Up the junction - Squeeze #LyricsTellAStory

Alguns necessiten 300 o 400 pagines per contar una historia. N'hi ha d'altres que amb 3 minuts en tenen prou.
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Some may need three or four hundred pages to tell a good story; others can do it in three minutes.
In my opinion, some of the greatest lyrics ever have come from this band in terms of originality, poignancy, humour - and above all, originality again! None of this "he opened the door, I fell on the floor", "my love for you, is quite big too" tosh out of the Idiots Guide to Write Cheap Attempts at Deep Lyrics.



 I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
Perhaps she said, I may be
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The railway arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

Labelled with love - Squeeze #Cosesquenoacabodentendre

Hi ha moltes coses que no entenc. Bé, és una manera de parlar, ja que normalment si que els entenc, però no voldria .... en fi, entre tot el que no entenc, oblidem de lo gros i anem als detalls que veig cada dia de la vida en els meus viatges cap a la feina i escola.

OK, gent que aparca els seus cotxes malament mentre porten els xiquets a l’escola. No veuen que, encara que ells pensen que « només són 2 minuts », realment si ocupes els passos de vianants i les voreres, estàs posant en perill els altres xiquets que també volen arribar a l’escola. Tampoc entenc com la policia no fa res. La tolerància està molt bé sempre que no es converteix en un perill pels demés, que hem aparcat a 4 minuts de l’escola per no molestar. Gggrr!! 

 

Per creuar la via del tren, (per exemple d’anar al meu barri fins l’escola) tenim una passarel·la que costa 3 minuts en creuar. Si, és un pal. Però la mateixa gent que m’estan insistint que he de pagar per anar a un gimnàs, són els que no usen el pont i passen pels forats de les tanques per creuar la via a peu. Ja sé que no hi ha gaire perill a Tortosa, ja que arriben 3 trens i mig, però trobo que és un mal exemple pels petits, i una oportunitat perduda de estirar les cames. Gggrrr!

Separant els barri de la Raval i la zona d’esports detras dels centres comercials, hi ha la via del tren i un canal. També hi ha una passarel·la per passar-los. L’ajuntament, amb els NOSTRES diners, ha posat tanques molt noves i boniques per evitar que la gent pugui creuar per baix o arribar fins el canal. Pos, la gent els trenquen, i la ajuntament torna a posar-les – amb els NOSTRES diners. Total, alguns que usen aquest camí ràpid, igualment van a fer esport! Ggrrr!!

Per que alguna gent deixa que els seus gossos facin les seves necessitats a les voreres, al voltant de l’escola, i no ho netejen, ni l’ajuntament fa res? Gggrrrr!

Uf, aquí s’acaba el sermó!

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Things that bug me. Well, actually many things bug me, but today we’re gonna forget the Big Picture and look at those little details I see every day on my way to work or the school run which never fail to bemuse, bewilder, or even bug, me.

Those folks who park there cars illegally while dropping kids off. Yeah, “it’s only two minutes”, but those two minutes you’re spending blocking the pavement or zebra crossing are the two minutes which put the other kids at risk. Kids who have parked maybe in the mega-big car park just a 4-minute walk away. And the police say or do nothing. Aaagghh!

The railway separates my part of town to the neighbourhood with our school and my work-place, but luckily there is a footbridge which takes 3 minutes to cross. What I don’t get are the folk who always insist to me on the importance of going (paying) to a gym and doing sport, but sneak through gaps in the fences and cross the lines directly to save their weary legs a full 3-minute walk. Mmmmm!

A bit further down town, the railway, and a canal, separate one neighbourhood from the area with sports installations and commercial centres. Again, there’s a footbridge. The local council, with OUR money, have put up some cool new fences to stop people crossing the lines or getting down to the canal. Well, now folk rip the fences down to cross the lines, saving the 3-minute marathon (very often on their way to do sport). And the council spend more or MY money to fix it and .... Aaarrgghh!

Dog-owners who let their dogs “do their business” on the pavements, especially around the school, and don’t clean it up. Snif.

And here endeth the rant.

Is that love/ Up the junction - Squeeze

Two more hits from Squeeze.
Is that love?
Up the junction.

Another nail /Pulling Mussels - Squeeze

Tant de bloc i encara no haviem posat a Squeeze! Un dels grups més interessants dels principis dels 80, però ara injustament oblidat per molta gent (incluyent aquest bloc fins ara!). Squeeze feien cançons amb bona musica, molt "catchy" (enganxosa?), musics superbs, i lletres divertides i originales. Entre els seus membres estaven el duo de Chris Difford i Glen Tilbrook, qui van escriure la majoria de les cançons, i als teclats primer Jools Holland, i despres Phil Carrack. Que podria fallar. Potser us sona el nom de Jools Holland ja que avui en dia presenta un programa de musica en directe molt bo al BBC (o al Digital Plus).

Igual ven escriure 10 o 20 super-hits, però en general tots els seus LPs son recomanables. Que tal si recuperem el temps perdut, ficant 2 avui, 2 demà.

Another Nail In My Heart.

Pulling Mussels (from the shell).

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Squeeze - amazing how great they were, and how quickly they've been forgotten by many. I'm sure most young people today have never heard of them and it's a shame. At the start of the 80s they wrote hit after hit, mainly down to the leading artists Chris Difford and Glen Tilbrook. On keyboards they have had Jools Holland and Phil Carrack at different times in their career. Catchy pop music, amusing and original lyrics with many a play on words.

To make up for lost time on this blog, let's have two of their hits today, and another couple tomorrow.