in the dead of night
Lost, alone, I’m really in it this time
Throw me a lifeline, won’t you please!”
FROM JAKE AARON EP
DALSTON KINGSLAND
When your energy starts to wane
And you're filled with woe
Get on the first train you can and head into Soho
You may look up at the skies
You may wonder why
From time to time, you may even want to cry
I've got mates with tastes in all things Asian
I'm getting off the train at Dalston Kingsland station
My mate Matt wears plaits; it's a little bit unnerving
He takes a dive at a shoal of girls
Tonight they're just too flighty though
I’ve got mates with tastes in all things Asian
I’ve got A.D.D I never pay attention
Look here comes Amy, she’s really pretty
She’s got holes in her lobes like a Maori
Outside the English are getting rowdy with their Stella and wode
The Pilgrim Fathers have all sailed back home
Round the fire, in Uniqlo
The night starts to glow
Over the new frontier under the old estate
An old guy's worse for wear, he’s seen it all and better days
A dog is off the leash, it’s all skull and teeth
People make their way hastily to the other side of the street
Yeah mate he’s only playing says its keeper
You can’t see his face; he’s hooded like the Reaper
The Police turn up to maintain some order
As the streets fill up and the barman rings the bell to call last orders
In the distance sirens start to whine
Then we hear the cry
This place would blow sky high if I gave the sign
1790
It’s not the way you move or comb your hair
The way you look at me when the lights go down oh yeah
You see I’m a just a sucker for your every way
And stay with you till the end of days
It’s not the way you smile or hold my hand
What you say to me when there’s no one else around
It was in French though it was not too profound
Dying on the lawn in the leaves in 1790
RECORD PLAYER
Don’t fuck with me
‘Cos I may be eighteen
But I’m going on eighty three
Don’t bang the drum
‘Cos I’m standing on the edge
And things may become undone
Grow up, grow up
But I only seem to be going around
I’m not a rock I’m a record player
Give it away like the Dalai Lama
I’m out of luck, I can’t go any higher
You’re out of reach and tonight I am on fire
I’m not a rock I’m a record player
CONSTITUTION BLUES
I really don’t think I’m going to get this right
Unless I’ve got a hundred years or so to spend on this issue
Run into the night brush back the tears
Back to the beginning another wasted year
Little old lady in the lift was asking me, so what’s the big idea
I don’t know, but if I did I wouldn’t really be here would I
with these constitution blues
These days I’ve been lost in the woods
I can’t find my way out and by now I probably should
I find the way from the stars and the moon
But my course was wrong
Because I missed that day at school
It was getting late, I was getting tired and cold
I pitched my tent, the wind started to blow
The moon came out from under a cloud
I saw the ghost standing there in a shroud
It took possession of my troubled soul
But gave it back, I can see you’ve got problems of your own
I’m going to leave you now alone in the night to stew
In your constitution blues
I went back to where I’d buried my treasure
Years ago before the stormy weather
I started to dig
I was digging all night
MY BABY WORE BLUE
My baby wore blue
Which was fitting
Cos it matched my mood
The minute she walked out the room
Come away with me honey
Things will be better
I didn't see her again
Till nineteen eighty two
She had a kid in a pram and a man on her arm
Pleasantries. My train came, it was time to leave
My baby wore black
For a funeral that afternoon
At least that's how it felt
When she broke the news
And told me she was never coming back
Outside the leaves were falling
Don't leave, stay till morning
My baby wore white
She looked almost divine
Walking her dog by the side of the Serpentine
I’d seen her in a dream or another lifetime
I made my way quick, she was my lifeline
Across London town the church bells started to ring
It was hard to feel down about anything
Lights on the lake like jewels
I thought of all the girls I loved at school
The window shook when the bandstand blew
Smoking on the back of the bus feeling cool
The world was young and I was new
The future slept in a far off land
I take your hand, the answer I'm looking for
