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Tape Project #1

from Puzzle by Das Wanderlust

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Tape Project #1 is actually a collection of lo-fi sketches of songs made using a single cheap microphone and recorded direct onto cassette tape. Wherever possible only 1st or 2nd takes were used. The tracklisting is as follows:

a. Theme To A Fictional Spaghetti Western
b. The Day We Buried You
c. Big Black Ice Cream Van
d. When You're A Bairn Every Day Is Like A Holiday
e. You Know When It's Not Quite Right? Well It's Not Quite Right
f. Mexican Song

lyrics

***The Day We Buried You***

Oh the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Oh the wind does blow
And I do know I'll never see you again

Louise did cry, and I did hide
The day we buried you
Oh we looked to the ground and we didn't make a sound
On the day we buried you

Oh the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Oh the wind does blow
And I do know I'll never see you again

We went to the pub and then we spoke
Of when you were very young
Oh your brother looked sad, and I was glad
Thinking of you when you were young

Oh the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Yeah the wind does blow
Oh the wind does blow
And I do know I'll never see you again
No I'll never see you again

***When You're A Bairn Every Day Is Like A Holiday***

I don't want to grow up
I don't want hips and bits and pieces
It don't match the way I'm thinking

I don't want to grow up
Bills need paying and I hate working
I wanna carry on larking around

And every day, oh! will be like a holiday, oh!
I want every day to be like my last

And I'm stuck here in this place, my place of work
And my brain shuts off and I forget how to talk
And I go home at five and I watch ITV
And I usually fall asleep without eating any tea.

***You Know When It's Not Quite Right? Well It's Not Quite Right***

You Know When It's Not Quite Right?
Well It's Not Quite Right

Major! We are happy!
Minor! We are sad!

Please get out the car
Stop and I phone you
Always the same rigmarole
We are happy sad

***Mexican Song***

My Claire
With the most wondrous hair
She phoned me the other day

She said oh! Run away with me
And we'll get married in Mexico

So we packed some honey
And plenty of money
And we wrapped it all up in a five pound note
Well our boat was green
And we were seen from ashore
And there they shouted to us, they said:

Oh no, girls! Don't you know?
You can't come here with that fucking stupid hair!
Oh no, girls! Off you trot, go to Canada!

So we went to Canada
And there we met a very nice priest
He had silver hair
And a silver chair
And he looked at us
And he said to us:

Oh no, girls! Don't you know?
You can't get married - its illegal!
Just go home and give up your dreams
And marry a nice young man
With nice hair...

credits

from Puzzle, released October 6, 2008
Everything written, performed, and recorded by Laura Simmons & Andy Elliott.

Mastered by John Davis at Alchemy, Soho.

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