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In which the conversation and audience interaction continues to expand in scope, resulting in one of the longest sets I've ever had to film.
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00:00:00We've just realised that we're running really late. I mean, you don't expect us to run to time, do you? We're not the type. We're not the type. We said we'd try and cut down the talking, but that probably won't happen either. So, you know, if you have to get a train or whatever, you can leave. If not, you have to stay. You have to stay to the bitter end.
00:00:27I have a couple of things to share before we start. So I've been given a couple of things for the stage, for the living room stage. On the living room stage, which you will not be able to see from here, we have The Sexual Life of Catherine M, one of Elliot's favourite books on the stage here.
00:00:44A Warrior's Life by Paolo Coelho. We've got The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. And we've got the poetry of The Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, who of course was Sylvia Plath's partner, lover, for a long time.
00:00:58And we have the Spanish cookbook, which of course, I think a lot of you have come to the Taste of Spain in here, haven't you, as well, which you run on our boat, our Spanish supper club.
00:01:08And now we have the music book from Tapestry, Carole King.
00:01:14Ah, I know there are going to be some fans of this out there.
00:01:18And some of my singing students are in the room tonight, actually, and we've read on some Carole King, because why would you not? Because, ah, what an album.
00:01:27Way Over Yonder.
00:01:27So, Way Over Yonder.
00:01:31Yes.
00:01:32So, that's going on the stage.
00:01:34Whoa!
00:01:34Wow, yeah, I got a round of applause tonight. It's getting easier. It's getting easier.
00:01:38And our good friend, Phil Johnson, who's out there somewhere, has just published his book.
00:01:44Phil is a psychiatrist, I want to say. Psychologist.
00:01:48Psychologist.
00:01:49Thank you. I don't know. It's been my style. It's really difficult.
00:01:52Phil is a psychic.
00:01:53And, um, and this is his book.
00:01:56Well done.
00:01:57Yes, well done, Phil!
00:02:00And it's just been released this week.
00:02:03Winning Ways, a psychological resolution.
00:02:04Did you think he's just been released?
00:02:05He's just been released.
00:02:08Oh, this is not going well, is it?
00:02:10What's it called?
00:02:11It's called Winning Ways, a psychological resolution for excellence in life, art, and sport performance.
00:02:16We all need that.
00:02:17So, here's a go.
00:02:18Yes, we all need that.
00:02:19And Phil said to me, there's a poem in there, and he's marked it.
00:02:22And I've never read this before, so it says,
00:02:25I love you, Sarah, you're my favourite one ever.
00:02:29Aww.
00:02:30Aww.
00:02:31Aww.
00:02:32No, um, love is.
00:02:35Love is a passion too strong to hold, allowing persona to develop, mould.
00:02:41Love is the feeling deep in the breast, courageous dealing, an ultimate test.
00:02:45Love is forgiveness when it hurts most, celebrating life, upholding a toast.
00:02:50Love is cherishing all you've got, sharing with others, like we are tonight, accepting your lot.
00:02:56Love is allowing freedom of speech, sailing with the wind, reaching the beach.
00:03:01Yes.
00:03:01Love is believing when most are in doubt, being prepared like a good boy scout.
00:03:06Love is ingenious, a human light, a pathway to joy, worldly insight.
00:03:10Love is pleasure, pleasing to do, an expression of feeling.
00:03:13I love you.
00:03:16Love is for many a wondrous thing, healing the hate, soothing the sting.
00:03:21Love is changing the world and yourself, respecting earth, restoring its wealth.
00:03:27Love is momentous, a spiritual flame, worshipping God, whatever his name.
00:03:32Love challenges our existence, heaven and earth, the story of Christmas, the holy rebirth.
00:03:40Love is contemplation, thoughts of now, peaceful thinking, understanding, know-how.
00:03:46Love is what makes us that different being, giving us vision, directing our seeing.
00:03:52Love is mightier than the sword, stronger than the bow, more defiant in anger, wiser to know.
00:03:59Love is endless, infinite in time.
00:04:02Love is yours, and love is mine.
00:04:06Phil Johnson.
00:04:10So the start of the second half marks our infamous Amsterdam section.
00:04:21It was the first place we ever travelled together.
00:04:25Well, the first time you had ever been aboard since school, wasn't it?
00:04:29I remember being very excited about the pilot accent.
00:04:34I don't know what I was thinking really, but when I got together with Sarah, she had four
00:04:41children and stuff, and we moved in, and life was quite tricky, and I'm not the most responsible
00:04:50person in the world, so I had to get used to trying to be responsible on stuff.
00:04:53Now, that meant, when we were off the leash, we were really off the leash.
00:04:59We went to Amsterdam, and I can remember, I can hear your mind boggling.
00:05:08I can remember, I can remember, I can remember yelling at Sarah.
00:05:13She said, we are fucking disgusting.
00:05:16We are disgusting people.
00:05:19We should be ashamed of ourselves.
00:05:22How fucking boring we have become in our old age.
00:05:26And she said, we've been out for 18 hours now.
00:05:31It's 5 o'clock in the morning.
00:05:33We're not being that boring, really.
00:05:38But this was when, actually before that, when I went to Amsterdam with one of my previous wives.
00:05:46And pined for my future wife.
00:05:48Maybe I'll go again with this one, and pined for another.
00:05:51Maybe I'll go again with this one, and pined for another.
00:06:21And pined for another, and pined for another, and pined for another, and pined for another.
00:06:26I was here, Lord Amsterdam.
00:06:28They're selling tulips on the street.
00:06:32I'm sat down here, on Renwood's corner, amid the whispers of defeat.
00:06:45And I'm drinking coffee, on cobbled streets, while the good get down and pray.
00:06:59In a quiet bar, I miss your lens, I try and push the thought away.
