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From: "A Selection of B-Sides"


Another Song About Trains

The train was full but still I found my empty double seat
We shuddered - some girl gawped to watch you walk across the bridge
I missed Tyneside, lost amid Holden Caulfield's escapades
But I swear I saw the letters draw your picture on the page

I won't pretend that I love you blindly
Won't pretend that you're here inside me
It doesn't work like that, no matter what we thought
I won't be there when you truly need me
But if I'm there and you say you want me
We'll work something out
I can promise you no more

Through North Yorkshire, the stubble burned like tiny candle flames
The girl across the table roped my in to play her game
Her mother asked me not to play - not till she'd settled down
And her mother had a shirt like yours the shirt that I had torn

I won't pretend that I love you blindly
Won't pretend that you're here inside me
It doesn't work like that, no matter what we thought
I won't be there when you truly need me
But if I'm there and you say you want me
We'll work something out
I can promise you no more

At Leeds the train filled itself with workers going home
Covering up their kindnesses with faces out of stone
At Huddersfield as I left I turned around to find some sign
I had a niggling feeling that something had been left behind

I won't pretend that I love you blindly
Won't pretend that you're here inside me
It doesn't work like that, no matter what we thought
I won't be there when you truly need me
But if I'm there and you say you want me
We'll work something out
I can promise you no more




Tracks available for download
From Pop Happenings Vol 4
1. Lying on the Phone
2. Wupping
3. Mirrorball
4. A Good Year
5. A Matter of Time
6. Vultures
7. My Darling
8. Hurt Another Day
9. Separate Beds
10. Left Me To Die
11. Porch
Bits and Pieces
How To Build An Empire
Lonely Business
Nuts and Sluts

Crawfish's first album
Pop Happenings Vol 4

is available by emailing
crawfishwebmaster
@btopenworld.com


A Quick Word with
a Rock and Roll Late Starter

was published by The Rue Bella in February 2003
Buy on Amazon


Super-8

was published by
Kennedy and Boyd
in March 2005
Buy on Amazon

This week, I have been listening to:

Smithylad
is Crawfish
is Craig Smith

Smithylad's other sites
Simon Armitage Web Site
Hyde Park Irregulars

The scheme for this site
was taken from Michael Mann's
design for my CD cover

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