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by Disco Zhivago

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Music by C.Frame / P.Ilsley / C.Pryer
Recorded and engineered by Chris Hollis
at SoundArc Studios, Shefford | soundarc.com

(c)2013 Disco Zhivago

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I cut my hair and sold my motorbike
(Now I’ve got money!)
I know, but it hurts
To soap up nicely for the girl I like
(It’s not funny)
I know, but then I’m doing this for you
You’re on the wrong side
You’re pulling me up
But you’re hurting my pride
You
Your modernist ways
I’m changing my scene
Just to capture your gaze

So give me Northern Soul
And give me purple hearts
I’ll dance till half past five
And then I’ll depart

So farewell blue-suede shoe
I never want you back
Guess I’ll no longer be
The leader of the pack

Changing my ways but I’m so afraid
I’m pulling all the moves but you don’t buy it
I’ve been a soul-boy since just yesterday
I guess you never know until you try it

Leather jackets swapped for tailored suits
Roundels, winklepickers and Chelsea boots
No longer eating fry-ups at the Greaser caf’
Eddie on the jukebox - let’s do another lap, because

Me, I’m telling you lies
You’re hearing me shout
But you don’t hear my cries
You, your fashionable ways
Betraying my roots
In a couple of days

Sometimes I stop to smell the fumes…
They’re the only thing that relax me and take my mind off you
Turn a corner…
…and there’s my friends
They’re wielding switchblades so I’d better run

Changing my ways but I’m so afraid
I’m pulling all the moves but you don’t buy it
Been a soul-boy since just yesterday
I guess you never know until you try it

The sting of steel across my face
I hear the engines rev away
And on the back of my old motorbike
There sits my girl, with my best pal

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released August 9, 2013

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