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The Love Colin Sessions

by Dogtail Soup

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1.
_____________________________________________________ Too Many Times [Colin Vearncombe] There’ve been too many times When I never said what was on my mind How was I to know you’d go so soon? Your God will come to take you home Leaving me stumbling over These stupid lines on a shabby page Daddy, sometimes I’m filled with rage – I lost the only thing that was really mine So Daddy, can you hear me? Oh Daddy, do I still make you laugh? And I know just what you’d say Is this really the time and place? To say all of those things that we never said There’ve been too many times When my head was filled with stupid pride I hope you’re laughing now that all these words have been set aside Oh Daddy, can you hear me? Oh Daddy, do I still make you laugh? And I know just what you’d say Is this really the time and place? To say all of those things that we never said It seems so long since I saw you Yet it seems like yesterday There’s no need to make amends for I look on us as friends Oh Daddy can you hear me? Oh daddy do I still make you laugh?
2.
______________________________________________________ If Not You Then Who? [Colin Vearncombe] who pulled me clear and free from the wreckage as i drew near to spinning in freefall out of view? who laughs through the tears and stands in the wreckage scoring fear and makes the good times seem overdue who if not you tell me who if not you? who’s like a dream that moves into places stretched between the centuries sleeping when they’re gone and never seems tired still facing down headlights while you’re wired out running and smiling in the rain? the first time you let someone else come inside the first time you get to feel really alive like the first thing created from a life underrated’s the possible high from impossible why’s throw your hat in the air like you saw on tv a prisoner released, nineteen fifty three the struggle’s unfinished the struggle goes on the struggle is everything why not have it as fun?
3.
Two Churches 06:51
___________________________________________________ Two Churches [Colin Vearncombe] Born in nineteen sixty two Born with eyes of a distant blue Good luck charm was number one and playing on the radio Now I’m about ready to lose myself I’m about ready to kiss and tell, Give up all that I think I know Shed my skin and be ready to go through changes I’m in no rush you can take your time Show me yours and I’ll show you mine Men’ll fuck mud and then call it love, A joke salami in a latex glove More than a little mixed up when God begins to speak Through changes When I have to go before St Peter I’ll knock on his neon door and say Look at what came to be my journey Between two churches It’s like I came to a fork in the road Four roads running only one of them known Fell to my knees as if I was pushed Love may come but it won’t be rushed by trying to run and stop from choosing The changes So when I have to go before St Peter I’ll knock on his neon door and say Look at what came to be my journey Between two churches
4.
_______________________________________________ What Makes a Fool [Colin Vearncombe] If I had more than this to give I’d probably do what you’re wanting me to; I’d have you back Though it tore me in two I’m no exception to the rule That makes a fool And if I had more than one life to live I’d probably want what you were hoping I’d got And take you back With no memory of wounds No exception to the rule creates a fool I don’t work it out but here’s my guess You liked me better when you knew me less I was lucky at the tables but when it came to love It seems that Dying young takes all the best And I love you so much I’d be your clothes Where my heart wanders the action follows And as hard as it is to keep from wanting you I’ve got a choice of what will kill me And it won’t be you… What makes a fool?
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_________________________________________________ Don't Take The Silence Too Hard [Colin Vearncombe] All the way from America holding out your hand You pinned your colours to the mast Pinned them high up in the sky Look what you do to me My hands keep thumping waltz in triple time So she wrote All the way from America Arriving just as planned passing through the blocks and alleyways The avenues I’m crying Look what you do to me Look what your tender hands have done this time And I say Don’t take the silence too hard Don’t take the silence too hard Your absence lasts through every passing year Don’t take the silence too hard All the way from America Straining with my eyes to see the hours stretched out before me As I cross the ocean line Look what you do for me My hands are ruby warm and I feel fine And I sail To the home of erotica Pictured on the stand kneel down and pray you take no burdens Out of the Promised Land Into the mystery Your eyes are full of tales of idle hands She says Don’t take the silence too hard Don’t take the silence too hard Your absence lasts through every passing year Don’t take the silence too hard All the way from America Holding out your hand You pinned your colours to the mast Pinned them high up in the sky Look what you do to me My hands keep thumping waltz in triple time Don’t take the silence too hard Don’t take the silence too hard Don’t take the silence too hard Don’t take the silence too hard
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The Wishing 04:06
_________________________________________________ The Wishing [Colin Vearncombe] i should have married nancy it’s five years to the day she said: you face and choose me instead i turned and walked away i did not understand what happened to those plans could have happened to them all the wishing’s not enough to make a dream come true i’m going somewhere don’t know where but the wishing’s not enough wishing’s not enough, wishing’s not enough and it never was i could have been a sailor, the ocean set me free wear my trousers inside out and golden earrings in both ears i’d drift the wide pacific the harbours and the bars making friends of sickness with the dockside whores and stevedores a tattoo on my shirt, the kind that doesn’t hurt: Johnny could have had it all the wishing’s not enough to make a dream come true i’m going somewhere don’t know where but the wishing’s not enough wishing’s not enough, wishing’s not enough and it never was now i’m a stranger to the razor a stranger to myself and when i look in the mirror i see someone sitting on a shelf
7.
Go Home 04:46
_________________________________________________ Go Home [Colin Vearncombe/William Topley] Fake diamond rings on every finger Purple shadows around my eyes I show Americans del norte The best of Paris’s underside I worked the dirt in Oklahoma and ate my crow and humble pie Though I walk through the Latin quarter It’s still a dust bowl in my mind You can’t make me go home When I don’t wanno go! I’ve lived on peanuts for the season Bathtub martinis extra dry Down in the thirteenth arrondissement I waste my money on good times You can’t make me go home Don’t make me go home, I don’t wanna go You can’t make me go home, la la la When I don’t wanna go Fake diamond rings on every finger Purple shadows around my eyes Down in the thirteenth, the fourteenth, the fifteenth arrondissement I waste my money line by line You can’t make me go home Don’t make me go home, I don’t wanna go You can’t make me go home When I don’t wanna go
8.
Famous 03:48
________________________________________________ Famous [Colin Vearncombe/Charlie Dore] I should be a star driving all the girls insane Shower me with oysters, swimming in the best champagne I’d never lift a finger Just be the biggest swinger I, I should be famous Yes, I should be famous Wear the finest clothes, have a brand new nose A chauffeured limousine, Jacuzzi in the back for two A mystery companion, you could be that girl If you can swing it in the fast lane Silk lingerie and cocaine I, I should be famous Oh I, I should be famous I’d say no, no press’ change my mind Say yes and then turn and smile In my own sweet style I’d never lift a finger Just be the biggest swinger I, I should be famous Oh, I should be famous I should be famous
9.
___________________________________________________ Saol Iontach (Wonderful Life) [Colin Vearncombe/Roisin Little] Is Saol Iontach é (véarsa a haon) Seo linn, chun an Fharraige, An ghrian ard sa spéir, Brionglóidí linn san aer. Sciathán na héan, is no shúile geal, Níl sé ceart nó cóir, Ach Is dríocht a stóir. (réamh curfa) Táim i m’aonair Gan chara liom anseo Ag seasamh sa solas geal. (curfa) Imithe uait, ar strae Oh is saol iontach x2 é Ná bíodh brón ort, ceartigh é Oh is saol iontach x2 é (véarsa a dó) Solas i shúil, teas ar do ghruaigh Is fuath leo é a stóir, Mar níl tú ‘maith go lóir’ (reamh versa) Tá chara uaim, oh tá chara uaim. Tabhair leat do síocháin. Táim ag seasamh beag anseo. Táim i m’aonair Gan chara liom anseo Ag seasamh sa solas geal. Imithe uait, ar strae Oh is saol iontach x2 é Ná bíodh brón ort, ceartigh é Oh is saol iontach x2 é (Réamh Versa) (Réamh Curfa) (Curfa x 2) Oh is saol íontach x2 é Oh is saol íontach x2 é

