Trashcan Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks (download)

[Pitman]

For those that may want a listen.

Obscurity Knocks (1990 Single)

Always at the foot of the photograph - that's me there
snug as a thug in a mugshot pose, a foul-mouthed rogue
owner of this corner and not much more
still these days i'm better placed to get my just rewards
i'll pound out a tune and very soon
i'll have too much to say and a dead stupid name

though i ought to be learning i feel like a veteran
of "oh i like your poetry but I hate your poems"
calendars crumble i'm knee deep in numbers
i've turned 21, i've twist, i'm bust and wrong again

rubbing shoulders with the sheets till two
looking at my watch and i'm half-past caring
in the lap of luxury it comes to mind
is this headboard hard? am i a lap behind?
but to face doom in a sock-stenched room all by myself
is the kind of fate i never contemplate
lots of people would cry though none spring to mind

though i ought to be learning i feel like a veteran
of "oh i like your poetry but I hate your poems"
calendars crumble i'm knee deep in numbers
i've turned 21, i've twist, i'm bust and wrong again

know what it's like
to sigh at the sight of the first quarter of life?
ever stopped to think and found out nothing was there?

they laugh to see such fun
i'm playing blind man's bluff all by myself
and they're chanting a line from a nursery rhyme
"ba ba bleary eyes - have you any idea?"

years of learning i must be a veteran
of "oh i like your poetry but I hate your poems"
and the calendar's cluttered with days that are numbered
i've turned 21, i've twist, i'm bust and wrong again
ought to be learning
twist, i'm bust and wrong again
feel like a veteran
twist, i'm bust and wrong again
calendar's cluttered
with days that are numbered
and i know what it's like
to sigh at the sight
of the first quarter of life.




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[Glad to be grey]

> For those that may want a listen.

> Obscurity Knocks (1990 Single)

Thanks - I had only ever heard their version of "I Know It's Over" on the "The Smiths Is Dead" album before this.

Nice one, Pitman!

 

[Pitman]

Trashcan Sinatras - Drunken Chorus (download)

Drunken Chorus (1990 b-side)

i'm looking on the bright side
but i still don't see the light
and why are friends so hard to find
on wednesday night?
i've got a ten pound note in my pocket
and it'll never find it's way back home
and you thought i'd be lonely
when you'd gone

discipline is a shelter
the punishment's my home
built on sticks and stones
and now brittle bones
i'm just a slip of a thing
and now i'm on the slide
and i get so confused on my own

barmaids beware
sweet-stout style
and whiskey-drunk flair

i'm drinking the wishing well dry
and collecting the coins
and my cup's brimming over with bliss
seem's that when my throat gets dry
my words get wry
and i raise my glass like a fist
every sip's a kiss

you used to say my secrets were safe
and that i had no need
to lock them away
but i could kick myself to death
for leaving you the key
and now i know
what security means to me
hard to get a hold of
what it means to me
and it's hard to get out of the gutter
when it's raining feet
and every helping hand's a fist

i'm drinking the wishing well dry
and collecting the coins
and my cup's brimming over with bliss
seem's that when my throat gets dry
my words get wry
and i raise my glass like a fist
every sip's a kiss

but hey where will i go
and now that you have gone
and now that you have gone
and now that it has gone
where will i go
no no where, where will i go
no no where will i go, no nowhere




drunken chorus

 

[Pitman]

Trashcan Sinatras - Safecracker (download)

Live from a KCRW session

Safecracker (1996)

as fly to tarantula, as jugular to dracula
to me in my ford spectacular, you'll be drawn
i'll slash your masterpiece, the bits and pieces on your mantelpiece
i'm in and out in no time.....the safecracker

got impaled, on a nail, once i left a trail behind me
a bloody tale, to no avail, better get cracking, it's not safe

the moon is a blabbermouth
who'll shop you in and catch you out
but me and my thoughts spectacular won't be caught
they call me thrifty, thrifty, i count out 2.50
a gallon'll get me to paisley, i'm a safecracker
i'll use your tradesman's entrance, there's no danger there
i'll wipe all trace away, i'll get clean away, the safecracker

got impaled on a nail, once i left a trail behind me
i'll end in jail if i fail, but i'll have all the time
gloves and rope, stethoscope, at tip-toe time I'll be at large
it takes a crook to know where to look
better get cracking

the moon is a blabbermouth
who'll shop you in and catch you out
but me and my ford spectacular
i'll be all right

got impaled on a nail, once i left a trail behind me
a bloody tale, to no avail, better get cracking
it's not safe
i'll land in jail if i fail, better get cracking
it takes a crook to know where to look
i'll have all the time
i'll have all the time
better get cracking
better get cracking




"Safecracker"

 

[Pitman]

Trashcan Sinatras - Send For Henny (download)

From 1993

"Send For Henny"

you led me headlong to the place where i belong
dealing big blows to what my heart knows
old hat and old stories

i get a little red and i'll burst rather than wax and melt
i get a little wrecked
and recalled how i cursed the fact of your tortured trust
now that's gone i was so wrong, we know where our love lies
through the catacombs we roam

come into my house, throw open the windows wide
then back to your house to do likewise
cliche time more or less, i stake my claim
you stake my heart, striking dumb then dearly depart

when it gets too heavy, send for henny - i'll follow her
where wet nursed apologies and putrid prisons mix
our love becomes this useless box of tricks
when it seems so heavy, send for henny - i'll follow her

get back to your house to do likewise




Send For Henny

 

[Pitman]

Trashcan Sinatras - A Coda (Download)

From their last album 'Weightlifting' (2004)

"A Coda" KCRW Version

ill-gotten feeling - a coda
my lover's leaving and i love her

i would've taken you in confidence on things
you wouldn't hear of it, you never let me in
under the circumstances
i confess i never tried my best

there's no plant tonight to water
and i don't care if i live or die either

wasted, lost emotions
nostradamus - now i know what's meant for me

i would have taken you in confidence on things
you wouldn't hear of it, but you never let me in
under the circumstances
i confess i never tried my best

now i know what's meant for me

i would have taken you in confidence on things
you wouldn't dream of it, you never let me in
under the circumstances
i confess i never tried my best




"A Coda"

 

[Pitman]

Don't worry the last one, as req by Mr Frankly Vulgar.

"I know It's Over" From The Smiths Is Dead comp.

you know the words i'm quite sure.




i know it's clover

 

[The Cat's Mother]

Working through them as fast as my rubbish dial-up will permit. Thanks, Pitman!

Kate

 

[Pitman]

> Working through them as fast as my rubbish dial-up will permit. Thanks,
> Pitman!

> Kate

>

my pleasure, hope you like them.

 

[grievous angel]

what a top band they are