Released : September 1995
Personnel
Peter Nuttall - Music/Lyrics/Vocals
Douglas Hunter - Lyrics
Chris Barber - Music
This was the first album that had more than one decent song on it. Each of the predecessors had one stand out song with a lot of fillers. ‘Want you’ deserved better technology than we had and someone who could play a guitar. ‘When I hear Luther sing’ was our first tribute to one of our heroes, of which there’d be a few more. The Beatles covers were probably a mistake but then, all the cover versions we did back then were. This album was practice for producing something approaching an actual coherent collection of songs that worked as a unit. That would come next.
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Track Listing
1.Want you – Hunter/Nuttall
2. When I hear Luther sing – Hunter/Nuttall
3. Darkest Hour – Hunter/Nuttall
4. The River – Hunter/Nuttall
5. Love Love – Nuttall
6. Love You – Nuttall
7. If There’s a God in heaven – Hunter/Nuttall
8. Idiot House – Barnes
9. Let it rain (Demo) – Hunter/Nuttall
10. Women of Ireland – Nuttall
11. Light a fire – Nuttall/Hunter
12. Greed – Nuttall
13. What a night – Nuttall
14. Helter Skelter – Lennon/McCartney
15. I Feel fine – Lennon/McCartney
16. We can work it out – Lennon/McCartney
17. Yesterday – Lennon/McCartney
18. War Memory – Nuttall
19. Urban Fox (Ext mix) – Hunter/Nuttall/Barber
Lyrics
What have we got? Is it Love love?
When did it start? We don’t know
What did you do? I can’t explain
What did you say? Say it again
Try to speak, no sound
Nothing said? Say it aloud
What did it mean? Nothing at all
Why did I say it? These words won’t fall
Did you understand? It seemed that way
What did I mean? I loved you today
Spoken so soft? The words I hear
Rain of time? Time so near
Say ‘love love’ and mean it too!
It’s so easy to say it to you
The time we spent, so unreal
So good but was it all a dream?
Together our minds are one
It’s as if time was never too long
If we last into time no one can see
We’ll be together where I want to be!
Lyrics/Music – Nuttall
10/5/95 2:01:47pm (In an immunology lecture)
(My attempt at rewriting Gary Numan’s ‘Noise Noise’)
There’s no tomorrow, there’s only tonight
So don’t even try, don’t try to put up a fight
To hell with the consequences
I’ll take them all in my stride
I’ll take whatever comes my way
To get you here by my side
Chorus
I want you so bad
I can’t put it any other way
It’s driving me mad
Why don’t you come on and say
You want me and no other
Say it why don’t you
Say you want me for your lover
Say you want me so bad too
If I can’t make you mine
I swear I’ll go insane
I’m serious about all this
I’m not playing games
I have to admit that I’m obsessed
But I just don’t care
You’ll be more than a friend soon
This I swear
I’ll do anything it takes
Just to get it through, never let go
To make you see
How bad I want you
Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
25/7/95
If I was with you now alone
We could wish upon the same star
My love for you has grown
And I know exactly where you are
I loved the way we were back then
I forgot how we could be
In your arms I would lie
I never thought I’d see you leave
Had to leave, my need unsupplied
We’re in the same world together
I’ll see you again, of that I’m sure
I can live without you forever
Star shines on, our love no more
Our love with two different souls
We’re so close but so far away
Love takes on different roles
Decision (more) different than the same
How does he cope? Sad virtue
I knew you when love came
But now I know I love you
Lyrics/Music – Nuttall
7/8/95
(Lyrics were butchered and cobbled together from three different sets of lyrics, one of which was called “Bye!” and another “I hate you”. The last line was originally ‘I know I hate you’)
I told you I'd love you forever
Why should that change?
