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The protaoanist in this song feels the moon's a balloon only if your name's David Niven (it's the name of his first autobiography). I'd written a poem when I was eighteen about a "used headache afternoon" and "water aching upstream". I remember writing it in Great Junction St, Leith. Now torpor came again: "Waking up in the late afternoon, hazily helicopters ride".
The outro was an attempt at emulating Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones.

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If you see me at my best
Then you see me at my worst
Turning green in my life-vest
Over-satisfied thirst
Waking up in the late afternoon
Hazily helicopters ride
This emptiness could all too soon
Become a little more unjustified

Chorus: You drive me crazy
If I need to be driven
I think I’m too lazy to be forgiven
The moon’s a balloon
If your name’s David Niven
But anyone can surely see
The moon is not that way for me

If you see me get it right
Then you see me get it wrong
In the space of just one single night
Space of just one single song
To the drumming
Of the plumbing you can listen
In the pit of the listlessness hotel
I’ll admit when I try your patience
Sometimes I think I might as well
(Chorus)

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from Speak When I'm Spoken To, released March 7, 2007
Produced by Stevie Jackson. Engineered by Brian McNeill at Gravity.
Guitar - Stevie Jackson, Bill Wright
Bass - Bob Kildea
Drums - Gary Thom
Piano - Ronan Breslin

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British-Canadian pop artist.

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