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Permalink Reply by Ben Gott on November 5, 2011 at 11:31pm

Let me give it a try...I'm still trying to get the bit on the chorus!  This is a FANTASTIC song -- puts me in mind of "The F-Word" and "First Man on the Sun."

Here are the lyrics, as best as I can make them out...

 

Saw a man in a bar with his hair like a lady
Bloody thorns 'round his ears like he was a crazy
He had holes in his hands and a cross for a spine
Crushed a berry in his Perrier and called it wine

He said, "There's great sadness in life, but don't sit there and blub:
Here's some tickets for your friends to the Jesus Stag Night Club!"

I can't remember where I was last night
Think I was hanging naked off a church spire
Tied by my ankles to a weathervane
Felt like I was Jesus on fire 

Cuffed to the bumper of a big truck
I begged my dad (?) to take me to a strip bar
Drank kerosene slammers through my eyeballs
Drove myself home in a stolen car

Turn a bird upside down and it lies in your fingers like a dead man
When you throw it in the air it's resurrected from your hand
We went to a motel, he showed me his Bible
I said, "Tell me the truth," while he looked me in the eyeball 

He said, "There's great happiness in life but don't just sit there in love:
Here's some tickets for your friends to the Jesus Stag Night Club!" 

I can't remember where I was last night
Think I was getting on a night bus
Lyin' on the laps of my good friends
Judas Priest and Lazarus 

I'm getting married in the big bad morning
But it feels like I'm giving birth
I feel so happy I could scream
"This is my last few seconds on Earth" 

Saw a man in the street lying on the floor beaten up
He had a fish finger sandwich and a yellow-handled (?) coffee cup
I bent down drunk and tried to pick him up
But when I turned around I could see...it was Jesus...

I can't remember where I was last night
Think I was hanging on a church spire
Tied by my ankles to a weathervane
Felt like I was Jesus on fire 

Cuffed to the bumper of a big truck
I begged my dad (?) to take me to a strip bar
Drank kerosene slammers through my eyeballs
Drove myself home in a stolen car

I can't remember where I was last night
Think I was getting on a night bus
Lyin' on the laps of my good friends
Judas Priest and Lazarus 

I'm getting married in the big bad morning
But it feels like I'm giving birth
I feel so happy I could scream
"This is my last few seconds on Earth!" 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Ramplin on November 6, 2011 at 1:18pm

Thanks Ben.

Getting there, I think.  I got an email from Patricia Manning and her lyrics seem to mostly match yours (Ben) except for a couple of bits:

Instead of 'begged my Dad' it could be 'Paid my Dad'.

And instead of a 'yellow-handled coffee cup', it's 'yellowing coffee cup'.

And instead of 'lyin' on the laps' it could be 'crying in the laps'.

I'm not in a position to have a listen right now but I thought I'd put the info here for compare-and-contrast.

 

And the more I listen to this song, the more I love it - it's right up there in my Babybird top 5, I think!

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Permalink Reply by Ben Gott on November 6, 2011 at 10:20pm

Paul, I'm just glad that trying to come up with the lyrics made me listen to the song another 12 times.  I'm with you -- it's making its way into "Candy Girl" territory for me, at least in terms of loving it!

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Permalink Reply by Neil on November 7, 2011 at 12:50am

on Twitter it is said that all the song words will be published here soon..

 

<He had a fish finger sandwich>>

 

yum yum

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Permalink Reply by Guy Marshall on November 9, 2011 at 10:37am

I think Paul and Ben have pretty much nailed these lyrics except:

"He had a fish finger sandwich and a yellow M coffee cup" as in McD*nalds .

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Permalink Reply by Guy Marshall on November 9, 2011 at 10:42am

 

What a great start to the new album. These lyrics are classic Stephen. As with all the great BB songs the new tracks drill themselves deeper into my brain at every listen.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Gott on November 9, 2011 at 10:36pm

I think you've got it, Guy!

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