With Someone Nice like you - Trev Teasdel

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With Someone Nice Like You

I torture myself, with pent up fears
I brood a lot, I brew tea for one
I ask myself “how come”
How come I just can’t face the pots
I tie myself right up in knots

Chorus
And I long to spend my time
And I long to spend my time
Yes I long to spend my time
With someone nice like you.

I smashed a cup washing up
I burnt the toast
I missed the post
And I ask myself “Whyfore”
Whyfore I haven’t fixed the drafty door
I’m frozen right through to the core

Chorus

And I long to spend my time
And I long to spend my time
Yes I long to spend my time
With someone nice like you.

Oh the nights are cold
Oh the nights are long
All I do, it comes out wrong
I wash my clothes but still they pong
How come I just can’t get it right?
Sadness got me in his long-range sights

To chorus..

Bridge
When I see a lover by your side
I turn my love lights low
Take my part in a melancholy show
Oh I just don’t know
Don’t know how to show I just don’t care
When my feeling set fire to my hair.

To Chorus.

By Trev Teasdel – Coventry 1980

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SONG STORY

I wrote this one in 1980 in repsonse to Tony (Mojo) Morgan asking me to write some songs for his new Ska Band - EMF. Two Tone had broken in Coventry and the world and i'd written lyrics for Tony 10 years before for the Mick Green Blues Band of which he was the bass player.

However by the time I'd finished the songs, Tony had recruited two female singers who came complete with their own material. The band went on to record for RCA and won the Battle of the bands and both sides of their single can be heard here. My demo of this (one of two songs for the band) appeared on Songs from the Coventry Underground in 2007, being a cassette demo in the writing stage.