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Pressure on Julian Lyrics
Only the magical transit children,
sing, sing the lullaby, bah bah bah.
Sitting on the pavement, sucking on a long straw.
It's colorful, it's colorful, but it washes you out.
Here is my violence, and here is the excuse.
I learned it all, but only second hand.
Falling into walls, well what is it with you.
You never know, never know, never know.
[Chorus]
We planned it all this way
We planned it all this way
Pressure on Julian.
Swimming in yellow pissy water.
Sand getting in between their ears.
No blood in head in this bloddy weather.
Irate people with yellow tounges.
Only the magical transit children,
sing, sing the lullaby, bah bah bah.
Falling into walls, well what is it with you.
You never know, never know, never know.
[Chorus]
(There was pressure on Julian, pushing trolleys in the car park, from B to A,
then back to B. Pressure on Julian, he keeps passing out,
Poor, precious little snout, the birds are singing at night.
Pressure on Julian)
[Chorus]
sing, sing the lullaby, bah bah bah.
Sitting on the pavement, sucking on a long straw.
It's colorful, it's colorful, but it washes you out.
I learned it all, but only second hand.
Falling into walls, well what is it with you.
You never know, never know, never know.
We planned it all this way
We planned it all this way
Pressure on Julian.
Sand getting in between their ears.
No blood in head in this bloddy weather.
Irate people with yellow tounges.
sing, sing the lullaby, bah bah bah.
Falling into walls, well what is it with you.
You never know, never know, never know.
then back to B. Pressure on Julian, he keeps passing out,
Poor, precious little snout, the birds are singing at night.
Pressure on Julian)
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Also Julian Cope's known for taking LSD regularly for a long time and it's had a harsh effect on his sanity.
"It's colourful, it's colourful, but it washes you out."
So perhaps there was pressure on Julian to take drugs so that he would write far out songs & act like a spaced-out rock star and all that began to take its toll.
Or perhaps he took LSD to deal with the pressure there was on him to write more hits for the Teardrop Explodes.
A song about Julian Cope as far as I'm aware...
Yeah, it's about Julian Cope. Dave Balfe, their boss at Food records and the person "Country House" is based on, used to be the keyboardist for the Teardrop Explodes - Julian Cope was their lead singer. So it was a bit of a dig at Balfe, who I think Damon detests.