Little Miracle Single

Manifesto Single

All songs written, arranged, recorded, produced and mastered by Jack Simmons.

Lead vocals, instruments and programming by Jack Simmons, except Track 1, Track 4, Track 10 and Track 14 lead vocals by Jessica Simmons, and Track 6 lead guitar and backing vocals by Darren Simmons, and Track 2 bass guitar by NeilC.

Copyright 2023.

Pop Psychology

Lyrics:

Met you down at the football field and I'm sighing
Met you down at the football field and you do not mind 
Looking like a bomb hit you
I am here to clear some rubble now

'cause I
I'm out of control
Knowing there's more
A layer beneath your clothes
Give me a pout
I won't be something you don't care about now 
Something you don't care about now

And your music makes me lose control
These feelings that are nascent in my bones

Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
And you know it's too late to pretend now
Hide it from our friends now
Can't hide it from our friends now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

Not illegal digging our dead ground
Not illegal laying down if you do not mind
Not illegal crossing legs, though it wakes up something deep inside

And I
I'm out of control
I have this thing
I've wanted to hold in my hands
And I have nights where all I can think about is you
All I can think about is you

And your music makes me lose control
These feelings that are nascent in my bones

Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
It's clear we've started sharing clothes now
Anything goes now, everybody knows now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

I don't care where you've been, now
I can watch you swim now
I can watch you swim...
Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

Lose Control Single

Lyrics:

We have good days in the rain
Don't need sun outside
We have good days all the same
Don't need to stay inside, no

Have you ever loved someone more than a fad?
Ever pinched in a nerve that you didn't know you had?
Seen a lip that you shouldn't have?
Oh no 

And I'm sold on you
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're one they made it easy to adore 
You make it easier than before 

We spend our days trading smiles 
We are the other side 
No we don't switch the news on 
We are the other side now

Have you ever felt the thing that makes you come alive?
Ever hit by a thing that you never thought to try?
Seen a face and taken to the sky?

'cause I'm sold on you 
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore 
You make it easier than before  

We have good days in the rain
Don't need sun outside
We have good days all the same
Don't need to stay inside

Have you ever loved someone more than a fad?
Ever pinched in a nerve that you didn't know you had?
Seen a lip that you shouldn't have?
Oh no 

'cause I'm sold on you 
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore 
You make it easier than before  
Sold on you
I'm struck with the bolt that I hoped for
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore 
You make it easier than before

Sold On You

Lyrics:

Come on baby put a record on now
I thought you were only human
When I saw you for the first time with my friends
Wasn't looking out for something special
You are the summer I still see
You are the longest number
You are the din of the deep sea
You are no work days all week long
A little miracle

Baby, leave the engine on to kill the first now
- To a place that I never thought I'd see!
Keep me up until the morning's on the sky
Stroke my back when my head's between my knees
And now when I am in the wind
I think of our endless summer
At night it's fine when I can't sleep
I look at you like the one promise I can keep
A little miracle

Little Miracle

Lyrics:

I'm not pure blue
I'm not the sea
I'm not the things you want from me
I'm not a wreck without a brain
I'm not brown engines in the rain
I'm not the girl you thought you wanted 
Do you want a girl at all? I guess we'll see

I'm not one for your manifesto
You wrote in the dark in the car park
You drew your flies and sighed and spoke
Of temporary autonomous zones 

I'm not a boom
I'm not a bust
I'm just an animal of lust
I'm not a garden
Not a contract
Not some limestone by the Thames 
All the gifts that you steal me
All the chapbooks that you write me make me swell

My friends say you're a massive ego
Not in so many words
I'm too young to have been there
The station at Lenin Square 

I'm not an ant
I'm not too small
I won't speak of love at all
You're a centre 
I'm a weirdo
You're a star about to fall
You're not the cigarette you put out on my thigh
I don't care at all

I'm not one for your manifesto
You wrote in the dark in the car park
You drew your flies and sighed and spoke
Of temporary autonomous zones

Manifesto

You're Probably Too Young For That

Lyrics:

Just a moment, boy
What’s a moment anyway?
I know that life looks bad
I know the world drags you down
From the things you really love
The news is bad, so switch it off

I know that life conspires
To pull you away
But work can wait, anyhow
Perhaps it can’t, you would know

You’re a slave to the rhythm 
Going through the motions
Feel that life is rising
Slowly like the oceans
Coming up to get you
You cannot go back to the start
And all the graphs are moving
Slowly to the ceiling
All the doors are closing
All the walls are squeezing 
You cannot get back now
Life is not a merry-go-round

