'Workshy and High'

[Greeny]

As I think this is the only song that name-checks Jeremy Kyle* and Baudelaire in the same verse 

Here's another one of mine (sorry...), with me on guitars (Les Paul Gold Top) and vocals and Flash Harry doing the bass part with typical panache and precision. It's a song about lazing around in a state of intoxication rather than working. Part truth, part wishful thinking 

*Jeremy Kyle is the UK's third-rate equivalent of Jerry Springer

LYRICS....

Lying in wait like an alligator
Watching Jeremy Kyle with a vodka chaser
The clock is ticking by
Everybody skives off once in a while
But I lie a-bed in the Baudelaire style
In a swoon of poems and wine

Workshy and high
Why do we even try?
When we are all dead anyway

Workshy and high
Why do we even try?
When we are all dead anyway

So squeeze the sunshine from each day
So squeeze the sunshine from each day
It's better to be...
Workshy and High

I never thought life was a bed of roses
But each working day's like escape from Colditz
Beneath their barbed wire smiles
I found my future in a glass down the pub
Now I float on it's surface like a rubber duck
As the clouds weep and cry

Workshy and high
Why do we even try?
When we are all dead anyway

Workshy and high
Why do we even try?
When we are all dead anyway

So squeeze the sunshine from each day
So squeeze the sunshine from each day
It's better to be...
Workshy and High

[SE]

Excellent as ever been there done it and read the book, actually off on official holiday for two weeks but still can,t face the old JK, your songwriting is really top quaility.

[tafka]

I never thought life was a bed of roses
But each working day's like escape from Colditz

Brilliant.
another great song Tim & Mike.

Tony J.

[Oldrottenhead]

take it you have had a shit week at work tim, another belter.
talking of which i better get to work myself bugger.

[Bluesberry]

This one has the feel and smell of pure inspiration about it. Bravo. It is dark stuff for sure.

[Greeny]

A weird video for it is at soundclick if anyone's interested...

http://members.soundclick.com/share/83037

[Guitar-Maniac]

 
you got a natural talent for writing lyrics, how the hell
does all these words just flow out like that!!

good stuff m8.

[Wiley]

You just keep on coming up with those lyrics and songs.  I am very envious.  But keep them coming.

[Ferryman_1957]

Another great one, like the different style. Hint of the Small Faces there? Flash sounds a bit like Ronnie Lane..... Like the Donovan reference as well

Cheers,

Nigel

[Greeny]

Another great one, like the different style. Hint of the Small Faces there? Flash sounds a bit like Ronnie Lane..... Like the Donovan reference as well

Cheers,

Nigel

Yes... Donovan is a massive influence / hero, so wanted to add a little homage at the end. And 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake' is a very special album to me, so Small Faces are usually quite close at hand in influence terms. I thought this was more like 'It's getting better' by The Beatles, but I can hear the Small Faces leanings now.

Flash continues to get the vibe just right - it just makes it very easy for me to know he'll nail the bass part perfectly within the context of each and every song.