00:07:12And red lights, should say stop, but you're a woman and I'm a man.
00:07:27Memories hit hard, cause they're all I've got, I'm only doing what I can.
00:07:41In Amsterdam.
00:07:43I'm hanging down.
00:08:15It always puts me in the past, of old cafes, with darkened corners, and hearts to be too fast.
00:08:33And red lights, should say stop, but you're a woman and I'm a man.
00:08:43The memories hit hard, cause they're all I've got, I'm only doing what I can.
00:08:55In Amsterdam.
00:09:00In Amsterdam.
00:09:02In an old jazz bar.
00:09:09The lights are off.
00:09:16He's singing old Jinji.
00:09:17Now look at his face.
00:09:19Now count the cost.
00:09:20In an old jazz bar, the lights are off, he's singing old Jim G, now look at his face,
00:09:45They count the cost, whoever told him love is free,
00:09:54The red lights, should say stop, but you're a woman and I'm a man,
00:10:06The memory's hit hard now, because I'm all I've got, I'm only doing what I can,
00:10:15In Elsinel, in Elsinel.
00:10:22In Elsinel, in Elsinel, in Elsinel.
00:10:37Yes, I didn't travel until I was in my late thirties. Can you believe that? Can you believe I'm older than that?
00:10:58I mean, it's shocking, isn't it?
00:11:01I can't believe it!
00:11:02No, I know, right?
00:11:05Thank you, thank you down the front, love you down the front.
00:11:09There were two places I wanted to go, I wanted to see Perneshez Cemetery, to go and find Jim Morrison's grave,
00:11:16And I wanted to go to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam, and I've done both of those things now.
00:11:21And I have to say, going to Anne Frank's house was by far the most emotional of the two.
00:11:28Jim Morrison's grave was mostly about trying to find it, which is incredibly difficult.
00:11:32Oeh, Jim Morrison! Oeh!
00:11:35Oeh, hey!
00:11:37But by the time, we found the grave, but you can't get anywhere near it now.
00:11:40It's still covered in graffiti, or Lizard King graffiti, but you can't get near it.
00:11:45It has to be fenced off, or everybody taking a piece of that, there'd be nothing left.
00:11:51That was incredible.
00:11:52Oh, I've got my Oliver Stone.
00:11:55I chose the vinyl to put down the front tonight, because I'm representing me,
00:12:00and I've got my, and I thought I have to put a Doors album there.
00:12:04But I chose the Oliver Stone soundtrack on purpose, because when that came out in the,
00:12:10I don't know, 89, 90, something like that, it transformed my life.
00:12:15I was a teenager, I didn't know what this music was.
00:12:18And then I was like, what's this, what's this?
00:12:21If this is so great, maybe the rest is so great, and discovered Hendrix and all the rest of them.
00:12:26And then Donovan, my, one of my, one of my many boyfriends, when I was younger, was into Donovan.
00:12:34And that, again, shaped me massively in my folk leanings.
00:12:38Anyway, yeah, so we went to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam.
00:12:41And I've always had this, and so has my mum, always had this weird connection with World War II.
00:12:51And I think, I think some of it's about being aware that, you know, they have, people have to deal with so much difficulty,
00:13:02and with so little, they have so little material possessions and assurances or anything.
00:13:09And it just, it makes me feel whatever I'm going through is nothing compared to that.
00:13:15Anyway, this is, this is Annalise. I wrote this after we went to Anne Frank's house.
00:13:20To give an air, maybe a junior's house at last, but it's in three ways in that this stands.
00:13:25To give an air.
00:13:29To get gratitude for another люди and Playstation.
00:13:35If it's just an air really that doesn't help, they have big cesat.
00:13:38My name is Annalise, I just started to notice a man, last night he looked at me differently
00:14:03And we watched the skies deepen over Amsterdam, he's 16 years older so maybe I should wait
00:14:16But this kiss is all I'm longing for, when the dam freezes over
00:14:27And maybe we can skate, as soon as they finish this war
00:14:36And I can almost taste freedom, except for this dove, yeah no stuff
00:14:47Daddy says there's no way I won't get there, if we only stay where we are
00:14:58In the dark, outside, we hide
00:15:13Daddy says I'm so serious, but he doesn't know about my life
00:15:23Pizza and me, where we're just curious, while outside they put our friends to the night
00:15:36Pizza has hands like a carpenter, he makes the little attic our home
00:15:48Sometimes the warmth of it's near less, it's more than I can bear
00:15:53I'm on fire, whenever we're alone
00:15:58But, someday I'm gonna go to America
00:16:05And I'll marry a big movie star
00:16:08And I'll marry a big movie star
00:16:10Daddy says there's no way I won't get there, if we only stay where we are
00:16:20In the dark, outside, we hide
00:16:30No, I know I'm a prisoner, but I don't wanna go out there
00:16:47The radio birds, they've got poisonous gas
00:16:51And I've always been fond of fresh air
00:17:00And just like that river, I will freeze
00:17:06If it all gets too sad
00:17:10But I don't really see that happening
00:17:15I believe in daddy
00:17:18And people can't really be that bad
00:17:25My name is Annalise
00:17:30I'm gonna be a writer, you know
00:17:36I'm gonna go shopping at Nicebridge
00:17:40And I'll do my eyes
00:17:43Just like when to go
00:17:46Ball
00:17:56Thank you
00:18:08You dropped your lights out the tequila bottle there, eh?
00:18:14Oh, how will I ever find it?
