CRASH
No more candid picture shows
Just soap bubble opera’s shallow glows
They tell me it’s a story about my life
To just ignore what I don’t like
It’s so real I must live like that
Script in my pocket and a ticket in my hat

We gotta stop
We’re gonna crash
Life is money you can’t pay back
Life is money you can’t pay back

No more cracks in the temple walls
Next week’s episode will save us all
Your mirror becomes a TV tube
What was reflection now is a view
The face you see is not your own
It spends its time in someone else’s home

We gotta stop
We’re gonna crash
Life is money you can’t pay back
Life is money you can’t pay back

No more thoughts in a lazy way
They scream from the glass: “We’ll make your day!”
I believe it’s true because it’s on the screen
But you can only see what they have seen
We’re all plugged in to one beating heart
Life don’t begin until the programme starts

We gotta stop
We’re gonna crash
Life is money you can’t pay back
Life is money you can’t pay back

Words by Peter Greatorex. Copyright ℗ 1990 Pig Pen Music.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot/R. Holloway/M. Greatorex/G. Barbe.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1990 Pig Pen Music.

Sequenced at Silent Running Studios by George Davies and Jeff Willmot 1992.
Re-recorded, engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One by George Davies 2015.

Performers:

PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Maxx Damage – bass

Fun Facts:

• Crash was originally written and performed by Alien Heat.
• Jeff was responsible for most of the drumming in this version.
• This song was Alien Heat’s set opener, although sadly no recordings of the Alien Heat version still exist.
• The key for this is Bm, and when George went to entertain the folks of Plymouth with his acoustic guitar, he used to play this sliced together with another Dark Company song called Ulysses, which Dark Company never did much with, and later became an Ug Brothers song called Paperchase.
• This was the first song that Jeff played bass on for Dark Company.
• George and Richard wrote the organ part in George’s Haldon Road bedsit one day when Richard came to visit with his keyboards.
• Whatever contributions Marc and Graham made to the writing of this song are now lost in the mists of time, although they receive a small credit here nevertheless.
• Subsequently to the release of Crash and its EastEnders Remix on the Signmaker album, Dark Company created this version so that they could perform the song live.
• It has been released here largely for posterity.