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Crazy Faces (Songs For Snod (2012​-​2019​)​)

by Martin Carr

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1.
One Fine Day 02:18
The first thing given to me was a lucky face I could charm the birds out of the trees before I could tie my lace I was a backstreet Pharoah, nobody could take my place I thought that I could give everybody a dream And change the whole bloody world with a song and scream But i didn't want to be your Jesus, that's not my scene But one fine day, I through it all away I turned on a Cuban heel and walked out of there One fine day, I threw it all away Now there's no money in my pocket and my cupboard is always bare Winston O'Boogie!
2.
Crazy Faces 02:30
Julia and Fred Breaking the bed Fucking with my head I hope you're ready for my reputation and my Crazy faces and my flames Julia and Fred I'm sick in the head Wish that I was dead I hope you're ready for my discrimination and my Crazy faces and my flames They fucked me up, my mum and dad.
3.
I'm Alright 02:29
Move on world I got nothing You see I threw it all away Now there's no money for the bus home Oh, I know that I have wasted many hours Still the mountain top is out of reach But I'm alright, I'm still free I'm alright I'm still me I'm alright
4.
Cal 02:50
Cal Am I dreaming? I don't remember who I'm supposed to be Cal Do you know how I feel about you? Cal Why can't I be happy? Even the simple things are hard to do Cal There's a place in this world for you And me And though the years run away from me The days suck the life out of my bones But the way you look at me It knocks me right over
5.
I dreamed a dream My dreams came true When I awoke my dreams were through Easy come, easy go I had a girl We had a son I ran as fast as I could run Easy come, easy go Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll I took my ball and I went home Easy come, easy go My mother got hit By a copper's car Died on the street On her own, in the dark Easy come Easy go
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Jack Jones 03:21
Jack Jones How did I sink so low? All on my Jack Jones Where did everybody go? I used to believe But I was deceived Now it's just me and the stranger in the mirror If you want to know why I hardly smile Well I'm a glass is always half smashed kind of guy You can carve that on my headstone I No matter how hard I try To fit with the world outsiude I always end up Back in my room on my Jack Jones I'm on my Jack Jones high up in my favourite tree All on my Jack Jones Where can everybody be? The people below Look at them go Always fighting over one thing or another Lost in the fog Gone to the dogs This country's so far right I fall out of bed at n ight I No matter how hard I try To fit with the world outsiude I always end up Back in my room on my Jack Jones
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If you believe in nothing Then you'll believe in anything I believe in a supreme being I believe it's you The sun cannot find me On the brightest of days No shadow No footprints No reflection I make Only you can see me Look at me I'm a fog to my family I'm a ghost to my friends I'm like a blur to myself The sun cannot find me On the brightest of days No shadow No footprints No reflection I make Only you can see me
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Now I'm back In the land of the living I will not stumble I will not fall Now I'm back In the land of the living I shall not be humble I shall not kneel Your number one prodigal son is here And I'll take you all from the wigwam down to the pier 'Cos now I'm back In the land of the living I will not stumble I will not fall Now I'm back In the land of the living I shall not be humble I shall not yield The rain anoints The sun appoints My crown The bells ring Your returning king's Yome town Now I'm back In the land of the living I will not stumble I will not fall Now I'm back In the land of the living I shall not be humble I shall not kneel
11.
Snodgrass 02:10
Hey, man You look a lot like Snodgrass Don't even try to understand Hey, man You talk a lot like Snodgrass Don't even try to understand Nine to five the long slow turn of the knife Boring people with their boring lives kettle on The office clock sits on its hands What are you looking at? What do you want from me, Snodgrass? You look a lot like Snodgrass
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The years roll down my face I can't even try to trace them The years roll down my face Oh, I know how I have wasted them Easy come, easy go
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Your Body 03:49
Your body trembles Beneath your dress The cold wind blows up from the Mersey Your life's arranged Mine's a mess We fumble blindly In an alley Where can we go? Where can we go? Where others can't find Where can we go? Where can we go? Where others can't find us Your mother cries And paints her nails Your father hides Within his shadows Your brother runs Without a word And leaves you drowning in the suburbs Where can we go? Where can we go? Where others can't find Where can we go? Where can we go? Where others can't find us

about

Sometime ago, my friend David Quantick sent me a book of short stories, urging me to read the one called Snodgrass by Ian R Mcleod. Alternative histories don't tend to interest me too much but Snodgrass made me laugh out loud. I filed it alongside National Lampoon's 'Tragical Misery Tour' in my internal Non-Beatle Beatle things that are very funny folder.

Fast forward to 2012 and I'm ten years adrift, earning no money and unable to finish anything. I've cut myself off from social media and, with two very young children, sleeping even less than usual. DQ sends me an email asking me to write the music for a tv adaptation of Snodgrass. Yeah! I say. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

I meet the producer, Mike, and the three of us have long and boozy conversations about script and music and The Beatles. I set up a slapback delay and every morning I go into the studio and pretend I'm a middle-aged man who threw it all away. Turns out there was no pretense necessary.

Later, I catch the red-eye up to Manchester to meet up with the director David Blair, the director, Ian R McLeod, Mike and DQ, and Ian Hart, who is playing Lennon for the third time. There follows a lot of drinking and laughing.

The film is shown on Sky Arts and that is that.

Since then there has been talk of a feature film. Songs and scripts have been written, actors auditioned, and money chased but it looks like it's not going to happen.

These are not the versions used in the film, I don't think I own those. These are the demos, they crackle and pop but I think they sound pretty good.

I hope you enjoy this album x

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released March 5, 2022

All songs by Martin Carr
The cover is a photograph I took during the filming, somewhere in Manchester, 2012.

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