00:18:17I'm gonna let Sarah introduce this one, because I'm a little shy
00:18:21No, actually, I was thinking about this
00:18:23You always make me introduce this one
00:18:25I think you should say it in your
00:18:26I'm gonna set you an English assignment here
00:18:28Tell it in your own words
00:18:30No
00:18:31And then we'll give you a mark out of ten
00:18:33We were in a square in Sevilla
00:18:40And the food there in Andalusia is really cheap compared to England
00:18:46When you eat out, it doesn't cost a lot of money
00:18:48And you get really, really good portions
00:18:50When you go for tapas over here and it's a tiny little
00:18:53What?
00:18:54What is that for £9.50?
00:18:56But in Andalusia, especially, you get an actual dish
00:19:00It's a lot of food for your money
00:19:03And we were sitting in a square, which is quite touristic
00:19:06It's all very cheap though
00:19:08And Elliot had a lovely, massive steak and chips
00:19:11And I had some tuna
00:19:12And you get a lot of beggars over there, like you do over here
00:19:16And sometimes, you know, we're travelling
00:19:18We travel a lot
00:19:19Sometimes we don't see them either, you know
00:19:21But for some reason this day we really did see this guy
00:19:24And he had, his eyes were too big for his face
00:19:26And he just, he had an aura about him
00:19:29That made me notice him, I suppose
00:19:32And Elliot noticed him too
00:19:34And I looked up, I was eating my tuna
00:19:37And the guy had gone
00:19:39And I look up and Elliot's gone too
00:19:41Like, what?
00:19:42And he's running down the street after this guy waving his steak
00:19:46He's going, espera, espera, proba
00:19:50You have to try this steak
00:19:52So, and he, and he ate it
00:19:55Yeah
00:19:56But he looked at you like you were a lunatic
00:19:58Yeah, yeah
00:19:59But I was, it was one of the nicest things I'd ever, ever eaten in my life
00:20:03And I wanted him to try it
00:20:05And at first I was kind of thinking
00:20:08Well, I'm going to look like an idiot if I get up
00:20:11But I think, well then I thought
00:20:12Well, it's only social convention stopping me leaving this table
00:20:16I'm not harming anyone, I'm doing the opposite
00:20:19So I kind of felt that he was there really
00:20:22To teach me a lesson rather than the other way around
00:20:25We always have too much to eat on our plates, don't we?
00:20:29So this is called a precious pie
00:20:52Someone came looking for a piece of me
00:20:59But I don't even know his name
00:21:03It's easy to turn your head and pretend that you don't see
00:21:09But it leaves a kind of stain
00:21:15There's always tomorrow
00:21:17But I don't wanna preach
00:21:22From the moment I saw him
00:21:28I knew he had something to teach
00:21:34Me and you about what we should do
00:21:40To my precious time
00:21:55The sun beat down on the market square
00:22:01As I chased him down the street
00:22:05My hands on his body
00:22:08And sweat in my head
00:22:11I gave him a piece of meat
00:22:14Cause everyone gets hungry
00:22:20For a new way to live
00:22:24From the moment I saw him
00:22:25From the moment I saw him
00:22:34I knew he had something to give
00:22:35To you or me
00:22:37Cause we all want to be free
00:22:41Of our precious time
00:22:46Of our precious time
00:22:58Under walls are no quarrelin'
00:23:02The sun is creepin' into view
00:23:06I hear their prayers
00:23:08I hear their prayers
00:23:10They're rublin'
00:23:11But my secret
00:23:12Is safe
00:23:13With you
00:23:16Now I don't want to rage
00:23:27Or chase a lightning bolt
00:23:31From the moment we're born
00:23:33From the moment we're born
00:23:34They put us in a cage
00:23:37Though it's no one's real fault
00:23:40But moments fall like matchsticks
00:23:46But they fade from our view
00:23:51The lesson I have learnt
00:23:56It's that it's not what you do
00:24:01But who you are
00:24:04And how you wear
00:24:07Each scarf
00:24:09Of your precious time
00:24:12Of your precious time
00:24:14To admit
00:24:21To remember
00:24:22To remember
00:24:23That they're love
00:24:24And how you feel
00:24:25Like how I trust
00:24:26You
00:24:27You
00:24:28You
00:24:33Are you
00:24:38You
00:24:39Yeah, so it's the launch tonight of our Lyric Books. They are £8 at the table there with
00:24:48the beautiful blonde lady. We look full of beautiful blondes tonight, aren't we? Have
00:24:53a look at that. And this is in there. This is Lone Shark. This is for my kids who are
00:24:58sitting in the back there. Hi. How many of you are there? One? Oh, there they are there.
00:25:08Yeah, speak your mic. You might not give our kids a round of applause, don't you?
00:25:15Why give them a round of applause? They've done nothing for us.
00:25:19But they always get a round of applause. Every kid, they always get a round of applause.
00:25:25So, I wrote this song. This is going to be very personal to them, actually. I hope they
00:25:33don't mind me playing it. I wrote this song about a difficult time, and I was bringing
00:25:37them up.
00:25:38It was very important to them, and I will really take a moment in my life.
00:25:39So, let's 4, 11, let's sing to my mother
00:25:41words in my gesheim land, saying to my mother that I wrote,
00:25:43as the background is now to the fullness of my mother, if the father will Gary
00:25:55was to vary for you while admitting my mother barking. Do you feel the Tieta withConnell
00:25:59Moonshark, sometimes you came in the guise of a friend bearing gifts.
00:26:14Blonde hair, sweet Chanel smile, wizened apple, sweet red ruby lips.
00:26:27And every week, taking the checks that should have been feeding my kids. Lick your teeth, reverse your shiny red car out of my bad district.
00:26:46Loonshark, snapping your teeth round our schools waiting to catch a bite.
00:26:58Smell the blood of a council estate kid who doesn't even own a bike.
00:27:10And I can't afford 25 quid a week to wipe the blood from your checks.
00:27:19But their shoes are broke, school trip's a joke, and it's the only money I'm gonna get.
