
The Jazz Butcher
Lyrics
Still & All
Lyrics
Still & All
I'm living in a film
Every day I leave the cameras rolling
And before I get the chance to light a cigarette
The lights come on - Action! - gimme tears
And if I were going to die
You'd be the girl I'd want to die for
Yeah I know that that's not right
But the hanging-on takes all the strength I have Did you think you were doing me a favour girl
It's the strangest kind of failure girl
Hate the guide, drop the pilot, kill the messenger as well Sat outside the erzatz English bar
I knew enough to wish upon a star
I didn't figure on there being no stars where you are
Hadn't realized it had gone that far
And if I were going to die
I know the railway bridge I'd jump from
It's covered in lost causes anyway
I guess we'll never know who wrote them Did you think you were doing me a favour girl
It's the strangest kind of failure girl
Hate the guide, drop the pilot, drown the orchestra as well
Did you think you were doing me a favour girl
It's the strangest kind of failure girl
Hate the guide, love the placement, the Replacements even? No.
I've got a problem with that
I've got the same problem with everything these days
The same problem with everything these days
Still and all...
Still and all...
Still and all
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Condition Blue
For all the pain and crap from which this record was made, the actual sessions were a gigantic and wonderful party. This was warmly received by The Outside World, less popular among those who counted themselves JBC afficionados. This IS the sound of me having fun, and getting me to do that in those dark days of mid-1991 was no small job.
Western Family
For loonie completists only, for sure, though, if you listen through the muck, you'll see that we did our bit.
The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch
"You're not a band. You're a crack team of international restaurant critics" - Curtis E. Johnson
Live Stats
Media
1 Recorded Live Performances
1992-04-26 Cat's Cradle - Chapel Hill, USA
Credit: David Whittemore
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This song saved my life
okschuler[at]-remove-gmail.com - Carol in Lansing
1Dec2021 10:34 PM (1 year 304 days ago)This song kept me going through a truly horrible time in my life.
Also the finest (if not the only) use of "ersatz" in a rock and roll song. -
Still And All
h2ofuego[at]-remove-yahoo.com - Jimmy Duval, Hollywoodland
28Feb2009 9:57 AM (14 years 219 days ago)Your Absolutely Right! I just had a listen and it brought me to tears....
Beautiful, Just Beautiful -
Cat's Cradle 92
plasticsoul2001[at]-remove-hotmail.com - San Gabriel, CA
6Nov2005 2:51 AM (17 years 334 days ago)The live version of this from the Cat's Cradle 1992 (posted here in the audio/video section) is heart wrenchingly beautiful. go listen if you haven't yet