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Transcription by Jim
This was my attempt at deciphering the lyrics back in 2001. I emailled them over to the band who corrected some of my mistakes. I've scanned in Steve's handwritten lyric sheets, but it's still pretty hard to see what the correct lyrics should be (I'll get the lyrics sheets added to the site ASAP)
full official lyrics will be added when we get them from the band!
01. The Beta Band Rap
We're the Beta Band and we're nice and clean
We're always polite and hardly ever mean
Times have changed, we used to be smelly,
We lived in a squat 'til a punk nicked our telly
Since we've been signed we eat real good
We always wash our hands and chew our food
Quashis rotis are our favourite dish
Served spicy with chicken or fish
In the world of fashion there's two shining lights
Nancy and Caroline they helped us alright
And Gordon Anderson played a big part
Just when the Beta Band was about to start
It all started in London town, when we gave our demo to Phil Brown
Then we met Miles at Parlophone and let him hear Dogs Got A Bone
He said "go to Falkner and put it on wax"
So the next week was spent cutting four tracks
Now a manager was needed to make us complete
Miles knew a Wiganer we should meet
His name was Dave with the broken specs
A quiet manner and nuff respec
We met at Nanchos and cleaned the plate
A meal like that we'd never ate
Then we met Brian and the Microdot crew
Martin, Matt and John Platt too
Adrenalin Village was the place to be
We had no money so they got us in free
The first thing Dave did as boss
Was make us play Water Rats in Kings Cross
We played five songs got credit for four
Went down well so we decided to tour
Next up was Henry and Nich
Making the show go without a hitch
Up and down the country *from* side to side
Wi big yin driving it's a bumpy ride
Miles gave us an album deal
We said "yes" and went for a meal
Drinking champagne at EMI
The irony almost made us cry
this one's for Scotland
We went to Wales and fannyed around
Ended up with the Patty Patty Sound
With open minds we went to achieve
Chris Allison caught it all on Neive
He hummed and hawed and became a pest
Twittering on about the old Neive desk
We had to call in Keith and Miles
When Chris' hair got caught in the dials
We started to get known on Radio One
When Jo Whiley got a fax from my mum
Mary Ann Hobbs invited us to play
At Maida Vale we spent a day
With Chris Allison's hair cut free
It was time for Cornwall and the third EP
With a glock and a sax and a mighty gong
All we needed was a hit pop song
We thought this time we were on a good start
But they made a new rule that banned us from the chart
The songs were good so we didn't give a toss
And we called it Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos
*Hello Nina Chakrabati
02. It's Not Too Beautiful
You like to feel that I will float away someday
I cried the hundredth time things never came my way
But I will find (x2)
Who's going to shake the corners of my mind today
What's in those dusty rooms I fear for in every way
But I will find (x2)
It's not *to* beautiful me now*
[should this be:]
[it's not too beautiful me now?]
Everytime I look to find I....
You like to feel that I will float away someday
I cried the hundredth time things never came my way
But I will find (x2)
Who's going to shake the corners of my mind today
What's in those dusty rooms I fear for in every way
But I will find (x2)
It's not *to* beautiful me now*
[should this be:]
[it's not too beautiful me now?]