00:27:31My kids are grown older, the wolf's gone from my shoulder.
00:27:36But sometimes in the dark, I'm still running, running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:27:50And I'm still running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:28:09I'm sorry kiss for the many years that couldn't afford you a bet.
00:28:19But I was little more than a child myself.
00:28:23And the water was over my head.
00:28:28And I was a babe to a great many people, although I did not see them.
00:28:38A gullible, desperate young mother of four who looked like she needed a friend.
00:28:48My kids are grown older, the wolf's gone from my shoulder.
00:28:54But sometimes in the dark, I'm still running, running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:29:08I'm still running, running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:29:15And it's like, oh, blackberry picking.
00:29:22And oh, marshmallows on flames.
00:29:26And oh, no fix to boat and we're playing the poverty game.
00:29:33And it's like, oh, lullabies of bedtime.
00:29:38And oh, let's play quiet as a mouse.
00:29:42Because oh, let's pretend this one-room hostel is really a lovely big house.
00:29:59I'm still running, running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:30:07I'm still running, running, running from the shadow of a lone shark.
00:30:11I'm still running.
00:30:39Stars shining bright above you
00:30:47Stars shining bright above you
00:30:57La la la, la la la la
00:31:09La la la la, la la la la la
00:31:19Thank you very much
00:31:39Far be it for me to get involved
00:31:43In the murky world of British politics
00:31:45So I won't
00:31:47The one thing that has become apparent
00:31:56And I'm not going to say anything about my political opinions
00:31:59That's why I don't believe that having a guitar and a microphone
00:32:03Gives me the right to say those kind of things
00:32:06But the one thing I have noticed
00:32:08Is that our country has become incredibly divided
00:32:13And you have a side on the left
00:32:18And you have a side on the right
00:32:20And they're both absolutely determined that there are
00:32:24And there's not much niceness in the way that they talk to each other
00:32:32And you see that both these two sides
00:32:34On the left and the right
00:32:35Have got more and more extreme
00:32:37And in some ways I understand
00:32:41I understand there's a lot of fear about
00:32:44And that kind of thing
00:32:46But I also believe in
00:32:49Somehow and I believe each side is as guilty as the other
00:32:54Somehow any kind of form of tolerance
00:32:57Or listening to one another
00:32:59Or listening to somebody that has a different point of view
00:33:02From your own
00:33:03Has kind of been lost
00:33:04And I think if we are to find our way
00:33:06Out of this mess
00:33:08I think it would require
00:33:10Other sides to listen to each other
00:33:12A bit more
00:33:13And understand that
00:33:14If somebody has an opinion that's different to yours
00:33:17You don't need to hate them
00:33:18For more
00:33:19So this is a song I wrote many many many years ago
00:33:25And I know it's to do with
00:33:27I know my grandfather on my mum's side is from Ukraine
00:33:33My grandmother's from Germany
00:33:35On my dad's side
00:33:36I think that's my great-grandfather was from Italy
00:33:39And obviously they're my family
00:33:41So you know
00:33:42And I got to thinking about
00:33:43At what point does
00:33:45If you trace that back
00:33:46Do they stop becoming your family?
00:33:49What your great-grandfather
00:33:51Or your great-great-grandfather
00:33:53And so I got to thinking about that
00:33:55And this was many many years ago
00:33:57And I thought
00:33:58Well if we all went back far enough
00:34:01We'd
00:34:02We'll end up in the same place
00:34:05And we'd all at some stage
00:34:07Come from two people
00:34:10Who probably likely lived in Africa
00:34:12And this song is called African Man
00:34:14This song is called African Man
00:34:26It's a song of peace
00:34:28I am an African man
00:34:42I am an African man
00:34:46You are a brother to me
00:34:52You are a brother to me
00:34:59And we all come from the land of the sun
00:35:05As Africans, you and me
00:35:10In the beginning
00:35:16When God made the earth
00:35:21A mother and a father witness
00:35:27An African birth
00:35:31And from that common-law and wife
00:35:37I grew a tree of life
00:35:39Made in Africa, you and me
00:35:43But it seemed like man to water
00:35:50Take and divide
00:35:53And he never had enough
00:35:57If you trace it back
00:36:00We've got the same blood inside
00:36:03We come from African love
00:36:07And we will roll
00:36:14Across countries far and wide
00:36:18Start to make a hole
00:36:24Far across the ocean tide
00:36:28And you think you know your worth
00:36:34Chasing paper across this earth
00:36:39Where all African comes inside
00:36:46But it seems like man to want to
00:36:49Take and divide
00:36:52And he never has enough
00:36:57If you trace it back
00:36:58We've got the same blood inside
00:37:02We've got the same blood inside
00:37:03We don't live
00:37:04We just uses
00:37:08Attention
00:37:09To us
00:37:12We just Pik
00:37:15To us
00:37:28So remember, when you see another face
00:37:50You may be world to a part, but you spring from the same place
00:37:57Walk in straddle-free, cross the sands of eternity
00:38:07Us Africans you will meet
00:38:13So let's go out tonight, watch the sissy lights
00:38:25So let's go out tonight, watch the sissy lights
00:38:38Do you like this song?
00:38:39Won't you hold my hand, cause I'm afraid of heights
00:38:45If you know this song, put your hand up
00:38:47That's enough of you to do a sing-along
00:38:51So I'm going to teach you the chorus, okay?
00:38:53You know the song, let's sing it together
00:38:55The chorus goes
00:38:56I'm going to sing you a line, you guys sing it back to me
00:38:58If you don't know this song, you can still play
00:39:00She's a harsh teacher, trust me
00:39:02No, I'm lovely
00:39:03So let's go out tonight, and watch these sissy lights
00:39:10Is it those sissy lights?
00:39:12These guys know my words better than me
00:39:13Is it these?
