apr200songs

ANTI-PATRIOT (MUSCUTT)
We�re told to obey they explained one day in a disused hospital waiting room
They tell us to love our masters to love the way they let us live
But there�s another way to go another road to change your feelings another day without this pride is all I need
Another way to challenge what they say because to some they lie to change the truth what lies
Behind the masks of office blocks does it hide people like us who ignored the patriot games
We�ll never know and we�ll never see what they�ve got in store for you and me
Just go on pretending we love our country day after day

I really, really detest those beered up wankers who seem to populate every single pub during any major competition that our country is involved in, such as the World Cup. Those sorts just always seem to end up being on the news, beating the shit out of local people abroad and giving us a bad name. Sometimes I really hate being British, and football violence seems to be the cause of that. And war as well, but I think we try not to get into too many of those. We seem to win wars though (WW2 anyone?)�which is about the only thing this country seems to win nowadays.

VOYEUR (MUSCUTT)
My time is coming my time is coming soon and you�ll never see me I come here by night I spy without sound
When I come here you act out your deepest fantasies under cover of darkness
Come to me I�ll make your fantasies come true I never knew you saw me every time
Without reform I�m coming and going as you speak to me
Now I know your deepest fantasies I think you need to find another way
To make your dreams come true and I never realised you did it all for me
I never knew you saw me every single time
But now you�re running away from me now you�re closing yourself down without regret

A concept piece about a man who spies on a woman every night as she is getting undressed, and never realises that she�s secretly putting on a show for him and knew he was watching her all along. Bit of a twist there, which I always like to see in songs.

DAMN, GIRL KID (PART TWO-LEFT TO DIE IN A FAMILIAR PLACING) (MUSCUTT)
Waiting here waiting here to drown it reminds me of sin in a place I saw in a pre-birth dream
Now I�m going down I�m sinking towards life it reminds me of war in a place I saw in days gone by
Now I�m breathing space that�s filling my lungs it reminds me of hate
In a place I saw in real life somewhere familiar in my short life

Now �Damn Girl Kid� is in fact an anagram of something or someone�s name, but I can�t remember whose! Any answers on a postcard would be gratefully received. Anyway, this song is quite sick in a way, in that it deals with the abandoning of a baby in a river. Then as the baby�s drowning the point of view switches and the baby is basically saying that drowning reminds it of being inside it�s mother�s womb. I don�t know why part two was written first, probably so I could do a �prequel� song at a later point.

PLATFORM 55 (MUSCUTT)
Take the pain it�s easy tonight take the blame nobody saw you come here
You thought it would be different but now you�re standing on the tracks and it�s coming
She has a night train to nowhere and she�s standing on 63
Sees a man climb down to hazards feels she has to intervene thinks of God as he waits for the train to come
She thinks of bad things as the train hits 59 and as the girl makes 61 we know she�ll never get there in time
Take the pain it�s easy tonight but now the knives are out and the cards are down
It�s as though he�s been and gone before

This song was originally called �Death On Platform 96�, and was about five times longer, but as with most of the songs here, it got shortened. It�s about a man committing suicide on a railway line, and a woman who tries to save him, but to no avail. In the longer version that got changed, she actually did save the man, but that was too happy an ending. It comes from a real story about one of my brother�s friends who saved some guy from killing himself on a railway line in London. His name is Paul, so hello to him.

RURAL (MUSCUTT)
Life seems too simple when there�s nothing left to do remain in your dream home you always wanted
Life takes all meaning when you consider it done it changes day by day but you�ve ignored it for so long
The fields they surround you the sky surrounds the space above you life seems too empty life seems too long
Nobody comes to corrupt you anymore nobody replies to your signals
And you live too empty and you live too long are you sure you�re not the only one left in the world
It wouldn�t make any difference but when the night time comes you�ll run
When life seems too empty it seems too long when life seems too pointless it seems all wrong
When life is over you feel hard done by it�s all wrong it�s all wrong it�s too long

This is about living in the country, and how you always see those remote country farm houses when you�re driving at night and I just keep thinking �they look so remote�. It must get really lonely living like that, it�s so out of the way. I�d probably go a bit like Jack Nicholson in �The Shining� if I had to live there