I hope this email doesn’t find you
I hope that you’ve escaped
That you’re free 

Slave to the rhythm 
Going through the motions
Feel that life is rising
Slowly like the oceans
Coming up to get you
You cannot go back to the start
And all the graphs are moving
Slowly to the ceiling
All the doors are closing
All the walls are squeezing 
You cannot get back now
Life is not a merry-go-round

You tell me that you’re fine but these things take their toll
“When you’re a man not everything is good for the soul”
Then I don’t wanna be a man
No I don’t wanna understand
You’re a slave to the rhythm 
Going through the motions
Feel that life is rising
Slowly like the oceans
Coming up to get you
You cannot go back to the start
And all the graphs are moving
Slowly to the ceiling
All the doors are closing
All the walls are squeezing 
You cannot get back now
Life is not a merry-go-round

Slave to the Rhythm

Lyrics:

You can't change the world you can change your mind
Tell me all the things you wish to find
Tell me all the places that you hide, oh oh oh
All the little burns you don't want to show

And I want to go dancing
I've never been the kind to throw his hat
In to the wind and just move like that, romancing
I worry about my place in the universe
But that is not a charm, it is not a curse

I don't care what the other people think about you
For me you are the glue
Yeah I see the sun in you, oh oh oh 
These people worry about too much and they let it show

And I want to go dancing
I think I'm ready for the madding crowd
And to fall back in love with my body now, romancing
Leave the vultures at the door
Who try to tell me what I'm on Earth for
'cause I know what I am on Earth for

You can't change the world you can change your mind
I know you are gentle, you are kind
I know you are gentle, you are kind, oh oh oh
Your love ripples out when you let it show

And I want to go dancing
I think I'm ready for the madding crowd
And to fall back in love with my body now, romancing
I worry about my place in the universe
And that is not a charm, it is not a curse
You are the thing I'm on Earth for

I Wanna Go Dancing

Lyrics:

So you got held up with a couple friends at a party – played your favourite song
My friends like to laugh and say you're better off dead but I know they're wrong
Yeah  I don’t mind, I’m already over it, I don’t care about that
And if you burn out a couple of cars I don't think that makes you hopeless 
Yeah there are worse things than seeing your daddy put inside

But I don’t mind
No I don’t miss you today
No I don’t miss you today
No I don’t miss you today

Took a couple busses just to see your face at the weekend – it’s not pretend
Took a couple pictures with the best kind of lighting – you showed your friend
Well I don’t mind, I’m already over it, I don’t care about that
You say you want to walk off the planet
I say I don’t care how you’re feeling
But the way that you’re feeling is tearing me up inside 

But I don’t mind
No I don’t miss you today
You said you’d meet me today
Outside of Tesco I’m alone y’know
It's a little quirk of yours

But I don’t wanna be treated like a piece of slime
Why you gotta bring your friends with you all the time?
The way that you treat me is some kind of crime
And I don’t wanna play anymore 

But I don’t mind
No I don’t miss you today
You said you’d meet me today
Outside of Tesco I’m alone y’know
It's a little quirk of yours
No I don’t mind
No I don’t miss you today
No I don’t miss you today
No I don’t miss you today

Miss You Today

Lyrics:

Girl those kids can't make you cry
But you don't care now if you do or die
Moon in the morning sky
You will be almost happy for the rest of your life
Bloke in from the NHS
Puts your Christianity to the test
But you don't care 
No you don't care
No you don't care 

Every meal goes to your hips  
Every skin-fade kid gives you lip
Hold your breath and cross the street
Close your eyes and trust your feet 
You're the teacher, you know the rules
You're the thing they use to practice cruel 
But you don't care
No you don't care 
No you don't care 

A glass of wine will make you cry but you don't know why
It's just the things that they throw at you
It's just the wage that they've decided to spare you 
It's just the world that they've thrown to you like a bone 

Girl those kids can't make you cry
But you don't care now if you do or die
Moon in the morning sky
You will be almost happy for the rest of your life
Bloke in from the Office for Standards
Caught you smoking, you were reprimanded 
You don't care
No you don't care
No you don't care

Survival School

Lyrics:

Met you down at the football field and I'm sighing
Met you down at the football field and you do not mind
Looking like a bomb hit you
I am here to clear some rubble now

'cause I
I'm out of control
Knowing there's more
A layer beneath your clothes
Give me a pout
I won't be something you don't care about now
Something you don't care about now

