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Opening Titles
00:56
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hello and welcome to today's presentation, the new long playing album by Claire Welles called Fluke, brought to you in both analogue and digital formats depending on your chosen listening device, as prescribed to you by your local council.
it is strongly recommended that you listen to the following program using headphones, opiates and hallucinogenic drugs
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Energy
04:11
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you've got so much energy
to burn off today
let me help you burn it off
in an unfamiliar way
oh behave, they can say
but i'm gonna let you off anyway
when you're near i'm ok
when you're not i feel so strange
you've got so much energy
to burn off today
you can ride a bicycle
or you can ride me all day
turn the page, feel enraged
so much better to just fade away
act your age, oh behave
when you're near i feel ok
i've got so much energy
to burn off today
no amount of exercise
will ever change my way
i have drank a lot tonight
and i've forgotten what i meant to say
when you're near i'm ok
when you're not i feel so strange
you've got so much energy
to burn off today
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Mogadon
04:07
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spent so much time thinking of something
i can't tell you, wont look at me the same way
words rain down beyond the front garden
i see them fall like people from a building
i've got a ceiling, ive got central heating
you'll have it too whenever you stop scheming
so enough of your wailing, just keep inhaling
got mogadon
i have bad thoughts every morning
every night, try as i might
spent 40 years making up the numbers
i'm comfortable with my role in society
i've got a ceiling, ive got central heating
you'll have it too whenever you stop scheming
so enough of your wailing, just keep inhaling
got mogadon
the coffee's going cold and the radios off
stare at some grass til my brains going soft
sitting in the park with my back to the sun
nothing to be done, waiting in the sun
i'll wait in the sun, wait in the sun
nothing to be done, I'll wait in the sun
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President
02:22
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everytime i go to bed i dream about the president
everytime i close my head i remember everything
i concentrate on his eyes
like i'm an idiot spy
everytime i go to bed i dream about the president
everytime i wash my hair i forget about everything
i forget all the sex
forget to clean my specs
everytime i go to bed i dream about the president
waking up and half past 6 to find myself soaking wet
were a match made in heaven
even though he was born in 1947
everytime i go to bed i dream about the president
everytime i go to bed i dream about the president
cos everytime i go to bed i read about him...
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Man Ray
03:20
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man ray, what would you say?
i've been wikipedia-ing you all day
pure filth on a roll of film
you can't get away with anything nowadays
we live in very boring times
and yet we always wonder why
i can't look you in the eye
man ray, what would you make
of the new technology we crave?
would you send it away on a long holiday
there's so much variety in change
we live in very boring times
and yet we always wonder why
i can't look you in the eye
man ray, what would you say
if the entire world turned out to be gay?
would you give me a kiss, could you live through this?
i've been thinking out loud today
we live in very boring times
and yet we always wonder why
i can't look you in the eye
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Fish & Chips
04:00
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sweep the hair out of your eye
give away another smile
you've had enough of everyone
read the news, it gets you down
now your doing yoga secretly
your terrified of 5G
so you head back home out in the sticks
living on a diet of fish and chips
left your job in manchester
but that's ok cos you were only a cleaner
your looking older everyday
and all your friends have gone away
now your doing yoga secretly
your terrified of 5G
so you head back home out in the sticks
living on a diet of fish and chips
say you've been vegan since 2013
cos the working classes are eating meat
your dyeing your hair cos you're going grey
and none of your bandmates are getting paid
now your doing yoga secretly
your terrified of 5G
so you head back home out in the sticks
living on a diet of fish and chips
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Halloween '93
03:32
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wandered around in an older place
it was a stranger place in my head
noticed the signs had been erased
this was a special place in it's time
none of the people knew my face
and nobody paid any mind
felt like a dog in a cat shelter
out of place and out of line
got on the train from a younger place
it's the kind of place you can hide
none of my friends will travel north
because they're all afraid for their lives
but none of the people knew my face
and nobody paid any mind
felt like a dog off it's lead
and now i play with fire
well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong
it didn't last very long
well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong
halloween, oh halloween
eggs and flour on a window screen
we were delinquents, we were wrecks
but we didn't care cos we were only kids
all of the people knew our faces
and we were given hell
felt like a dog that had been put down
and unwanted gift around town
well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong
it didn't last very long
well i dreamt this song and it came out wrong
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Radio Jingle
00:22
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The Future
02:31
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the future's scary, i know
its closer with every blow
and you dont need to make any plans
cos today is out of your hands
i think we are due for a war
more expensive than ever before
the east and the west and the north and the south
they're all against the law
ive forgiven yesterday
for burying itself in the rubble
let the bodycount rise, let it double
we were just beginning to accept ourselves
i think we are due for a war
more expensive than ever before
the east and the west and the north and the south
lined up against a wall
the future's scary, i know
and it's closer with every blow
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Reticence
03:46
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when i painted the picture
my brain was shot
couldn't look in the mirror
cos it hurt a lot
then i puked in the corner
coming up on a pill
felt just like a teenager
i felt very ill
some people have children
to fill up their time
some people take substances
to get out of their mind
so i puked in the corner
coming up on a pill
felt just like a teenager
i felt very ill
i hid in a room
til i was 22
left the door wide open
for you to come on through
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Council
03:40
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didn't go to the old shops today
cos they had gone away, they had gone away
didn't go to my old house today
cos it wasn't there, yeah it wasn't there
i made a fool of myself at the council
i made a fool of myself at the council
didn't go to my old school today
cos im the wrong age and it had gone away
didn't go to the boozer on the corner
cos you weren't there, you were never there
i made a fool of myself at the council
i made a fool of myself at the council
flasks of tea at 4am
life is heaven when you're only 10
jumping around in the back of a transit van
i made a fool of myself at the council
i made a fool of myself at the council
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Housewife
04:48
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i don't call anyone
by their nickname
and if you're thinking of knocking on the door
i'd sooner you stayed away
my nephew is on all the drugs
he gets them on the darkweb
i've asked him for some valium
though he hasn't got back to me yet
i've got scars on all my arms
from when i used to hurt myself
when i save enough money i'll buy
a tattoo big enough to blot them out
when i first got pregnant i found
the attention was quite embarrassing
and now i've been pregnant 5 more times
it's an addiction that's quite menacing
after everyone leaves i'm left with the mess
i'm happy to tie up the loose ends
it's all a matter of sweet routine
and i don't wish that i was dead
the television is so bright and colourful
it keeps me company during the daytime hours
the adverts reflect my personality
i'm really quite happy inside this bubble
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Away Days
04:23
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walking away from you on Tuesday night
no-one is around and there's not a single light
it's incredibly cold right now but i don't mind
it won't be long until i'm out of your sight
cos when im alone
i waste all my time
playing silly games
painting silly lies
and when i get older
i'll remain the same
away days
walking towards you on a Thursday night
no-one is around and there's not a single light
it's getting warmer now and i dont mind
it won't be long til i'm back inside
and when im alone
i waste all my time
playing silly games
painting silly lies
and when i get older
i'll remain the same
away days
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Kissed
02:27
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i kissed your head and said goodbye
why did you have to die?
why did you have to die?
i whispered something in your ear
trying not to cry
trying not to cry
an embryo, a new idea
a brand new life
a brand new life
i kiss your face and say goodbye
why did you have to die?
why did you have to die?
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Claire Welles Liverpool, UK
One of Liverpool’s finest underground provocateurs. Fiercely singular in her approach to music yet with a musical nous you
simply can’t teach.
A long history of recording music, Claire has straddled almost every musical styling yet imbues her music with a rich melodic tendency which makes her experimental pop ease into your being over time. If you let it.
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