101

Written, arranged and performed by Mike Cunningham. Drums by Dom Hardy. Production by Dom Hardy at Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline.

While I’m away
we’re on count-down every day
We need to put aside some time for catching up
It is so easy to forget
Sometimes we need to reconnect
We need to do away with time for ‘Mobile Love’


So no more surfing at the movies
No more WhatsApp, no more Facebook
No more drilling down through click-holes at your friends
No shaking phones for signal bars
No super-retina XDR
No changing background colours just because


		(Chorus)
		When I come home again I’m gonna make amends.
		I’m gonna cool my heels and focus on you.
		Gonna give 101 percentage of all my love
		Gonna make sure my time’s devoted to you.


We don’t do the things we used to
We need to change the things we do do.
The social-media stars will have to wait.
I want to show you that you’re special,
Tell you that you’re beautiful,
You don’t need online influence for that.

So no more texting at the restaurant, and
No more email in the bedroom.
No opening up attachments on the fly.
No more checking out that Twitter feed,
No pixel dust, no Tik-Tok need (ad)
No Instagram rendition of our lives.

		Chorus
		Organ
		Bridge1
		Chorus


Copyright  : Nov 2022 M. E. Cunningham
Written : Sept 2022/Jun 2023 M. E. Cunningham (Castlethorpe– Kirkcaldy)
Recorded :  2023 Gracenote Studios, Dunfermline

(Mobile Love – Banksy’s mural)

101 (No More Mobile Love)

The Emma Brown Song (Getalife.com) v15 
Words and music by Michael Cunningham
All instruments Michael Cunningham except Drums and additional guitar Dave Croxford
Produced by CroxRox

Emma Brown works in a hamburger store,
She knows it’s a dead end and she knows she wants more.
She’s taken a back seat in her life so far.
she’s waiting for something worth waiting for.

She wants a new life and she wants to have fun.
A near-life experience is as close as she’s come.
She lists all the changes she will make when she can
and dreams of creating getalife.com

Charlie was out on the tiles last night
He couldn’t remember what he went to forget
He went to college, now he works in a bar 
This is the ‘B-side’ of his life so far

He needs to take charge and to take some control,
some brightness, some volume and some vertical hold.
His life in the faff lane could be so turned around
He goes into work and he meets Ms Brown.

They make a machine where you get a new life
For 10 bucks a pop you get a stereotype
For a little bit extra you can go Larsonesque
Or keep your own life and change everyone else.

They make small people big and make big people small,
have a bad-hair day, or go do it all.
Glide the Grand Canyon and dive the Azores,
Explore the South Pole and climb the Monros

So now they’re ensconced in their own little world
their favourite restaurant and their favourite films
One or two games where they come out on top
All living sweetly in getalife.com

But all of their people work in hamburger stores
Or working in bars when they want to do more
They list all the changes they will make when they can
They dream of creating getalife.com

101 (No More Mobile Love)

Mike Cunningham

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