A Place In The Sun

Sign on the line for the life of your time
You don't have to say what you see
You can scar with a word

An obsession absurd
Carved too deep a shadow in me
Face to the wall with the thrill of it all
I may as well scream at the sky
Left with no voice

Or alternative choice
I may as well learn how to fly

So you turn on your TV
And learn what you should be
And if you do this
You'll be all that you could be
Through anoraks eyes
You see cellulite thighs
So send us an cheque
And we'll sure exorcize

And I'm sure there's a place in the sun

For people like you
Yes I'm sure there's a place in the sun

For people like you

Come meet the demands

Of the heart on your hands
And please try to grin as you bear
Must carry the can

For the child and the man
Weighed down with the burden of care
Up to my eyes in the shit and surprise
I may as well turn on the fan
Dragged down to the wire

With the depth and desire
I don't know if I could

If I can

You can pool your long faces
Your airs and disgraces
Paste plasterboard smiles
In the dark empty spaces
Fuel up the fires
Of your darkest desires
While hypocrisy hangs
From your steeples and spires

Well I'm sure there's a place in the sun

For people like you
Yes I'm sure there's a place in the sun

For people like you

And I go to the clinic
A terminal cynic
They pass me some pills
For the fine art of mimic
I rake through the bins
For my soul and my sins
Far too few tonics
Too many djinns

But I hope there's a place in the stars

For people like me
Yes I hope there's a place in the stars

For people like me
Oh there must be a place in the stars

For people like me
Shall I pray there's a place in the stars

What's the song about?

Probably the deepest song i ever wrote..Maybe "Shame" on this album and "Stranger" from Liars Edge days are just as deep..

It is a song about two different types of people..Two different ways of "thinking" Almost like Neanderthals and Cro - Magnon..Some people are so "happy" to go and spend their entire lives in jobs they hate - marry people they don;'t love - spend their lives keeping up with the "Jones's" to get that few weeks off in the sun every year where their tan justifies the senslesness of it all..

Others see through it "ALL" and try and find a deeper - more distant - place to relax. Some people breeze through life - they never ask the questions that need to be asked - they never suffer - they just slap on the intellectual sun screen - take themselves off every year to a lovely holiday destination and pretend they are .."Happy". Pretend they have "Seen It All"..They never really travelled..

The true journey of being a human is to travel to the bottom of one's soul..Not many take that journey..Because a lot of them are too SCARED..

So the "place in the stars" is for all those who think beyond the pale..are willing to embrace the hurt that comes with using their intellect above all else.- Seeking the TRUTH and suffering the inevitable side effects of such - re depression - anxiety and related illnesses..As Pink Floyd once wrote a brilliant song "Us And Them"..

You must choose which side you are on..But.."Choose Wisely"