Midnight Sun The phrase conjures up images of some sort of tropical paradise even though it's in the Artic (or Antartic) circle. 12.01 Raising Cain If you ask Alan he'll say it's about when I used to work for Tate & Lyle. Griff Insomniacs on the road! Down on the Farm Boneshaker every band car/van/truck/thing-with-wheels rolled into one.

Midnight Sun (lyrics and music - Eric) Night time comes once again, Its bringing the cold and the rain holes in my shoes don't stop the water, nowhere to go ain't got no shelter as I walk along I crush the ice, but my feet take me to paradise I'm heading for my promised land, and one day soon I'll be walking barefoot on the sand 'cos I heard of a place where the sun don't go down, if I knew where it was then I'd be gone yeah I heard of a place where the sun don't go down, if I knew where it was then I'd be gone to the land of the midnight sun now it's daytime once again, yeah it could be like this all the time it's getting warm the sun is high, getting warmer as the day goes by well I'm going to emigrate yeah, gonna leave before it gets too late you know I'm gonna warm my bones, if I find this place before the night time comes Song list

12.01 (lyrics and music - Eric) Well I told you baby, yeah I told you baby back in '99 that one day soon, I wouldn't be your man, I wouldn't be your man and I told you baby, just yesterday that come tomorrow I would be on my way, I would be on my way well I said tomorrow, but that was yesterday just one more minute, and I'll be on my way, yeah I'll be on my way I've got to leave you, yeah I've got to run I've got one minute, to catch the 12.01, to catch the 12.01 well you can find me, if you want me back I'm at the other end, of this railway track Song list

Raising Cain (lyrics and music - Eric) Well I heard, yeah I heard I heard it said that it came from your poison tongue It's been a quiet day but the night is young well you know, what I heard I heard the rumour go like a runaway train and it's on a roll hear what I'm saying with the whiskey flowing from my glass to my brain so the rumour goes I'll be raising cain I heard the rumour go that I do it well when the night time comes I'll be raising hell with a storm of trouble brewing you'll get caught in the rain when there's nowhere to hide it's a crying shame Song list

Griff (lyrics and music - Eric) Sixteen wheels touch down, burning rubber turning sunshine in my eyes, early morning journey back down on the ground, move on drive on plastic muzak sound, radio playing Shine on Shine on Harvest Moon the roar of burning kerosine passing overhead smoke, booze and caffeine, my body feels like lead heading for the city towers, killing wasted hours never ending motorways through my sleepless haze and the radio plays and the road goes on, sun is low and blinding follow the white line, today is never ending Song list

Down on the Farm (lyrics - Alan / music - Eric) Hey farmer what you doing to the land, you take the goodness and it's turned to sand you cut the hedges and the leaves all down, the wind came and blew the leaves around hey farmer won't you leave the land alone, crop sprays poisoning our homes top soil spent it's done it's best, all the land needed was a little rest there's nothing left, nothing left down on the farm the wind has blown the dust against your door, now there's nothing you can do anymore all your methods have done so much harm, there's nothing left now down on the farm Hey farmer what you doing doing doing to the land you take the goodness and it's turned to sand there's nothing left down on the farm hey farmer won't you leave the land alone you take the goodness now it's all gone there's nothing left down on the farm Song list

Boneshaker (lyrics and music - Eric) Clocked up mileage three-oh-five, nine hour round trip had to drive way past her prime too young to die, won't make it but I've got to try another year of this won't break her, spent half my lifetime in the boneshaker she'll go a little further if you make her in the cold and the gloom and the rust and the fumes yeah in a boneshaker the noise and the pain disappears, but you can't stop the ringing in your ears that jalopy's gonna drive me out of my shell shocked mind 'cos she's revved up in the highest gear, but it's all gonna end in tears when that three-wheeler rolls on up and leaves us all behind I've got my foot flat out on the floor from the back seat they're yelling for more in the boneshaker Song list

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