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Kite
19-07-2007, 09:07 PM
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I aint 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 were missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with stanley
He said Id 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 shed 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 shes two years older
Her mothers 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 theres something missing
Id beg for some forgiveness
But beggings not my business
And she wont write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so its my assumption
Im really up the junction

^What a song^

As you can tell this thread is for the brilliance of English Rock band Squeeze which are often forgotten about :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze

putainfromage
20-07-2007, 08:14 AM
i'm not going to lie, the only reason i know of this song is ben gibbard covered it :blush:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TzW94QcEIpU

Kite
20-07-2007, 06:39 PM
Quite a few bands have covered Up The Junction

Kite
30-11-2007, 10:36 PM
They do it down on camber sands
They do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day,
At night the crickets creepy
Squinting faces at the sky
A Harold Robbins paperback
Surfers drop their boards and dry
And everybody wants a hat
But behind the Chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell

Shrinking in the sea so cold
Topless ladies look away
A he-man in a sudden shower
Shelters from the rain
You wish you had a motor boat
To pose around the harbour bar
And when the sun goes off to bed
You hook it up behind the car

Two fat ladies window shop
Something for the mantelpiece
In for bingo all the nines
A panda for sweet little niece
The coach drivers stand about
Looking at a local map
About the boy he's gone away
Down to next door's caravan

Kite
30-11-2007, 10:46 PM
The Travis version of that song is very neat.

winigwl
30-11-2007, 10:57 PM
wait, is this the band squeeze?

Kite
01-12-2007, 06:45 PM
Yes, you might not know them as they never really made it big in America

winigwl
01-12-2007, 07:09 PM
i know two songs by them: tempted and pulling mussels. They're really good, but thats all i know

Kite
16-11-2008, 01:52 AM
YouTube - Squeeze - Cool For Cats

YouTube - Squeeze - Is That Love?

Christa1
16-11-2008, 02:40 AM
i saw squeeze 18 years ago and i will never forget it, tempted is a very special song to me, yes i was only two (kidding) at the time