00:39:14Okay
00:39:15So let's go out tonight, and watch these sissy lights
00:39:22That's beautiful already
00:39:23The next line
00:39:24Won't you hold my hand, cause I'm afraid of heights
00:39:27Won't you hold my hand, cause I'm afraid of heights
00:39:33Won't you hold my hand, cause I'm afraid of heights
00:39:40And you're just like crazy paving, but I love the way you crack
00:39:45You're just like crazy paving, but I love the way you crack
00:39:47But you're just like crazy paving, baby
00:39:53But I love the way you crack
00:39:58But you're just like crazy paving, baby
00:40:04But I love the way you crack
00:40:08Let's try that whole chorus. You'll pick it up as we go. If you've bought the book, it's in there.
00:40:11So let's go out tonight and watch these city lights, but won't you hold my hands, I'm afraid of heights, and you're just like crazy, baby, baby, but I love the way you cry.
00:40:34You can knock me out, right? Oh, come on, you can do better than that.
00:40:39To be honest, they're doing a lot better than five minutes than I've done in 14 years.
00:41:04There's a hole in the ship, and the water's coming in. But you won't bail it, cause it's too hard living.
00:41:24And you could plug it with your fingers, you could plug it by being kind, but the mood you're in, well, it's the last thing on your mind.
00:41:39So we wrote on the waters, out on the dark ocean, in the middle of the night, because you don't want to go home.
00:42:03So let's go out tonight and watch these city lights, and won't you hold my hands, I'm afraid of heights, and you're just like crazy, baby, baby.
00:42:31Baby, but I love the way you cry.
00:42:42That was beautiful.
00:42:46I need it.
00:42:47And when you're struggling, and your scars are itching, and you can't climb the steps, and you sleep on the floor, I'll be there.
00:43:08And I'll open all the windows, I'll let the moonlight shine in, and I'll come all of those stars through your tangled hair, through your tangled hair.
00:43:33So let's go out tonight and watch these city lights, and won't you hold my hands, I'm afraid of heights, and you're just like crazy, baby, baby.
00:43:55But I love the way you cry.
00:44:02And I'm your little white girl, and you are the captain of this sinking ship, with his holes and his stitching.
00:44:15And the water might be boiling, and the water might be cold, but it's me and the captain, to have and to hold.
00:44:29So let's go out tonight and watch those city lights, but won't you hold my hand, cause I'm afraid of heights, and you're just like crazy, baby, baby.
00:44:57And I love the way you cry.
00:45:13Thank you so much. I just want to do a little experiment, cause I've got my own voice now.
00:45:18I'm going to try a little experiment. If I sing a line, I want to see what happens, and I'm not going to tell them what this is.
00:45:27The word you're looking for is Bill. The word that's missing in this sing-along song is Bill.
00:45:34Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Bill. Happy birthday to you. And many more. Happy birthday, Bill.
00:45:57Happy birthday, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill. Thank you.
00:46:04This is a song of a many years ago, around a guy asking for spare change.
00:46:43I was standing at the station
00:47:03In the crooked berth of night
00:47:07Waiting for the summer
00:47:14To bring this first city light
00:47:19And he was sitting in the doorway
00:47:26With a cup in his hand
00:47:31And he was carrying a kind of loneliness
00:47:38No one should understand
00:47:43But if you're born with crooks
00:47:49Then you don't walk with kings
00:47:55And if you're born with crazies
00:48:01And you don't have nice things
00:48:07And though you may be fit to drop
00:48:12The world will never stop
00:48:15And a loser never wins
00:48:18And you don't walk with kings
00:48:24So I dropped him a coin
00:48:49The bigger the gate
00:48:54And I watched him get up
00:49:00Underneath his own weight
00:49:05But the next time I saw him
00:49:12Was in a subway down in town
00:49:16He was busy shooting hell
00:49:23And Sunday evening coming down
00:49:28And if you're born with crooks
00:49:34Then you don't walk with kings
00:49:39And if you're born with crazies
00:49:45Then you don't have nice things
00:49:51I know you may be fit to drop
00:49:56The world will never stop
00:49:59And a loser never wins
00:50:02And you don't walk with kings
00:50:08When I was walking home alone
00:50:32When I saw a man from across the street
00:50:37He had rough dirty clothes
00:50:44But not enough to eat
00:50:48But this time I passed it by
00:50:55Though I thought long and hard
00:51:01But you don't walk much
00:51:08But you don't walk much with angels
00:51:10When the devil's got your car
00:51:14And if you're born with crooks
00:51:21And if you're born with crooks
00:51:23Then you don't walk with kings
00:51:26And if you're born with crazies
00:51:32Then you don't have nice things
00:51:37I know you may be fit to drop
00:51:44But the world will never stop
00:51:47And a loser never wins
00:51:50And you don't walk with kings
00:51:54But you don't walk with kings
00:52:01And if you're born with kings
00:52:16I just want to say a massive thank you to everybody who came tonight.
00:52:30Those of you out there who haven't seen us before, I'm still not sure they've got a real
00:52:34explanation for the red bra strewn over the monetary edge.
00:52:39Those of you who have seen us before will think that's just par for the cause.
00:52:44Somebody actually said to me, this is supposed to be your living room.
00:52:48There's a lot tidier than your living room.
00:52:51Thank you so much for sharing this really special night.
00:52:54It's different for us tonight doing the head to head.
00:52:56We normally do, we normally play together.
00:52:59I kind of prefer this.
00:53:02We do run a charity which is running music workshops for people with mental health difficulties.
00:53:08And as a kind of fundraiser, I am open to offers.
00:53:16To kind of auction these off for a good cause.
00:53:20Matt, I know what you're thinking.
00:53:22I know I get somebody for me like dig deep, dig deep.
