Squeeze songs
Glenn: This lyric when I got it from Chris, well he was obviously not a happy chappy. That was how I communicated not just to the world outside but to the people close by. I had to reach out for help and the only way of doing that for me in those days was to write it down in a lyric. Chris: I was there one night and I said, “I want to be on my own”, so I rented a place 20 miles away so I could be on my own and drink and take drugs. Glenn: What I didn’t realise was that Chris wasn’t in a state to do that.
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“Chris: Glenn had this great ambition for us to live together in LA and write songs in the canyon. That’s as far as they ever go, you know.” Chris Difford (842) A lot of working class people in Britain go on holiday in England. So you have the old people looking round the shops, and then in the chorus you have the young people who are trying to have sex with strangers behind the chalet on the beach. So you’d have a cross-section in each verse, virtually, of how I saw seaside villages. And then taking it a step further by talking of old people, young people, and family people at the seaside. I wanted to write about the experience that a lot of working class English people do of going to the seaside and what a day out for them would be. Very British picture postcard situations really.
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I used to adore the way they would write about English situations. I do remember a band paying in the social club that I think, hope, was the Small Faces.” Chris Difford (407) “That song was influenced really by The Small Faces. It’s the imagery from that and being a young kid.
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It’s a story about going on holiday with my friend’s parents to Dymchurch and staying in a caravan.