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Back To Ford Lane

by Just Jack

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1.
I can still see you In your beautiful pea-green boat Standing in the bow With a miniature silver Jesus Hanging at your throat¬ Love was so inaccessible Like a castle with a lava moat Tell me what can you do When it’s all too tangible And your younger self Don’t know how to cope CHORUS All that year I was kicking myself Cos I never could have loved you more You were just a public school posh But never cut glass Tear it out my chest And you can tie it to the mast It was just a crush It was just a crush It was just a crush It was only Young dopamine Sinking like a submarine Just like a memory When you duck and disappear Into a hazy shade of summer I can still see you Riding through the yard With no hands on the handle bars Expensive confidence Unaware of consequence So sure of your place in this world You were like the heir to the Greenleaf fortune And you chose my sister over me But I can hardly go about blaming you Back then everybody did You were a fully fledged Solid gold demi-god And I was just another snotty kid Trying to be rid Of this thorn in my side CHORUS So many days have gone And I realised somewhere along the line That you’re sharing a name with my son CHORUS
2.
Drag myself from my bed Around twenty past six Get my kids up Make breakfast One egg, two toast, three Weetabix And as I sit down I look up And you're standing in the doorway Sun at your back In my old brown dressing gown Well no one could love you more than I love you now But I gotta go Running for the bus Coat flying and I try not to miss it this time But the drivers waiting and that's strange Kids on the top deck quiet for a change And there's no rain and no roadworks In the bus lane and all my hurts run away And I'm smiling as I'm punching in CHORUS The day I died was the best day of my life The day I died was the best day of my life Tell my friends and my kids and my wife Everything will be alright The day I died was the best day of my life The secretaries they got a smile for me And the In-tray on my desks almost empty I get a memo from executive Joe Saying Rob the gob is getting kicked out For embezzling funds from the company account And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't chuffed 'Cause I always hated Rob And now they'll probably offer me Robs old job And in the park at lunch There's no winos on my favorite bench None of that drunk chat None of that pissy stench And the scrawny little pigeons with the gammy legs Decide to dive bomb from someone else's sandwich instead And there's something about the city today Like all the colors conspired to overwhelm the grey And this close to the fire I can feel no cold With a rainbow halo around my soul CHORUS So I leave work get to the high street and I miss my bus Should I wait for another? No I can't be arsed I begin to walk And rush hour crowd seem to part like the red sea And I'm stopping at the offy Twenty cigarettes and a six pack to relax me And as I cross back over the street I guess I never saw that taxi CHORUS
3.
The rain shuffled in on a wind from the east Equally falling on man and beast Where you sat between a rock and a wounded tree And a sorrow maybe fifty fathoms deep In gods purpose do you dwell Or did you hang your colours on the gates of hell Tears running clearer than a morning bell That I know never rang for you You should Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn And you’ve still got a lot to learn You keep reliving that spark and crack Tearing at your brain like a shark attack And there’s no cure for a Macbeth hand And the pounding in your ears like a marching band and That boy lying on the blasted grass Red wrapped round like a scarlet scarf The jokes on him so why’s it hard to laugh? Cos it’s nothing that he didn’t deserve Nobody else around made the car swerve Showing his face around here he had nerve White outline still ghost on the curb Brand new black hole so deep it’s absurd I know you miss her I know you miss her Miss her I know you do I know you do You should Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn And you’ve still got a lot to learn Twenty four nights in McCarthy’s landscape Staring down the barrel of a demon’s handshake Crossing crossroads on lost roads on off-world And scanning star maps for the eyes of a lost girl You can’t stay here much longer In the back of the Honda Another back of beyonder Too sad, too somber Feeling like hope’s a goner But I don’t wanna leave you neither Digging up the seeds of the fever You should find a phone and call your mother She told me she’s not sleeping either Nobody back home believes that what you did was right But who could be too quick to blame If they’d been in the same position you were They’d have all done the same I know you miss her I know you miss her Miss her I know you do I know you do You should Go down to the river side Where the fishes in shadow’s glide Stay and rest your weary limbs On the edge of where the end begins Go down to the river’s turn Where the secrets in shadows burn Your scars were never hard to earn And you’ve still got a lot to learn
4.
