Sinister: the boy with the 'arab strap' and Sleep The Clock Around

[jon g.]

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


>
>>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 Saqúillo 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:

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>Subject: Sinister: 'Sleep The Clock Around' lyrics
>From: Soozy (soozy at xxx.uk)
>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 10:22:09 +0100
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>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
>
>--
>Soozy
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So there you go.  Don't you just love these lyrics?  I do.

Hope this helps,

jon g.
jon.g at btinternet.com - http://surf.to/jongandbethey

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