-----Original Message----- From: Nick Dastoor <nickdastoor@yahoo.com> To: sinister@majordomo.net <sinister@majordomo.net> Date: 16 July 1998 17:25 Subject: Re: Sinister: jeepster-news: belle and sebastian album title confirmed

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the title of the album is "The Boy With The Arab Strap"

I love it. Stuart gets his dirty album title fetish out his system at last.

Naive, sweet little jon doesn't know what an Arab Strap is (although he does know the band). Can anyone inform him without being too crude? Mr. Jose Maria Saq�illo wrote:

I want to ask you something. would you please to write the lyrics of "Sleep the clock around" for me? My ssesions tape have a poor quality and it's hard to understand all the words.

Well, a search in the archives ages ago found this:

------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Sinister: 'Sleep The Clock Around' lyrics From: Soozy (soozy@verulamium.demon.co.uk) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:22:09 +0100 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Here you go... copied word for word from the back of a setlist (I knew there was a reason I nicked that!) ---------------------- Sleep the Clock Around And the moment will come when composure returns Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall And you walk twenty yards with your head in the air Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way And for once in your life you have nothing to say And could this be the time when somebody will come To say "Look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone"

Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill Read the letter you got from the memory girl But it takes more than this to make sense of the day Yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste And you trusted to this, and you trusted to that And when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag Of the United States of Calamity, hey! After all that you've done, I am sure you're going to pay

In the morning you come to the ladies salon To get all fitted out for the Paperback Throne But the people are living far away from the place Where you wanted to help, its a bit of a waste And the puzzle will last till somebody will say "There's a lot to be done while your head is still young" If you put down your pen leave the trouble behind Then the moment will come, and the memory wil shine

Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came Then you go to the place where you've finally found You can look at yourself, sleep the clock around

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So there you go. Don't you just love these lyrics? I do. Hope this helps, jon g. jon.g@btinternet.com - http://surf.to/jongandbethey ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------