00:53:26Are they clean or dirty?
00:53:28Oh god don't.
00:53:30Which would fetch more?
00:53:40It's getting bad down here.
00:53:42So when I was asking people what they wanted to hear at tonight's game from me.
00:53:48It was really interesting because the majority of votes were for Crazy Paving.
00:53:52Which I did the last song that I had you all sing along to.
00:53:56And this one is another play.
00:54:00So I was really surprised to see it come up quite high up in the voting.
00:54:04So I decided to play it now.
00:54:06This is one of the songs I wrote on Honeymoon.
00:54:10There you go.
00:54:12Awesome.
00:54:14I've got it back at the right key.
00:54:16Awesome.
00:54:22Look at that.
00:54:24Awesome.
00:54:26Awesome, excellent.
00:54:30Awesome.
00:54:33Awesome.
00:54:3830 days to save our love doesn't seem long enough
00:54:4930 days you said if it's worth saving we'll know in a month
00:55:00by the time the leaves have left the trees by the time the hives are full of bees
00:55:14we'll know if you leave
00:55:3030 days to save our love and I'm a fucking mess
00:55:38where to turn, how to start and how to pass your test
00:55:46by the time the snow is on the ground
00:55:50by the time the Christmas songs are out
00:55:56we'll know if you're leaving
00:56:04tell me often, take what you want
00:56:13everything must go
00:56:18no last rip, rip, rip, take all this
00:56:25yes or no, no
00:56:31by the time you hear this song
00:56:35I'll know if I was right or wrong
00:56:4130 days, 30 days of time from May to June
00:57:03we met in spring, remember
00:57:07underneath the thin white waning room
00:57:11but now the days are getting icy
00:57:16and I'm predicting early frost for me
00:57:21if you're leaving
00:57:28if you're leaving
00:57:31tail me open, take what you want
00:57:36everything must go
00:57:41no last rip, rip, take all this
00:57:47yes or no
00:57:49yes or no
00:57:54tear me open, take what you want
00:57:58everything, everything must go
00:58:02no last rip, rip, take all this
00:58:08yes or no
00:58:12no
00:58:13no
00:58:14by the time you hear this song
00:58:17one of us might well be gone
00:58:24thank you
00:58:34thank you
00:58:35we have two more songs left
00:58:41when I was a young man I generally had a difficult time
00:58:44I grew up in a hospital most of the time
00:58:46and this song was written, it's a song of celebration
00:58:49it's written as a tribute to the music that saved me
00:58:52I'm sure there's a singing teacher that will try and get you to join in somehow
00:58:59whenever we play this song at gigs I always tell him
00:59:03teach the crowd, build chorus
00:59:05people love to sing along but he won't have it at all
00:59:08I don't, you see I don't know how much they do like to sing along
00:59:12do you like to sing along?
00:59:13yeah
00:59:14that's cause they're scared of you
00:59:16somebody said no
00:59:17that's cause they're scared of you
00:59:20I got music
00:59:21and I don't need anything else
00:59:23music take me back to myself
00:59:26I got music
00:59:28and I don't need anything else
00:59:31music take me back to myself
00:59:35I was living on my knees
00:59:50I had nothing left to say
00:59:52I had a heart like a disease
00:59:54singing where the angels play
01:00:07and I wanted to check out
01:00:09until you found me
01:00:11you came dancing to the night
01:00:13you came dancing to the night
01:00:15with the sound of a song
01:00:17and I was basking in your life
01:00:18and I knew the past was gone
01:00:20he got straight through the doubt
01:00:22and a tragedy
01:00:24and I got music
01:00:28and I don't need anything else
01:00:32music take me back to myself
01:00:39now the song may burst
01:00:42the stars may collide
01:00:43I got heaven, hell, on earth
01:00:45they live it side by side
01:00:46you can send it to strike
01:00:48I'll let the earth win
01:00:50and I'm sewing up with life
01:00:55heart bursting through my chest
01:00:56and it goes
01:00:57bang, bang, bang
01:00:58and I'm
01:00:59blessed, blessed, blessed
01:01:00I've grown up in my whole life
01:01:02I need six strings
01:01:05cause I got music
01:01:09and I don't need anything else
01:01:13music take me back to myself
01:01:18I'll be singing my song
01:01:37with all my life and death
01:01:38I was pushing through my lungs
01:01:40dancing on my breath
01:01:41there ain't no business man
01:01:43but if I don't get down
01:01:46I don't know
01:01:48cause I'll be here on my own
01:01:50with a guitar in my hand
01:01:52with a cancer in my mind
01:01:53and I'll never understand
01:01:55the world that I am
01:01:57won't tear me down
01:01:59cause I got music
01:02:04I don't need anything else
01:02:07music take me back to myself
01:02:11I got music
01:02:13I got music
01:02:17I don't need anything else
01:02:21music take me back to myself
01:02:26I got music
01:02:31I got music
01:02:32I got music
01:02:33I don't need anything else
01:02:35music take me back to myself
01:02:37music take me back to myself
01:02:39I said, now!
01:02:41Yay!
01:02:43Woo!
01:02:51Thank you so much.
01:02:53So I'm going to sing a song.
01:02:55And we may sing a song together.
01:02:57Yes, yes, yes.
01:02:59Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:03:01All the leaves are brown
01:03:03All the leaves are brown
01:03:05And the sky is green
01:03:07And the sky is gray
01:03:09I'm in for a war
01:03:11In for a war
01:03:13On a winter's day
01:03:15On a winter's day
01:03:17I'd be safe and warm
01:03:19I'd be safe and warm
01:03:21If I was in L.A.
01:03:23If I was in L.A.
