The Jazz Butcher
Lyrics
Looking For Lot 49
Lyrics
Looking For Lot 49
You know I'm exactly like everyone else
Sometimes I get sick and sometimes I get tired
Sometimes I turn ugly it's bad for my health
Sometimes I get frantic and think I'm inspired
Well now I try to be useful and I try to do good
I try to do kindness, act like I should
Sometimes I'm downhearted, then far-away friends
Will write me a line, will fire me up, and start me running again. Chorus:Just when I feel like I should be dead and gone"The cold light of day" and "the heat of the night"
You make me want to carry on
Make me wonder if language has turned out quite right
The scene is quite normal: a Saturday morning,
The breakfast in ruins, the newspaper torn
And I'm starting to wish that I'd never been born
When a letter comes in with your handwriting on And Chorus A room full of postcards a room with a view
I stare at the street just for something to do
There's a man on the sidewalk with egg in his hair
He's got hands like Des Nilsen, I don't like his starecelebrated U.K. murdererEverytime I look out of my window he's there
But he's only the postman so what do I care? It's just that I seem to be spending all my time
Looking for Lot 49
Lot 49
Found On
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Fishcotheque
Having ended up on Creation Records, which I took as a bit of a validation, I was keen to get as far away from all those "w" words that had followed my group around. The sessions were chaotic and funny. What disappoints me is that it came out sounding so SMOOTH and tidy. But I like Fishcotheque; I wish there more records as good as it.
The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch
"You're not a band. You're a crack team of international restaurant critics" - Curtis E. Johnson
VA: Doing It For The Kids
Contribution:
Looking For Lot 49
Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-Sides and Seasides
Four CD box set gathering A-sides, the would-be hits along with B-sides, tangential 12-inch tracks (the C-sides), and an excellent session for Los Angeles radio station KCRW from 1989. Includes over a dozen indie chart hits including ‘Southern Mark Smith’, ‘Girl Go’, ‘The Human Jungle’, ‘16 Years’ plus a host of truly eclectic Butcher tunes from his early Glass recordings through his time at Creation.
Live Stats
39 documented performances (click to explore)
1985 |
1 (JBC)
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1987 |
2 (JBC)
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1988 |
10 (JBC)
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1989 |
13 (JBC)
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1990 |
10 (JBC)
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1994 |
1 (JBC)
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2020 |
1 (Pat Solo)
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2021 |
1 (Pat Solo)
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Media
2 Recorded Live Performances
1989-12-09 Roxy Theatre - Los Angeles, USA West Coast '89 Cassette
1988-06-12 Odd Rock Cafe - Milwaukee, USA
Credit: Douglas Buege