/me sings

[Bonkers]

You can't write a novel from a briefcase
You can write a poem from a trench
You can dream a dream from A to B
But you can't catch a bus from a bench

You don't back a horse called Striding Snail
You don't name your boat Titanic II
So why when I see your happy smiling face
Do I always end up singing Little Blue

Little Blue, how do you do
Your smile looks like heaven
but your eyes hold a storm about to brew
Little Blue
How can a flower so pretty
be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

How can a flower so pretty
be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

You can't build a brewery on a cemetery
You can build a pub on a church
And people fall quicker than buildings do
You have to decide what comes first

You don't call a plane the Flying Roman
'Cause the Romans always walked and never flew
So why when I see your happy smiling face
Do I always end up singing Little Blue

Little Blue, how do you do
Your smile looks like heaven
but your eyes hold a storm about to brew
Little Blue
How can a flower so pretty
be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

Well Bukowski wrote a story from a barstool
And Keats from the top of a hill
So I'm going to save my special song for you
From a grave where it's quiet and it's chill

'Cause there's a queue of clouds assembled
On the horizon of your smile
When most think that you're holding back
I know you're holding bile

Little Blue, how do you do
Your smile looks like heaven
but your eyes hold a storm about to brew
Little Blue
How can a flower so pretty
be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

How can a flower so pretty
be so laden down with dew
Little Blue

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Classic :)

[Toptotty]

Beautiful South rock.

I like Don't Marry Her, the album version :D

Mandy

[pen]

36D So what D, so whaaaat, is that all that youve got?

[KingDaveRa]

Ohh, I didn't realise that was the Beautiful South.

Great band.

Played many gigs with Barenaked Ladies supporting them in the UK, and vice versa in the US/Canada.

[TimmyNoShoes]

Ive gotta admit i *thought* i had all of the beautiful south's albums but ive never heard of "little blue" so obviously not. :S

[Baroness]

1) Bell Bottomed Tear
2) Woman in the Wall
3)I Think The Answer's Yes

love love LOVE

:)

[Toptotty]

Originally posted by TimmyNoShoes
Ive gotta admit i *thought* i had all of the beautiful south's albums but ive never heard of "little blue" so obviously not. :S

Its on the Blue is the Colour Album
(I'm going to see them in December! :D)!

Mandy

[Aardvark]

Speaking of bands and December: its my birthday on the 2nd. And I was looking for bands playing on that day for some form of birthday fun, and I discovered everyones favourite Barenaked Ladies :) Now, as I *know* we have like a million fans here, who's up for an outing? :D

[KingDaveRa]

Awww, I'm going to the London gig the day after.

Should be good though :)

[TheGuyver]

i sing this with too much red wine :)

i love BSouth. :)

Let Love Speak Up Itself

Don't whisper love and dream of wedding bells
Don't do all the talking, let love speak up itself
Let love speak up itself

So when you feel a little tatty and unhappy with your face
Let it breathe into us and put you back in place
Let it breathe, let it breathe
From the day it came into us till the day it wants to leave
For it will, it will go
And it will not say goodbye just like it didn't say hello
There will not be a send-off, a funeral or mass
Just a pathetic little vodka from a dirty little glass
'To the world's greatest mum
From the oldest swinger in town'

Let love speak up itself
Let love speak up itself
Let it rise up in the morning and take us for that walk
Let it do the talking when we're too tired to talk
When we're too tired to talk

And when you feel unhappy that I'm not the one I was
Let love rot inside and let love palm you off
Let it rot, let it rot
Let it take your feelings and tie them in a knot
In a knot, in a knot
Let it take your feelings and tie them in a knot
Hang them from a cleaver and say 'Look what we've got
A man and a woman and guess what they forgot'
'To the world's greatest mum
From the oldest swinger in town'

Let love speak up itself

[Bonkers]

Im thinking BS kareoke here!!!

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

That's right
The conversation we had last night
When all I wanted to do was
Knife you in the heart
I kept it all in

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

Midnight, a husband getting ready to fight
A daughter sleeps alone with the light
Turned on, she bears but
Keeps it all in

Just like that murder in '73
Just like that robbery in '62
With all there things that have happened to me
I kept it all in
Why do you keep on telling me now

You know your problem
You keep it all in
You know your problem
You keep it all in

That's sweet
That conversation we had last week
When you gagged and bound me up to my seat
You're right, I do
I keep it all in

Bit more upbeat! Like to shake my ass to that :)

I would put the lyrics to Old Redeyes Is Back too :) but i think thats pushing it!