Simon Fowler

Well i got a problem
and it just won't wait
I've been getting on one
With the man who guards your gate
When he says you're sleeping
In your hideaway
It is what he's keeping back
That gives your game away
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

Yes i' got a problem
like you've never seen
I've been getting bothered
By the man who locks your screen
When he says you're hiding
And in your room you'll stay
It is what he's holding back
That says what he can't say

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

I'm just a lazy man
Who has to hear the truth
And i hear what's true from you

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

La la la
La la la
La la la
La la la

She knew all the answers
That I have to say
Taking all her chances
And never seem to pay

It's the risk you're taking
To see it time to time
She is not for changing
But you are all for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is cool in high brow
And you're not society
She is going places
Where you never are to be

It's the risk you're taking
To see her all the time
It's a game your playing
Keeps you hanging on her line

Well come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is far away now
Goes to a store and buys
You were left behind here
In your room you'll sit and die

It's a risk you're taking
Seeing her time to time
She is not for changing
But you were still for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home...

Shirley was a lady whose teeth were made of gold
She danced before the music and everything it told

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
Only fools would need to argue or to fight

Shirley had eight children and each of them were told
You got joy for singing burning in your soul

Huckleberry Grove
Where the idiots can't ease you of your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Take a free train, leave your luggage far behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Shirley was a lady who mostly stayed at home
But she went out dancing down Huckleberry Grove

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
You'll be groovin' on the best days of your life
Huckleberry Grove
Where the music's guaranteed to blow your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Leave your luggage, get a free train, get behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

I never saw it as the start its more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pot
blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot I laid my plans in solid rock

Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away,
looking at the trees on the roadside feeling its a holiday.
You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.

Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train.
He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like Groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
I'll miss the crush and I'm home again.
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
step into the sky in the starbright feeling its a brighter day.

You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
and you and I when we're coming down we're only getting back
and you know I feel no sorrow.
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these

What are you gonna do today Mrs Jones
Are you gonna chase the pain away Mrs Jones
Or leave it sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
About the dreams that seem to slip away

What are you gonna do today Mrs Jones
Are you going to face the bills to pay Mrs Jones
Or leave them sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
About the dreams that seem to slip away

It's not as if Mr Jones could help in anyway
It's not as if Mr Jones the bills that he could pay

(Repeat first verse)

For all of her diction; her self medication
She fell down and dented her nose
And laughed at the coroners
Desperately warning her
Watch now the way that it goes
And she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

In need of salvation she spoke to her mother
Who died in the service of king
What is the meaning of wallflowers receiving a glance
It would mean everything
And she thinks...

She's living at the top of the world

Three minutes later she looked in the mirror
And cracked half a smile at her toes
And she knows, she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

I feel a love that's so hard to bear
Won't you come kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in snow

But I fear a love of jealousy and pain
Lost in the race 'tween the foolish and vain
Come the morning time whistle and take you away
Where the sun always burns in the Winter

Oh... Here in my heart
Oh... Here in my heart

And I know that all I'm saying is wrong
Etched in the night-time and rhymed in a song
Come tomorrow I'll lighten up and drink to the ones
Who love without asking for loving

Don't forsake me, the morning time plays at the children's door
If you leave me then what would I tell them you're leaving for

(Repeat first verse)

Im not one to judge that much
And anyway I just wanna get high on you
But thirteen year old girls in hotels on the other side of the world
Seems a little much for me

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

But they look you in the eye
And anyway theyll always slip a smile at you
But thirteen year old girls in rat-holes on the other side of the world
Theyre gonna lie to you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

Free-runs in a town where the boys and girls are settling down for the night
To make up and make eyes at you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's inspirational
When you're life is a mess light one more cigarette
It's so logical

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Remembering a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to cry
I'll come and sit by my side
And I will love you so
When the nightmares come
I will try to be fun, even though;
I'm so scared you know

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's hysterical

I went down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun doesn't shine at all
And I went looking for something for me
But I came back with nothing at all
Except an old man who could not see
But he said that he knew God
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Now I've been down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun just refuses to shine
And I ran back to my little room
And I jumped straight into a bottle of wine
You know I'll be alright for just a day
But tomorrow I must wake
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Old man I must be on my way
Don't you worry I'm just scared for those who pray
In Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Chelsea Walk...

