Songs From 2001
Face The Fax - Jam session Sounds Like REM - Jam session Come Home Original - Jam session
This is a fast feel good pop song with lyrics about being left behind in the real world while one's partner gets absorbed in to the virtual one.
Story Behind the Song
I wrote this song after spending too much time playing a computer game called "Unreal Tournament" online, also one of my girlfriends had called herself a Cubase Widow, (Cubase is a program for writing music using a computer). I was struck too by the way in which we see computers as a hi tech device for giving satisfaction to our more base tendencies, (sex and violence), and how it can also be used in our search for romantic illusions, such as romantic relationships on the web. I had heard of a few marriages coming to a sticky end as a result of one of the partners surfing off with someone else. When we wrote this song Cormac had come over and we were ploughing through song ideas. Normally we'd get 10 ideas down per day and "Come Home" was just 1 of 10 that day. The way we worked was to leave the microphone on and the recorder running continually so that what ever happened got captured. Cormac would play a tune and I would ad lib in to the mic. Almost all of the words to come home (except the last verse) were written there and then. To hear the recording of us creating the song click here From that point the song was taken by several producers and finally the one by Alistair McMillan (He who has produced Enya, U2, and Mark Knopfler) was chosen. Come Home Lyrics by Simon Smith (c)2000 London
I've walked down the computer game roads Of your mind, In the darkness of night I've Crept up behind, And grabbed you round the waist and said, "Come back now in to our bed" "Leave those monsters to fight alone now darlin' " "Come back home my darling."
I've walked down the corridors of your mind Why do you want to leave your life behind?
I've walked down the computer game roads of your mind, In the darkness of night I felt you leave me behind, From the wasted cities of the web Come back now into our bed Without your heart its not a home my darling Please come home darling
I walked down the corridors of your mind Why do want to leave your life behind
Oh Baby come home now Take the modem from the phone now Please come home my love
If you don't care then I don't mind I walked down the corridors of your mind Watched you flying on the line I walked down the corridors of your mind Why do you want to leave your life behind? Hey girl watched you flying on the line watched you flying on the line Please come home my love Please come home my love
Much of this song was produced during The Frankie Miller Songwriting Project. Credits: Words and vocal melody Simon Smith, Music Cormac O'Kane, Production Alistair McMillan, Backing Vocals Brendan Guyatt, Lorraine Edwards and Denise Wint, Guitars Cormac O'Kane and Alistair McMillan, Bass and keyboards Cormac O'Cane
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My girl says Get out of bed and wash your hair (I stumble and fall) Time is moving on For playing about and singing your songs Time is moving on For laying around your whole life long (We lie beside each other through the night) And we laugh as the fishes on the plate smile back in the morning light And in the morning I will not be found My love is not forever and a day Do not expect to find me here (Is it for me you cry at night My message is clear Stuck to you My message is clear Stuck to you Stuck to you Fly away I can't see if the sun ain't gonna shine with me Stuck to you Well the rain poured down upon the sea of Galilee And we laugh ‘til the fishes on the plate smile back in the morning light And we laugh ‘til the fishes on the plate smile back in the morning light Wash your hair Stuck to you Stuck to you My message is clear Stuck to you Stuck to you
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Blue and red lights in my head As the lighthouse lights up your bed Dolphins swim and sing out your name As we sail around this dream again
Take me back to your place Wrap me up in a dream space I live in fear of everything When you're not here
Simon Smith 2001 ***
We're going on a holiday For a week or two Gonna run away From the real me and you Gonna see some sights Gonna have some fun nights
We're going on a holiday For a year or two We're gonna stop swimming in this Life of blue [ different section kicks in ] We're gonna swim in the red sea Gonna make love eternally We're gonna brush our hands upon The long grass of song All summer long
We're gonna ride an internet love We're gonna ride forever our love ‘Gonna dance in circles around a tree ‘Gonna carve your love eternally [ different section kicks in ] And I know we're gonna have a real good time In this eternal summer time
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We're gonna watch the sun go down Gonna feel the water swirl around our feet Dancing people in the town square Doing the waltz everywhere
Gonna go away Get away today Gonna love eternally Let's go on our holiday Holiday, Holidayayyyy, Holiday
We're gonna go away Leave this world behind Had enough of all those people so unkind
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I hope you don't mind I'll send you a card Come and see me some time Don't work too hard
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I Was Talking To Bruce Springsteen And he said to me That he don't like Pink Cadillacs He wasn't born to be free He's not sure after all if it's the land of the free
I was talking to Elvis He said he prefers a Big Mac To McDonalds any day, now He don't like to play now
I was talking to Winston Churchill Says he only smokes cigars To rid his mouth of Words that were aimed to kill
I was talking to Marilyn Says she don't like that sex thing Says she'd like to just cuddle up With a president and a cup
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Oh I'd like to tell you how I feel But my days are dead And my mouth is sealed I'd like to Whisper to you But I know if you're there That you won't care But I'll wait Wait here Again and again.