And your music makes me lose control
These feelings that are nascent in my bones

Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
And you know it's too late to pretend now
Hide it from our friends now
Can't hide it from our friends now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

Not illegal digging our dead ground
Not illegal laying down if you do not mind
Not illegal crossing legs, though it wakes up something deep inside

And I
I'm out of control
I have this thing
I've wanted to hold in my hands
And I have nights where all I can think about is you
All I can think about is you

And your music makes me lose control
These feelings that are nascent in my bones

Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
It's clear we've started sharing clothes now
Anything goes now, everybody knows now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

I don't care where you've been, now
I can watch you swim now
I can watch you swim...
Wanna make you lose control and go now
I can make you go now, I can make you go now
Wanna make you lose control and go now

Lose Control

Been working on my stuff
I know it doesn’t mean that much
You never brushed away my hand
Or turned your nose up at the band

And time was taking its toll
But we had no idea back then
Felt we were the last ones to
Slip on a CD and sigh

This is music for car parks
I can play my part if you can play your part
This is the hard part; I could be someone you don't see anymore

Know I learned a lot
In the short time we had
How to be a better man
How to be a man at all

And this is music for car parks
I can play my part if you will play your part
This is the hard part; I could be someone you don't see any more
Someone you don't see anymore 
Someone you don’t see anymore 

And when you put ABBA on
Thought I was in love with you 

Yeah this is music for parks
I can play my part if you will play your part
This is the hard part; I could be someone you don't see any more
Someone you don't see anymore

Music For Car Parks

Lyrics:

It's not about living long it's about looking good
It's not about taking drugs it's about skipping food
And hanging out in Salzburg with a sad look on your face
Watching all the wheels go round

Georgie's crying 'cause he wants to be a pop star
Georgie's crying 'cause he wants to find it in his heart
To be a lover 'cause he needs to be a lover
Georgie wants to be a pop star now

And on the hottest day of June he looks for somewhere to go
They won the footie and took to the streets in their Volkswagon Carrados
But he just stared at his continental and thought about Abbey Road
How the tape reels went round

Georgie's crying 'cause he wants to be a pop star
Georgie's crying 'cause he wants to find it in his heart
To be a lover 'cause he needs to be a lover
Georgie wants to be a pop star now
Georgie wants to be a pop star now

Georgie Wants to Be A Pop Star

Lyrics:

We have good days in the rain
Don't need sun outside
We have good days all the same
Don't need to stay inside, no

Have you ever loved someone more than a fad?
Ever pinched in a nerve that you didn't know you had?
Seen a lip that you shouldn't have?
Oh no

And I'm sold on you
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're one they made it easy to adore
You make it easier than before

We spend our days trading smiles
We are the other side
No we don't switch the news on
We are the other side now

Have you ever felt the thing that makes you come alive?
Ever hit by a thing that you never thought to try?
Seen a face and taken to the sky?

'cause I'm sold on you
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore
You make it easier than before

We have good days in the rain
Don't need sun outside
We have good days all the same
Don't need to stay inside

Have you ever loved someone more than a fad?
Ever pinched in a nerve that you didn't know you had?
Seen a lip that you shouldn't have?
Oh no

'cause I'm sold on you
I'm bit by the bug they talk about
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore
You make it easier than before
Sold on you
I'm struck with the bolt that I hoped for
And I'm sold on you
You're the one they made it easy to adore
You make it easier than before

Lyrics:

Come on baby put a record on now
I thought you were only human
When I saw you for the first time with my friends
Wasn't looking out for something special
You are the summer I still see
You are the longest number
You are the din of the deep sea
You are no work days all week long
A little miracle

Baby, leave the engine on to kill the frost now
- To a place that I never thought I'd see!
Keep me up until the morning's on the sky
Stroke my back when my head's between my knees
And now when I am in the wind
I think of our endless summer
At night it's fine when I can't sleep
I look at you like the one promise I can keep
A little miracle

You are the summer I still see
You are the longest number
You are the din of the deep sea
You are no work days all week long
A little miracle

Lyrics:

Don't want to give him a second chance
You need a boy that can keep it in his pants 
Saw a film in 2002
Learnt you deserved some true romance

Shoved around like the revolution 
Cooking in the kitchens all round town
Talk about restitution 
Well your mother went back, it's in your blood now doll

People laugh at you
When you cry you cry enough for two 
Thought your mother was an engineer 
Your father laughs while she's mopping up his beer

Don't want to give it a second try
You need a world that does more than just rush by
The red weight of the sky on you
Pink roofs from 1982