Saturday afternoon
The sunshine pours like wine
Through your window
But i know that golden june can turn an empty grey
'gainst your window
And i feel like
I'm on the outside of a circle

And if i walk by the trees
I catch the falling leaves
If the wind blows
But i know that all this means
Is whiling on the hours
Watching side-shows

And i feel like



I'm on the outside of a circle

Will i turn my coat to the rain
I don't know
But i'm going somewhere
I can warm my bones

Fare you well
I'll carry me away
And sing to those i know
Upon their birthdays

I won't feel like like i'm on the outside...
I won't feel like like i'm on the outside...
I won't feel like like i'm on the outside of a circle

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago; it is shining
And the man who is wasting on the wall
Looks a lot like Jesus
And a little bit resembling
the man in the mirror in the hall

And I rose-trayed sailors
And you still shining
And I'm till waiting to got
And I lied for sailors
And I lied for certain
And I lied to everyone I know

Oh I'd believe in God and I'd believe in loving
but I don't speak to anyone who knows
And I need four 50's and three yellow lemons
And someone to take me home

And I'd forgotten the one who was sailing
on the water down beside where you don't go
And it's strange to tell
that the one who is shining
is someone I forgot I used to know

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago

You told so many lies
Your tongue is black with fireflies
But you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would never need it
Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
That all your thoughts and moves are taught
And memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
Strung from neon masts flying flags you hope
Will win you friends and give your life some meaning

(Repeat chorus)

You told so many lies
Your tongue is stained with alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

(Repeat chorus)

Cool cool water where I rest my head
You keep me running to a single bed
Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
And ain't it funny but he never seems to come home

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
Ain't it strange that he never seems to go home

(Repeat first verse)

No-one promised this when I was a kid
When my days were filled with carousels
Fairground rides and cockleshells
Kicking pebbles on a beach
When time couldn't reach me
And tears were just a memory left to be learned

Now days catch me without an overcoat
Five o'clock shoes full of snow
All rained out, nowhere to go

Memories are sure to find you
No matter how fast you run
Gonna catch up with you

Charlie Brown says
Oh this winter sure sure gets me down
When there ain't no friends around

It's live... make up your own words!

Your dream make up is cracked and wearing thin
your eyes are on your chin
it's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
and we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places
that you and I would go
it's getting hard for me
To love you, like I used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

I'm going away to see my own
And tread my earth
I've got no ordinary gain
By to set my worth
I get enough and I get too late
And if I fall down on the road
Then I won't get grazed

I cannot let you take my time
Or till my earth
You've had enough of life to see
That it shakes my nerve
All of these things I can't get straight
And if I'm falling to the road
Then I won't get grazed

I've had two of them or three
And I just get hurt
I watch me crawling down the road
Trying to guess my worth
I know not what I'm trying to say
But if I'm falling on this road
Then I won't get grazed

I watch you running down the road
So I get mine worked out
But you watch me falling on the run
And you have me called out
All of these things they get so strange
Just kill me falling on the road
But I won't get grazed (x4)

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm getting alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Well I want a good love by my side
Keep on getting out of love and my pride
And I know I keep hurting my love yeah
But I know it ain't killing

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm staying alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

영국 출신의 브릿 팝 내지 모던록 계열로 분류할 수 있는 4인조 록 밴드입니다. Steve Cradock, Simon Fowler, Damon Minchella, Oscar Harrison 로 구성되어 있습니다. 1992년 1집[ocean color scene]로 데뷰합니다만...별다른 주목을 받지 못하고...4년의 공백기를 보낸 후 1996년 2집 [Moseley Shoals]을 내놓는데요..수록곡 중'The Riverboat Song'이 영국차트 15위까지 오르면서 인기를 모으게 됩니다. 이 작품부터 국내에도 소개되기 시작했습니다.

