Main Street

by The Mysterious Fifth Member

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In Jan 2024, we recorded for the first time since the 80's.

Marcus - sayer of more sayings than you could shake a stick at - passed away in 2020, leaving a huge gap. Tony, his best mate and Martyn's brother, invited us all to Anglesey last summer to get together and jam in his studio. We had a blast and went back again to record Main Street.

This is just one of a whole stack of original songs we used to play live in the 80's but we never had the money or the kit to record them then. Hope we can work through them now and get them all down.

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lyrics

Walking down Main Street
Look at the faces
Expressionless cases
Walking down Main Street
And I see no one
That I will ever know

Well I sometimes think
How to see the answer clear
But I always sink
Cos I go ahead
And never get so near

There's nothing I can say
Or ever do
There's nothing I can think
To interest you
I feel so lonely
I wish I could be
All alone
In the middle of Main Street

It's a stupid world
For a cause that's so loud
It gets right through the crowd
It's a dirty world
You could clean it up
But it'd still be just the same

Still walking down Main Street
Still see the faces
All sad cases
Still walking down Main Street
Still see no one
That I will ever know

So you never knew
Just what it was
That would change my
Point of view
But I will always know
That I can say
That I got one over you
Yeah I got one over you

There's nothing I can say
Or ever do
There's nothing I can think
To interest you
I feel so lonely
I wish I could be
All alone
In the middle of Main Street
In the middle of Main Street
In the middle of Main Street
In the middle of Main Street
In the middle of Main Street

credits

released February 24, 2024
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Martyn - guitar and vocals
Steve - vocals and brunch
Julian - guitar and driving
Tony - bass and production
Derek - drums and editing

recorded in Anglesey, Jan 2024

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