After the Hole - Lyrics

All I seen is what I thought I would have seen
At the end all I found were other ends

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

On the screech of the city brakes I heard your name
Feel as though we're living in a recurrent dream

Suddenly I know, you live to know after the hole

And the life is after the hole

And the life is after the hole

Strange Part of the Country

After the Hole

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A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock - Lyrics

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
A mild case of death in the park
Meant I was looking for someone

And the old guys keeping us straight with their stories
The death of a bricklayer in Dublin
And claims that there once were leprechauns 

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

After two years of digging up my roots in back rooms
I found out there was only one truth 
That roots were meant to be buried

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock

Kitty’s Wake - Lyrics

At Kitty’s wake we sang the old songs
And the priest was telling me about his world

I’m at the old house for the last time
All the workers at the church stop when we arrive

And everyone dies
And everyone is born with life
And everyone might find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with

All the kids are playing grown up
I’m remembering that once I was a child

Some are lonesome when they’re on their own
And then some of us never get the time alone

And everyone dies
And everyone is born with life
And everyone might find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend their lives with
Find someone they want to spend 

And I should know

Kitty's Wake

The Somedays’ brand new single released 01 November 2013.
Free download is still available on Bandcamp.
http://thesomedays.bandcamp.com/track/reflection

Reflection

Included in Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music Recommends show on 4 April 2014 (& also given airplay by Steve in his daytime 6 Music slot).  Thanks also to Gideon Coe for playing this track on his BBC 6 Music show.  

We sent Both Gideon & Steve our limited edition LP "You Can Get Lost". We're so chuffed they played this tune on their shows - so we made it a free download !!!

Also played on college radio in Canada by this chap: https://soundcloud.com/britdjmatt (thanks, Matt!)

Track 3 on our 'Serenity Mountain', album released on 26th March.  

Recorded at the Ranch Studio in Liverpool and in Phil's bedroom. Mastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod.

Lyrics:

When you're old and grey, I will comfort you, 
I will be the missing category you seek. 
And you'll know my name and you'll know it's true, 
I just want to be the highlight of your week. 

Come around and we'll watch some crap tv. 
It doesn't matter, just as long as you're with me.
we can be like children in a foreign family. 
In our own society, 
our bones are older than the trees. 

When your mind is gone I will mop it up, 
I will be your cleaner and your confidant. 
I will rescue you from the hands of time 
and we'll wind them back to when you knew your mind. 

As we live and learn so we learn to live. 
It gets harder but as long as you're with me.
we can be like children in a foreign family. 
and your memory will come back some sunny day you'll see. 

She'll come back some sunny day you'll see. 
She'll come back some sunny day to me. 

One more year goes by and we're still the same. 
Nothing changes when there's no-one here to blame. 
We will always be separated from 
this reality, just as long as you're with me. 

Just as long as you're with me.

Credits:
from Serenity Mountain, released 26 March 2014 
Tim Calleja - Words, music and production; main vocals, guitar. 
Phillip Collings - Drums, percussion, keys, vocals, production. 
Alex Blain - Lead guitar, vocals. 
Andrew Smith - Bass.

Buy on Bandcamp/itunes

Like Children In A Foreign Family

From the forthcoming album 'Red Tide Opal In The Loose End Womb' out May 5th on Howling Owl Records. www.oliver-wilde.com

Pre-order special editions here www.howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com

On This Morning

The fourth song from our new album 'Serenity Mountain', released on 26th March 2014. This particular track is very much a bedroom recording.



I Lost My Mind

Lots of work! Basically taking tracks from cassettes that were almost shot, some so badly that the songs had slipped one and a half tones down, and filtering them through RipX to separate, as best as possible, all the instrumentation. End result - re-did all the vocals, doubled up and fattened out some parts (painstakingly bar by bar), in a couple of cases some extra arranging. But everyone's parts are present and correct and  mostly as they were, just sounding a bit better. These are not all the songs - some I've forgotten, and I just don't have any recordings of them. But the other Dance Movie albums that are up are my modern re-interpretations of this stuff so I thought it would be good to put these up both for comparison and also for my band mates of this short lived band (7 months from about October 1980 to mid 1981). Some songs have a lot of parts! Some are cute pop, some are more angular, some are a little prog, to be honest! One is sort of a cover, a re-interpretation of Claudio Gizzi's theme for 'Blood for Dracula', chords changed, a middle section by me - also it's the sloppiest live track! So it's at the end and I will probably take it down at some stage in the near future!!
Influences: Talking Heads, Magazine, The Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, XTC, early Models, early John Foxx era Ultravox, etc. Extravagantly, I wanted to do something a little Stravinsky-esque in so far as making odd little runs that were kind of dissonant and angular, and make them sound pop, layer them, or put pop/pretty bits right next to weird bits. Hopefully on my songs, you'll see what I mean! Enjoy! All a very long time ago ...

Echoes - Live

closer to the Eastern D 12 string IdeaLPLUS  bonus unexpected P2 time change bit
13/5/2020

Constricted Feeling Going Round

Evening all. 
So I'm going slowly deaf, Meniere's robbing me of the highs and lows of my hearing very slowly but surely. Which means I'm recording fast and furious-like, trying to work my way through a crap-ton of songs across about twenty or so separate projects, before it becomes ridiculous to even try. These projects go back to 1978, my last year of high school. I’m sure you can do the math!
I always joke that I’ve never met a genre I didn’t like. Or have a crack at. So there’s post punk, art rock, country/americana, folk, folk pop, southern rock, ambient, jazz, indie pop, punk pop, piano pieces, 60s fuzz pop … lots of different stuff. Over 44 years there’s about 1200 songs, and I don’t imagine I’ll get ‘em all done, at least not before my ears pack up. 
So there are caveats for a lot of this stuff. Most of which are to do with not agonising over every part and every mix, just getting the songs done reasonably ok. I’ve had a lot of time to live with some of these, so I’ve re-imagined quite a few, or fixed them, or just tidied them up. I used to sing like I was gargling and being tickled, so I’m now doing my best to sing proper like, as best I can. 
It’s been a long road, and I’ve been signed to a major, dropped, released indie stuff, been on (Oz) MTV, played thousand plus people gigs and to empty rooms. There are moments I’d trade, and moments I wouldn’t trade for quids.
I hope you enjoy the music. Please, though, I can tell if a song has been played, so don’t put a like or some vague comment about the song, when I can tell you haven’t played it. It wastes both our time, and kinda breaks my heart.

Echoes - Live

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