Simon Fowler

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)




100 mile high city
Falling to the floor
Everybody’s in it
Falling to the floor

Will I ever find some peace of mind
Ever in the world

Baby he’s a crying
On his mother’s knee
Bankers they’re a lying
Dealt us to our knees

Will we ever find some peace of mind
Ever please

Take us to the doctor
But the doctor makes mistakes
Take us to the lawyers
But the lawyers over-paid
Take you anywhere
Where you can show your face to the world

100 mile high city
Falling to the floor
Everybody’s in it
Falling to the floor

Will I ever find some peace of mind again
Ever in the world

Baby he’s a screaming
Papers they’re agreeing
I can see no reason
Should be screaming treason
Will we ever find no peace of mind
Ever in the world

You told so many lies
Your tongue is black with fireflies
But you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would never need it
Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
That all your thoughts and moves are taught
And memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
Strung from neon masts flying flags you hope
Will win you friends and give your life some meaning

(Repeat chorus)

You told so many lies
Your tongue is stained with alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

(Repeat chorus)

Your dream make up is cracked and wearing thin
your eyes are on your chin
it's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
and we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places
that you and I would go
it's getting hard for me
To love you, like I used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Up through all the streets you go
But little girl don't find her name
And we're all gone down roads to homes
Where everybody finds their game

Just behind the street she goes
Where she'll be found behind her wheel
Cos it's the only place she knows
That makes her know just how she feels

Cos you're the biggest thing
That I see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down, you haunt me
And beg me to believe

All too fast to where she goes
But who'll be first to find her name
And holding on in Hollywood
But holding on don't make the grade

Just about when it's allright
There's you and I : we'll find our way
But it's holidays not Hollywood
And holidays don't suit my game.

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down and haunt me
And beg me to believe

Hollow days and hollow nights
But everyone they find their way
It hightlights you when things ain't right
And makes you want to find your place

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down, you haunt me
And beg me to believe

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down,you haunt me
And beg me to believe

Free blue deep ocean
Bed of evolution
Forgive the ignorance
Of man with money in his hand

How can we freely agree
I hang my head for you

I want more than me and you
The more I want the more it scares me
I will put my faith in you
won't you be my missionary
I can't ... can't get back to the baseline
Had too much of waiting up
Had too much of things I tell you
It's the only way and it's love
Fill my cup oh I've said too much
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)
I've been on freight train buzz
So I'm trying to tell you
the only thing I need is your love
But I can't...(4x)
I can't back to the baseline
It's the way of feeling good
It is all that's necessary
I guess that it's from above
I'm no fool but I guess too much
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)
(Repeat chorus)
Fare you well and I will choose
When I've found it I will tell you
I belong to the same as you
won't you be my missionary
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)

No-one promised this when I was a kid
When my days were filled with carousels
Fairground rides and cockleshells
Kicking pebbles on a beach
When time couldn't reach me
And tears were just a memory left to be learned

Now days catch me without an overcoat
Five o'clock shoes full of snow
All rained out, nowhere to go

Memories are sure to find you
No matter how fast you run
Gonna catch up with you

Charlie Brown says
Oh this winter sure sure gets me down
When there ain't no friends around

I went down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun doesn't shine at all
And I went looking for something for me
But I came back with nothing at all
Except an old man who could not see
But he said that he knew God
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Now I've been down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun just refuses to shine
And I ran back to my little room
And I jumped straight into a bottle of wine
You know I'll be alright for just a day
But tomorrow I must wake
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Old man I must be on my way
Don't you worry I'm just scared for those who pray
In Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Chelsea Walk...

She knew all the answers
That I have to say
Taking all her chances
And never seem to pay

It's the risk you're taking
To see it time to time
She is not for changing
But you are all for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is cool in high brow
And you're not society
She is going places
Where you never are to be

It's the risk you're taking
To see her all the time
It's a game your playing
Keeps you hanging on her line

Well come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is far away now
Goes to a store and buys
You were left behind here
In your room you'll sit and die

It's a risk you're taking
Seeing her time to time
She is not for changing
But you were still for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home...

Cool cool water where I rest my head
You keep me running to a single bed
Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
And ain't it funny but he never seems to come home

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
Ain't it strange that he never seems to go home

(Repeat first verse)

Well i got a problem
and it just won't wait
I've been getting on one
With the man who guards your gate
When he says you're sleeping
In your hideaway
It is what he's keeping back
That gives your game away
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

Yes i' got a problem
like you've never seen
I've been getting bothered
By the man who locks your screen
When he says you're hiding
And in your room you'll stay
It is what he's holding back
That says what he can't say

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

I'm just a lazy man
Who has to hear the truth
And i hear what's true from you

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

La la la
La la la
La la la
La la la

It's live... make up your own words!

to moonn6pence from shootingstar






Never saw it as the start its more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pot
Blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot
I laid my plans in solid rock

Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away
Looking at the trees on the roadside feeling its a holiday.

