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His family taught him right from wrong
With local tales and children's songs
Sunday school was his shelter
With his friends, Joe and Walter
Now those days seem far away
An empty swing where he once played
Now Bill's grown so fat and bald
He never thought that he'd grow old
And every day when he gets the train
Looks out the window and thinks in vain
If I could only be that boy again
His sales job, it gets him down
Same old faces, same old sounds
Heart attacks, orthopaedic backs
Documents in labelled racks
His wife can't stand the sight of him
With his routine glass of gin
She makes his lunch of processed ham
And waits in for the meter man
And every day when he gets the train
Looks out the window and thinks in vain
If I could only be that boy again
(Take it away, Bill)
If he could be that boy again
Another day, another gin
His kids don't even notice him
Something different about his face
His happy smile seems out of place
His family gathered 'round for tea
Eyes fixed on their new telly
A newsflash came, then it said
Bill McCai was just found dead
No more windows, no more trains
Hung himself out in the rain
Now he'll never be that boy again
And we say "Bye-bye, Bill McCai"
Bye-bye, Bill McCai
Bye-bye, Bill McCai
With local tales and children's songs
Sunday school was his shelter
With his friends, Joe and Walter
Now those days seem far away
An empty swing where he once played
Now Bill's grown so fat and bald
He never thought that he'd grow old
Looks out the window and thinks in vain
If I could only be that boy again
Same old faces, same old sounds
Heart attacks, orthopaedic backs
Documents in labelled racks
His wife can't stand the sight of him
With his routine glass of gin
She makes his lunch of processed ham
And waits in for the meter man
Looks out the window and thinks in vain
If I could only be that boy again
(Take it away, Bill)
His kids don't even notice him
Something different about his face
His happy smile seems out of place
His family gathered 'round for tea
Eyes fixed on their new telly
A newsflash came, then it said
Bill McCai was just found dead
Hung himself out in the rain
Now he'll never be that boy again
And we say "Bye-bye, Bill McCai"
Bye-bye, Bill McCai
Bye-bye, Bill McCai
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wow. i've never actually seen those lyrics, but theyre so sad. i really like this song. i only just recently got into the coral, but i realised that i had liked a few of their songs for a while. the last verse gets to me - 'No more windows, no more trains Hung himself out in the rain Now he'll never be that boy again' so sad.
the lyrics are so sad but the corals music is always so strangely upbeat, thats whats great about them, it makes it all quite surreal.
I notice this song has some VERY faint whispering in the left channel during the guitar solo (there are also hand claps, but the whispering is distinct from those). I'm not sure if it's actual words though; it sounds kind of like the lead singer just making breathy whisper sounds. Whatever the case, it certainly adds to the song's wistful and ominous nature.
I love this song! It takes a very skilled artist to be able to mix a bleak meaning with such an upbeat tune, as InColour said it's very surreal However I can't be the only one to get slightly uncomfortable at the use of "hung" when referring to a person rather than the grammatically correct "hanged"?
Good lyrics. Very sad. Check it out in the Zero's New Blood skate vid.
this song is pretty sad, I also discovered this great song from new blood.
I really want them to change the words to "Bye bye Bill Ryder-Jones" now that he's left the band :-(