Single

Written/recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month).

This one was written on Ukulele, (well that opening section was), and built upon that. The tongue in cheek lyric, is somewhat inspired by a friend who has recently become single, and isn’t all that happy about the fact. He’s not actually 45, though I shall be in a few weeks, so that’s a thing.

It also is, of course, driven by the fact that the phrase “Seven Inch Single” makes me snigger. I am obviously 44 going on 15.

Single, 45
a Perfect pop song
3 minutes and he’s done

Single, 7 inch
Pretty impressive when you think about it

A faded picture sleeve
But it’s the music that matters so I’d like to believe
But it still makes you move
From the needle drop to the run out groove

Single, 78
Perhaps past it’s sell by date
But still willing (and able) to take the stage
Is a classic, or a relic from an earlier

The label’s long gone
But it’s a song he keeps spinning
And we all sing along
If it still makes you dance
From the backing track
It can’t all be bad

Got his hooks in you
Which just keep on repeating the same four bar loop
Like a nasty scratch
It never gets to the end
It just keeps coming
(keeps coming, keeps coming)
Back

Single

From a singles band
to a single man