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Take you to the cinema
and leave you in a Wimpy Bar --
you tell me that we've gone to far --
come running up to me.
Make the scene at Cousin Jack's --
leave him put the bottles back --
mends his glasses that I cracked --
well that one's up to me.
Buy a silver cloud to ride --
pack the tennis club inside --
trouser cuffs hung far too wide --
well it was up to me.
Tyres down on your bicicle --
your nose feels like an icicle --
the yellow fingered smoky girl
is looking up to me.
Well I'm a common working man
with a half of bitter -- bread and jam
and if it pleases me I'll put one on you man --
when the copper fades away.
The rainy season comes to pass --
the day-glo pirate sinks at last --
and if I laughed a bit to fast.
Well it was up to me.
and leave you in a Wimpy Bar --
you tell me that we've gone to far --
come running up to me.
Make the scene at Cousin Jack's --
leave him put the bottles back --
mends his glasses that I cracked --
well that one's up to me.
Buy a silver cloud to ride --
pack the tennis club inside --
trouser cuffs hung far too wide --
well it was up to me.
Tyres down on your bicicle --
your nose feels like an icicle --
the yellow fingered smoky girl
is looking up to me.
Well I'm a common working man
with a half of bitter -- bread and jam
and if it pleases me I'll put one on you man --
when the copper fades away.
The rainy season comes to pass --
the day-glo pirate sinks at last --
and if I laughed a bit to fast.
Well it was up to me.
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Actually, Anomaly57 , it's completely the opposite - Everything he does is his decision - no predestination, no invisible friend to blame things on or ask forgiveness from. It's up to ME what I do, my responsibility and my mistakes.
@AlanOldie Exactly!
@AlanOldie Exactly!
i love this song.
I think that, keeping with the overall theme of the album, this song is about blaming your mistakes and problems on God. "me" in the song i think is god. After you got wasted in a bar, punched out your cousin, you would go to god for forgiveness. It could also be about a guy who always comes running to his friend for help. And eventually the friend just gets sick of it and laughs at the guy's mistakes. Pretty good song though.
@Anomaly57 Cousin Jack's is a food chain just like Wimpy Bar was
@Anomaly57 Cousin Jack's is a food chain just like Wimpy Bar was
Well, when I heart it for the first time when it was new, it was one of the ones that spoke to me, though I couldn't make out all the things it said.
One thing I liked was the attention grabbing flute work contrasting to the plain speaking in the lines (even when the a phrase was a biblical one like 'comes to pass').
Been pondering Anomaly57 thoughts about how the speaker was God. Maybe, though the use of "we" at first, and the "Now Im a common working man..." stanza belies it.
No, I think the singer is just a young man beginning to realize how, unlike when he was younger, it is virtually all up to him, even the things that aren't -- to fascinate a girl, to accidently damage his cousin's glasses in a row, to wear his pants the way he likes, and if he has had a few and doesn't like your face, to try and change it.
He definetly likes it all being up to him.
I'd never heard of a "Wimpy Bar" before, not being from the UK. Luckily Wikipedia came to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpy_%28restaurant%29
A Silver Cloud is a Rolls-Royce car. Here is another Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Cloud
@froggyziffle Sure, that's easy, but what's he saying here?
@froggyziffle Sure, that's easy, but what's he saying here?
Not as much as I do!
I don't get it.
I hadn't thought of that Anomal57, but it seems likely to me.
Great song, great album, great band (one of only two bands to have scored a 5 star album with me, not to say that I don't like much music, just that I have high standards).
Of course, that 5 star album is Thick as a Brick.
I don't really have an exegesis for this song yet, but isn't "Cousin Jack" a reference to a person from Cornwall? A cornish miner?
@waynecullinan it's a food chain.
@waynecullinan it's a food chain.