Supertramp

You don’t question anything that lies beyond your front door
Life is so simple with a mind inside of four walls
Maybe I’m jealous, maybe it’s pity that I feel
One thing I haven’t said is it annoys the hell out of me

If ignorance is bliss
They’ve got loads of it

And when it’s time to speak
We are not the quiet ones

A few words, a bit of fuss
The quiet ones
A little noise, now a bigger buzz
The quiet ones
God damn there’s a lot of us
Quiet!

You don’t like the symptoms but you stay home and comply
And your silence costs us who are trying to question why
Using the ones you really should be shouting for
To excuse yourselves from your place in the outside world

If ignorance is bliss
They’ve got loads of it

And when it’s time to speak
We are not the quiet ones

A few words, a bit of fuss
The quiet ones
A little noise, now a bigger buzz
The quiet ones
God damn there’s a lot of us
Quiet!

We are not
We are not
We are not the quiet ones

Quiet Ones (Video Version)

Quiet Ones (video version)

Having recently been enjoying the excellent audiobook of Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle,  I decided to play Alexei's classic 1984 hit Ullo John Got A New Motor on my Saturday night show on 6 Music. When I floated the idea on Twitter loads of people were keen to hear it on air and started quoting lines from the song at me.

But it seems the regular 7" single mix has vanished off the face of the bloody planet. The BBC no longer have a copy in their library, you can't buy a download on iTunes or a CD on Play or Amazon. The only video versions on YouTube are absolutely awful quality. But what you can find on iTunes is loads of Karaoke versions because it's such a well-loved classic

In the end my Twitter friend Drew Tabori sent me an audio file of the sweary 12" version, so we finally did get to play it on Saturday 3rd February 2013, although (as you can hear) it was severely edited down for BBC compliance purposes....

Check out that audiobook by the way: www.audible.co.uk/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B004EW5PSW

ALEXEI SAYLE - Ullo John Got A New Motor - on 6 Music

Written By: Marina Florance
Released on all streaming platforms Dec 14th 2020
Credits:
Marina Florance: Guitar, BVs, LV, Production and Mixing
Ben Walker: Resonator and Piano
Mark Jolley: Bass
Tobisonics: Mastering
Artwork Photography: Gary Florance
Lyrics
Too many dreams have been broken
too many hopes pushed aside
of all those words we’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies
Lonely runs both ways
if I could read your mind
Oooh I’d know just what to say
know the words I should hide

What have we got right now
all that’s me, all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

But you can see right through me
and you can read my mind
and you know just what to say
know the words you should hide
But too many dreams have been broken
Your hopes pushed aside
and of all those words you’ve spoken
how many truths, how many lies

What have we got right now
all that’s me. all that’s you
Gonna live my life right here in this moment
under a sky of blue, under sky of blue

Supertramp

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