Powder Blue

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LYRICS

We’ve Listened To So Many Records
I’ve Smoked So Many Fags
There’s Still A Bottle Of Wine In One Of Them Carrier Bags
The World Is Spinning Slowly Outside In Holloway
The Birds Have Started Singing
So Can’t We Just Stay

On And Off The Sofa
The Candles Nearly Out
Our Popstar Friends Have All Gone Home
Or Maybe Just Out And About
And I Can Feel You Dreaming
And I’m Dreaming Of You
Together Slowly Drifting
Into The Powder Blue
La La La La La
La La La La La La
Aretha Franklin Playing
Anne Singing Along, Quite Quietly
She Knows The Whole Song
And All The Backing Vocals
In A Dreamy Kind Of Way
The Birds Have Started Singing
So Can’t We Just Stay?
Can’t We Just Stay?
The World Is Giving Up
And There’s Just Me And You
Together Slowly Drifting Into The Powder Blue
Into The Powder Blue

OVERVIEW

Mike: ‘Powder Blue’ was one of my favourite songs on the album. It was an old song, from back when I’d been working with Suggs, before he decided to do his solo career. He’d given me the lyric and l’d written the tune to it ages ago – it was a really nice little tune on a quirky little organ.I thought it might be a good track for this album, so l started working on it again. Then we went into the rehearsal room in Hackney, and I really didn’t like the way it was going. It was starting to sound like a rock song. I thought, “this is becoming mundane”. But then Clive, in one of his great moments, breezed through the whole thing and put it together, masterminding the whole thing. That was a moment when Clive was really worth his money. The song came out great. He did a few little changes, but mainly just the whole feel of it was great. We did it one time when we played Minehead Butlins, to close the show, and it was brilliant. Then Lee’s boy Kye came in and said in the dressing room, “The last song was a bit down, wasn’t it?”, and then some of the band got a bit worried that it was not “up” enough, that we had to end on an “up” note. I thought it was a beautiful way to end the show, it was really powerful. You could really feel everybody taken up in it. It was something different. Some people in the band don’t want to do anything different, ha ha, always wanting to play that safe ball!

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Graham McPherson Words
Mike Barson Music

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