People laugh at you
When you cry you cry enough for two
Got your eyes on a nice New Build
A bully boy to put away the bills 
And we've all got pains
Heart pains and growing pains 
Gout pain, and promised pain to come

Growing Pains

Lyrics:

I'm not pure blue
I'm not the sea
I'm not the things you want from me
I'm not a wreck without a brain
I'm not brown engines in the rain
I'm not the girl you thought you wanted
Do you want a girl at all? I guess we'll see

I'm not one for your manifesto
You wrote in the dark in the car park
You drew your flies and sighed and spoke
Of temporary autonomous zones

I'm not a boom
I'm not a bust
I'm just an animal of lust
I'm not a garden
Not a contract
Not some limestone by the Thames
All the gifts that you steal me
All the chapbooks that you write me make me swell

My friends say you're a massive ego
Not in so many words
I'm too young to have been there
The station at Lenin Square

I'm not an ant
I'm not too small
I won't speak of love at all
You're a centre
I'm a weirdo
You're a star about to fall
You're not the cigarette you put out on my thigh
I don't care at all

I'm not one for your manifesto
You wrote in the dark in the car park
You drew your flies and sighed and spoke
Of temporary autonomous zones

Lyrics:

I am petrified 
You're electrifying
But these things take time
I will know when you are there 
I am petrified 
You're electrifying
But these things take time
And sometimes we don't have enough

We all wonder where, where the birds go at night
I believe in you
We all wonder where, where the birds go at night
Do you believe in me too?

I find myself 
Wanting to be
Needing to be
Where the birds go at night
No cars, no lights
Just some dark cave
Flat open fish
The sea and me

(We all wonder where, where the birds go at night)
Yeah, we all wonder where the birds go
Wonder where the birds go, wonder where they go
(We all wonder where, where the birds go at night)
I feel like smashing windows
Running over main roads
With my eyes closed
With my eyes closed

I don't mind, if you don't mind
You know that you never let me down
I don't mind, if you don't mind
You know that you never let me down
I don't mind, if you don't mind
You know that you never let me down
I don't mind, if you don't mind
You know that you never let me down

Where the Birds Go At Night

Lyrics:

Tired boy with your hair all down
Mother nature gave you a frown
To test your head and your heart
You don't have to use it
No you're not effortlessly cool
It takes a lot of work
The sunlight in your eyes
Ruins another photo
Tired boy with your passport and
Your cigarettes though you don't smoke anymore
Who do you think you're fooling?
No you're not effortlessly brave
You had your hopes and dreams
And threw them to the wind
You say you can't be bothered
When you mean you're just too scared

No you're not a no-action man
You help the polls out when you can
No you're not a no-action man
But it hurts knowing your bed's a hearse
No you're not effortlessly cool
It takes a lot of work
Watching 'I love 2002'
What do I do to get through to you?

Tired boy you let your hair grow long
Tired boy get yourself in one last song
Tired boy, you let your hair grow long
Tired boy, get yourself in one last song
Tired boy, you let your hair grow long
Tired boy, get yourself in one last

Effortless Cool

Lyrics:

Want to take me to a roller disco
And we're connected through wires in the clouds
It's not illegal to get a little frisky
Not illegal digging up our own wet ground

Around and round
I've seen you growing every day
Around and round
You've asked me if I'm straight or gay before 

But we're not operating in any framework
Not asking questions to make our brains work hey
You're a girl and i'm a boy 
Ask me if I believe in fate 

Around and round
At the roller disco of the gods
Around and round
At the roller disco of the gods 
Is it against the law?
Is it against the law law law law law?

Around and round
At the roller disco of the gods
Around and round
At the roller disco of the gods 
Is it against the law?
These last two years have been a slog
Around and round
Around and round
At the roller disco of the gods, oh yeah

Roller Disco of the Gods

Lyrics:

Maybe, maybe it's just in your DNA
Maybe it's the bitter things you say
And hey, the games you play
You never let me down, never let me down
Baby, I didn't think you'd be my destiny 
I'm looking for the stars and you're the coat of grey in my way
You never let me down, never let me down

And I guess through the mess that we had some fun
But I know in my bones that you're not the one
Don't know why when you cry I just want to run
I'm not an animal, not an animal
And I find I'm not resigned to some primal life
When we kiss there's spaceships falling from the sky
I'm a girl in the world and I wanna fly 
I'm not an animal, not an animal

Ordinarily there's nothing that I can't explain
When we met we had to kiss 'cause we were on a train
Never imagined that I'd end up art your door

