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Ticking Over

from You Get What You Deserve by Big Ray

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Very 'Kinks' this one - and there’s nothing much wrong with that, Vicar! I think the long ending was Paul's idea - something to do with a Beatles track. The reference to lan Hunter in the middle bit is just because. The stuff about 'The Wonder’ is from a James Ellroy novel (one of the Lloyd Hopkins stories) - it just seemed right for the song, don’t ask me why. I suppose the song’s all about walking the streets on a cold, frosty night and getting a buzz from just being alive.

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TICKING OVER
(Wenn/Ruscoe)

Andy and Helen have been out burning rubber
Now he's driving her home.
She's warm and cozy, cheeks flushing rosy.
He's got the radio on.
The grease from her chip bag has ruined her skirt.
It cost her a bomb.
But she doesn't care.
She's too much in love.
She'll steal another one next week.

And they're ticking over.
The way you do.
They're just ticking over.
The way you do.

She's painting the ceiling at a quarter past midnight.
They only moved in last week.
The neighbours seem nice enough to her,
But the mortgage is steep.
He makes her a coffee, talks to her softly
Because they both like it hot and sweet.
"We're going to be happy: you and I."
And then he follows her upstairs.

(Ian Hunter - The Wonder)

Watching the T.V. news at tea-time, she's had a hard day.
It's all cover-ups rape, war an famine or the IRA
She switches the channel over and asks him,
"What did you do today?
How was the office and how are the kids?
And did get you get an appointment?"

Walking the streets at night.
Breathing in frost, touching the wonder.
Footsteps and street-lights buzzing.
Don't say this is nothing.
This is the wonder...

credits

from You Get What You Deserve, released January 9, 1999
ED - Lead and backing vocals, holding it down on electric and acoustic guitar
JOHN - Backing vocal, feedback and the difficult guitar bits
PAUL - Bass and feedback guitars
READO - Drums, backing vocal and lpswich Town supporter
RANDY - Feedback guitar and backing vocal

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Big Ray London, UK

Big Ray has been around in various incarnations since 1991 lurching from 'full time band' to 'state of mind' & all flavours in-between. The personnel shifts & expands, but centres around Ed Wenn & 2 or 3 close friends. The musical starting point has remained constant; a mix of The Who, The Kinks, Big Star, CSNY & Steve Earle layered over a punk rock sensibility & attitude. ... more

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