A Good Idea Got a good idea for tonight Let's pretend we both work fro EMI And we'll go into town with a bag of fake pills And we'll give them to crap bands along with fake record deals And before they realise everything isn't as it seems We won't take any money but we'll take all their dreams away
'cause every obscure band in every bargain bin Represents the life span of someone else's dreams And you can take them away But you'll just end up with a shell with nothig to say Apart from the time their record was once in HMV But it was slowly reduced to just 20p So they had to go in and steal it back 'cause it came to represent everything that they lack
Got a good idea for today Let's pretend we both believe every word that I say When I say I think I'm gonna make it some day I mean it might be unlikely but humour me anyway
And let's sing a song About all the songs that are never gonna get anywhere This might be one of them but do I care? Yeah, probably
Let's all sing along To all the blokes singing to themselves in pubs for fifteen years Slowly strangling a dream until it disappears completley
Let's use an Excel spreadsheet to cronicle all the time we've wasted Writing songs that no-one hears in a bid to make our lives feel more of worth I mean we go to work And we hope that someone somewhere is gonna unearth A copy of a cassette we make of our songs and then forgot That slowly made its way into the back of a charity shop And someone picks it up and play it that night And says "yeah, that actually sounds... Alright"