And I guess through the mess that we had some fun
But I know in my bones that you're not the one
Don't know why when you cry I just want to run
I'm not an animal, not an animal
And I find I'm not resigned to some primal life
When we kiss there's spaceships falling from the sky
I'm a girl in the world and I wanna fly 
I'm not an animal, not an animal
Not an animal, not an animal

And I, I'm never gonna see me alone anymore 
Oh I, I'm never gonna see me alone anymore

Animal

Lyrics:

Try to turn my eyes up to see the sun
Try to make a friend but I come undone
Try to take your hand but you leave me feeling small
Throw your back to the wall

Try to pen a couple emails today
Try to leave the house but I failed today
Try to catch your eye but you leave me feeling small
Throw my back to the wall

But I
I can’t make you mine
If I can’t make you cry
Don’t say that I’ve changed
‘cause man of course I have

Yeah you know this summer’s been a perfect storm
Of watching you go swimming with your perfect form
And feeling a little older in the joints and in my brain
Time slipping away

But I
I can’t make you mine
If I can’t make you cry
Don’t say that I’ve changed
‘cause man of course I have

Upside Down Turtles

Lyrics:

All the things we didn't do
'cause there was no need to rush 
The champagne bottle's on the floor
And it's collecting dust
Guess we'll push the holidays you needed so damn much
I'm staying in

Guess I'll sit around
Wondering what to do
Perhaps I'll read a book
Or write a song or two
And when it's time to say, "Goodbye, I love you."
I'm staying in

Staying In (Hidden Track)

Dry your eyes now Melanie
Melanie is all TV dinners, winter winds and Christmas sun
She doesn't mind she's always on her own
And when she's finished sweeping leaves between the aisles
She'll go see the cars in the auto cafe
Which she likes a lot, she likes the shine

Melanie is studying law (She's got a law book the size of her head)
Sh doesn't mind the prettier girls stare
She's shaking feeding the birds
Like some sort of jet engine, she's confused but proud
Which she likes a lot, she likes the shine
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la oooh.
La la la la la la la la la la la oooh.

Melanie when you're done it won't be the world that laughs at you
You'll be laughing at them like you're a pretty part-time punk

Melanie, oh oh
Don't give up on us yet we've a lot to learn
We're just preppy paint balling kids pressured like diamonds in the rough
Melanie, oh oh, we're just trying to get by
And you're sitting in that little café like you could set the world on fire eating your meal for one

Melanie, oh, Melanie
What will be is what will be
Good luck Melanie!

Melanie likes people watching, sad boys and broken homes
She knows nothing bad can last
And when she sees them bursting out of their cocoons
She goes back to it with a pretty smile
She knows her time will come

Melanie when you're done it won't be the world that laughs at you
You'll be laughing at them like you're a pretty part-time punk

Melanie, oh oh
Don't give up on us yet we've a lot to learn
We're just preppy paint balling kids pressured like diamonds in the rough
Melanie, oh oh, we're just trying to get by
And you're sitting in that little café like you could set the world on fire eating your meal for one

Melanie

Just as the sand  desolidified 
With the winter ice
Our hearts sparked some fun 
Strawberry season we ran away
Yeah, we were the graves
On everybody’s lips 
Skipped the train for the morning rain
We watched the news again:
We were ticker tape 

Hitler ruined eugenics for everyone 
Let’s get a house by the lakeside and have some fun

I know your girl; she’s a friend of mine
She paints the sky in wine
Now she’s in the Tate 

Honey, you are the heat of home on the eyes of a blue drunk 
I won’t live another day on midnight TV, oh!
And with a sigh I see you've fallen on the floor
And with a bottle of wine, no one wants to be your friend 

Brown-eyed girl you are like the news
I need you still
But you are so sad 
I’m over you and your feelings now
Yeah, your feelings girl
Swallowed me up 

Whoever gave you a camera’s a criminal 
Whoever showed you the sky first must love us all
You’re in the garden dreaming while most of us are doomed to politics 
And half-wits 

Honey, you are the anger in the notes of an old goth
I spend my day trying to unwind but you are in my veins 
And with a sigh I see you’ve fallen on the floor
And with a bottle of wine, no one wants to be your friend 

No one wants to be your friend, no no no no
Strawberry season, oh yeah
Strawberry season, oh yeah
We dreamt the world away

Strawberry Season

He's An Alien

That Special Day

Hopelessly Loving You

Bristol based singer-songwriter. 60s, 70s & 80s inspired indie pop. ALL SONGS COPYRIGHT TO JACK SIMMONS 2024. 

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