Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield

I’m dedicating this track to my mate and guitarist of this band Lee Hughes who is currently in hospital waiting on a bypass. So best wishes to a great guitarist & bloke please make a speedy recovery. 
We wrote this song back in 1998 after I was reading an article about Richard Branson’s new record label V2.
The article referred to the fact that V2 had signed 60 bands to the new label. Stereophonics was one of those bands and I have no idea who the other 59 were.
It also referred to the fact it was like catching 60 flies in a jar and seeing which one escaped to make the big time.
Obviously Stereophonics was the fly who escaped. 
It all seemed farcical and ridiculous to me that all them bands signed their lives away only to be dropped so quickly.
This Elegant Chaos was on a small independent label selling 500 albums a month unknown to us. 
The label took the money and we only found out 20 years later how much the label made. We never seen a penny.
I was sent an audit form of sales because the label wanted to use some tracks of their best selling artists for a compilation album to celebrate 30 years. 
To say I was shocked was an understatement! 
This industry is shark infested waters that you rarely miss getting bitten. 
The middle eight refers to this after reading another article by Ian Brown talking about the music industry & the split from The Stone Roses and how we are lambs to the slaughter. 
We used a sample on the track from Bros’s When Will I Be Famous and reversed it right at the beginning & again later un reversed. 
If my memory serves me well we only ever played this live once in Bradford at a gig for a music magazine. I totally lost my way and ending up rolling around on stage to deflect from my vocal performance lol. I’m sure the band & audience thought I had lost the plot and I probably did but Happy days ! 
This Elegant Chaos gives you 

60 Flyzzzzz 

V1
60 Flyzzzzz buzzing in a jar
Can one escape to become a star 
60 Flyzzzzz
Can we make a living for A&R

Bridge 
This is farcical its ridiculous 
That someone like me could be so  fickle less  

Chorus 

Would you sign your life away 
Would you sign on the dotted line today
Would you sign your life away 
For the filthiest richest business On this planet x2

V2
60 Flyzzzzz buzzing in a jar 
One is for chop 
60 Flyzzzzz buzzing in a jar 
The other 58 as flopped 

Bridge 
This is farcical its ridiculous 
That someone like me could be so  fickle less 

Chorus 

Would you sign your life away 
Would you sign on the dotted line today
Would you sign your life away 
For the filthiest richest business On this planet x2


Middle 8 

Mr Brown you were right 
These are shark infested waters 
Mr Brown you were right 
We lambs to the slaughter 
Mr Brown why was it so 
A thorn between your roses 
Mr Brown why was it so 
They can’t see further than their noses than their noses their noses 

Chorus to finish

Whiskey In The Jar

Thin Lizzy

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