SSR - Lyrics.

Hank Quinlan
This is one of our newest songs, so if you want to know the melody then you'll have to come and see us. Orson Welles is one of my obsessions, but I am hardly unique in that (JK).

Hung around on Facebook
Hung around on Instagram
Hung around the chatroom
To find out who I am
Kill myself with coffee
They’ll say it wasn’t planned
Marlene at my funeral
Saying “He was some kind of man”,
Like in Touch of Evil
Where Welles played Hank Quinlan
I’m more like his Quixote
A half-finished masterplan
 
But I'm fine
I’m moving back and forwards in time
Somebody found a fiver – that’s mine
I lost it there in ‘89
Yeah I’m fine
There’s a curve and I’m a point on the line
I’ve polished all my lies till they shine
Erase review repeat and refine

An approximation
Impersonate myself
Rich in procrastination
Happy to share the wealth

'cos I'm fine
I’m moving back and forwards in time
Somebody found a fiver – that’s mine
I lost it there in ‘89
Look I’m fine
There’s a curve and I’m a point on the line
I’ve polished all my lies till they shine
Erase review repeat and refine
 
And then the tape loops back on itself
And all this feedbacks not good for my health
And there’s no more room on the shelf
And the music goes around and around and it comes out
Here.

 

Hi Five
All about the adventures of an Alfie Elkins type in the 21st century (JK)

I know you’ve got your system, got the steam going through the pistons
Your cards are on the table, another couple hidden up your sleeve
I do believe
Don’t know why you’re so angry, it’s got me in a quandary
Is this somehow still about that night I crashed your car
Into your husband?
 
And I can’t keep a straight face when I’m hanging out at your place
Do the two of you still sit down each night and eat your dinner off that table?
That must be uncomfortable.
Do you remember in the nineties when we both went to that party
And nobody there knew us, and you told everyone you were my wife?
Best night of my life.
 
You took up with a woman, I felt that was criticism
I suppose if you break it down then I was close enough
For your favourite stuff
I don’t mind that you dropped me, it’s the height, it could have killed me
Can’t believe you hated my heart, why did you smash it into pieces?
Like Mr Jinx hated those mieces.
Well first I got the sweats, and then I got the shakes, and then I got the aches
And then I found out I was still alive
Hi five!
 
Don’t leave me hanging


Tijuana Bible
This one has been generally held by audiences to be the most complete song we have so far, it's a hit and no mistake (JK).

They’ll shut you out, they’ll lock you in
For the sins for which you’re liable
Like a priest with a recital from a Tijuana bible
They’ll build you up, they’ll do you in
Obstruct your path with chatter
Like they really think it matters if you’re the bowler or the batter
 
And on that fateful day, when the scales all fall away
You’ll have no excuse not to raise your head above the parapet
 
They’ll cut you loose, they’ll hem you in
For the sins for which you’re liable
Like a priest reading a parable from a Tijuana bible
They’ll talk you up, they’ll reign you in
Come on like your disciple
 Appropriate your likeness for their Tijuana bible
 
And on that fateful day, when the ceiling flies away
You’ll have no excuse not to raise your head above the parapet
 
Oh….I just don’t know what I am trying to say
Wishing my life away, on stories of you 
 
They’ll hurt you bad, they’ll hurt you good
For the sins for which you’re liable
Like a priest with a recital from a Tijuana Bible
They’ll hurt you bad, they’ll hurt you good
If they bring you to their level
Remember that your Hell will be that place you loved so well                  

The Undeclared War
Written on a train in a fog of concern for friends in a similar difficult situation and then enhanced beyond recognition by the band arrangement (JK)

I am bone and I am teeth
I’ve been running with the beasts
I could kill you in your sleep
Close your eyes, my darling.

As cruel as frost,
As fat as sun
The fox and I are on the run
You bring your hounds
You bring your gun
See who captures who, my darling

Alls fair in love and war
But it’s not and
Its either/or


I am sister to the moon
She says the big days coming soon
I hold the Earth, you’ve one platoon
War is over, my darling.

I know the power rests in me
Makes it frightening to be free
I’m sleeping with the enemy
Close your eyes, my darling