Gadding About…

Me & Sophie pull up at half eight
Just a couple of seconds apart
We like to get in early to get organised
Coz we’ve both got a half nine start
We’re both laden with books in our Bags For Life
It’s just one of our safety behaviours
We put our backs out humping them up the stairs
Aaron Beck is our Holy saviour...


We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
We ricochet from compare to despair
Trying to hide our imposter syndrome…

Me & Sophie are just winging it
Half the time we don’t know where to begin
We never practice what we preach we’re just hypocrites
A couple of Dewey Finns
Me in Room 7 & Sophie in 6
We’re like a couple of weather vanes
In & out all day with our latest updates
Celebrating DNA’s...

We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
We ricochet from compare to despair
Trying to hide our imposter syndrome…

We both know it’s all smoke & mirrors
It’s like a scene from A Beautiful Mind
With our post-it notes all over the walls

Me & Sophie are being socialised
In to something that fills us with angst
We’ve got butterfly stomachs & sleepless nights
Coz we daren’t leave nothing to chance
So Sophie’s vaping with a slight of hand
Whilst I’m necking the Gaviscon
I feel like I’m sinking from over-thinking
So afraid of doing something wrong 

We’re just gadding about from 9 to 5
Feeling like the Wizard of Oz
Gadding it, blagging it, living a lie 
Trying to pull the whole thing off
Trying to hide this imposter syndrome…

Gadding About (single)

Gadding About by The Ramsden Squares

'Wry Genius' -Mojo Magazine

Congratulations, you have stumbled across The Sturmey Archers time capsule that has lain buried beneath the Soundcloud sunken garden since the beginning of the 21st century. No doubt you are reading this from a future where music has become just that stuff in the background of funny video clips of dogs and babies. But historians amongst you will probably of heard of a time when music actually meant something to people. 

In the second decade of the 21st century a law was passed that decreed that all lyrics to songs should be about 'this night being the one' and stuff about 'putting your hands in the air'. These were strange times when songs about unique thoughts that sprung into individual's minds were considered retro, but musicians that copied German bands from thirty years previously were thought to still be original.

It was in the context of these times that small groups of renegade songwriters decided to carry on with the virtues of rock and pop's golden age and actually write songs about things, thoughts, feelings and other stuff. These were sometimes profound and and sometimes silly, but the words meant something, the music was playful and adventurous, and the tunes could be whistled by milkmen if they ever got the chance to hear them. They were on a mission to be at the very least, mildly entertaining.

Eminent musicologists of the time scoured the planet to find examples of this music that wasn't rubbish so they could bury it for future generations to enjoy. You now, the lucky archaeologist and future pop picker, have in your grasp the key to a world of wry world play, mad thoughts and old fashioned chord progressions. N.B. If Apes have taken over the planet, sorry for all the trouble we've caused.

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TRS adopt a: 'that'll do' approach to quality control & doff their hats towards: Victoria Wood, Postcard Records, Eric Chappell, The Brilliant Corners, Orange Juice, The Smiths & John Cooper Clarke.

See also: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ramsden-Squares/704831992872764
www.youtube.com/stevieboyralph
https://soundcloud.com/filthy-recordings
https://theramsdensquares.bandcamp.com/