From the booke - Put Your Bum To Work. This is an old, old Demo that I think catches the spirit of the song better than my fully scored and multi-tracked takes. The short Take 3 which soon broke down is added to it.
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put your bum to work
Story behind the song
From the booke - Put Your Bum To Work. In my 5th collection of songs, I was trying to crank out a bunch of pieces in a hurry - and this is the case, where a good song just floated down onto the paper perfect; funny, melodramatic, sentimental, forceful, lifting, lonely and self-perpetuating. I've been unable to improve the lyric much since.
- This is an old, old Demo that I think catches the spirit of the song better than my fully scored and multi-tracked takes. The short Take 3 which soon broke down is added to it. The last and best take was Take #6 but like this it has a few glitches in it. I need to do a new mix of it.
Lyrics
Play This Song - by Patrick Thomas Connolly
Please, play this here song for me.
I want to hear it
cause I ain't heard it in so long.
It was a long time ago,
When everyone liked to listen, Listen,
Listen to this hear song.
But it past with the year
And they've all forgotten now.
Well, Id like to remember back that year.
I've got to here that song again.
We used to go here and there,
And oh how We cared.
Walking along sandy beaches
and hearing the sand sea.
But its all over now
and its only in my head.
It used to be me and her.
(Have you all forgotten now?)
But now its only me waiting,
here to hear only
Just to hear that song again.
Its a song about a lonely boy,
and how things ain't what they used to be,
but this song helps to bring them back.
Oh the past it can't be back.
But its nice to remember,
Remember,
Remember the nice things gone.