**Everytime I lose my mind I*
**Everytime I look to find I....**
03. Simple Boy
Well I'm a hunchback superblack tower block core
Fine tooth whale bait cowering boom bait
Simple boy, simple girl, simple world, so I heard
Landing down feet first smokey Joe *cheeba* thirst
Hairy back tracker side step a little further on the
floor for the more
for the more more
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
Little did you know that who said that
Silver ship floating on a *coker* smack bloating
Ride around the rock on the face of the clock
Its a shrill ringing singing in a pig pen mission
So she said
So she said
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
So old the time so young the boy
Why do they scream why do they boil
It's all unknown I must perform
The window ledge to which I'm drawn
The ocean which I try to swim
Stretches out and sucks me in
It's all *superoceanicministerialdivinity*
36 Chambers in this vicinity
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
She's a coward she's a cheat and she speaks
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
My mother of Earth where are you when we need you
04. Round The Bend
I'm going totally round the bend
I don't want to see my friends
I don't want to see my mad friend
Because he's driving me insane
I don't want to see my friends
I'm going totally round the bend
Earlier on today I tried to walk down the street
But my feet kept *slipping* on the pavement
I find myself at 90 degrees to the rest of the world
It's not much fun you can take it from me
I'm not having too good a time
There's people worse off than me,
Don't think I don't realise that,
But I'm going round the bend again
The last thing I wanna do is see my friends again
I'm going quitely round the bend again
I try to function as a normal human being
I washed my car earlier on this evening
And now I'm trying to get it together to cook a little meal
Before I go for a drink with my friends
But I've got no food, I've got no time to go to the supermarket
**It's not that I couldn't make time
It's more I get confused when I get there
People walking past see the green *trees* outside
They see a nice little flat and imagine the person inside
Is having a great old time
Well I wish I was having a *good* a time as
They possibly imagine that I'm having
All I wanna do is go far away
And see things I've never seen before
Like the Pyramids
They weren't built in a day you know
Those 4th dynasty pyramids
Just don't fit into the equation
But I'm so paranoid
I can't even make it to the supermarket
Let alone go to Egypt
To see my favourite pyramid
Now I'm going to go round to Robin's
And try to eat some food there
**Sometimes it eats better if you're in the company of men
He's just said he's had a glass of red wine
So I might have mine
I listened to the Beach Boys just a minute ago
'Wild Honey' it's not their best album
but it's still pretty good
They've got some funny little love songs on there
But its not mainly a Brian Wilson production
So it's probably not as good as something like 'Pet Sounds'
I'm going totally round the bend
I don't wanna see my friends again
I just want to be left alone
And never bothered ever again
Never again, never again, never again
ever again, ever again
05. Dance O'er The Border
Tonight I stay home on the phone
Talking to the persons unknown
Take me another zone
This is my life on the phone
Well I feel like Donald Duck
Sold my eyes for an ounce of luck
And now my back's on fire
With burning *wire*
The people upstairs don't scream so high
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this section below I'm pretty unclear of???
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I decided to fly off again
And flew really high above
away from the festival site
As I was taken off I was for the first time
**Aware of People might see me **taking off**
**and flying around generally
**I felt very anonymous and detached from everyone**
*really quite sad and sombre
**I felt very anonymous and detached from everyone
**so i was really quite sad and sombre
Flying away from the site over motorway
Quite high so I decided to head back
To the ticket office on the edge of the site
i decided I couldn't make by myself
So I ended on a flight
**In previous dreams I felt/found I couldn't control the flight**
But sometimes I could by stretching out my arms
and flap my little hands **in the case of the dream***
Didn't work so I Superman *team
I couldn't do it in the Superman-style
So I tried flying off to Glasgow
and I was flying Superman-style along the M8
**And I got caught more and more
**City flying lower and lower
**So I don't think I wanted to
** I Couldn't fly anymore
Landed on a car-roof
A woman saw me
* suddenly appeared on the car
But she couldn't carry anything
**She walked down the street
she boodlebaddledenemy
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**But it wasn't a shop
**It was two small flats
**And I was in a sort of a porch bit
**Suddenly realised it was someone's house
**And I left
**And that's all I gonna be remembering right now
06. Broken Up A Ding Dong
Running down the road in the middle of the light
Light don't mean its going to be alright
Running down the road in the middle of the light
Say to myself you're gonna be here all night
Tried to find myself *and* *grow*
**that way you know you see****
**I'll never see you go slow (x2)
Tried to find myself *and* *grow*
**That way you see I'll never go slow**
See yourself on a thousand *time*
I try to make myself I'm never going to cry
