STEVE: This was built back-to-front. With the house cello unplayed until now since the famous "Jamie gave me a cello" from 2020, I wanted to write for the cello - and my first thought is to write something in ths style of a band called Mozzy Green.
So I write a cello thing, and its too fast and intricate to play, so I get some cello parts from Sarah, and manipulate them quite hard.
The structure of the song was pretty much complete by the time I wrote the lyrics due to the demands of the cellist. So it was lyrics last.
It was going to be about other things, but it was written on the day of the Ukraine invasion so that was in my mind at the time. It's not about that, but perhaps a response to it. How old people liked things better when they were young, and how dangerous that is when old person has power.
You'll never wake from your dream
Wait to wave the peace goodbye
Nothing is what it seems
You deny their right to reply
You think the world better when you were young
You listened to the lies
For no reason you want how it used to be
you're an
embarrasment
You're no accident
Gm F x3 Em
Always Unapollagetically opaque
broken and hurt
The world watches as you begin your mistake
Trample through the dirt
You have your arrogance
No moral stance
No happenstance
Nothing is left to chance
You build the world back better like when you were young
You'll propagate the lies
For no reason you have how it used to be
you're an
embarrasment
You're no accident
@standup Feb 2022
I like the cello. It does sound a bit like it's about Ukraine and Putin perhaps, arrogance and morality. Nostalgia for the USSR, maybe.
I like the percussion, really carries things along.