The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle Everything that you thought you knew The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle From the very first breath you drew And the petty decisions That we think make a difference Are so tiny that they blow away like dust Embers embers embers embers Through all of the devilish things we do Through all of the devilish things we do Through all of the devilish things we do Through all of the devilish things we do I can’t help my stupid hope It’s always with me I can’t help my stupid hope It’s always with me I can’t help my stupid hope It’s always with me I can’t help my stupid hope It’s always with me The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle Everything that you thought you knew The facts and the figures They overwhelm and stifle From the very first breath you drew And the petty decisions That we think make a difference Are so tiny that they blow away like dust We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire We are all embers from the same fire
5.
I still can’t believe that you love me girl I’ve always been an average guy Never even been that sociable I’d rather stay home and get Some sleep with you, just eat with you We’ve got kids to feed and mysteries to solve And hands to hold and common colds to cure And there’s only one thing I know for sure We need CHORUS One night alone Yes just One night alone I know it’s only One night alone But it’ll be fabulous, fantastical And quite good Has it really been thirteen years Only unlucky for some I doubt I could have been more into you If cupid had a submachine gun And I know, and I know, And I know, and I know Sometimes it’s boring and tedious Feels like the feeling is leaving us but Hold on just a little bit longer Stay with me And I know eventually we’ll get CHORUS Don’t interrupt me while I’m speaking Daddy got drunk on the weekend Tried to bust a move like MJ Still be paying for it in ten days Feeling uncomfortable like a futon I just need my fucking kid to get her shoes on I’ve asked her about five million times And the five million rhymes Is the… *mumble mumble* See? Tiredness has got me rambling Half the time I don’t know what the hell’s happening I spend days just distractedly wrangling Play Dough mangling, trampoline trampling And I swear that we could sleep for a decade Just as soon as we get this double bed made But I know we’re only heading for a headache Four in the morning going off like a grenade Still late night sipping on lemonade Me and Mr Attenborough Nature’s renegades Next doors cat’s doing the moonlit serenade Sometimes this is the hardest game we’ve ever played Take a breath CHORUS
6.
She's got a whole lot of disco friends Disco ladies and gentlemen Eating their faces from the inside out Freaky dancing til the late am Music dripping down the wall like sweat She's catching fishies in her disco net Blowing kisses in the powder room Slowly sucking on a cigarette CHORUS And the girl knew exactly what to do And when she walked into the room Everybody just stopped to stare You’re gonna know When we’re coming back down again She knows an awful lot of disco kids Novelty sun glasses and mullet wigs She says she wants to be a stylist Or maybe something in the music business Daddy’s rich, mummy’s beautiful They always said she'd make a top model But now she's hiding out in disco land A happy clappy trustafarian CHORUS
7.
I’m moving your mental feet in complex dances and jigs I loosen up your consciousness like syrup of figs It’s time to emerge from camouflage leaves and twigs Time to throw away the fake noses and fright wigs Time to face the music no more metaphor Time to decide your fate will you be cooked or go raw Will you be rare and bloody with your soul exposed Or well done, a charcoal surface with your insides froze And do you feel fear as you hear another door close Or will you just turn away and float where to wind blows And are you still satisfied with the pathways you chose Or would you like to go back and rewrite the old prose CHORUS Do you count the flakes when it snows And can you feel the heat or only the afterglows Do you count the flakes when it snows Yeah Do you count the leaves when they fall And can you feel anything at all Do you count the leaves when they fall Yeah And does your life sometimes feel like one big fake orgasm A gut reaction, instinctive spasm in the chasm And do your problems metamorphose into Rubik’s cubes Keep twisting and turning becoming more confused Do you sometimes feel like you’ve been used and abused Your not physically black and blue but on the inside bruised And does your love life leave you feeling kinda bemused You’ve played all the games and you’re no longer amused CHORUS Sometimes it feels like I’m looking through a pane of glass I can see your mouth move but can’t hear the words CHORUS
8.
