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about
Turbo-skiffle, Pop-folk - does it really matter how we label these things? An ode to the person who changed my life completely for the better and saved me from the doldrums of navel-gazing and self-loathing. If you like the word 'No', then you'll absolutely love this track!
lyrics
Lyrics, if you don't understand my charmless Scots brogue...
The Greatest Gift I ever got was a girl
With the clearest point of view in a dead-eyed world
She takes life like a waltz with a little twirl
And she made me
hungry
for the prize
She wiped them from my eyes and she said
"No no no no, no no no no."
She said
"No no no no, no no no"
She said
"No no no no, no no no no"
She said
"You don't have to be the same as me,
But I'm telling you baby that it sometimes helps"
It don't matter if her hair is straight or curled
She's not a jumbled jigsaw girl in a mixed-up world
And no-one really needs that kind of girl
Except the lonely,
Who cry out "Hold me"
To anyone
She wiped them from my eyes and she said
"No" x 8
She said
"No" x 7"
She said
"No" x 8
She said "You don't have to be the same as me,
But I'm telling you baby that it sometimes helps.
It sometimes helps.
It sometimes..."
The best piece of advice I ever got
Was 'Be exactly who you are, not who you're not
And things may turn out better than you thought;
Don't be afraid to
Reveal who
You want to be'
She wiped them from my eyes
And said "Surprise!
There's no more lies you know it's
Gonna be all-
Right,
It's gonna be all right,
It's gonna be all right
It's gonna be all right"
And she said
"No" x 8
She said
"No" x 7
She said
"No" x 8
She said "You don't have to be the same as me,
But I'm telling you baby it sometimes helps"
credits
released February 8, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Gillan Edgar, all words appeared previously in the Oxford English Dictionary but were assembled in this specific way by G Edgar. Some were repeated, others appear almost too many times. Some appear only once and then do not make further appearances.
All instruments performed and engineered by Gillan Edgar, except
Drums and Bass which were engineered by Phil Bulleyment, but Gillan still played them, all right?
Produced by Gillan Edgar, who is terrible at playing with others.
Many-monikered Manchester-based musician Gillan Edgar has a lot on his plate, and plenty of cutlery to deal with
it.
Taking inspiration from The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Blur and Elliott Smith (to name a tiny slice of his influences) Edgar tries to instil a sense of joy, wonder and thoughtfulness into every track.
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