Just Jack Album

I get this writer's block, it comes as quite a shock,
And now I'm stuck between a hard place and the biggest rock,
In my own head consumed. I sit back in my room,
Its like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom,
I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane,
My heart is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came

Sometimes at night I think too much,
About love and life and music and stuff

I'm livin' in the past,
My clocks an hour fast,
Should really go and make a coffee but I can't be arsed,
I've lost my mobile phone,
You'll have to call my phone,
On second thoughts just leave a message when you hear the tone,
My grimy windows show the early morning glow,
Another day, another dollar in my one man show,

Im lovin' Mary Jane, flyin' with Lois Lane,
On board a bullet train
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came
Don't know yet if I'm glad I came

I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and I missed that bullet
train
But now I know I'm glad I-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and I missed that bullet
train
But now I know I'm glad I-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and I missed that bullet
train
But now I know I'm glad I-
I fell out with Mary Jane, I don't speak to Lois Lane and I missed that bullet
train
But now I know I'm glad I came
But now I know I'm glad I came
But now I know I'm glad I came

I'm feelin groovy
Kicking down the cobble stones
And there is music in every sight and every sound
No need for headphones
I'll tip my cap to the world
Even though I don't wear one
Grinning at the women in the salon
Getting their hair done
On the outside looking in
Like an aquarium
Spinning with the stars in the planetarium
Deliriously
Mysteriously
I'm feeling curiously marvelously
Super
Duper
Like Joss Stone
My heart melts like ice cream cones
Grinning like a dog digging up dinosaur bones
I used to be fossilized
But now I'm out of my shell
And I'm happier than whores with chivalrous clientele
This can't be real
I must be dreaming
Can somebody slap me
I'm feeling so mischievous
Original cheeky chappy
It must be ages
Since I felt satisfied
Just to be Just Jack
And just that, still in tact

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed
It's just another one of those glory days

I'm so warm
New dawn
Reborn
New forms
And I'm thinking about my boys
Joe le chic, and Freshly Sean
And I know you're underrated
But one day we'll all make it
And walk around naked with our bollocks platinumed and plated
Anyway I'm off track
Gotta stop that
And get back to the high street
I need something to eat
Stop at the caf'
Coffee and a salt beef bagel
Yea I know I'm caned/Cain'd
But now I'm feeling able/Abel
I used to get so paranoid in places like this
Stayed in my house for days with my weed psychosis
My neurosis was thinking everybody is staring at my red eyes
And shifty expression
But now I'm past caring
And I can feel that destiny is on my side
And by the looks of things
Fate came along for the ride
Behind green skies I can see my girl's eyes
Damn it I'm in love with this planet
You gotta realize

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed

Its time to look to the future
Just when I was getting
Used to
The humdrum
I realized in the depths of my depression that I really wanted to be someone
So lets smash the past like a tacky figurine
On the back page of a supplementary magazine
But for the time being bump your head to the beat
Sit back, put your feet up
And relax'

Its just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepared to be amazed
It's just another one of those
Just another one of those
Just another one of those glory days
Jump out your bed
Shake your head
Clear the haze
Step out your house
And prepare to be amazed

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,

Shes got a whole lot of disco friends,
Disco ladies and gentlemen,
Eating their faces from the inside out,
Freaky dancing til the late am,
Music slipping down the wall of sweat,
Shes catching fishies in a disco net,
Throwing kisses in the powder room,
Slowly sucking on a cigarette

She knows an awful lot of disco kids,
Novelty sun glasses and mullet wigs,
She says she wants to be a sti-earl-list,
Or maybe something in the music biz,
Daddies rich, mummies beautiful,
They always said she'd make a top model,
But now shes hiding out in disco land,
A happy clappy trust experience

Disco friends

Disco friends

They'll be making sure you stay amused
They'll fill you up with drugs and booze
Maybe you'll make the evening news

And when you're tripping over your dreams
They'll keep you down by any means
By the end of the night you'll be stifling your screams