You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.
Roll a number, write another song like
Jimmy heard the day he caught the train
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la

He sips another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like Groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
I missed the crush and I'm home again
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away
Step into the sky in the starbright feeling its a brighter day.

You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.
Roll a number, write another song like
Jimmy heard the day he caught the train
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la

You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
and you and I when we're coming down we're only getting back
And you know I feel no sorrow.

Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la

When you find that things are getting wild don't you want days like these.
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these I say
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la
Ooooh la la

Daylight wake me and it awakes me with you
All of the faces and all of the places are you
Getting home and feeling glad
Feeling love and love is mad
So daylight wakes me' daylight wakes me
Daylight wake me now I'm ready to come
All of the faces and all of the places are done
Getting home and feeling high
Feeling love and love is life
So daylight wakes me
Daylight wakes me

She nails down moon beams
And talks in double time
Stumbling down to wherever she goes
I live in the meantime
And I get frustrated
So I put my wager on Debris Road

It keeps me running down Debris Road
I'm not scared but it's somewhere I cling to
All the places I (still) wanna go
They won't cast a shadow on my Debris Road

I get frustrated looking for moonbeams
They always fall where I never go
'Cause I like the daylight and I like a good life
Running so fast down Debris Road

(Repeat Chorus)

Someone got moonfaced and someone gets tearful
Talking so much that they really don't know
Sitting up all night singing songs 'till daylight
Striking a match with the devil below

(Repeat Chorus)

Isolated junkyard
Letting out the garbage
Eating through the core of life
Sweet fragrance irritates
In a stale room death awaits
Persecute your own self pride
Suffocate the new high
Ride a thorny mule that cries
Dig your grave and jump right in
Like a Judas pay the price
Thirty pieces for a ride
Here's the fire now take a chew
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time

Shredded know-how gives away
Species of the human race
Those funky winds of ups and downs
Hall of grit is known too well
Heaven still is your hell
Poison slowly slowly drowns
Let the devil step right in
Lucifer's your only friend
Ain't a soul gonna pity you
Hurdle over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don't you wish you could reach ground
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Let the devil step right in
Lucifer's your only friend
Ain't a soul gonna pity you
Hurdle over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don't you wish you could reach ground
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time

I'll check my hair, and get my shoes
See my face, it's nothing new
There's no-one here when there's no-one there
So much you go for but no-one cares
Don't get me high don't get me fooled
Don't get me wrong on nights with you
The locks are cold when there's no-one there
I'd make them a bit stronger but we don't care

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

You still don't care but if you had to choose
Something so small could break this in two
People like to say "people get stronger"
Just before they fall out of their heads
"Breaking up can make things seem much longer"
Tell you "what you give is what you get"

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

And what you need is what we share
When we go home and it's just not there

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

Emily Chambers would make it pay
Everyone knew she'd turn out that way
She turned her back and she'll be okay
But she's not okay at all

Every night with the radio on
Emily fears that the day won't come
The moon is there to do her harm
She's not all right at all

Don't get arrested
Don't buy a machine gun
You're on the run
And you're not on the scene
You're not so cool
And you're not a jerk
You may be a villain
But no Patty Hearst
You're Emily Chambers
And what's worse
Is a whipping wind
And a box in a hearse
And a trigger in your head
And a pen in your hand
And the pain in the verse
And the flat drying land
And the thin of the air
And a pain that hurts
You're Emily Chambers in the universe

Repeat first verse

Every night with the lamplight on
Emily fears that the day has gone
The moon is there to do her harm
She's not all right at all

Repeat chorus

Emily Chambers would make it pay
Everyone knew she'd turn out that way...

mother and stan don't
blame yourself for rose
she was out there
playing in the road
better to let her know
not to forget
all that schooling goes
right through their head

they take back all when
and you give them loving
fall you to your knees
then give back nothing
but looking through love
you know there's
something so real

father and son you're
in this one so deep
I could always lull
myself to sleep
but I will cry to let
you always know
all my life I need
your time to grow

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)




I fell in love on the street again
It’s a love that is wrong
Tramp the floor with my feet again
I’ve been walking so long

