Guitarists From England

"The future's mine and it's no disgrace, cos in the end the past means nothing. I feel a little down today, and I ain't got much to say And if I stumble, catch me when I fall / 'Cause, baby, after all / You'll never forget my name."

"Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday / I've got a lot of things to learn What's the matter with you? / Sing me something new The cold and wind and rain don't know / They only seem to come, and go away Stand by me / Nobody knows the way it's going to be There is one thing I can never give you / My heart will never be your home""

"I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine."

"Round this town you've ceased to be / That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy Guess who's gonna take the blame for my big mouth Into my big mouth / You could fly a plane""

"I met my maker / I made him cry / And on my shoulder / He asked me why / His people won't fly / Through the storm / I said listen up man, they don't even know you're born All my people / Right here, right now / D'you know what I mean? Coming in a mess / Going out in style / I ain't good looking / But I'm someone's child No one can give me the air that's mine to breathe""

"How many special people change? / How many lives are living strange? / Where were you while we were getting high? People believe that they're gonna get away for the summer/ But you and I/ We live and die/ The world still spins around we don't know why. Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide / In a champagne supernova in the sky.""

"She's got a sister / God only knows how I missed her / And on the palm of her hand is a blister She's got a brother / We don't get on with one another / But I quite fancy her mother / And I think that she likes me She's got one in the oven / But it's nothing to do with me""

"All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade""

"Here's a thought for every man who's tried to understand what's in his hands Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say / Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay / As he faced the sun, he cast no shadow. As they took his soul they stole his pride""

"Some might say that sunshine follows thunder / Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine / Some might say that we should never ponder / On our thoughts today 'cos they hold sway over time Some might say / We will find a brighter day Some might say they don't believe in heaven / Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell" *"

"I took a walk with my fame down memory lane / I never did find my way back" Feel no shame / 'coz time's no chain""

"Slip inside the eye of your mind / don't you know you might find / A better place to play So I'll start a revolution from my bed / Because you said the brains I had went to my head. Please don't put you're life in the hands / Of a rock 'n' roll band / Who'll throw it all away""

"I don't believe that anybody / Feels the way I do / About you now All the roads that lead you there are winding / And all the lights that light the way are blinding There are many things that I would like to say to you / But I don't know how. Maybe / You're gonna be the one that saves me""

"You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way""

"I hate the way that you are so sarcastic, and you're not very bright. You think that everything you've done's fantastic, your music's shite it keeps me up all night. And it will be nice to be alone, for a week or two, but I know then I will be right, right back here with you""

"I dream of you / And all the things you say / I wonder where you are now I need you now / You've knocked me off my feet We talk of going old / But you say "Please don't Let me be the one / Who shines with you / In the morning / We don't know what to do""

"I was looking for some action / but all I found was cigarettes and alcohol Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for? You might as well do the white line""

"These could be the best days of our lives / but I don't think we've been living very wise.""

"You're the outcast / You're the underclass / But you don't care / Because you're living fast You're the uninvited guest that stays to the end. I'll be scraping your life from the sole of my shoe tonight" Bring It On Down"

"I need to be myself / I can't be no-one else "You can have it all but how much do you want it?""

"There we were / Now here we are / All this confusion / Nothing's the same to me I can't tell you the way I feel / because the way I feel is also new to me""

"Tell me how high / Do you think you'll go / Before you start falling?" The people here / They don't hear you calling How does it feel / When you're inside me?""

""Maybe you're the same as me / We see things they'll never see / You and I are gonna live forever."

"I live my life in the city / There's no easy way out / The day's moving just too fast for me" I live my life for the stars that shine/People say it's just a waste of time. In my mind my dreams are real You're not down with who I am / look at you now, you're all in my hands tonight""

"Twitter is the playground of fucking idiots .... quite literally I’d put the pair of them [Donald Trump and Liam Gallagher] in a driverless car each so they crash into each other."

"Fuck Jeremy Corbyn. He's a communist."