Since you became a VI-Person
It's like your problems have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know

And they'll just put you in a spotlight
And hoping you'll do alright
Or maybe not

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
So why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes

Remember they said you'd show them all
Emphasize the rise but not the fall
And now you're playing a shopping mall

Your mum and dad they can't believe
What you appear to have achieved
While the rest of these users are just laughing in their sleeves

Since you became a VI-Person
It's like your problems have all worsened
Your paranoia casts aspersions
On the truths you know

And now the tabloids use your face
To document your fall from grace
And then they'll tell you that that's just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
It's the same old story well they just didn't realize
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
It's the same old story, well they just didn't realize
And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines
And saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
So why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
Starz in their eyes

Now why do you wanna go and put starz in their eyes?
It's the same old story well they just didn't realize
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And saturday night's drunken dreams

(When I grow up I'm going to be famous)

Behind the steel barrier and sequence and glitter
Five inch heels still knee deep in the litter
Each of them a bitter bullshitter,
Wrapped up in the cloak of fake glamour, getting lost in the camera
Well footprints are fools gold, diamonds crusts on their one off plimsolls
So little time for these one off arseholes
Rigor mortis Ken and Barbie dolls
A pair of big shades and a push up bra
It's such a short gap between the gutter and stars
That you've come a long way from the place that you started
So why'd you wanna go and get so down hearted

Welcome to the kingdom of the blagger
Uncutting you nose clean, coating you bladder
A whole lot happier a whole lot sadder
Used to be satisfied but now you feel like Mick Jagger

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
It's the same old story, well they just didn't realize
And it's a long way to come from the dog and duck karaoke machine
And saturday night's drunken dreams

Now why'd you wanna go and put starz in their eyes
It's the same old story, well they just didn't realize
And it's a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines
And saturday night's drunken dreams

Picture this 2.30 on the hottest night in june
He awakes for no reason and checks his watch by the moon
And his mouth feels as dry as his eyes as he struggles to rise
And stops to contemplate his wifes thighs as he does up his flies
He finds his slippers where he left them under the chair
Behind the two cups and an old copy of marie-claire
And he switches on the coffee machine
That of course works like a dream
Catches sight of his reflection in the silver surface sheen
And its a face he knows well although it should look less abused
With all these moisturisers and the skin products he’s used
As he moves through the kitchen, his homage to brushed steel
Across the new pine flooring that’s plastic but looks real
Past the plasma with the widescreen and the cinema surround sound
And he stops on his favourite spot by the window and looks down
On the orange lit street at the edge of the private car park
Where his Audi TT is waiting safely in the dark

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
And if you could you’ll take it back
But you lose your way in the way you live

Now he can hear wind chimes tinkling out on the balcony
And his phone beeping out a text message in the same key
He checks it and it’s Jill who used to be his secretary
Before they started an affair and things began to get really scary
Now his wife Mary is getting weary of his lies
Like she’s read the whole sordid story in his eyes
It doesn’t help that Jill’s now saying that she’s 2 weeks late
His mental state is really starting to deteriorate

He never knew how he got so out of his depth
Or why he’s broken more than all these promises kept
And it’s been ages since he slept
Properly, his sleeps now broken by these dreams of extra-marital activity
Trying to recapture the rapture that he used to get from his material possessions
And endless retail therapy sessions
Shoulda listened to what his dad said before he died
The best things in life are the ones you can’t buy son

Keeping it all inside of you
Something will have to give
Wish you could buy a ticket back
But you lose your way in the way you live

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaahh

He used to feel so safe up here in his shrine to Ikea
Away from the shouts and the louts and the girls with the over-painted pouts
And the queers and the dykes and the kids in their box-fresh Nikes
Delivering rocks to the house across the street on rusty mountain bikes

Aah aah
Aah aah aaah

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

I talk too much.
And that's why I'm doing in your head (tonight).

