Let's write a Belle and Sebastian song...

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I was riding on the bus, I fell asleep and had a dream...

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

and they kicked me in the balls
when I opened up my mouth to sing

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

When I awoke I found my pockets being picked by a harelipped girl

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

There's never an opening for a poor boy in this town.

― Chairman ROFLMAO (Dom Passantino), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I smacked her with my bible and I dragged her off to church

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

where they filled me full of words
and a guilt to last a lifetime

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 October 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie & Sarah: for you see my boy that if we don't there's surely no one else who will

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

touch me, touch me NOW
I wanna feel your body

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

She flirted with the Priest but he was aloof and unimpressed

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

said the boy from Galashiels with an air of roguish charm

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

And as the chorus picks up steam/you'll hear the Northumberland boys all scream/"That double-time feeling makes us perspire/can we take it down please to Shropshire?"

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to know where the days go when I'm gone

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Judith got herself in trouble down at choir practice,
Sporting a pink cassock homespun from spandex.
Kissed the warden's daughter at the back of the vestry -
Something to do while her friends do drugs down the Ministry.
The girl hasn't felt so simply thrilled to be alive
Since she stole some tights from BHS in '85.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(I stole that from my own post to Sinister, in 1997)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Penelope, kiss me on my bumble-bee
I'm much too twee for subtlety
My belly's full of brandy
and it's you that I fancy

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Jennie's from across the world
Jennie's from across the ocean
Oh she's really just another girl
To me she seems to mean a hell of a lot

And Jennie's got a lot to say
She keeps me up talkin' late in the night
She passes the time away
With tales of all she's seen in her twenty years
Her life, she's been on every TV show and cereal box
At the grocery store
According to her

And she hides her good looks behind her books that she writes
But inside I know that she's dying
She'll hide away until another day
When the rain that is falling is suddenly calling her name

Cause Jennie keeps her sins and her painful memories
Locked up in a box of photographic memories
Keeps 'em on a leash and then reviews them every Sabbath day

[instrumental break]

And Jennie used to go to school
I used to see her sit up in the grass
With the candy-centered stool
Paintin' all the kids that were walking past

Jennie, do you sometimes wish
That you could be just like the boys and girls
Who get a Saturday night kiss
It's hard to be from across the world

So Jennie keeps her pain in the yard on her canvas
And her paintbrush chokes, boy, the way she'll brandish
Her pencil like a knife, still she'll somehow manage
To get away with life
According to her

And she don't do drugs, so they're no escape that way
From her locked-up box of photographic memories
When she wakes at night, there's tears in her eyes
I call her Jennie that cries
I call her Jennie that cries
I come for Jennie that cries

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty good! Needs more 'trouble' though.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not mine!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a band from Chicago called the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And now that I think about it, I think that last line is probably "comfort" not "come for."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking hell - is it supposed to be a joke or serious?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I met the guy, from that band.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I told him about music from chicago.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you? Which guy? Elia? The one from Wales?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They used to be *very* B&S-influenced, almost to the point of parody. But they have matured.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

elia, yeah.

I don't believe you.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I also discovered the lyrics somewhere and realized I flubbed a couple of other lines (I listened to a live recording).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe that is an actual, non-comedy song. Good grief.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't believe you.

Have you ever heard them, RJG?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ok.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like everything they do, but they are a fun band. We share a practice space with them.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I do not like the Belles or the Sebastians.

― Damn Yankees- High Enough (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Sebastian Bach?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

JS Bach

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

John Sebastian?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You must at least like the Bachman Turner Overdrive?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And now she wants to die... *commence squeaky Sixties female chorus* She wants to die!

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohhhh
I was figdeting in Union Chapel that night
seeing a band I would never want to dance to
the adoring boys and girls yes they gave me a fright
their reverence was high, the band they were oh so drollll

And Judith whispered prettily in my ear
as she clasped my hand, we were so hating this band
You know the Blue Note is not so far from here
we can have a quick dance and drink one more beer

falalalalalala la la...

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

recent belle and sebastian is pop music for underachieving semiotics majors

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"recent belle and sebastian is pop music for underachieving semiotics majors"

This wasn't recent...and darn it, that's exactly what I was at that time but I still hated it.

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't even know what "pop music for underachieving semiotics majors" is

but somehow a bunch of the post-1999 B&S singles i've heard just seem like a string of pearls without a string, you know?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

*cumshot*

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree

― amateur!!!!st (Gear!), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

uh oh another me-impersonator!

anyway i figured someone would make that joke!

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Who can know
The thoughts of Mary jane
Why she flies
Or goes out in the rain
Where she's been
And who she's seen
In her journey to the stars.

Who can know
The reason for her smile
What are her dreams
When they've journeyed for a mile
The way she sings
And her brightly coloured rings
Make her the princess of the sky.

Who can know
What happens in her mind
Did she come from a strange world
And leave her mind behind
Her long lost sighs
And her brightly coloured eyes
Tell her story to the wind.

Who can know
The thoughts of Mary Jane
Why she flies
Or goes out in the rain
Where she's been
And who she's seen
In her journey to the stars.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 25 October 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought that one jaymc posted was a parody of j.lo's 'jennie from the block'

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's the other way around.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

here's the actual tune http://www.sygc.com/Jennie%20That%20Cries.mp3

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and the album cover that reminds me of some other band

http://www.sygc.com/jennie.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am actually scared to click on that.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

bad

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Cause Jennie keeps her sins and her painful memories
Locked up in a box of photographic memories
Keeps 'em on a leash and then reviews them every Sabbath day

i liked the words used for this bit

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why??

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

it rhymes?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear God - musically it actually sounds like a Camera Obscura parody.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I met him, at a camera obscura gig.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

here's the actual tune http://www.sygc.com/Jennie%20That%20Cries.mp3

Jack Johnson's "Posters"? Anyone else hear it?

― babyalive (babyalive), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Why??

those are good words. and i've heard them used before in good songs, rearranged differently.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

if you're walking around, thinking that the word owes you something 'cause you're here,
you're going out the world, backwards, like you did when you first came here.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I know when to go out
And when to stay in
Get things done [spoken]

I catch the paperboy
But things don't really change
I'm standing in the wind
But I never wave bye-bye

But I try
I try

There's no sign of life
It's just the power to charm
I'm lying in the rain
But I never wave bye-bye

But I try
I try

Never gonna fall for
Modern Love walks beside me
Modern Love walks on by
Modern Love gets me to the Church on Time
Church on Time terrifies me
Church on Time makes me party
Church on Time puts my trust in God and Man
God and Man no confessions
God and Man no religion
God and Man don't believe
in Modern Love

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the worst piece of crap I have ever taken the time to listen to in my life. And who the fuck was that clapping at the end of the track, and why didn't they use that energy to shoot the keyboard player instead!?

― Knit, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

banish fleas to bush amerika, tarnish tables wrought from silica and diddle diddle diddle dee dee diddle dee dee

― Joseph Kleinman, Monday, 1 November 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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