While we are not together
And all I feel is pain
It always ends the same lonely and confused
Let's go one more time and sing the Blues
I love you but that don't mean a thing
It always happens when I hear Luther sing
Chorus
A wrong word and a door will slam
Sorry is never heard
Just the last sound of a lonely man
And your unspoken words
I sorry, I was wrong
You didn't listen or understand
I hate it when we don't get on
This ain't going to plan
I planned to love you forever
But it ain't turning out right
Something's stopping us from being together
It's just one more lonely night
Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
8/8/95
Mickey was born by the river
But now it’s run dry
Used to have something to believe in
Now he’s only got tears in his eyes
He’s all grow up now
Too old to try to pretend
The fantasy’s so real
When the bottle’s your best friend
Chorus
The river flows on forever
Mickey ran to America
To the land of the free
But he’s back now and he says
‘It’s got nothing to offer me’
They found him by the river
And they took him back home
Now our boy Mickey
Ain’t ever gonna be alone
Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
8/8/95
When the sunshine turns to blackest night
And the rain seems to pour and pour
There’s something gives me the strength to fight
So I can smile at the storm that roars
When you’re here, by my side
There’s always a brighter way
No need to fear or to hide
Cause there’s always a brand new day
Even in my darkest hour
I know I can count on you
When I start to falter
I know you can pull me through
In my darkest hour
I know you can bring me light
Just the thought of you can help me
Make it through the night
It seems like roads are going nowhere
Run into a brick wall
I know you will always come
To help me when I fall
Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
13/08/95
(Only one recording was ever made as the music went missing shortly afterwards.)
I walk the darkness through the streets
Hear the Urban Fox cry
Through all the hatred and deceit
We don’t see the tears in the children’s eyes
It’s so long since men stood together
Side by side hand in hand
But now we stand in darkness forever
And I just can’t understand
Chorus
If there’s a God in heaven
Why’s he forsaken us?
When so many worship evil
Where’s it taken us?
Pray to God if he’d care to listen
Hope he’s there to hear
‘Cause there’s got to be someone to take away
All the pain and all the fear
If men decided to fight evil
Instead of killing our own kind
Then maybe a brighter day
Is something we might just find
If hell freezes over and it all comes to earth
Will he show his hand to help us for what it’s worth?
Lyrics – Hunter
Music – Nuttall
26/08/95
This is the place I love to be
Distant sound breaks the silence
They see how it feels
Stop me with this stinging violence
Listen to me I can’t solve the future
Oh, when the time escapes
Another sound is so far building
The wall hides a vision, can’t see the other side
It’s filled with war memory, see my fear inside
Clouded sky yet no rain, the wind so clear and so out there
I cannot dare to hide my pain
Warm night filled with inspiration, there’s the sound of my tears
For the times I’d best forget, times that were you and me
Hear words spoken silently and all the voices that I hear
Our love the only sound, nothing’s been that clear
No one likes hate, there’s a better way to waste time
To love is new fatal, now I know what’s mine
Dreaming for too long, pleasure is pain if you hate it
Love so unemotional, here’s my fear, so take it
Turn out the light, need to fight
Break your back see in the black
You know it’s all real, the echoes I hear sound so severe
What’s over my shoulder, I’ll miss time in front of me
I’m young growing older, those flowers grow for me
Lyrics/Music – Nuttall
07/09/95
Fatal seems so final
But fate seems to write my songs
Everything is so right
What possibly went wrong?
Worried? About what?
I don’t know!
Chorus
You’re perfect in a perfect world
Let me in, it’s you I need
When we met I knew
I’d use you for my Greed!
The way you are helps me breathe
Nothing can steal the memory of you
I just hope you’ll never leave
You wouldn’t, would you?
I felt this way about someone else
You’re nothing new
Last time it all went wrong
You’re nothing new
Where do we belong?
Are we one?
Together alone
Will I ever love another like I loved you?
Lyrics/Music – Nuttall
7/9/95
(The ‘greed’ in the song is wondering if you’re with someone for the craic or so you don’t feel lonely)