{"id":1188,"date":"2017-01-15T18:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlecomets.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:17:50","slug":"common-things-lyric-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlecomets.com\/common-things-lyric-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Things Lyric Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

These blogs again, eh! \u00a0I would say that they are back by\u00a0<\/span>popular demand but about 20 people read the last lot so maybe just by demand\u00a0<\/span>and\/or my need to let off steam a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, they are good for Mickey and Matt as half the time I don\u2019t think they know\u00a0<\/span>what I am going on about \u2013 although Mickey definitely doesn\u2019t read them, but if\u00a0<\/span>he did he would moan that I should have told him all this BEFORE we started\u00a0<\/span>recording the song so he would have a better idea of what was going on haha\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Common Things: me and Mickey (as usual) wrote this one in his garage after\u00a0<\/span>Mickey had been playing this riff over and over for about three weeks (it came\u00a0<\/span>to him in a dream I think) then we kind of adapted it into the chorus but had\u00a0<\/span>real problems coming up with the verses for ages.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think what helped is that the chorus line paints a real picture of what the\u00a0<\/span>verses should be about \u2013 like with Jennifer or Joanna. It was just a case of\u00a0<\/span>filling in the bits of the story which fed from the idea of a couple being\u00a0<\/span>satisfied with just the simple things.<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose it is semi-autobiographical up to a point as I am quite a simple\u00a0<\/span>person and take more from the gaps than the need to fill them.. I\u2019d like to\u00a0<\/span>think Jo keeps an atlas under the mattress when I am away but to be honest I am\u00a0<\/span>more than likely only in Swindon or somewhere so I doubt she bothers. And as for\u00a0<\/span>the coldsore thing well\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

That line is actually from a really old song we had that went \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201ceveryday she\u2019s medically giving me coldsores \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I<\/span>\u2019ve a reprieve because in two weeks I\u2019ll be in Walsall, <\/span><\/p>\n

she w<\/span>ill still be lying on a carpet, thinki<\/span>ng how could I have ever doubted him, <\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>nd the truth that lies within his skin\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But didn\u2019t scan.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to get a mention of the arboretum in for Nathan as well, but it didn\u2019t\u00a0<\/span>happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The song meandered quite a bit until we started playing about with it in a room\u00a0<\/span>with Matt Saxon and Nathan \u2013 Nathan\u2019s hi hats are tremendous so that drove the\u00a0<\/span>bass line especially and we wrote the \u201cgeographical section\u201d after getting rid\u00a0<\/span>of a bit that ripped off the oobeedoobbeeeedoobeees of Jennifer BUT the bit that\u00a0<\/span>brought it all together and made it sound finished was the percussion part that\u00a0<\/span>Mickey fashioned from me (badly) playing a combination of a djembe, a bottle, a\u00a0<\/span>bike pump and a bit snapped off an old snare drum\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also recorded it and did the whole tracking for the album in an unfinished\u00a0<\/span>house in the middle of a farm which was deserted except for this old bloke\u00a0<\/span>called Percy who kept wondering into the studio. He used to be in a band years\u00a0<\/span>ago but now was just there as a voluntary farm hand and was telling us about\u00a0<\/span>this song called \u201cOOOOH THE DIRTY DANCE\u201d that he\u2019d written haha. It was class\u00a0<\/span>because you would be in the middle of a take and just look up and there would be\u00a0<\/span>Percy just standing in a door way going \u201cHOW\u2019S IT GOING THEN?\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>This would have\u00a0<\/span>been the weirdest part of the process if it wasn\u2019t for a 10pm sound curfew\u00a0<\/span>agreed with our next door neighbour Steve Staunton who knocked on the door one\u00a0<\/span>night\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When she first gave me coldsores<\/p>\n

On a park bench in Walsall<\/p>\n

I remember the feeling<\/p>\n

As the last of the light<\/p>\n

Dripped with might<\/p>\n

From the palms of the evening<\/p>\n

Like a psalm on the ceiling<\/p>\n

Of her home, of her home<\/p>\n

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I love those common things I do with her<\/p>\n

TV at six o\u2019clock is de rigueur<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t need to fall apart to works of art<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t speak no Portuguese in the dark<\/p>\n

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And we can\u2019t be romantic<\/p>\n

Cos we don\u2019t live in France yet<\/p>\n

Get our kicks from the frantic<\/p>\n

Little movements of feet<\/p>\n

As I gallivant she keeps an atlas<\/p>\n

Sleeping under the mattress<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m home, so I\u2019m home<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t need to run along to Chittagong<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t need to get to Delhi or Geelong<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t need to throw a coin into a fountain<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t need to digress in the Spanish Mountains<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t need to trek from Santander to Bilbao<\/p>\n

When I\u2019ve got this better way to find out how<\/p>\n

Cos I love those common things,<\/p>\n

I love those common things,<\/p>\n

I love those common things,<\/p>\n

I love those common things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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