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Seasonally
Affective Released
on Rocket Girl, October 22nd 2001
CD One 1) Wrong French (Johnson)
* And there were those films, made in the Seventies where dolls ran through fields, late at night, after men/His shirt is my dress/I lost my knees and hands/He drowned my make-up in the white sand/And I'm too tiny for a heart this big/It swells like an ocean/It's breaking the jail of ribs/And he said it won't hurt/And he said it won't hurt/And he said it won't hurt - a lie the size of the sky/And this hotel is dusty and he's locked the door and the sea's gone so far out I can't see it anymore/I was baking when he kissed me/I put flour in his hair/He rolled me like a bottle, whispering wrong French in my ear
(Johnson)
* I've got the snow on my side - I've got no doubts about that/And though this city grows wider, I always know where I'm at/I got your letter this morning/I know you mean what you say/And though the stations are closed down, I've got to get away/I'm somewhere off the compass/I'm somewhere lower than hell/And when you say you're beyond this, I say, "I've been there as well"
(Johnson)
* 12" EP on i/Che, November 1996
(Johnson/Tornbohm)
* A Charlie Brown snowstorm for 2.49/Snoopy drops dead in the snow/This is all that I can show for my time with someone I don't really know/I met you in mittens beneath London Bridge, killing your skateboard, angry like sea/I loved you in minutes, like people love Lucy/We spat in the snow, black coffee/A rollerskate waitress in Littlewoods cafˇ/A Raleigh bike builder, Pro-Plus and Park Drives/We kissed once - it was like e minor/Things could, I think not, be finer
(Johnson/Chennell)
** There's angel pie in the oven and everything is ok, it's alright/The point at which the seasons pass each other on the way out, way in/'A Confederate General From Big Sur' sat in my lap like a happy cat/I can sleep and read at the same time and day and night are just words/I can live in the hills with my simple thrills, racing clouds into town, if I like
(Cooper)
*** 12" EP on i/Che, March 1997
(Johnson)
*
(Chennell)
*** Double A-side 7" on Wurlitzer Jukebox, June 1997
(Adam)
*** Could it be that you drove me into your fleet of hand-melt candy? Could it be that you sent me falling off the roof backwards, gently? Do not let my words depress you - I'm here to uplift you now (I'm here to uplift you now) Her eyes have gone south - terrible lies she denies Could it be that you broke me into a sheet of rain swept sideways? Could it be that you wrote me a dead attempt? It just plain scares me Do not let my words distract you from all the fun you demand - from the fun of the century No more glistening wet poems in your honour, captain of alienation, New York, money, compassion
(Adam)
***
(Johnson/Cooper) ** I am the sub-librarian, come in on the council bus - Chalk Farm to Highgate Woods, sportsbag of borrowed books A steady diet of Brautigan, 'Tapestry' on the walkman Paranormal ill-health from dusting off the top shelf I am the sub-librarian, counter girl, tea-maker I am the sub-librarian, swan feeder, spectacle breaker I am the sub-librarian 12" EP on Piao!, May 1998
(Johnson)
* Split 7" with Matmos on Lissy's, February 1998
CD Two 1) Music For Annahbird
(Johnson)
* 7" EP on Bad Jazz, December 1998
(Kember
- Complete Music) From the Spacemen 3 compilation on Rocket Girl, May 1998
(Johnson/Cooper)
** England's dreaming, Winter absent/I take my books back, change my accent/First in the library/You queue up behind me, frost-bitten in French mittens/Take care on the corner/Sliding on white grass/I catch up with your shadow but you're walking too fast Split 7" with Icebreaker on Debut, April 1998
(Johnson/Cooper)
** She said, "It's ok - you'll feel better every day and all memory of this will fade away"/And that's the biggest lie and I just wonder why when love dissolves we don't all just die/I sat by the lake when everyone had gone home, nothing on my body but the sadness I had on/I felt death's elbow nudging at my ribs, telling me to let go - I don't deserve to live/ She said, "It's ok - you'll feel better every day and all memory of this will fade away"/And that's the biggest lie and I just wonder why when love dissolves we don't all just die/Liar From the 'Will Our Children Thank Us' compilation on Foundry, April 1998
(Johnson/Cooper)
** Amongst the books, an angel I've not met and time hasn't touched her yet/From A to M to Z she swans, as if avoiding bed/Pigtails instead of wings/I strung her harp with my heart strings/And I would ask this Spring for her if I knew what the right words were
(Johnson/Cooper/Leigh) ** 7" single on Acetone, September 1999
(Hayman/Cheves/Johnson/Marin/McDonough)
**** There's No Need For Us To Be Alone Anymore I
can't believe she said that Want
without needing She
wore a coat too warm for summer There's
no need for us to be alone anymore She
wanted without needing
(Johnson/Cheves/Marin/McDonough)
* The Canadian brought us snow and Lucky Strikes for John to smoke/A Thursday night with powercuts, in mountain socks, burning books/We watched the Jetsons for too long -saw robots in our sleep/Naval lights from Amsterdam through the kettle steam/The Jesus glow of Calor Gas illuminates the frosted glass/The windowsill, a battle scene of Airfix kits and Disney Queens/Born too early, wake up too late/Minds of Chomsky but low birth weight/Sleeping beside, treat us like eggs/Box-jellyfish light; tinsel legs Double A-side single on Rocket Girl, October 1999
(Johnson/Tornbohm)
* Joanne comes around with a radio and absinthe/We start the afternoon with Polish Xmas songs on shortwave/She laughs as we burn the first shot, the green flame/I love Joanne/WeÕve been friends for 12 years/We used to be lovers but now a hug can be just a hug/I followed her from Derbyshire to London/SheÕs the sub-librarian, the swan feeder, spectacle breaker/I wanted to buy her a bicycle this Xmas but she said it was too much/She can close me down like I let no-one else do/We watch the green flame in the window and it somehow makes me think of Amsterdam or Paris Š rain beneath canal bridges in neon cafˇ light/The phone rings but itÕs not for me/The answering machine catches it and holds it and holds it and holds it From the 'VPRO Radio 5 De Avonden' Xmas compilation, December 1999
(Johnson)
* From the 'Beyond beyond' compilation on Alice In Wonderland, September 2000
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