Bedroom Recording

Hey, it happened to White Town --
they made number one with their single,
it went straight from their bedroom to the nation
and Bis unsigned played Top of the Pops.
So don't rile me about lo-fi groups.
I'm a believer in self-production.

Don't beef me about my production,
it's not my fault that I live in a crap town
with the highest unemployment rate in the nation,
the world's highest suicide rate for single
males, the world's third highest suicide rate for all female groups,
and one HMV. And the clubs all Mums and Pops.

They thought I was a pop group,
they asked if I knew "One Nation
Under a Groove" and all these singles
from the 70s, disco productions.
It's like that all over town.
The youth club said I made their eardrums pop.

I can hardly wait to tour the nation
just to get out of town,
back up a band with massive production,
never mind being on Top of the Pops,
play dates and meet tons of single
girls, get ripped on whole groups

of pharmaceuticals, have more than a single
gig stopped by the cops, spray paint "Stuff Top of the Pops!"
on bathroom walls, get thrown out of West End productions
and hotels for stripping naked in groups
and showing my butt to the nation.
Then I'd be appreciated by this town.

Stitch Brit Pop, Pogo Pop, and Kandy Pop,
I have an agenda, which is more than most groups.
I've already pushed the boundaries of this town.
I'm not going to change just to sell more singles.
And just wait till I get four-track production,
I'll throw every record company in the nation.

I'll be a supergroup in one with millennium production,
a superhero for the punk-pop nation.
And best of all, this town will stop asking why I'm single.

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