We talk too much.
Some things are better left unsaid (that's right)

My evil tongue,
does seem to run,
with a mind of it's own.
I must be cursed,
I always make it worse,
you may aswell just take me home

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).

Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

Below the horizon suns dip.
We're playing our hand with one chip.
How could we think we had so little to lose.

And in the flights of fireflies.
There is a pattern recognised.
How could we think we had so little to lose

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through.

Sometimes I don't say the right things to make you love me even more than you do.
Though I try, I just can't apologize for all the things I'm putting you through

And the breath I waste,
just to fill the space,
it has built a taste,
in your mouth everytime,
and yes I'm blessed,
and self-obsessed,
she gives you more,
but I give you less, and less

Well I know that you've been through it and you have your scars.
All the women are from Venus and the men are from Mars.
I could tell you everytime I admit the charge (so wrong).

Last thing I want to do is to cause you grief.
When I hide your clean soul from the dark beneath.
When it comes to the feeling I can make this brief (so strong)

She says I know you know what you do but you still keep doing it

I'm not a young man anymore
But i've got the face of a
19 year old
Probably be a dad soon
Sitting in my front room
With my kids, playdoe mold

But i just hold on to
What ive got
Right now

Im not who i used to be
Trust me
I've got plans everyday next week
You know your getting older
When the kids on the corner
Have you baffled everytime they speak

So lets just hold on to
What we've got
Right now

Looking round at my friends
And i see that the end of an era
Has come to pass
The fun and the games
And the fluid in our brains
Have all been reduced by half

So lets just hold on to
What we're got
Right Now

Im not a young man anymore
But I've got the face of a
19 year old
Everythings changed
But i can't complain
Cause i'm doing pretty well all talk

Your two eyes they speak to me
Special treats and delicacies
In your velvet corridors
Sticky walls and sugar floors

Your fingers they speak to me
Butterfly wings on a slender tree
You can take a walk down my avenue
Sorbet sunshine melting through

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care

You’re the kinda girl I dreamt about
But I had to do without
Now I’m simply ravenous
I just need a little push

Your mouth it speaks to me
Flicking tongues so sneakily
I don’t want this night to end
Close my eyes and count to ten
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care

My girl she’s luminous
She gives me such a rush
Feels like a teenage crush
But I just can’t get enough
My girls a genius
She knows all kind of stuff
Feels like my head might bust
But I just can’t get enough

There’s a symphony of sirens in the air
Tiny diamonds fall like rain upon your hair
Got feeling completely beyond compare
And I don’t care, no I don’t care

Give me your tricks for free

This is for every life story
Every detail
Ex-dot com millionaires
With shitty jobs in retail
Every ingrown toenail
Pile of junk mail
Driving test drive fail
Vain search for the Holy Grail
Every move you make
Every breath you take
Every 12in record your dumb(dumped?) girlfriend decided to break
And all the underachieving geezers getting more lean and peezer on melon Bacardi Breezers and skinny plastic cached reefers
And every impotent porn star
And the girls with the red lights doing tricks for Mars bars
And all the ravers that wish they were back in '89
Jack jack jack jack your body
Because everything was so much better the first time
And all the bastards looking for change in the station
Every money grabbing musical collaboration
And every last member of the X generation
Addicted to the Internet drugs and masturbation

Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through
Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through

This is for every life story
Every chapter
Every memory stored
And photograph captured
Cause even the most mundane things can shine forth like a beacon
Make your palms sweaty and knees' weaken
Well there is an awful lot of false gods speaking
We're scratching in the dark for something true to believe in
Just keep breathing
And hope that in the long run
That's a real hand you're tightly squeezing
This is for everybod' who got cussed down in the playground
And every bad boy who shitted when his mates weren't around
And all the bedroom DJ's perfecting their skills
And every girl with a complex and a handful of slimming pills

Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through
Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through

