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

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[Words & Music - The Feckless]

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Come on down you synth-folk slacker cyberpunks
I know you must be lonesome

Inviting all the wretches and the feckless
I know you’ll find your home soon

Way out there
Fade away
Ungracefully
In obscurity

[Contains samples from Philip K. Dick's press conference at the Metz Science Fiction Festival, France, September 1977]

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

Synth-Folk Slacker Cyberpunks

All lyrics and music written and performed by The Franklys
Produced and recorded by Dan Lucas @ The Joplin House
© 2023 The Franklys

Nobody Else

The first girl who I met that wasn’t my mother,
it turns out, it turns out,
it turns out, 
she’s my sister

So his ship can do the Kessel Run,
in 12 or 13 parsecs,
you should see me, you should see me, 
bulls-eye a womp rat

So I’ve got so much more going on,
than a simple bionic arm

and I thought the only thing I’d ever love, 
was my burned out T-16

Well, I’ve got so much more on my mind,
than a simple bionic arm

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

T-16

Falling (demo)

Upside Down On The Monkey Bars…

Sun is up – we climb out your bedroom window 
& sit on the roof of your kitchen 
& see children bouncing on their trampoline
Only interrupted by the chimes of the ice cream van
Sun is up – I hear The Stone Roses ‘Waterfall’ drifting over rooftops
& everything feels so much nicer, everything looks so much brighter 
Let’s hose down the bikes & go for a ride…

& I don’t want this day to end whilst you are here with me
& I don’t want you to go home or go in for your tea
Coz you have turned my whole world upside down as far as I can see 
So just stay hanging from these monkey bars here with me… 

Sun is up – see the pigeons jostling on the Car Wash roof
We watch the insects buzzing here & there & everywhere busying themselves in the summer air - I beat my personal best at ‘Keepy-uppy’
Sun is up – it’s a vest & shorts & flip flops kinda day
Beer garden weather – tattoo’s on display
People mowing lawns & whiling away their day in different ways

& I don’t want this day to end whilst you are here with me
& I don’t want you to go home or go in for your tea
Coz you have turned my whole world upside down as far as I can see 
So just stay hanging from these monkey bars here with me…

The BIG 5-oh! e.p.

Upside Down On The Monkey Bars by The Ramsden Squares.

I wrote what's below before Mahan put up, for public, the original. 
Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/moonballad-toxic-daisies?in=mahan-mahan/sets/jon-lock-vs-mahan-mahan
I few weeks ago I heard this track https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan/disco-junkies-1-1-1 and was just floored, mostly by that bass line. Anyway after https://soundcloud.com/mahan-mahan and I had enjoyed each others music and exchanged some ideas and pleasantries Mahan came to me with the Idea of me covering a song by his former band The Toxic Daisies. I think he'll post the original as a public track again but for now the link he provided to me is private. The original is from the 90's(I think) and in a punk/grunge style. I shifted it into a sort of 60's pop and altered the harmonies just a bit but stayed true, for the most part to the original chords, arraignment, tempo and tried to use the exact lyrics as I heard them. It's a wonderful song and a couldn't be more flattered that Mahan asked me to recreate it.

Moonballad (Toxic Daisies cover)

Inspired by a sleepless summer night

Summer Storm

I been up all night
I should be sleeping,
Winds are blowing strong.
the roof is caving in,
I'm just waiting til dawn.

Its blowing a gale
and my ship set sail,
Left me here on the docks.
I should be counting sheep,
but i'm just watching the clock.

This mind don't rest,
I try my best to gently 
shut it down.
Seems i'm stuck while the wheels 
are spinning around...

I been up all night
Oh i should be sleeping
winds are blowing strong
the roof is caving in
I'm just waiting til dawn.

Its changing form
this summer storm,
playing tricks in the night.
Electricity and flashes of light....

20/12/2020 Hallam

Summer Storm

Chronologique

Perception

TPS Electronika - Perception

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