Name: 04 Monaco
Duration: 5 min 49 s
Channel: Steve Smith
Description: Free MP3 download.

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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.

Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #151

Peak in subgenre #30

Author

Steve Smith

Rights

Steve Smith

Uploaded

December 05, 2019

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.7 MB • 160 kbps • 5:49

Story behind the song

June I got ill, and everything flipped on its head.  It really is all down to a simple roll of the dice.

The beep beep noise is the monitor alarm - your constant companion in ICU.  I'd already finished recording the song when I went back to Derby ICU because they were holding an open day - showcasing what they do.  It was  cathartic to revisit and see what the unit looked like from a visitor's viewpoint.  Then this alarm went off and I was transported right back to my experience on the unit in a shocking flashback.  I recorded the sound and added it to the song - weird how it fits right in.

Lyrics

Finding myself somewhat short of breath
I slipped into a dream
Just your average brush with death
With no obvious suspects at the scene
Eleven days later wehen I came to
I didn't recognise the room
But by your sterilised smile I knew
Just how close I'd come

'Cause you don't have to go to Monaco
To spin that pretty wheel
You don't need that trip to Atlantic City
To lose it all one one last deal
Because every day the dice will roll
How they fall you can't control
But if your number's up
That's all for you
And there ain't a lot you can do

So the miracle workers' magic medicking
Dispensed intensive care
Saving my sorry ass by sticking
Tubes in every Lord knows where
Though I'm grateful for being brought back to life
Still Fate will take Her fee
And life in the wake of the surgeon's knife
Is never quite like it used to be

When you can't swallow
And you can't talk
And you can't stand up
And you can't walk
And you can't eat
And you can't drink
It might not turn out the way you think

Guess you have to play the hand you're given
And not dwell on what might have been
So I resolved to keep on living
Regret's a slippery sin
Don't get choked by disappointment
That way's always a dead end
Just pick the flies out of the ointment
And roll the dice again, my friend

'Cause you don't have to go to Monaco

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DRUMNJON

Feb 13, 2020

ITS AMAZING WHAT WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED!! BEEN THERE..GLAD TO BE HERE!! ROCK ON BROTHER!! WE HEAR YAH!!:):):):):)

davidabriggs

Dec 20, 2019

Wow, I'd heard that you had a brush with the grim reaper a while ago...to have written such a song about it...Respect!

rodrica

Dec 12, 2019

Brilliantly written song about everyone's worst nightmare. I admire the way you can turn this experience into such a great song.