01:03:25California dreaming
01:03:27California dreaming
01:03:29I'm such a winter's day
01:03:33I stepped into church
01:03:35I stepped into church
01:03:39I found a long way
01:03:43Well, I got down on my knees
01:03:47And I pretend to pray
01:03:51You know the preacher likes to call
01:03:55He knows I'm gonna stay
01:03:59California dreaming
01:04:01California dreaming
01:04:03I'm such a winter's day
01:04:07All the leaves are brown
01:04:09All the leaves are brown
01:04:11And the sky is gray
01:04:13And the sky is gray
01:04:15I'm in for a war
01:04:17On a winter's day
01:04:21California dreaming
01:04:23If I didn't tell her
01:04:25If I didn't tell her
01:04:27I could leave today
01:04:29I could leave today
01:04:31California dreaming
01:04:33California dreaming
01:04:35I'm such a winter's day
01:04:37California dreaming
01:04:39I'm such a winter's day
01:04:41I'm such a winter's day
01:04:43California dreaming
01:04:45I'm such a winter's day
01:04:49I'm such a winter's day
01:04:51All right
01:04:53You're a improvement
01:04:55I knew you wouldn't let me down
01:05:01All right
01:05:03Okay, last thing along
01:05:05Everyone's getting old
01:05:07Everyone's getting old
01:05:08Except
01:05:09The Rolling Stones
01:05:10That's it
01:05:11If you haven't seen us before
01:05:12You'd be like
01:05:13What the hell are they talking about?
01:05:14But it's true
01:05:15Apart from Charlie Watts
01:05:16Sadly
01:05:17Everyone's getting old
01:05:18Except The Rolling Stones
01:05:19The chorus to this song
01:05:20Sounds like this
01:05:24Everyone's getting old
01:05:26Everyone's getting old
01:05:28Everyone's getting old
01:05:30Everyone's getting old
01:05:31Except The Rolling Stones
01:05:34Got it?
01:05:35It's not that hard right
01:05:36It's not that hard right
01:05:58I woke up yesterday
01:06:00And half my life was gone
01:06:02The old folks they say the young
01:06:04They don't know
01:06:05And now I know that's right
01:06:06They don't
01:06:07And the sorrows collide
01:06:09And the stones grow must
01:06:11And we grow fat and crust
01:06:15But in my mind's eye
01:06:19Could still be five years old
01:06:21Skimming stones on South Sea Beach
01:06:24White horses rowing home
01:06:26And sleep's no sanctuary
01:06:28When all your dreams are dust
01:06:30When all your dreams are dust
01:06:31To these days it's better to burn out
01:06:33Or to rust
01:06:34Come on everybody
01:06:35Everyone's getting old
01:06:37Everyone's getting old
01:06:39Everyone's getting old
01:06:40Everyone's getting old
01:06:41Everyone's getting old
01:06:42Everyone's getting old
01:06:43To The Rolling Stones
01:06:45And all your dreams
01:06:50And all your dreams
01:06:51That you spend your life collecting
01:06:54End up with scraped out
01:06:55And washed up
01:06:56And put out for recycling
01:06:58And the crows peg holes
01:07:01And what's left of those
01:07:03And we say, ah, that's just the way things go
01:07:06But in my mind's eye could still be seventeen
01:07:13Skin cut tightly to the bone
01:07:16My whole life kerosene
01:07:18But ain't it just like time
01:07:20To play tricks when you're defined
01:07:23The lines of paints across your evergreen
01:07:27Let's go
01:07:29Everyone's getting old
01:07:31Everyone's getting old
01:07:33Everyone's getting old
01:07:35Said The Rolling Stones
01:08:03Once there was a dreamer
01:08:04And maybe that was you
01:08:07And they sold the dreams together
01:08:09Until they grew and grew and grew and grew
01:08:12And when the dream was done
01:08:14They gave it to their daughters and sons
01:08:18And maybe in this way we all go on
01:08:22Come on!
01:08:24Everyone's getting old
01:08:26Everyone's getting old
01:08:28Everyone's getting old
01:08:30Everyone's getting old
01:08:31To The Rolling Stones
01:08:32Everyone's getting old
01:08:33Everybody's getting old
01:08:34Everybody's getting old
01:08:35Everybody's getting old
01:08:36Everybody's getting old
01:08:37Everybody's getting old
01:08:38Everybody's getting old
01:08:39Everybody's getting old
01:08:40Everyone's getting old
01:08:41To The Rolling Stones
01:08:43One more time
01:08:45Everyone's getting old
01:08:46Everybody's getting old
01:08:47Everybody's getting old
01:08:48Everyone's getting old
01:08:49Everybody's getting old
01:08:50Everyone's getting old
01:08:51Everyone's getting old
01:08:52We want to say a massive thank you to coming.
01:09:19It really is, it's difficult times for live music at the moment and the one thing many, many years of gigging has taught me is that the quality of a gig is not my bad of any of all those other things. The biggest thing is the quality of the audience. So thank you very much.
01:09:36We're going to finish. It's been a difficult time for us to gather up here. I think both of us prefer a little space between us and being alone.
01:09:52But we are going to try and rekindle our relationship before you right now to just go out on one together.
01:10:03And this is a strange, this song is a strange story because it kind of came from when I was stuck in the toilet for a long time.
01:10:16Sometimes we're at a gig and he starts telling a story and I'm like wait, wait.
01:10:22She actually kicked me because I was going to say something in front of a vicar.
01:10:26You were going to say terrible things in front of a vicar.
01:10:30Are you going to say that?
01:10:32No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:10:34Tell, tell.
01:10:36Why are we locked in the toilet?
01:10:38Well, because have you ever been to the country?
01:10:42Yeah, well the country is nice, they've got beautiful flowers, the trees are lovely and all that sort of stuff.
01:10:48But trying to flush a toilet in the country, well that is a complicated procedure if ever I've heard of.
