Up the Junction

from Coverlings by Renee Cologne

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There are so many things I love about Squeeze: from their clever lyrics to their harmonic sensibility to . . . as in "Up the Junction", their unconventional song structures. This song has SIX verses and NO choruses - you gotta love Squeeze. And I do. Released in 1979 on the "Cool for Cats" record.

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I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten

When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said "you are a lady"
"Perhaps" she said. "I may be"

We moved in to a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly

We spent our time just kissing
The Railway Arms we're missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday

I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later

She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging

The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I'd beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business

And she won't write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction

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from Coverlings, released January 4, 2019
Mixed by Patrick Krouchian
French Horn CJ Camerieri
Viola Ralph Farris
Violin Corin Lee
Cello Dorothy Lawson
Bass, Guitars, Ukes RC

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Renee Cologne New York, New York

Renee Cologne is a multi-instrumentalist, producer who makes electronic, orchestral pop music. In Coverlings, available 1/4/2019, Cologne breathes new life into a collection well-known pop songs from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s; using both human (earthling – voice, acoustic, orchestral) and machine (alien – electronic, beats, synths) elements in a way that is fresh, rich and nuanced. ... more

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