There’s a little lake of tears In the middle of the kitchen table And she watches as another one Drips from his nose into the deep And he keeps talking and talking and talking But talk is cheap and weak and watered down Just another awkward sound she doesn’t need to hear He’s just a shadow only half a man And she can hardly muster even half a damn about this Sorry situation In the the back room, kids are watching Frozen Fate’s her only opponent CHORUS Hey, Annabel What you gonna do girl? Hey, Annabel What you gonna do now? There’s only so many times A grown woman can swallow this Hollowness Before her itchy trigger finger Starts to wake her in the dead of night So she goes walking and walking and walking But these old streets don’t change There’s no metamorphosis here Were you really gonna wait until the coast was clear? Were you really gonna wait? She’s just a shadow Only half a human Living a half-life inside the institution of what? Does she only ever get what she’s got? With the voices in her head all screaming.. CHORUS In the pre-dawn silence Her hands are shaking too hard To hold a secret cigarette Strange kind of violence When the blows never land And the blood’s never let Annabel You’re one of the best We’ll always love you Even if he don’t We’ll always love you Even when he won’t Annabel You’re one of the best Only a winner on a losing streak When you can’t find strength Doesn’t mean your weak These were always someone else’s decisions This was always someone else’s life These were always someone else’s decisions This was always someone else’s life These were always someone else's problems This was always someone else’s wife It was always someone else’s husband It was always someone else’s wife
9.
I'm feeling groovy, kicking down the cobblestones And there is music in every sight and every sound No need for headphones I tip my cap to the world even though I don't wear one Grinning at the women in the salon getting their hair done On the outside looking in like an aquarium Spinning with the stars in the planetarium Deliriously, mysteriously I'm feelin' curiously marvelously Super duper like Joss Stone My heart melts like ice cream cones Grinning like a dog digging up dinosaur bones I used to be fossilized but now I'm out of my shell And I'm happier than whores with chivalrous clientèle This can't be real, I must be dreaming could somebody slap me I'm feeling so mischievous, original cheeky chappy It must be ages since I felt satisfied just to be Just Jack and just that, still intact CHORUS It's just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed, shake your head, clear the haze Step out your house and prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those, just another one of those Just another one of those glory days Jump out your bed, shake your head, clear the haze Step out your house and prepared to be amazed It's just another one of those glory days I'm so warm, new dawn, reborn, new forms And I'm thinking ‘bout my boys Joe Le Chic and Freshly Sean And I know you're underrated but one day we'll all make it And walk around naked with our bollocks platinum plated Anyway, I'm off track gotta stop that And get back to the high street, I need something to eat Stop at the cafe, coffee and a salt beef bagel Yeah, I know I'm caned but now I'm feeling able I used to get so paranoid in places like this Stayed in my house for days with my weed psychosis My neurosis was thinking everybody's staring at my red eyes And shifty expression but now I'm past caring And I can feel that destiny is on my side And by the looks of things, fate came along for the ride Behind green skies, I can see my girl's eyes Damn it, I'm in love with this planet, you gotta realize CHORUS It's time to look to the future Just when I was getting used to The humdrum I realized in the depths of my depression That I really wanted to be someone So let's smash the past like a tacky figurine On the back page of a supplementary magazine But for the time being, bump your head to the beat Sit back, put your feet up and relax CHORUS
10.
Living in a bedsit Close to the World's End, Sitting in his Y-fronts Sponging off his girlfriend Kerry She says life's right there babe Should be getting on with it Had a bit of talent Now you've all but squandered it It's silly And his relatives all think that it's a shame And they'd say that it was a mystery If his Dad wasn't exactly the same CHORUS He's been a space cadet for years Says one day he'll be an astronaut Floating in the hemisphere And looking down on Hampton Court But he's always late Knows one day he'll graduate Then he'll be floating in the ozone High above the empire High above the empire State state state He's living in a State state state He's in a proper State state state They've got him in a State state state Sofa surfer Likes a little gamble A few dodgy debts That he says he can handle Maybe Never not brassic Stays in most nights Jostling to pixelated princesses on websites Frantically And his family all say that it's a waste And they wash their mouths out With self-righteousness To hide the bitter taste CHORUS Kerry’s love is cold and congealed Like last night's take-away And she feels She might have to do some kind Of midnight flit All there is to say has been said And as the sky's turning pink She leaves her keys by the sink And takes one last look at our hero's face CHORUS Life goes on It will be played out But something's s'posed to happen man Before the fade out
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released October 8, 2021

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