"Do I think we should leave [the EU]? I don't think we should be given a vote. I see politicians on TV every night telling us that this is a fucking momentous decision that could fucking change Britain forever and blah, blah, blah. It's like, okay, why don't you fucking do what we pay you to do which is run the fucking country and make your fucking mind up. What are you asking the people for? 99 percent of the people are thick as pig shit. They didn't fucking ask us for a referendum when they were going off to war, did they? No, fucking assholes."

"The music industry doesn't like mavericks. The reason why there are no bands now is because in the 90s Oasis and Primal Scream, Blur, and all those... (bands)-- we were the mainstream. And what the music industry doesn't like is the mainstream being a load of fellas on drugs, drunk half the time on a Tuesday. They don't like that. They like people like Harry Styles. (Where they can) say, Wear this dress and shut it. Wear this, sing that, go home. And that's kinda what happened."

"Another reason to vote Labour is if you fucking don't and the Conservatives get in, Phil Collins is threatening to come back and live here, and let's face it none of us want that."

"People hate fucking cunts like Phil Collins, and if they don't, they fucking should!"

"If there were gold medals for taking drugs for England then I’d have won a shitload! I did enjoy it but it kind of got to the point where I’d done them all and that was it, there was none left and I just thought 'Can’t be arsed any more.’"

"Jack White, right, has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like Zorro on doughnuts. He's supposed to be the poster boy for the alternative way of thinking... I'm not having that, that's fucking wrong. Particularly Coca-Cola, it's like doing a fucking gig for McDonald's.""

"He's now trying to make social comment, this is the guy who hid who he actually was from the public for 20 years. Now, all of a sudden, he's got something to say about the way of the world. I find it laughable. That's even before you get to the song, which is diabolical."

"I don't know, I think he's just going senile, isn't he?"

"There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material."

"And now we rise And we are everywhere."

"Even if you’d never heard of Nick Drake, his music would tell you everything you needed to know. The tragic singer-songwriter was in possession of a singular vision and dedication to his art that produced some of the most affecting acoustic music ever recorded. Drake’s melancholy moods and labyrinthine tunings twisted longstanding English folk traditions into mesmerising new shapes. Never a note out of place, and never a song that didn’t need to be sung."

"Since Nick Drake's death, his eerie, jazz-tinged folk music has had an ever-growing cult following."

"Don't be shy you learn to fly. And see the sun when day is done. If only you see Just what you are beneath a star That came to stay one rainy day In autumn for free. Yes, be what you'll be."

"And I was strong, strong in the sun I thought I'd see when day is done. Now I'm weaker than the palest blue Oh, so weak in the need for you."

"Saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink moon's gonna get ye all."

"Would you love me for my money? Would you love me for my head? Would you love me through the winter? Would you love me 'til I'm dead? Oh, if you would and you could, Come blow your horn on high."

"I never felt magic crazy as this, Never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea, I never held emotion in the palm of my hand, Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree, But now you're here. Brighten my northern sky."

"Going to see the river man. Going to tell him all I can About the ban On feeling free.If he tells me all he knows About the way his river flows, I don't suppose It's meant for me."

"Have you seen the land living by the breeze? Can you understand the lights upon the trees? Tell me all that you may know Show me what you have to show Tell us all today if you know the way to blue..."

"When the day is done, Down to earth then sinks the sun, Along with everything that was lost and won, When the day is done."

"Fame is but a fruit tree: So very unsound. It can never flourish Till its stalk is in the ground. So men of fame Can never find a way Till time has flown Far from their dying day. Forgotten while you're here, Remembered for a while. A much updated ruin From a much outdated style."

"Life is but a memory, Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. Seems so easy Just to let it go on by Till you stop and wonder Why you never wondered why."

"Safe in the womb of an everlasting night, You find the darkness can give the brightest light. Safe in your place deep in the earth, That's when they'll know what you were really worth."

"And what will happen in the morning when the world it gets So crowded that you can't look out the window in the morning?"