Can anyone really tell you
Does anyone really know
I fell in love on the street again
You can guess they said no

Time runs out of time
A time to walk a time to run
But I ran out of time
Love on the street is no fun

I roamed between a hundred hotel rooms
A hundred numbers on the doors
I sang a song with the bedroom queens
I sang in tune with them all






to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)

Fly me, my hands are free
Won't you fly me

(???) what you're dreaming of
Write it down and look above
For something that will tell you I watch you
I'm looking for to do

Won't you fly me, my hands are
Won't you fly me


Picture floating in a silent row
Crying out for those who've never learnt
That life is just a story you pass through
While dreaming what to do

Won't you fly me
Won't you please fly me
Won't you please fly me

Won't you fly me...

Bus stop stretching out before
All along the High Street wall
'Til your eyes can't see no more
Early evening in sunlight
Turns the world to shine so bright
Like a blind man given sight
Like a million neon lights
This old town won't let me go
It's got my feet it's in my soul
There is no going back it's just forward now
The silver screen it sees my gaze
I try to look beyond the haze
I could forgive it everything is true
Just take me with you too
Out upon the empty floor
The lone dancer spinning on
Throwing caution to the wall
There's a sign behind the door
Says for dancers only sure
And the lone dancer she knows
She can never be lonely
This old town tells you to stay
Then you know you ain't getting away
There is no going back it's just forward now
These haunted halls play melodies
So sweet and tender on life's breeze
I could forgive it everything is true
Just take me with you too

Come my way Oh I say before you go
Tie my laces and chain me sound below
Hold my side God must be feeling so cold
It’s all my deepest I see them there they go

Free my name just give me love
Free my name just give me loving now

I’ll give my day’s report and send you them intact
It’s just like yesterday but now I’m screaming tired
And now you’re really saying this house is not my home
So if you wake me I will not sleep alone

Free my name just give me love

Come my way Oh I say before you go
Tie my laces and chain me sound below
Hold my side God must be feeling so cold
It’s all my deepest I see them there they go

Give me a letter
The sooner the better
I'm out of here

Give me a card
I'm not waiting hard
To hear you

All I'm trying to do
Is all you want to say

Give me a letter
The sooner the better
I'm away from you

Trying so hard
I'm not taking a car
And I'll lose you

All I want to do
Is all I'm trying to say

What I'm trying to say
Is what I'm trying to do

Repeat first two verses

What I'm trying to say
What I'm trying to do
Is keeping up with you

She never has to stop and think
Never makes you lose a thing
She is so enchanting
I always have to stop a while
Cross my hands and close my eyes
I am so demanding
When she smiles she opens wide
Touching you inside to lie
Life can be so shaking handed
Nervously you're shaking signs
Life is better taken blind
Still you're left so disenchanted
Giving it all away
Giving it all away
You always have to stop and think
Desperately to find something
That is even handed
I never want to think a thing
That shatters almost everything
Life can leave you hanging

When you're twenty one and North of the border
the chance is
The military man will come and offer a hand and advances
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea
With the shipyards sunk-on the Clyde
Go to the sea the junk life is dangerous
With a pocket of woes in this perishing hole it's so obvious
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea
Then you'll sail away and we'll teach you a trade
That's for life
It's only killing but there's nobody willing
So we're asking on the Clyde
When you're 21 and north of the border the chance is
You'll sail away to a life in the dirt then advances

Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea

Harry don뭪 fly ?not like he used to
All the games he used to play
Are broken on the playground floor and useless
Harry don뭪 smile ?not like he used to
All the laughs have gone away
They haunt the playboy bar where we used to go
But Harry Kidnap뭩 cool
But Harry Kidnap뭩 cool
He wrote all the rules
We뭠l get by like we used to
When he used to run the show
He will smile and look youthful
Such a shame he had to go
Say a prayer for the boxers
For the builders to a man
Sing a song for the dreamers
For the fathers and sons
He played his hand ?just like he used to
Just the same the king you played
Is beaten by the ace of spades ?he뭩 ruthless
Harry won뭪 cry ?when you are crying
All the tales like peeling bells
Will tell of nights when racehorses are flying home

I feel a love that's so hard to bear
Won't you come kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in snow

But I fear a love of jealousy and pain
Lost in the race 'tween the foolish and vain
Come the morning time whistle and take you away
Where the sun always burns in the Winter

Oh... Here in my heart
Oh... Here in my heart

And I know that all I'm saying is wrong
Etched in the night-time and rhymed in a song
Come tomorrow I'll lighten up and drink to the ones
Who love without asking for loving

