Nearest Thing to Hip

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The Waterboys

The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England. Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Spiddal, New York, and Findhorn have all served as homes for the group. The band has played in a number of different styles, but their music is a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll. After ten years of recording and touring, they dissolved in 1993 and Scott pursued a solo career. They reformed in 2000, and continue to release albums and tour worldwide. Scott emphasizes a continuity between The Waterboys and his solo work, saying that "To me there's no difference between Mike Scott and the Waterboys; they both mean the same thing. They mean myself and whoever… more »


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2015
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There used to be a café a few blocks away,
Open seven days, called The Brilliant Mistake
Where a crow-haired girl with scarlet lips 
And slender hips served up coffee and cake
On a crackling stereo the ghosts of Sun Ra,
Charlie Parker, Miles and Coltrane blew
I’d kick back in my chair, that sweet honey’d jazz
In the air, the sun shining through

It was the nearest thing to hip
It was the nearest thing to hip
In this shithole and it’s gone

Everywhere that I go I see streets that are low
On distinction and high on the banal and the bland
How did we get to this? We plumbed the abyss
By the twisted grace of the law of supply and demand
Well, there’s no use crying and no use sighing over
Stone, wood, wire, glass and cement
But there’s a little record store with a wooden floor
That ain’t there no more that I used to frequent

It was the nearest thing to hip
In was the nearest thing to hip
In this shithole and it’s gone

Now I need to get out of this hullabaloo
And I remember an old-fashioned old bar I once knew
With an old-fashioned barman wearing old-fashioned clothes
But when I get there it’s been bulldozed

So I follow my nose down Comatose Lane
Through the stripped back, ripped up wastes
Of Woebegone Square
Till I find myself on Deadbeat Street,
Feet beginning to ache, despair in the air
The only thing bright in this blighted town
Are the billboard adverts everywhere displayed
Like mocking shades
And the musty, dusty second-hand bookstore
Is now a scum-encrusted amusement arcade

It was the nearest thing to hip
It was the nearest thing to hip
In this shithole and it’s gone

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Written by: JAMES MADDOCK, MIKE SCOTT

Lyrics © Global Talent Publishing, BMG Rights Management

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