Better do better

Came in tonight after a pleasant night out to find thudding bass bouncing down from upstairs. So, connected the PC to the stereo, doesn't take a lot of effort, and started blasting out tracks in revenge. Then I hit Hard-Fi (a fairly local group), worked my way through a few tracks and got to Better Do Better. It brought back a load of old feelings from very many years ago (I am long past them but must admit I do still have that bitter feeling and a huge lack of trust). It's nice to know that guys feel the same way too though - I was just up to blaming them for everything. Anyway, the track can be found here (at the time of posting you'll hit a track called Living For The Weekend - which I love too, Better Do Better is at the bottom of the list), and the lyrics are below.

You're back, sitting on my doorstep
ah yeah like nothing happened
telling me that that you're free and oh
can you see me again?
Yeah right, you've been kicked out
do you think I'm that stupid?
You say you're free but didn't he just oh oh oh
get tired of you kid

I could not eat for days
I cried so much my face
has never been the same and
and now you're back here with your lies
I hope you realise

[chorus]
You think I'm gonna take you back
you'd better do better than that
I'll tell ya how it's gonna be
don't you never ever come near me
let me tell you how I've been
I've been hiding from my friends
hiding from the world
hiding from myself
you think you'll come round here
start singing in my ear
girl you damaged me
I don't forgive so easily
you better do better than that

Your face makes me want to be sick
ah yeah it's a physical reaction
you'd better leave 'cause you see I
can't - won't be blamed for my actions
oh oh, how I ever loved you
so dumb, how did I ever trust you?
But you and he laughed at me, oh yeah yeah
when you laid together

I could not eat for days
I cried so much my face
has never been the same and
and now you're back here with your lies
I hope you realise

[chorus]

I gave you everything I had girl
but you had to, try and take some more
you went behind my back girl
cheated on me, I was the last to know
did everything we have girl
meant nothing to ya
well I was such a fool
now you come crawling back girl
well let me tell ya, I am through with you

I'm back up off the floor
and I won't get hurt no more
an' I've been waiting for this day when
you'll be back here with your lies
I hope you realise

[chorus]

Say something, say something
say something, say something

You'd better do better than that!

Kiss that Frog

Not sure why but this track popped into my head the other day. Been singing it to myself ever since. It's Peter Gabriel (he's from my neck of the woods these days) with Kiss That Frog.
The You Tube version that I've found has a Farscape video accompanying it, not quite how I visualised it but the only rendition I found that met the audio version I remember so well.

As a female it makes me think of so many cheesy chat up lines, and it's rude (or is that just my mind playing up again?) but I played it sooooo many times, with a big grin on my face.

Anyway, that's my latest music post - hope you enjoyed the track.

Spit in the Rain

Just been playing old tracks very loudly. This is kind of going back to the Getting Older post. It's a bit noisy upstairs so I now have my stereo on full blast and am going through old CD tracks (the turntable is burried under a pile of junk so can't dig out the vinyl).

Anyway, it resulted in me digging out old CD singles and I eventually got to Del Amitri and Spit in the Rain.
What a track!

You can grin but you can't hide
All the emptiness inside
Since she left you like spit in the rain

Without doubt it is true
She was the only love you knew
Now she's gone it fades away
Like spit in the rain

And you can try to find her
But youll be looking in vain
Because love disappears like spit in the rain

You can try to figure out
Why you mean nothing to her now
But you might just as well
Go spit in the rain

Maybe then you will find
Her sweet memory in your mind
Washed away, and out of sight
Like spit in the rain

Without doubt it is true
Without her there's only you
But with a little luck and with a little time
You'll pull through


This track is just so ironic, but true, you do pull through. It was played over and over when I split up with one of my exes. It seemed appropriate and I used to love walking in the rain. Love it.

Mika - Grace Kelly

Experimenting here - finding out what you can add to these blogs. This song by Mika has reached number one in the charts before it's even been released. In fact the guy has made his name through My Space and YouTube. I quite like it. What do you think?