Don't forsake me, the morning time plays at the children's door
If you leave me then what would I tell them you're leaving for

(Repeat first verse)

Today I find all my world is slowly turning blue
How about you
I walk around with my head in the sky and it is blue
How about you
Today I find all the things I held so high are in the ground
I don't know why, I don't know where
I don't know why you really care
I only know that my world's turning blue
How about, how about you
Today I see a million faces in shades of fading blue
How about you
I felt so sure familiar places and children's skies are blue
How about you

Shirley was a lady whose teeth were made of gold
She danced before the music and everything it told

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
Only fools would need to argue or to fight

Shirley had eight children and each of them were told
You got joy for singing burning in your soul

Huckleberry Grove
Where the idiots can't ease you of your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Take a free train, leave your luggage far behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Shirley was a lady who mostly stayed at home
But she went out dancing down Huckleberry Grove

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
You'll be groovin' on the best days of your life
Huckleberry Grove
Where the music's guaranteed to blow your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Leave your luggage, get a free train, get behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm getting alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Well I want a good love by my side
Keep on getting out of love and my pride
And I know I keep hurting my love yeah
But I know it ain't killing

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm staying alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm getting alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Well I want a good love by my side
Keep on getting out of love and my pride
And I know I keep hurting my love yeah
But I know it ain't killing

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm staying alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

I am the news and I'll say no more
I am the stranger at your door
I am the deep beneath the sea
the threat of flood tide rising
I am the banks bearing refugees
always a cause not solution
a constant fear or a fleeting joy
the only friend who needs using

I am the news and I'm in your face
and I'll take my profit from your faith
I am the face beneath the mask
the catalyst of explosions
I am the crop bearing crippled genes
I an an inside connection
a constant friend on a changing screen
your history and direction

you're the truth
you're a soothe
be the blues
be my best friend
don't give me some truth
I need the news again

I am the news and I'm every spin
I am what is and what's not in
I am the trump card I'm the ace
I am the news and I'm in your face
I am the ocean's biggest roar
I am the smallest twist of fate
I am the ending of a play
I am the opening curtain

Mrs Jones she rides again
Mr Jones he knows
Mrs Jones she rides so many
Pulling at their clothes
Looking down her nose
Hey, I just got over you
The world's a bigger place
A better place than you
And hey, I've just found my head
Ahead in a bigger space
Ahead in a better place
She knows she rides she'll miss you
If she rides it fast
She marked your card but she'll miss you
Your hope you'll always last
Then you mark it fast my friend
Make your own way out
Your strategy is so hard to see
But your intentions are in doubt
Your intentions are in doubt
Hey, I just got over you
The world's a bigger place

영국 출신의 브릿 팝 내지 모던록 계열로 분류할 수 있는 4인조 록 밴드입니다. Steve Cradock, Simon Fowler, Damon Minchella, Oscar Harrison 로 구성되어 있습니다. 1992년 1집[ocean color scene]로 데뷰합니다만...별다른 주목을 받지 못하고...4년의 공백기를 보낸 후 1996년 2집 [Moseley Shoals]을 내놓는데요..수록곡 중'The Riverboat Song'이 영국차트 15위까지 오르면서 인기를 모으게 됩니다. 이 작품부터 국내에도 소개되기 시작했습니다.

이듬해인 1997년에 3집 [Marchin' Already]를 발표합니다. 'Hundred Mile City'가 히트한 이 앨범은 영국 앨범 차트 2위에 오르는 폭발적인 인기를 얻게 되었습니다. 또한 비슷한 시기에 그동안 공개하지 않았던 미발표곡 및 싱글 B-Side수록곡들을 모은 비정규 음반 [B-Sides: Seasides & Freerides]을 발표하기도 했습니다.

이후 1999년 4집[One From the Modern], 2001년 [Mechanical Wonder]를 내놓으며 영국내에선 정상급의 인기를 과시하고 있습니다. (미국에서는 그다지 인기를 얻지 못하고 있습니다.)

2001년 이들의 베스트 앨범 [The Very Best of Ocean Colour Scene: Songs for the Front Row]가 발매되었구요..국내에는 수입음반으로만 접할 수 있습니다.

Im not one to judge that much
And anyway I just wanna get high on you
But thirteen year old girls in hotels on the other side of the world
Seems a little much for me

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

But they look you in the eye
And anyway theyll always slip a smile at you
But thirteen year old girls in rat-holes on the other side of the world
Theyre gonna lie to you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

Free-runs in a town where the boys and girls are settling down for the night
To make up and make eyes at you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you