01:10:54Or was it a compost toilet?
01:10:56No, it was a house.
01:10:57No, it was a house.
01:10:59So I'm in the toilet and I'm trying to flush this thing.
01:11:06This is why I drink.
01:11:07And I'm not a particularly patient person, I'm trying to flush it but it doesn't flush first though.
01:11:12Anyway, the water is then rising and I know what you're probably supposed to do is to wait for the water to come back up to the top so you can have a second go of it.
01:11:20But I just keep going and going and going.
01:11:23And I can't manage to sink this thing.
01:11:30I've taken the top off the toilet, I've removed all the parts in the bathroom and I'm on the floor absolutely despairing myself.
01:11:38And all the time there's this music going on in the other room with Sarah's other band.
01:11:43And I come to her and say, man, Sarah, that sounds cool.
01:11:46I've had some problems with the toilet but that does sound cool.
01:11:48We should think about doing that song.
01:11:50And I said, who wrote it?
01:11:51She said, oh, it was you.
01:11:53So I give her the majority of it.
01:11:56There's a lot of good things that can go to the toilet in the country.
01:12:00We all play as Larkin the Mourner.
01:12:01I do have a solo gig on the 10th of January at Thekla.
01:12:04I'm supporting the Nine Peeps.
01:12:06Nine Peeps all female and meet your feet at Thekla on January.
01:12:10People have got tickets.
01:12:11I've been hearing this all night, which is fabulous.
01:12:14So, yeah, honey.
01:12:16So did you record this in Flushing Meadows?
01:12:19Flushing Meadows.
01:12:21Very good, Phil.
01:12:23Very good.
01:12:24If you want to hear more of Phil's amazing wit and humour,
01:12:27you can come to Taste of Spain.
01:12:29And he normally reveals it there.
01:12:33Two, three, four.
01:12:35You can name these things and Saw N knocking down in the door.
01:12:42Keep looking at the door.
01:12:44You know it.
01:12:45You just give us a feeling.
01:12:46You know, thank you for thechen.
01:12:47That's a great day.
01:12:48Hopefully it's a great day.
01:12:50Because the two of the open people are great.
01:12:51And you can see the truth of the peace you experienced.
01:12:54The two others, God has McN blacks started,
01:12:56and the who would be so embarrassed when you are excellent.
01:12:57Damn, How much would you make no?
01:12:58You can bathWe كل was great ai-fi.
01:18:47What was that?
01:19:02The boy with the what?
01:19:06We must have a mind reader.
01:19:09Oh, I don't have a scarf on this.
01:19:18Well, we ran really over time as well. Thank you so much.
01:19:32Yeah, me and my bro are going to be doing a gig together next year.
01:19:36So watch out for that. Indeed.
01:19:40Also, watch out because I'm doing jewelry service in January.
01:19:46So if any of you are planning to get into trouble,
01:19:48you're looking at the La La La British Lord.
01:20:06Come on, get through bare brown nights. In the corner of our rooms,
01:20:26till the bed we start. Out on the plaza.
01:20:32I watched every fast time.
01:20:35Lemon in my hell-fighting gym.
01:20:38My white skin burns.
01:20:41Over in Hollywood.
01:20:44They make it work.
01:20:47They're dirty feet and hands.
01:20:50They're stringin' through.
01:20:53While they're big parents of the dances growing.
01:20:58They make it work.
01:20:59They make it work.
01:21:01They make it work.
01:21:02I love that foot was big.
01:21:04They're dumb to be apart too.
01:21:06Black flesh shinin' like a coin.
01:21:0830 thousand, big bridge.
01:21:10And he drives a little coin.
01:21:11His round feet impluses.
01:21:14Let her shine
01:21:16Here's round the blood
01:21:18She's so sweet and sweet
01:21:20And a poisonous root
01:21:22The men's bare hands can't kiss
01:21:24And the shrimp is like a pirate
01:21:26I'm not back on me
01:21:30To make a leader
01:21:34But I will be a gift
01:21:36In the way to make a deal
01:21:40Well, it's hard to be so
01:21:42It's hard to be a gift
01:21:44And by you
01:21:46Please stop
01:21:48You're supposed to be
01:21:50This is our
01:21:52This is our
01:21:54This is our
01:21:56This is our
01:21:58This is our
01:22:00This is our
01:22:02This is our
01:22:04This is our
01:22:06This is our
01:22:08One, two, three, one
01:22:10This is our
01:22:12This is our
01:22:14This is our
01:22:16This is our
01:22:18And the sun
01:22:19Just beats
01:22:20Come
01:22:21We're not in the river
01:22:23This is our
01:22:24This is our
01:22:26He used to cut off the tree bark
01:22:32In the Rio de Janeiro
01:22:41He can't be lonely friends
01:22:44Well, the blues have made us fair
01:22:47They've had them all in the air
01:22:50What is the day I'm done when the fireflies sing
01:22:56I will kill me and tell me it's a boy in the rain
01:23:02It's a star by the river when the fish flash by
01:23:06Star by the river when the huggers fly by
01:23:09Star came together with a little way to go
01:23:12The summer's been just the color of our own gold gold
01:23:15Star coming up the gray jungle guys, so good job
01:23:18Star coming up the silverfish a little old gold
01:23:21Straight by town like there's something to dance
01:23:24This is the story of a boy and a bitch
01:23:27This is a star by the river
01:23:29Oh, oh, oh, oh
01:23:31Star by the river, oh, oh, oh
01:23:34This is a star by the river when the fireflies sing
01:23:37Everybody's talking about a boy and a bitch
01:23:40This is a star by the river, oh, oh
01:23:43This is a star by the river, oh, oh, oh
01:23:46This is a star by the river when the fireflies sing
01:23:49This is the story of a boy and a bitch
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