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The Love Colin Sessions were recorded in a bubble of normality during Lockdown in the summer of 2021. They are a celebration of the work of Colin Vearncombe aka Black.
Dogtail Soup, the band Colin formed with Fergus O'Farrell of Interference along with his wife Camilla Griehsel and Maurice Seezer went into studio with nine guest singers to record some of their favourite Vearncombe compositions.
The Love Colin project is an ongoing exercise where various artists get to re-imagine Colin's work in their own distinct style, breathing new life into some beautifully crafted songs and continue to share Colin's music with new audiences.
The Love Colin project can be found on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Spotify, Bandcamp and Twitter. Check out the videos for these songs on YouTube 'Love Colin' and on www.colinvearncombe.com.

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released January 26, 2023

Dogtail Soup - The Love Colin Sessions
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Paul Tiernan - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Mandola
Maurice Seezer - Vocals, Piano, Wurlitzer Organ
Camilla Griehsel - Vocals, Vibes
James O'Leary - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Ebow
John Fitzgerald - Vocals, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Ukulele, Synth
Anthony Noonan - Drums & Percussion

Liam Ó'Maonlaí - Vocals, Piano
Max Vearncombe - Vocals
Ana Kilbride - Vocals
Geraldine Thomas - Vocals
Midé Houlihan - Vocals
Karen Kilbride - Vocals
Mick O'Callaghan - Vocals
Stuart Wilde - Vocals
Roisín Little - Vocals

Recorded for the Love Colin Project by Dave O'Brien in Lettercollum Recording Studio, Timmoleague, West Cork
Mixed by John Fitzgerald, Lettercollum Recording
Mastered by Andy Patterson for Nero Schwarz
Produced by Camilla Griehsel & Steve Baker
Recordings co-ordinated by Marc McDonald.

Written by Colin Vearncombe. Published by BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited.
© 2023 Nero Schwarz Music Limited

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Dogtail Soup Cork, Ireland

'Dogtail Soup’ is an eclectic and flavourful musical stew made by carefully simmering
Camilla Griehsel with Maurice Seezer ,
adding a pinch of Paul Tiernan
a sprinkling of Anthony Noonan, a cupful of John Fitzgerald
and a splash of James O’Leary
Occasional ingredients include Marja Gaynor,
Bertrand Galen and Glen Hansard.
Dogtail Soup are also known as Interference.
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