This is for every life story
Every intertwined tale of guts and glory
' Course some of them are nice and bright and corny
And some of them will shake your hand less warmly
Outlook still stormy
Every sweeping saga from the here now to the here after
Tall tales around the campfire
Tragedies of fallen empires
And everything that will and won't transpire
Sometimes it's just too dire
Bollackal
Carrying our stories like DNA in hair follicles
Lugging chronicles like baggage handlers
I'm not sticking around
I'm shipping out with the ramblers
Collecting chapters of fractures and raptures
High on a cactus with a bunch of backpackers
Toasting backwards? with a shot of Cacha'a?
But that's another story
And I'll tell it if you let me
But in the meantime just remember to forget me

Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through
Forget me this is all about you
Forget us this is all about you
Forget we this is all about you
We are just the siphon the sounds come through

Well how many times have we rowed and thrown tantrums,
and how many times have we loaded and cocked the hammers on our verbal guns,
And how many times has crockery and cutlery and cups of tea been thrown at me,
And how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could cut you to the bone,

How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart?
And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start?
How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath?
And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'...

We got no time
we got no time
we got no time left at all

Well how many times have our friends warned us against this,
and i can't remember a time when i have felt so restless,
and how many times have you said 'I'm leavin' you no matter what you do'
and how many times have i thrown words back at you i knew could kill you waits and,

How many times have we slept side by side, a thousand miles apart?
And how many times have we thought we could finish something we could never even start?
How many times have i said i love you and i hate you in the same breath?
And how many times have we tried to grab something when there was nothin'...

We got no time
we got no time
we got no time left at all

See i don't want to talk about it, the way you broke my heart,
i hate so many things about you i wouldnt know where to start (x2)

We got no time
we got no time
we got no time left at all (x2)

We got no time left now (repeat til end)

Morning lights don't scratch my eyes
Just let me wash up on the shore
I used to have the strangest dreams
But they don't come here anymore
My duvet's laid out like an (outless) with stains to mark the borderlines
Indentations in my pillow I hope won't fade with time

Smoke the roach left in the ashtray on which I choked the night before
Stuck my toes under a clothes like mountain ranges on the floor.
I pick my way through crusty dishes and their greasy chemistry
I washed two cups and the remember that you've left already.

I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony
And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning

The say the devil's in the detail
I'm gonna blow my eyes instead
I put my memories in a landscape where only reckless angels (tray)
I watch the fingerprints you left like a secret code upon my skin
And I remember when you told me a guilded crown won't make a king

I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay let the conversation flow
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go
I really want you to stay but sometimes it doesn't show
I really want you to stay but I know you have to go, have to go again

I let you go so reluctantly and I can still hear your lazy symphony
And just when I found my calling, it's another mourning morning

I really want you to stay but I know you have to go (X7)
have to go again

Spectacular Failures

Life is but a dream in a greater scheme, waking up is hard to do.
Even if you're quick, something holds you back, always waiting in a queue for someone, to tell you you're broke, or you should not smoke anymore cigarettes.
Planets will align, if you give them time.
When you least expect, everything connects, even when the hope is gone there is you, and you'll keep your name, and the things in your brain just might see you through.

'Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine.
And I guess we're doing fine, but there's no escaping our spectacular failure.

Digging in between things we've never seen, trying to find the missing links.
All these scientists are trying every trick just before the city sinks without trace.
So much we've achieved, so I hope when we leave there's a smile on our face.

'Cos you are light, and in darkest night you shine.
And I guess we're doing fine, but there's no escaping our spectacular failure

Koolaid

Just got what it takes got that x factor well i supose i have

I meet a girl a party
she said she like techno tronic
i said are you for real
she said no im being post ironic

thats right

i went to a bar called jaguar shoes,
i danced around and drank too much booze ah
got into a cab with a girl and puked on her shoes
can someone tell me if thats fucking cool or what or what.. come on now just dance

yer i got a cool friend shes a pho-to-grapher i'd really like to make it with heerrr but i cant ...shes gay

thats right

can someone please tell me like what is cool the breakfast club or math disputer
well they try to be cool but im the coolest
you could use this as a documentry of what is coolest

come on information

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