Non-album lyrics

[torch]

I don't think this song is on the site but it's a
favourite of mine, so I thought I'd send it in.
         TERRY ANGELINE
My name is Terry Angeline
I left school when I was thirteen
Got involved with the wrong kind of crowd
I've been in places that I never should have
been allowed
Anyone can finance me
since I was thiteen it's the way I've been, oh no

My name is Terry Angeline
Last night my true love said to me
Terry darling I'm your love it's true
But I hate you and I cant stand being with you
Anyone can finance me
since I was thirteen it's the way I've been, oh no, oh no,
I dreamed what you prescribed
when I woke up it was dark outside
I dreamed what you prescribed
when I woke up it was dark outside

[Urpal]

I can't say I'm familiar with that one. Judging from the words alone I assume it's a fun-toned tune. Is Terry Angeline a made up person? A David Watts/Richard Cory etc.

[torch]

You would recognize pieces of it as Dave cannibalized quite a few early songs. This is from the 5th tape I think. Same time
as 'I cant wait to see your gun' and 'Native Bride'. It has a
great almost Tex-Mex riff at the intro but I have no idea who
Terry Angeline represented if anyone. Does Richard Cory refer
to anyone in particular? I really love that song.

[Urpal]

I love Richard Cory too (the song not any male of that name living or dead). I doubt it's about anyone in particular, although I guess, like Hearst and Citizen Kane, it was probably inspired by some magnate or other.

Terry Angeline sounds like a combination of angel and terylene, so might have some great qualities but not so well heeled and not such a smoothy either.

[geoffm]

I watched the crowded house Aust album show tonight.After it they repeated part 1 of the Scorsese doc no direction home.Its difficult now to appreciate the effect Dylan had at the time he appeared in the early 60s.as the show followed a preview for next weeks triffids, there were some things from the dylan doc that have always interested me in relation to Daves works and I thought I would throw it out there.
Most of Daves songs seeem to be  about personal politics.he didn`t seem  interested in social or political comment.The only songs I can readily think of that seem to edge into that area are casino lights and maybe spanish blue.Interested in any other views on this.
For someone obviously influenced by dylan he doesn`t seem to have covered any of his more  political songs.
The impression I get is of a man more interested in the beauty of language than the use of that language to push a view of the world.
During the Dylan doc they play Blowing in the wind,hard rain and then Masters of war.The last of those songs seemed so blunt and direct as to jar badly with the rich imagery in the former 2 songs.It seemed incongruent that the same person wrote it.Any offers of Dave songs where the lyrics seem at odds with the McComb norm?
I remain drawn to Daves words because I love the vividness of his imagery.If I was asked what my favourite McC omb song was,lyrically,I think it is probably by your hand.I love the richness of the first verse and the the lines
and the shape my shadow forms,
in the hour before dawn
would be humbled to be drawn,by your hand

what I love about it is that if someone gave me a pen and paper and told me to sit down and express what I think those words mean in as many ways as I could.I know I could probably do it 50 different ways.But I could never conceive to turn it inside out in the way that its presented in this song. And I guess thats why we all admire  art and why its such a personal thing.

[mark t]

worlds smartest man - thanks Graham (this is new isn't it - well it is to me)

express version  - in italics might need some help

Well they are gathered now before me
Ghostly faces in a row
Floating just beyond the fire line
The ones I used to know
They’re the answer to the question
Asked where ever I may go
‘Hey do you glance over your shoulder, boy
Did you tremble so and so’

Oh no they’re just pictures from life’s other side
Oh they’re just pictures from life’s other

There’s the smiling face of someone
Running laughing to the sea
But the passing of the summer
Made you grow away from me
There’s another face there smiling
And gathered on the walls
There’s the cruel sea raging
As it piles up on the shore

Oh no they’re just pictures from life’s other side
Oh they’re just pictures from life’s other

I was living like half a man
Once I could have loved but now I can’t
And in this song I will rejoice
With a pure and ringing voice
lost my faith without a doubt
In your faithless sweet heart mouth

I know less than I did when it all began but
I know more than the world’s smartest man

World’s smartest man

That’s who you really are

another great lyric from that era - are there more, Tower? Graham? Warms up too - after that ultravoxish intro - there is a real immediacy to Dave's vocals - which is what I'm also loving about the 2nd disc on the black swan.

[Gazza]

Some minor corrections:

They’re the ones I used to know
They’re the answer to the question
(First verse.)

Oh no they’re just pictures from life’s other side
Oh they’re just pictures from life’s other side
(Both times.)

As for "And gathered on the walls", I reckon it's "At Yeddon on the moor". I'm pretty confident about moor, since it fits with the rhyming scheme, but have no idea what Yeddon would refer to, or why. The only thing I can think of is that it might refer to Yeadon, a town just outside Leeds and on the edge of the Dales. Can't remember how it's pronounced, though, or whether it's on a moor. Son Of Albert?

"Lost my faith" sounds more like "Of my faith" to me, but I'm not really sure that makes sense either.

Last of all, I think "That's who you really are" is "That's who you're looking at honey".

[mark t]

so ....

World’s smartest man

Well they are gathered now before me
Ghostly faces in a row
Floating just beyond the fire line
They’re the ones I used to know
They’re the answer to the question
Asked where ever I may go
‘Hey do you glance over your shoulder, boy
Did you tremble so and so’

Oh no they’re just pictures from life’s other side
Oh they’re just pictures from life’s other side

There’s the smiling face of someone
Running laughing to the sea
But the passing of the summer
Made you grow away from me
There’s another face there smiling
And gathered on the walls /At Yeddon on the moor
There’s the cruel sea raging
As it piles up on the shore

Oh no they’re just pictures from life’s other side
Oh they’re just pictures from life’s other side

I was living like half a man
Once I could have loved but now I can’t
And in this song I will rejoice
With a pure and ringing voice
lost/ of my faith without a doubt
In your faithless sweet heart mouth

I know less than I did when it all began but
I know more than the world’s smartest man

World’s smartest man

That’s who you really are / That's who you're looking at honey


?? ?? ?? ??  anyone

[winston smersch]

Look, I may just be showing off here, but does anybody know of Rolf Vassellari's book "The Judas Jesus" (Black Sheep Press, Zurich circa 1988) ?  I have a copy with a piece of Dave's writing- a prose piece called "Evenings With Frances"which is a scarifyingly accurate account of a (probably) Perth based "Party Girl"- not Edie Sedgwick like but sorta/kinda.  One for Niall Lucy/Jon Stratton (Speling ?!?)

[glee]

You never drank coffee, your body was smaller. Remember? When you were a child.

[glee]

Take me to your leader, we've all got the fever, tell her we need her....now.

[glee]

Don't call us, we'll call you, in fact we'll just ignore you.

[Gazza]

Have you just found a secret cache of unused lyrics or something Glee? If not, you're being very cryptic.

[Gazza]

Incidentally, what on earth happened to Winston?

[Urpal]

My intial thinking on these cryptic entries was:

a) a clue to some new box set compilation content (now non-album and unfamiliar but shortly to be so)
b) a touch of "Friday Night Fever" (the Bee Gees must be glad Sat was the main disco night because a two syllable day don't have quite the same ring)
c) someone needs to fill in gaps for the forthcoming ASITSOAS shows
d) Glee's feeling inspired but hasn't got a piece of paper to hand
e) a combination of the above