Details

• Released: Mid ‘03
• Running Time: 40 minutes-ish
• Catalogue #: We made about 50 of these ourselves with a photocopier, and released it independently

Downloads

• Army Men (right click and ’save as’)

Trivia / FAQs

• Commonly know as “PMG”, this CD took bloody ages to record, and due to the lack of the use of a metronome every damn track sped up and slowed down like crazy - thus the name.
• For some reason this album ended up some kind of epic rock album, we have no idea why. It’s not particularily Innocent Cabbage-ish for the most part.
• Unlike later albums - with Will as the prominent singer + guitarist and Gaz on bass - throughout this album Will and Gaz shared guitar and bass responsibilities almost equally, both on the album and during the equivalent live set. Gaz sung more songs on this album than Will. Also, despite being ‘the guitarist’, Will couldn’t play guitar anywhere near as well as Joe and Gaz could. This situation remains much the same to this day…
• Oscar Francis was pretty much the invisible 4th IC member on this album, contributing all kinds of synth, piano, and extra stuff to a CD he recorded, mixed and mastered pretty much entirely in his bedroom. There is so much synth in this album. Indeed he named the album. Oscar is unstoppable.

Lyrics

1. Amethyst

(instrumental)

2. Express

Let it
Let it out

You’ve been awake for so long
I’ve been hiding too long
So comfort me once again

And if I die before I wake
Don’t keep yourself inside

Express

Let it
Let it out

You’ve been away for so long
I’ve been waiting too long
So please tell me once again
It’s alright

Express

Don’t try to live up to other peoples expectations
Hear their suggestions and move on
Keep to yourself, you are
You are so beautiful

Express

3. Army Men

Left, left, left right left…

Army men, army men
Going places we get sent
Army men, army men
Napalm babies, hell yeah

Army men, army men
Lots of tanks with real big guns
Army men, army men
Killing Afghans makes me hard

Let’s get killed
Strap it to your leg
Let’s get killed, yeah

Army men, army men
M16 extends my dick
Army men, army men
It’s just a flesh wound
MEDIC!

Army men, army men
Smoking just to keep alive
Army men, army men
Shut up boy my lung works fine

Let’s get killed
Strap it to your leg
Let’s get killed, yeah

Left, left, left right left…
I left my wife in New Orleans
With 45 cents and a stick
And I thought it was
Right, left, right, left
Right for my country
Whoopsie fucking do!

Whup.

Army men, army men
Lets go shoot some little brown people
Army men, army men
Pay me enough you can climb my steeple

Army men, army men
Smoking just to keep alive
Army men, army men
Shut up boy my lung works fine

Let’s get killed
Strap it to your leg
Let’s get killed

Army men, army men
Let’s go join the Navy boys
Army men, army men
Little kids playing with big kids’ toys.

Army men, army men
Smoking just to keep alive
Army men, army men
Napalm babies… napalm babies… napalm babies…
OH GOD YEAH!

4. Lullabye

(instrumental)

5. PLB (aka Pretty Little Butterfly)

Head down fly away

Fly up high oh don’t you stay

If you like you could live today

But don’t you forget to play

Oooh butterfly

Humble times, inflicting pain

Oh very days in sustain

Grab ‘em hold between your finger and thumb

And pull the wings off, have some punk-arse fun

Ooooh butterfly

Pretty little butterfly!

Shut up and eat your pie

Shit happens then you die!

Pretty little butterfly!

6. Forgotten

New days
Sun shining
Provoking a change in life

Light waves pass through him
And made him glow bright red

The changes in the air

Why cant I at least get airholes’
I can’t hear shit through these walls
Give me a window for me to see the view

New days
Sun shining
Provoking a change in life

Light waves pass through him
And made him glow bright red

The changes in the air
The changes everywhere

Why cant I at least get airholes’
I can’t hear shit through these walls
Give me a window for me to see the view

Stand in the sun I wait for you
And keep my heart forever true
See it in your eyes and realise
I’ve forgotten

Why cant I at least get airholes’
I can’t hear shit through these walls
Give me a window for me to see the view

7. End Of Time

Again… waitin on that crazy Gaz man for these…

8. Fall

Take me for what I am
Don’t take the blame for what is done
Leave the pieces where they fall
For time will tell and tell us all I know
I know

‘Cause all you feel I feel tenfold and all I need is you
To hold me tight and don’t let go or I will fall away again
Fall away

Leave me
Right where I stand
You’re not a friend
I’m not a fan

Watch the pieces
Let them fall
When it all comes down
Then once for all I’ll know
I’ll know

Well I gave and I gave
But you stripped it away
Till I could not bleed anymore
And you took all the shit that you didn’t like
And you hid it all under the floor
Well I’m sick of these games
I’m wasting away
I don’t care what happened here before
So I’m starting afresh
Without you in the mess
I’m not suffering your shit anymore

Fall away
Fade away

Another day
Another dollar
Another man down in the squallor
Of life
Before death
Before space
Before freedom and grace
Before the man and his plan
Before saving the day
Before fading away
And beginning again

Finally
I’m home again
I once was lost
But now I’m found
Even bohemian cliché
has its place
And this may be Amazing Grace again
Again

Another day
Another dollar
Another man down in the squaller
Of life
Before death
Before space
Before freedom and grace
Before the man and his plan
Before saving the day
Before fading away
And beginning again

9. Cookie Monster

I am the cookie monster
Mmm this cookie tastes so good
It gives me pleasure
I only wish it had holes

Laaeeeaaaah laaaaaah laaa ioiooiiiii (Joe?s voice breaks)
Dunana da na, dun duun
Laa laa laaaa
Banuanaa naaaa

YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHH!!

Come here big bird, I wanna give you some lovin?
UHUH!

Howaaiiaa!

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
It was me mother fucker!

I see you
I love you
I want to eat your cookies
Oh baby
Just give me
One little choc top with some cream

MUA.

10. Violent Mood Swings

1,2,3,4

Go away
Get away
Break a way
Find a way

New time
New life
New love

I am finding no escape as hard to find as this
Could take a long, long time
May never end
An end could be quite good my friend

A break, relief
A knowing why
A knowing who
A knowing where
A knowing when
A knowing me and all my thoughts
Would reassure the nerves

Go away
Get away
Break a way
Find a way

New time
New life
New love

I am finding no escape as hard to find as this
Could take a long, long time
May never end
An end could be quite good
But until then we’ll have to wait and see
The time could slip away from me, from you
And all our darkness could turn white
And we could start on a new light

Close your eyes
Closure
Close your, eyes

Calm, calm down