A jam that me and Josh had a few years ago!
On the day we recorded this, we got up early and went for a vegetarian fry-up beforehand, at Fuel Cafe in Withington. I don't know why we did that.

Josh & Nic's Acoustic Jam!

This is a song about badgers, but also so much more.
 It was written by Jack Foster, Josh Hughes and I in about 2007 (that long ago!). We first recorded it in Jack's parents' conservatory, on the crappy samsung phone that I had at the time. Me and Jack re-recorded this last year (sans-Joshua, unfortunately).

Lyrics:

There's a badger living inside me, 
Birds are rabbits going on holiday, 
Slugs are bees and worms have the cure for cancer.

We don't exist, we're a badger suit,
 Just a human brain. (Brain) 
Badgers control everything we do, 
But we don't complain. (Plain) 
Badgers hide the truth from us 
When we operate. (Rate) 
They hide themselves behind the lungs 
And the rib cage.

[Chorus:] 

We got it all so wrong, (so wrong) 
We got it all so wrong, (so wrong) 
We got it all so wrong... 
We got it all so wrong, (so wrong) 
We got it all so wrong, (so wrong) 
We got it all so wrong, 
...The animals are wearing suits.

Pheasants are the peasants of rabbits, 
Badgers have smoking habits, 
Worms have hospitals under the grass 
But you can't dig them up. 
Bats are slugs Hell's Angels, 
We're badgers from our cradles, 
The field mice live inside the chickens heads 
To feed their families.

[Chorus]

You climb out me when I'm sleeping,
 You control everything I do, 
You make all of my decisions
 And we share the same poo. 
(I got it all so wrong…)

[Chorus]

...The animals are wearing suuuuuuits.

Badgers

Lyrics:

And we say that my life is full of ex-girlfriends and
Punctuation that we get entangled in.
But despite all the obstacles, I'm relatively sure
That this sordid affair was meant to be our journey's end.

And this jealousy in burning red reminds me that I'm not yet dead.
But I'm tired of all the games coz you've changed all the rules and we've talked this to death.

She talks the night away,
From the dark until the day,
And there's nothing I can say to make her see that I'm dying to sleep,
So i'm closing my eyes,
As she talks herself a lullaby.

So you're leaving, goodbye and good luck,
And we'll settle for a hug coz we know we'll never be the same.
And when you're gone you can pull on my heartstrings and buy me a wedding ring, a keyring, or anything!

But don't bring up the past, coz it wasn't that great,
It was more of a landslide than stars and champagne.
So whatever you do I will give you my blessings, but still have some left.

She talks the night away,
From the dark until the day,
And there's nothing I can say to make her see that I'm dying to sleep,
So i'm closing my eyes,
As she talks herself a lullaby…

(A lullaby, a lullaby, a lullaby...)
(A lullaby, a lullaby, a lullaby...)

I want so many things instead of all this right now, 
I want a classic car, I want to drive around.
I want a bicep tattoo that gets distorted when I flex,
I want a perfect guitar, though I haven't seen it yet.

And we're both crazy, aren't we?

She talks the night away,
From the dark until the day,
And there's nothing I can say to make her see that I'm dying to sleep,
So i'm closing my eyes,
As she talks herself a lullaby…

(A lullaby, a lullaby, a lullaby...)
(A lullaby, a lullaby, a lullaby...)


'A' For Effort

Me and Nic got pretty smashed and made this up.

'A' For Effort

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