But I'll have to Though I wouldn't know If it hurt my fingers so Just to be I'll take your word for it I used to wonder why I felt so sad You still ask the old man If they could tell me a secret If he could tell me how to keep it If they could help me through But life goes on And sadness falls Around your feet Like a flag That's faded to a sheet Like a dance You point your finger To friends in the sky I stand still I weave a dance around Dance around you
Well they dance around me Their faces lit by the fire
Simon Smith 2001
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Hey Baby I'd like to know What you want Like to know If you'll be with me
Hey baby Where do you go Don't know if you'll Be with me
Hey Baby What do you see? When you see your eyes Looking at me?
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I'd like to tell you how I feel But you've been away from my heart for too long I'd like to hold Forever and a day But you'll leave me anyway
I'd like to tell you how I feel But I know your love ain't real I'd like to hold you Forever and a day But tomorrow you'll be gone away
I'll travel to the North of this island I'll travel to the South of your hometown I'll travel to the East of our private garden And West wards the light will fade
I'd like to tell you how I feel But our love ain't real I'd like to tell you long times will come But will you be the one
I've come to you in a dream To tell you that things ain't what they seem I've come to you in a darkest night Baby I'll need you to hold me tight
I don't know where we're going now I don't know if we'll travel far and wide But I've got this feeling About you and I It hurts me deep inside So reach out to me Tell me your story Tell me that you love Let me feel your breath Upon my face Do you hold me in your heart I'd like to tell you how I feel But I'm not sure if this love's real I'm not sure if this love's real
So hold me tonight Hold me ‘til the light of dawn Hold me ‘til Our love is torn away Our love will time the sun Our love will ride away With your dream shine
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I'm standing in a dark valley Watching a hundred planes fly by Passing around a red sky
You look at me I look at you We don't know What's left to do
Everybody's running around People trying to find the ground Don't know what to do With these words for you
Smell something's in the air People running everywhere Hold my hand and run Run towards the sun
Batman baby Where were you When I needed you? Batman baby It's so strange that the devil came true
Saw you whisper something to a man I never knew before Never even saw him before Where did all the strangers come from? Why can't I hear them speak? Where did they come from? I will have to search Through the darkness of this valley night Thought I was a safe Within your hand so tight Looked out to sea Only to be held by a memory Looked out to sea And you were gone
Batman baby Could have done with you Where were you when I needed you?
I heard a scientist say That it takes 15 minutes For your mind to Fade away 15 minutes to go There's something I want to know You were a friend Drove me round the bend And I didn't even know where we're going When I found my way back You were at your wedding Down the track You waved to come on in My friend You put your arm out to hold me Had to say it felt risqué Jumping on a moving train Jumping on and off a train
1 minute to go I feel like I'm at a show Watch you go In to the darkness you flow Never to be seen again Thank you for being a friend Glad you were a friend Even if you drove me round the bend.
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Sunday Morning clouds blow away I look across my bed And see you Oh baby I'd like to hold you But I don't want you to wake I let the sun come shining through And let the course of true love take
Oh baby I'd like to hold And feel the sun on our bodies Oh baby I'd like to hold And feel you close to me Oh feel the heat between us Feel your touch so tenderly And darling I know The Sunday morning has to go But hey hold me close
The Sunday morning walk though the park Kick those leaves around Sunday morning hold me tight Kiss me while the rain comes down
Sunday afternoon Let's pop in and see some friends Let's eat ice creams Until we get to the end
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It is a dream to be loved By one It is a dream of love To be loved Forever And Ever
Well it's a dream That's lost in me To be loved Forever Ever And Ever
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Well it could have been The way you move me Well sometimes you have to face the facts You have to look at your computer And you have to get that answer from going You have to understand Why your speakers cut out Why your computer don't work Why your girl friend went away Why the sun shines Why you get up each day And you have to work out Why you want to live Why you want to walk Through the rain in summer days And why winter days feel snug And the summer days sometimes bring bad luck And you need to know why the sun don't shine all the time I didn't like to leave you alone And I don't why Those speakers cut out like that And I don't know why Our love just cut out so fast And I have to wonder What Elvis would do If he was here
Could have been love Could have been the son You never had Could have been Sounding like R.E.M. Could have had Michael Singing this song Right now my voice Sounds like him
I can hear myself Sounding like them Right now I sound More like him Than me
So what will you do Where will you go How will you move At least let me Give you a map Of the way Out of here
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