Song Stories

She wore a raspberry beret The kind you find in a secondhand store. And if it was warm, she wouldn’t wear much more.

You win, you lose, you sing the blues There's no point in buying concrete shoes I refuse

So free up the cheaper seats Here comes a Greek Tragedy

You gotta gift man, go and be something If I was in your shoes, I would be jumping

It's there 24 hours a day, the thing is that it divides the two communities, but every Saturday night hundreds of people go out down town just go out clubbin

Oh mama, I'm just having fun On the stage in my heels It's where I belong down at the Pink Pony Club

Day by day your world fades away Waiting to feel - all the dreams that say Golden rain will bring you riches

I'm on the right track, yeah we're onto a winner

Before ‘Urban Hymns’, The Verve were building something far stranger. ‘Slide Away’ captures the psychedelic sweep and raw emotion of their earliest sound

Because all these chemicals dancing through my veins, they don’t kill the cause – they just numb the pain

You don't need to drink or eat, stay awake or go to sleep Trust me, baby, I'm the creep, and I'm lovesick with you And I'm lovesick with you

Cause I'm a sad sad post teen Caught up in the love machine No dream, come clean Walking like a zombie, like a zombie