Sometimes when I'm alone - like so many times before - I take off all my clothes and I roll on the floor

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This is a gently humorous song about frustration :) The recording was made on a cassette deck in my room at the Elms in Rottingdean, Sussex, England in February 1979 - a house that was once the home of Rudyard Kipling. This for me is a song that just gets better as it gets older :)

Sometimes when I'm alone
Like so many times before
I take off all my clothes
And I roll on the floor
But I'm not crazy - no
I'm just getting nowhere with you

And friends come around
There should be joy in the air
But I'm standing in the corner
With a vacant stare
But I'm not stoned - no no
I'm just getting nowhere with you

Well I'm banging my head on that old brick wall
Just hoping and praying that someday it'll fall
And if my brains shatter
It really wouldn't matter at all

Night-time comes
And I need a little rest
So I lie down on my bed
Cause that's the place I like the best
But I don't sleep - no no
I just get nowhere with you

Oh I'm banging my head on that old brick wall
Just hoping and praying that someday it'll fall
And if my brains shatter
It really wouldn't matter at all - ooo

Night-time comes
I need a little rest
So I lie down on my bed
Cause that's the place I like the best
But I don't sleep - no no no no
I just get nowhere with you!