You know the way and the day I fall
I never know the pack of love I felt so hiding
This way not that way
How did you know that the river don't flow
Tried to walk around my house (my self)
07. Number 15
You tell me we never talk
And I won't share my thoughts
Then you hate my point of view
Because I don't agree with you
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(25 reasons why I wouldn't want to)
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
(You're so lazy that you never do do)
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When it's clearly you who is cuckoo
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(*35* reasons why I wouldn't want to)
You're always telling me I drink too much
Then you're happy when we're apart
If I say we should be that way
You say you wouldn't live another day
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(25 reasons why I wouldn't want to)
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
(You're so lazy that you never do do)
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When it's clearly you who is cuckoo
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(*25* reasons why I wouldn't want to)
Say it's your friend's birthday
And I think your friends a fool
I don't wanna go so you say
I think I'm cool
15 reasons not to spend my life with you
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When clearly it's you who is cuckoo
15 reasons not to spend my life with you
you stink of cigarette juice
I beg you to stop its no use
**I ask you to step outside
**and you blow it deeper into my mind
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(25 reasons why I wouldn't want to)
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
(You're so lazy that you never do do)
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When it's clearly you who is cuckoo
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(*25* reasons why I wouldn't want to)
You tell me we never talk
And I won't share my thoughts
Then you hate my point of view
Because I don't agree with you
15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(25 reasons why I wouldn't want to)
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
(You're so lazy that you never do do)
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When it's clearly you who is cuckoo
15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(*25* reasons why I wouldn't want to)
15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(25 reasons why I wouldn't want to)
**You love me with your lazy eye
Tell me not to do the things I do
(You're so lazy that you never do do)
You say that I'm a crazy guy
When it's clearly you who is cuckoo
I've got 15 reasons not to spend my life with you
(*35* reasons why I wouldn't want to)
hello
08. Smiling
**you lost it, you stole it
**you bought it, you found it
**you broke it, you sold it
**you dropped it, you drowned it
**you thought it, you want it
**you flew it, you slew** it
**you glue it, you it
**you shopped it, you it
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I'm in heaven when you smile
I'm in heaven when you smile
I'm in heaven when you smile
Keep it going John gotta keep going
C'mon John now don't be slowing
**Don't fight the flow, let your beard grow
**Don't fight the flow, let your hair grow
**Let your vegatables grow
09. The Hard One
Listen to me when I go outside
I have an opposite reaction in my mind
Blood clots up and my eyes look down
Mouth never changes from a darkened frown
Pulse starts jumping and feet won't move
Seventy quid for these new shoes
Heart beat pumping and move the floor
Head is banging on a darkened door
Once upon a time I was falling apart
Now I'm always falling in love x4
I only do the simple things
People around me run the rings
Left and right to fool the kid
Pass a little love and help me move the lid
Pressing all the buttons for the wrong way round
Mouth still sticking on a darkened frown
In and out and this and that
The *butt and ben* of chewing fat
I just can't seem to keep it up
The pressure of a house with a holy ghost
Pressure of a house with a holy ghost
**Out house pressure is sure the most
**Out of house pressure is sure the most
Once upon a time I was falling apart
Now I'm always falling in love
Once upon a time I was falling apart
Now I'm *only* falling in love x2
10. The Cow's Wrong
I went down to the county drug store
I fought with the county law
I went out with my little boy and I told him
**Hun**, I can't see you no more
The cows in the field were silent
The sun lay in an orange bag
The wind blew round an island
But the people could never get back
My dog, my dog, my little black dog
He took a ride on the cookie train
He couldn't handle the pain
Went back to the shops yesterday
To look at the big blue eyes
She was passing me by
She was passing me by
She was passing by little me
She had love in her eyes
I could see alright
I went to select the **'savers fruits'**
I had designs on a grapefruit tree
Walking around on a slap on a slope
Somebody said to me
They said how doodly do to you little boy
Would like the cow to get you some food
You know anytime you can come on home
And I know that you rather would
There's nobody here but me and the holding iron
Nobody rising getting high on the wire
I sucked up my room it's in the Hoover
I fucked up my life it's in the gluepot
And I ran down the road
Kicked my shoes in the air
And I **slipped* and fell in** dogshit
Summertime
Running up and down
I fucked it up
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