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When I Was Good

by Luxury Car

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1.
Hit By A Car 02:26
I was hit by a car Hit me hard I went far Stunned I stumbled to find my way Tried to speak but nothing I could say I was stabbed in the heart And it stopped they had to restart Crane lowering me into flames I clung tight to the reins Now fresh blood flows in my veins Now every waking moment’s a joy My joy is unalloyed Secret nature is unfurled And I’m on another world Don’t bring your tears around ‘Cause I just can’t come down Love has been renewed A new chance to prove Squandered love’s love without you.
2.
In your good there’s no conceit I’ve got this new protective streak They say silly thing you’ve cut short your youth But we’re alright and there is a proof In discrete packets of love Come from round and above Leaves a breath of itself in the air Just enough for us to share We’re the living breathing example Of what can happen if you’re not careful But I don’t mind cause I love my life I wait in the park for you to run through the knife And the lord gave us everything that we need There’s nothing I think that could bring us from here Except for vanity and greed Abandoned all to seek my glory I travelled the burning path away It wandered years through loneliness Then brought me back to what was best But doubts creep in as I approach Am I just back because I failed? Is every bridge beyond repair?
3.
Too many dreams that I forgot Come back to me at four o’clock A dread beneath a dream veneer If you’re so good why hurt me here? I tried to stop eating but that’s just fleeting I thought you appeared when you came to me Then I heard accounts of your history Steaming I schemed to make a scene Just threw some beer for me to clean I walked out in despair to end up there I saw her and let go of your hand Too many dreams that I forgot Come back to me at four o’clock A dread beneath a dream veneer If you’re so good why hurt me here? I play the guitar and I’ve never done a day’s work These clothes are bought from my mother’s hard earned She cooks and cleans while I’m under her feet I love your eyes because there sad and wide Come beside
4.
Here’s to the drivers and we thank them every time When in your fancy town I’d leave my life behind And nothing was too small to please a love of mine I was human perfection - obsessed, agitated, so hungry Brilliantly selfish I could let you down so easily And nothing was too small to please a love of mine When I was good And I could concentrate on one thing at a time When I was good And I could drink a beer and sleep for a whole night Revellers take o’er my street Bombs couldn’t disturb your sleep I listen to their songs as they retreat And I was justified without being employed When I was good And I could filter all of life derive the joy When I was good And we could go to bed without getting destroyed Revellers take o’er my street Bombs couldn’t disturb your sleep I listen to their songs as they We’re shadows of our former selves And we’re wiser and we tell ourselves We’re but ghosts of our former selves And we’re better as we kid ourselves
5.
RTZ 03:45
A comrade saw my eyes, asked are you ok? And through my absent mind goes your troubled eyes Tears I can’t dry, hands not to hold It hurts that I can’t help you but you told me to go And the perverted will is obeyed, I’ll never see you again.
6.
Hinderland 06:23
Valued for your influence but you know it’s you who was And summer inside well what’s to do but call on one of the boys Soil starts to spill There might be nothing beyond those hills Calls to taunt echo round As your soft walls come down On the halfwit young sir Trusting eyes glaze over Run escape across the clay Under my coat beneath the frame the old sink is full In three days I’ll be myself again and you know we can be cruel Soil starts to spill there might be nothing beyond those hills How far are those hills? There might be nothing beyond those hills.
7.
Shame 04:52
It made its way into my cave Here it found a resting place I went to the roof to hide a sore truth And danced away the day And a fallen dame asked what’s its name? Oh it’s shame, shame, shame You can bar the door to the school Venerate the town fools Pipe in pipe dreams into the schemes Sponsor your friends to fail But no campaign can match the blame Heaped on shame, shame, shame Come steal away with me to the room And corner me there let us break the rule Braced for love’s declaration Lovers of life stand in file You must honour your station They’ll only cry for a while There are things you can say There are things you mustn’t say A natural born boundary even in families It’s a fraudulent claim It’s a life long game Call it shame, shame, shame Come steal away with me to the room And corner me there let us break the rule Braced for love’s declaration Lovers of life stand in file You must honour your station They’ll only cry for a while

about

The second album by Luxury Car.

Luxury Car is John Robertson.

You can read and listen to more at www.idriveluxurycars.co.uk
Released on Biphonic Records www.biphonic.co.uk

All songs by Robertson. C and P Biphonic Records 2010. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.

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released February 27, 2011

John Robertson: guitars, keyboards, vocals
Kieran Heather: bass

All songs by John Robertson
Engineered and produced by William Robertson
Mastered by Denis Blackham www.skyemastering.com
Photograph by Jannica Honey www.jannicahoney.com
Design by Daniel Warren www.danielwarren.tv

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Luxury Car Edinburgh, UK

'Evokes an Angelo Badalamenti score left to deteriorate in the rain.' The Skinny

'Like a lost electronic album from 1980 produced by a seer looking 30 years into the future.' The Herald

'A carefully orchestrated, lovingly crafted record.' Drowned in Sound
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