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| Faithlessnessless - The first JP acoustic Album Album Commentary 1. Goodbye Ms Jones This is definitely the oldest song on the album and featured on the 'Longing for Next Year' EP by the Sinister Cleaners many years ago. This tends to get played without the harmonica live as I can't work out how to use the rack without looking like a nodding dog after a meal containing muscle relaxant. It might be about leaving Cleethorpes. The idea of doing acoustic stuff was partly to get to play songs that had never interested any of the bands I'd been in. This meant looking through some old songs. This came up and I started doing it, not sure why. Probably because I could still remember most of the chords. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 2. Cigarette This is my most popular song live and was written after a woman with striking eyes made my eyes water. Should be a big hit and make me lots of money! 'Cigarette as metaphor for obsessive love' as a reviewer wrote. I always think of a song called 'Cardboard Boxes' by Loudon Wainwright III when I play this song. It starts with the same chord - an A minor since you ask. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song  Download This Track For FREE!!! 3. This Tonight I could've called this 'The significance (or otherwise) of a goodnight kiss'. That pretty much covers what it's about. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 4.To Go Round This was going to be called 'Paedophiles' or 'There Aren't Enough Paedophiles to Go Round' but I was advised that people would set fire to my house just for using the word and they were probably right. New Labour turned out to be a right wing authoritarian party and started taking the axe to civil liberties and freedoms. This is the closest I get to a protest song. The point is that the world is not full enough of bad people to justify removing freedom for everyone. To quote Joe Strummer 'freedom's always on the run'. I didn't used to believe that but it certainly seems true in the UK at the moment and nobody seems to care. Here endeth the lesson. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song Download This Track For FREE!!!! 5.Hippy Father Or why are young people so conservative these days? A father wishes his offspring would be a bit less straight. Not sure how this one came up. This was recorded live in the studio. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 6. 80 Years Old Simply about unrequited love. The only kind of love that really lasts according to the wise words of Woody Allen. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 7. Goldfish This was written before I heard the Neil Young song about being a fish ('Will to Love' from the 'American Stars 'N Bars' album from 1977) so I still think it was big and clever to think of being a fish. It was recorded by Fuzzbird and featured on the 'Pulling the Wings Off Small Boys' album. Part of my original intention in doing acoustic stuff was that it would be mainly old stuff from all the years I've been writing songs so I started with a list of suitable songs that I could remember - and this was on the list. It stayed while I wrote new songs around it. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 8. Move On This is about leaving home. It's a weird mixture (for me) of stuff about me and stuff about someone else, a 'type' who's not me. I sometimes feel like I must have been married and divorced even though in my (current) real life I haven't. This was also recorded live in the studio if I remember rightly. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 9. Politics There might be more like this. I was just wondering whatever happened to politics because I remember it was seen as important at one time. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 10. The Gail Porters I read somewhere that Gail Porter had attempted suicide, which is sad This is about that phenomena of 'celebrity' women you've never heard of who feature in all the lads mags. Seems to me that if you want pornography you should buy pornography but, hey, that's just me. Ironically, people have heard of Gail Porter and I've no idea how desperate she was to be famous or if she went to drama school. If I ever met her I'd apologise though the songs is about her dumbass younger sisters (as Loudon Wainwright once nearly said about himself and Bob Dylan). And I didn't know she was in a car crash and she lost her hair either. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song 11. Darkness Another song about unrequited love - I'm pleased that this song is fairly focussed and says what it means. I was really pleased to be able to do some short songs on the album. Band songs always have intros and instrumental bits which you don't necessarily need just to get the song across. Annoyingly it's almost impossible to play on my current guitar as the top string is very near the edge of the fret board (or have I just got hands like hams?) and I keep catching it. This means I tend not to play it live. Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song Download This Track For Free 12. You've Never Heard of Me Maybe this is self indulgent but I don't care. Biographical information. All the credits at the end are real - see if you can spot your initials in there if you know me. When it was recorded I'd only just written it so the album starts with the old and finishes with the new - clever eh? Click Here To Read The Lyrics of This Song |
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