이듬해인 1997년에 3집 [Marchin' Already]를 발표합니다. 'Hundred Mile City'가 히트한 이 앨범은 영국 앨범 차트 2위에 오르는 폭발적인 인기를 얻게 되었습니다. 또한 비슷한 시기에 그동안 공개하지 않았던 미발표곡 및 싱글 B-Side수록곡들을 모은 비정규 음반 [B-Sides: Seasides & Freerides]을 발표하기도 했습니다.

이후 1999년 4집[One From the Modern], 2001년 [Mechanical Wonder]를 내놓으며 영국내에선 정상급의 인기를 과시하고 있습니다. (미국에서는 그다지 인기를 얻지 못하고 있습니다.)

2001년 이들의 베스트 앨범 [The Very Best of Ocean Colour Scene: Songs for the Front Row]가 발매되었구요..국내에는 수입음반으로만 접할 수 있습니다.

We invent new words
Just, so that we can use them
There's shadows hanging over me now
It's on the leyline waiting
When the magic comes
And the shit subsides
Then you're on your way
And our ship sets sail
To the harbour cries
To the crossroads where
You make it sound so right
But for the kiss i'm missing
You're right it's hot and cold now
And that becomes our distance
When the magic comes
And the shit subsides
Then you're on your way
And our ship sets sails
To the harbour cries
On a leyline where
If i could find it in a shop
You know i'd have to buy it
Some people buy a church
But moribund will find them
When the magic comes
And the shit subsides
Then you're on your way
And our ship sets sail
To the harbour cries
To the crossroads where

Bus stop stretching out before
All along the High Street wall
'Til your eyes can't see no more
Early evening in sunlight
Turns the world to shine so bright
Like a blind man given sight
Like a million neon lights
This old town won't let me go
It's got my feet it's in my soul
There is no going back it's just forward now
The silver screen it sees my gaze
I try to look beyond the haze
I could forgive it everything is true
Just take me with you too
Out upon the empty floor
The lone dancer spinning on
Throwing caution to the wall
There's a sign behind the door
Says for dancers only sure
And the lone dancer she knows
She can never be lonely
This old town tells you to stay
Then you know you ain't getting away
There is no going back it's just forward now
These haunted halls play melodies
So sweet and tender on life's breeze
I could forgive it everything is true
Just take me with you too

I let go of myself so i feel bad
All i do is wait so i feel sad
My mind slips away and i'm wondering how
It all came to this, can i go now
I'm the man in the middle
D'you know how that feels
The one in the middle you know
And i don't really love you
I've been here before
I've been in the middle you see
I don't have to go, so i stay home
Wondering why i'm feeling so bad
Don't you think that you, you could be strong
'Cos i'm not something to share
And i'm on my own
(Oh yes i am)

Mrs Jones she rides again
Mr Jones he knows
Mrs Jones she rides so many
Pulling at their clothes
Looking down her nose
Hey, I just got over you
The world's a bigger place
A better place than you
And hey, I've just found my head
Ahead in a bigger space
Ahead in a better place
She knows she rides she'll miss you
If she rides it fast
She marked your card but she'll miss you
Your hope you'll always last
Then you mark it fast my friend
Make your own way out
Your strategy is so hard to see
But your intentions are in doubt
Your intentions are in doubt
Hey, I just got over you
The world's a bigger place

When you're twenty one and North of the border
the chance is
The military man will come and offer a hand and advances
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea
With the shipyards sunk-on the Clyde
Go to the sea the junk life is dangerous
With a pocket of woes in this perishing hole it's so obvious
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea
Then you'll sail away and we'll teach you a trade
That's for life
It's only killing but there's nobody willing
So we're asking on the Clyde
When you're 21 and north of the border the chance is
You'll sail away to a life in the dirt then advances

Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea boy
Go to sea

These days I find I'm picking up all of it
These days I'm tired and low
And you don't care what you find
You're messing up all of it
These days you're tired

Then you forget the time to be
Free you walk in the line
Then you forget the time to be
Free you walk in the light's on

These days you find you're picking up all of it
These days you're tired and low
And you don't care what you find
You're losing all touch of it
These days you're tired

Then you forget the time to be
Free you walk in the line
Then you forget the time to be
Free you walk in the light's on

That's the train on which I'll ride
I will look for a different sky
And you'll never find me down so low again
That's the plane on which I'll fly
I will wake in a different time
And you'll never find me down so low again

I'm looking for someone to lift me up
I'm looking for someone to fill my cup
And you'll never find me down so low again

If I try I might see
All the things that I can be
And you'll never find me down so low again
For all the angels for all the world
This is my truth so you've been told
And you'll never find me down so low again

I'm looking for someone to lift me up
I'm looking for someone to fill my cup
So you'll never find me down so low again
I'm looking for someone to lift me up
I'm looking for someone to fill my cup
So you'll never find me down so low again
And you'll never, never, never, never, never
never, never, never
And you'll never find me down so low again

I'll check my hair, and get my shoes
See my face, it's nothing new
There's no-one here when there's no-one there
So much you go for but no-one cares
Don't get me high don't get me fooled
Don't get me wrong on nights with you
The locks are cold when there's no-one there
I'd make them a bit stronger but we don't care

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

You still don't care but if you had to choose
Something so small could break this in two
People like to say "people get stronger"
Just before they fall out of their heads
"Breaking up can make things seem much longer"
Tell you "what you give is what you get"

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

And what you need is what we share
When we go home and it's just not there

Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa
Ba ba ba ba, ba ba baa

Breaking up inside her make-up case
She's knows it's been a desperate day
Making pointless phone calls to someone
Who's never there; they don't answer anyway
'Cos only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
World could feel that way
And only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
Makes her escape and fades away
Writing countless letters to her God
She knows He's there night and day
Better than the friends that change and bend
Then ain't there; then they run away
Cos only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
World could feel that way
And only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
Makes her escape and fades away
Please make something happen
Make it happen just for Jane
Make it happen in the sunshine
Make it happen even in the pouring rain
Cos only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
World could feel that way
And only the loneliest girl in the whole-wide world
Makes her escape and fades away
..fades away

Mr Brown, you promised us the earth
So you can't let us down
So for what it's worth
Mr Brown
It's just the last one there
Said he didn't think it very fair
It's up to you to turn it round
So come on Mr Brown, Mr Brown
Mr Brown, come on, come on Mr Brown etc...
And when the whole world's screaming, scheming, cheating
Mr Brown won't care
He won't be lying, stealing, dealing, deceiving
Mr Brown's most fair
But now he's not there
Because it's you who wears the crown
But one day and it won't be fair
They will come and cut you down, Mr Brown
And we all know it's true
There's no-one who could follow you
There's no-one who can touch you

Like a good boy when I got home from school
I did my work for you
Just a boy with my head in the clouds
And I make it all come true
And I got two lovers
Jumping in and out of my bed
One hates the other
And the other wished the other was dead
Like a good boy I served my soul
And I kept my peace with the world
I got the sense when the time was sent
Then I got my turn
Two la la lovers
Two la la la lovers
I'm coming home
When I was a boy at school
I did my work when I got home
Took the chance when I saw you
Now I'm like a Rolling Stone
Two la la lovers
Two la la la lovers

Daylight wake me and it awakes me with you
All of the faces and all of the places are you
Getting home and feeling glad
Feeling love and love is mad
So daylight wakes me' daylight wakes me
Daylight wake me now I'm ready to come
All of the faces and all of the places are done
Getting home and feeling high
Feeling love and love is life
So daylight wakes me
Daylight wakes me