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Big Noise!

by SCANDINAVIA

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1.
Silly Feet 2 03:31
You were an original fat suit wearer Pop star footballer Mischievous jokester Your heart was beautiful Slightly overweight And it made you loveable You smoked cigarettes But you could play so wonderful Tears for England in those games Like memories in the rain Wash away Silly feet, two of them And the ball stuck like with glue to them You were a buffoon but you were never a hooligan A loony tune Battling your demons in A bottle, pull your socks up now for England and get those silly feet on again You were an original Geordie boy king In a lineage of them You could rap it like waddle And score goals like Keegan You were never unsung And you were always up for fun But get too close to the sun And you get burned like anyone
2.
Everyone's talking about my baby Superficial words always drive me crazy But I'm never gonna ever stop feeling like I'm out of my mind Strangers on a train, we could hatch a plot to kill All the stupid people who sacrifice free will Set the stun gun to 'mind numb' the brain dead humankind Anyone who's anyone Is just anyone, not you But she knew too much And I'm struck dumb in love In the grand scheme of our plans to rule I'm just a pretender I've become an agent of her lust And that's just the price of love Something's gone wrong with her algorithm There's a gleam in her eye that says I'm her next victim I'm happy to report that I offer me up to her desires I'm in love with the girl who knew too much
3.
What I own minus what I owe What I am worth I am worth! It's impossible to know I'm the sum of several things Nationally-insured citizen! It's not a matter of earnings Jealousy compares And everyone says that they hurt But what do they mean? We quantify, look to the sky and ask why? Value is written in swirls It is coded and I don't know why Assets and equity serve And are eroded with the passing of time Time, time, time What I am versus what I own I couldn't care less, I'm careless! I can't account for what I've blown Keep a tab for all of your friends Because they're worth less, they're worthless! Just for the message that it sends Tell lies Size up and rise up And fantasise
4.
Well it's known That you can't take it with you But I think that you can They were wrong And when I go I wanna go a rich man When I go, I wanna go a rich man I'll seize it all and they can be damned When you're gone You're returned to the air and earth It's where you belong And you're sown To fertilize the land and feed a generation Let us burn, let us burn Turn our cash to ash, it's what we've earned It goes on, it goes on And on and on and on
5.
I should've said nothing at all Feel like you've gone on a long vacation But you're never coming back no more Watching the train pull out of the lonely station I've got a long way to walk Through the mall Lots of shoppers heeding marketing calls It's a bore I should've said nothing at all The sun's a ball of fire in the sky Floating in the blue with no clouds or direction And people come from miles away To burn on the sand searching for relaxation I've got a lot of empty talk It's small Lots of dreams but no real goals Life's a ball I should've said nothing at all I've got a bad-ass pair of ray bans To cover my eyes while my soul is hurting Might as well just work on my tan And wile away the summer feeling pretty vacant I've got a whole world to explore This fall I've got nothing to say anymore
6.
I like dumb tunes It's so uncool I like that dress you wear when you get in my hair and it's all good I'm not as miserable As people think so I just like to get down on these things like I'm above it all Like I'm above it all It's uncool cuz it's not ironic at all I like dumb tunes Make me happy when I miss you I like dumb tunes Make me feel good when I do feel miserable I like dumb tunes Like Black Flag too I still like to let my hair down on occasion like I'm youthful Can't be as physical As maybe I'd like to But I can still rock n roll like I was born to wear suede shoes
7.
HMV Is Dead! 03:39
Functional things are wonderful things I read books about everything Balance sheets and boardroom meets The ceo's gotta go cuz he's got kids at home We dream economically I used to love the feeling of buying a cd But what does it mean about me? Remember 94 They opened a flagship store Spending weekends at the mall I loved that record store I professed to hate Capitalism and the unfree state Contradictions are great Never thought about my parents working late Teen dreams are just packaging We unwrap to reveal nothing but then we write our stories in, hoping to become something Friendships are just bonds of sweat Intangibles we can't forget Memories are there to remind About the way we change all the time And these are just changing times So say goodbye to that enterprise They only seemed to charge a fair price When we all knew they were going to die Our cultural lives are short Dog-eared imprints of what we've sold and bought But those opening chords were divine Soundtracked me dreaming that I'll make you mine It's all so hard to define
8.
It could be me, it could be you It could be me, or anyone we know You could be the first to go To the countryside or down to the coast Yes it's true, houses are too Expensive but we'll just rent till we've saved for a year or two Cuz I never wanna move Our town's the best and we got proof I never take the riverboat to work The river snakes through the city centre and breaks It in two, all spread out, green brown and blue Our town's got something for everyone! The city grew, houses are new Buildings live and breathe and adapt to what people do Slight roadways are barely used More decorative, preserved for historical value And on skyways we all move And in our heads we see what we choose At work and play tech has improved But in truth we're just the same, and so we give the past it's due The river snakes through the city centre always The water sparkles so clear because the bed's been paved Piping's been laid, silver and grey, the ores we crave are there We're mining for utopia! The future's ours
9.
I see you in the spotlight dreaming and it makes me sad I wanna call you but I know it'd just make you mad My heart aches driving through the city in a taxi cab Wanted to whisper in your ear but I can't go back Words keep killing me Words keep filling my head It's so clear Your heart's so pure It's warm as earth and soft as snow (I love you just the same yeah) My heart it died It's hard as dirt and cold as ice (but my feelings haven't changed, no)
10.
The humidity makes me feel like a kid Dancing in the rain drinking Pabst Blue Ribs Skinny little divs doing that funny knee twist That's the way they did it in the indie rock vids Now I'm all grown And my friends are all grown That me fifteen years ago Is hard to recognize Now we're just getting on with our lives I can't dance and I can't sing That's how you know that I'm the genuine thing We sang songs to feel like we belonged To put your arms around a memory's fine Big noise is a friend of mine This rigidity makes me feel so sick Waiting for a train in my commutering skivs Got reflective, is this how I wanna live? But perspectives get confused when the world is so big now that I'm all grown And I've got to get along So I can't dance, I can't sing Don't wanna learn, I'll say a prayer out on the wing We sang songs and it never felt wrong Some chords and passion - aimless ambition Big noise strikes again

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This is the third Scandinavia album.

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released February 1, 2014

Recorded 18-21 October 2013 with Guy Denning at Granary Studios, Lamberhurst, except for HMV is Dead!, recorded March 2013 at home and at practice, and I Like Dumb Tunes recorded April 2013 with Giles Barratt at Soup Studios, London. Mastered by Henri Latham-Koenig

All songs by Scandinavia, who are Amin, Miriam, Tibor, Tom and Warrick. Tambourine and backing vocals on I Like Dumb Tunes and HMV is Dead! by Tim Neville. Gospel choir on Our Future City by Guy Denning.

Design by Ali Reid. Thanks to Arthur Urquiola of Artefracture.

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Shamelessly celebrating the middle-class libido since 2011.

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