Lightyear

200 Kebab Shops

Lightyear


Scarred Elbows and a Brain 
A Lot Less Pungent But Eventually It Smells the Same 
Of Out-of-date Normality 
A Best Before Performance Which I Needed 
It's a Drug Technically 
Get In, Load In, Load Out 
We Argue, We Shout 
Some Lyrics, Attention That We Should Pay

We Don't Speak Enough 
I Struggle to Say

Ten Hours Sitting in a Van 
Would Probably Even Turn 
Noam Chomsky's Brain to Spam 
(Deterring Democracy)

Two Hundred Pubs 
Two Hundred Kebab Shops 
(It's Doing My Fucking Head In) 
Two Hundred Pubs 
Two Hundred Kebab Shops 
(I'm a Gold Bullion With Lead In) 
Bring Me Ben Lee, a Bit of Dry Ground 
Three Sixty Flips Which I Lost Then Found 
Bring Me Some Strings and Maybe Two Tins 
A Cheap Talkplan But Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings

I Realise I've 
Been Priveleged 
To Lead This Life 
Although I Need New Shoes 
So Sometimes My Feet Itch and My 
Council of Elrond Tells Me to Try Something New 
Terribly Sorry Bob You Can't Take Bad Karma 
My Self Abused 
Or My Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 
I'm Afraid You Won't Leave With 
Something to Remember Me By

Two Hundred Pubs 
Two Hundred Kebab Shops 
(It's Doing My Fucking Head In) 
Two Hundred Pubs 
Two Hundred Kebab Shops 
(I'm a Gold Bullion With Lead In) 
Bring Me Ben Lee, a Bit of Dry Ground 
Three Sixty Flips Which I Lost Then Found 
Bring Me Some Strings and Maybe Two Tins 
A Cheap Talkplan But Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
Not Too Many Rings 
(Not Too Many Rings)

"well Yeah, I Find This Really Hard to Do. I Love Being in a Band, There's 
Nothing Like Performing and Playing Live, and Meeting People; But 
Sometimes It All Gets a Bit Too Much. There Are a Few Months Where 
You're Surviving On Three Pounds a Day, Which Is Three Portions of 
Chips and Whatever We Can Steal Off the Big Headline Band. I'm 
Spending That Much Time in a Van With Other People, It's a Bit of a 
Headfuck to Say the Least. the Point of This Song Was to Say That As 
Well As Seeing Hundreds of Venues Last Year, We Also Saw Hundreds of 
Kebab Shops; and That Touring Can Be Very Mentally and Physically 
Tiring. It's Weird - Normally On Tour After a Few Weeks I'm So Tired I 
Become a Zombie, Get Loose in the Village and Talk to Anyone. I 
Consider Myself to Love Communicating With People, But I Hate the Way 
That I Develop This Psychosis. I Try, But Shit Just Comes Out Which Has 
Absolutely no Conviction Whatsoever. I Think That People Think We're 
Making Loads of Money Because We're in a Band, and I Know I Might 
Sound Like a Cunt But Don't Ask Me to Buy You a Beer 'cause I'm "in 
The Band", 'cause I'm Skint; But I'll Happily Steal One From Opm If You 
Want. This Is a Complete Ramble By the Way, and I Think That When 
Household Name Hear This, They'll Be Like "what the Fuck Is Chas 
Doing?" But I Would Like to Say Thank You For Coming to All Our Shows; 
I Really Just Don't Understand How the Band Got From Playing in Jim's 
Garage While I Was Singing Down a Headphone On a Bamboo Pole in 
Front of Two Viewers, Jim's Dog and His Sisters, to Playing to the 
Thousands of People... I'm Writing This Five Minutes Before We do the 
Recording. I'm So Sad."