6. Good Days Bad Days

Follow the underdog
Hold on his collar tight
This city loves a scrap
One day it's gonna bite
Sticks and stones and animal bones
Can't stop me from having a good day
On a bad day
There's good days and bad days

Making a night of it
Breaking down barriers
Drowning your sorrows
Upset the regulars
Sticks and stones and animal bones
Can't stop me from getting away with
Good days on bad days

If you had a different attitude
Instead of take and take and take
You have missed an opportunity
And that's a really big mistake
If you had a different attitude
You'd still have good days and bad days

7. Tomato In The Rain

Like a tomato in the rain I've got that feeling again
Like a grey hound in a race I've got a rabbit to chase

Roland and me
Know what's going down
We got the remedy
For what's going around

Like a beetle on his back I've got to get back on track
Or a policeman on the take, weighted down in a lake

If the wheel falls off your cart
Hammer in a nail or two
Before it falls apart
Keep adding more nails and glue

Yes I do!
I know about you
Shall I come home?

Roland rat and me
Know what's going down
We got our memories
It all comes back around

8. Half The Truth

Girl and boy
Everything in full swing
Heads or tails
Doesn't make a difference
Beneath the glamour
There was always gonna be
Amateur dramatics
A lot of bad behaviour

I would see
Glasses on the table
One two three
But only you and me
Wearing nothing
In the lap of luxury
Sipping slowly
Not a leg to stand on

Take my money
Waste of paper
Leave the table
Bad behaviour

I got my spies
Sitting with me constantly
To be my eyes
And tell me what I see
Cos a ghost
Don't feel love or nothing
Teflon cow
Get ready for the credit clobber

Secret mole
Getting it together
With a big bowl
Of alphabet spaghetti
Watch the birdie
Looking through the mirror
Polly want a cracker?
That's not what I heard

Gentlemen,
Turn off your recorders
I can hear them buzzing
From inside of your tracksuits
Got to get to
California
Where this woman
Is threatening to sue me

Get right back
Back to the beginning
Where we start off single
And everything's in full swing
Everyone's around you wearing big old hats
Come on
I'm playing the piano now

I will not lie to you
But I definitely only gave you half the truth
I will not lie to you

9. Always Happens Like That

Yeh! We plugged it in
And we turned it on
And we made it up
As we went along

And it always happens like that

So we made a film
Starring you and me
Just hanging around
Turned out to be a smash

And it always happens like that

You can do what you like
But you can't do that
You can say what you want
But you can't say that
You can go anywhere
But you can't go there

That looks like a letter that I don't want to open

And we broke into
The muncipal pool
And we turned it in-
To a madrigal

And we made a vow
To the holy cow
And we set it up
Just to knock it down

10. Addicted To Drugs

Getting married in the morning
It's hardly peaches and cream
We haven't got a lot in common
Except the daily routine

Nothing on the television
Just the dust on the screen
So come on lets get together
Why don't we join a team?

You might as well face it you're addicted to drugs
You might as well face it you're addicted

The greatest poet of the sixth form
Turned out to be a fraud
Man you got a lot of buddies
How do you know them all?

11. Remember You're A Girl

Pick the one you take
Love the one you're with
You're going down the wrong road
And it doesn't even matter

A prize in every pack
Take it from the top
You're going down the wrong road
And it doesn't even matter

Remember you're a girl remember you're a boy
'Cause interesting people will always spread the joy
'Cause interesting people get away with it

It's time to run the race
We're all on the way
You're going down the wrong road
And it doen't even matter

Show up on the day
Take it all the way
You're living in the wrong time
And it doesn't even matter

Forget that you're a boy forget that you're a girl
'Cause interesting people will always run the world
'Cause interesting people get away with it all the time

The Future Is Medieval (2011)



1.     Little Shocks
2.     Things Change
3.     Long Way From Celebrating
4.     Starts With Nothing
5.     Out Of Focus
6.     Dead Or In Serious Trouble
7.     When All Is Quiet
8.     Kinda Girl You Are
9.     Man On Mars
10.     Child Of The Jago
11.     Heard It Break
12.     Coming Up For Air
13.     If You Will Have Me
14.     City (iTunes Bonus Track)

1. Little Shocks

I don't want much, I'm happy with what I've got,
On the second floor, I pass a ruffian on the stairs,
What the driver saw, through the letter box of number four,
I don't have much, It will be deafening when I do

And all these little shocks, I'll be riding my imaginary dynamo,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't

Bless my heart, and everything will be explained,
In the diaries, especially the latter part.
I'll be a somebody, I found an empty glass today at home,
Give me ability, turn up the pedal away from his hand

And all these little shocks, I'll be riding my imaginary dynamo,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't,
I wish I could have you just a little bit more just a little bit more of your time,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't

I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't [x5]

And all these little shocks I'll be riding my imaginary dynamo,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't,
I wish I could have just a little bit more, just a little bit more of your time,
I wish I could give you undivided attention every minute of the day but I can't

2. Things Change

Separate me from...
Separate this...

Life is all, life is always tales of lost and living
I could almost feel the breath that you were almost giving
I could see the silence in the way that you were talking
I could leave the signs and sirens if I could ignore it

Friday night, lose a little liberty
Saturday night, lose a lot of money
Sunday night, think about Friday
All my life, things change

Things change
Things change
Life is separated
Things change

Things change
Almost every day
In almost every way

Sights and sound of love is all that's left of modern living
Search for signs of life down alleyways of hidden cities

Friday night, lose a bit of sympathy
Saturday night, lose a lot of money
Sunday night, think about Friday
All my life, things change
Things change

Sights and sounds of modern living
I just can't do without the sights and sounds of modern living

Things change
Things change
Things change

Sights and sounds of modern living
Sights and sounds I just can't do without

Things change
Almost every day
In almost every way

Sights and sounds of modern living
I just can't do without the sights and sounds of modern living

I told the doctor, "Separate us"
He warned us, "Both may not survive"
Things change

3. Long Way From Celebrating

I'm only here trying to make a living
I need another midnight idea
Forty-five bottles lay abandoned
And my discount disappeared
Two lines written in the paper
And one of them is my name
I'm a long long way from celebrating
And it's never gonna be the same

Do I miss you?
I don't know
I just need something
For my soul
'Cos I'm a long long way from celebrating

Ever since I knew that you were crazy
You're like a human TV
Spending time with you is some challenge
With a reaction guaranteed
We'll all be home in time for tea and medals
And I could lick the pattern off a plate
I'm a long long way from celebrating
It's gonna be bitter sweet

Do I miss you?
I don't know
I just need something
For my soul
'Cos I'm a long long way from celebrating

Would I miss you?
Don't think so
Just gimme something
For my soul
'Cos I'm a long long way from celebrating