AM I NORMAN?
Now I’m shut up in my house
With a very nice view directly south
I walk the garden like an exercise yard
The lawn is soft and the paths are hard
The shelves are dusted there’s a big TV
And no-one comes to bother me
Hey yeah set me free
From the brain-damage ads I’m forced to see

Hey hey set me free
Nothing seems real and it’s not just me
Hey hey set me free
Nothing seems real and it’s not just me

I used to go around the town
But I gave it up cos it brought me down
I got real tired of the same old faces
All the people and all of the places
The same old stories and lines of talk
The same old times of the same old sort
Hey yeah set me free
Nothing seems real and it’s not just me

Hey hey set me free
Nothing seems real and it’s not just me
Hey hey set me free
From the brain-damage ads I’m forced to see

The future’s the same as the presently past
Respect had a name but it didn’t last
When I get up to go out the door
There’s no surprise cos I know the score
I used to take drugs when I was down
Now I take them just to get around
Hey yeah set me free
Nothing seems real but they say it’s just me

Hey hey set me free
Nothing seems real but they say it’s just me
Hey hey set me free
From the brain-damage ads we’re forced to see

Words by Peter Greatorex. Copyright ℗ Explicit Music 2000.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.

Copyright © 2015 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One.

Performers:

Vocals – PJ Speed
Guitars – Zak Black
Bass – Maxx Damage
Drums – Sven Stiglund

Fun Facts:

• There are three completely distinct guitar parts in this song.
• There is the straight rock, no-nonsense chords and riffs on the relatively clean guitar.
• There is a dirtier guitar which plays with a loose and free unhinged swamp style.
• Finally there is the baritone guitar which is utterly filthy and can cause eyeballs to bleed when played at high volume.
• This is a song about being retired and wondering what to do with all that free time.
• The way the lyrics completely destroy the whole notion of pub and nightclub culture is brilliant and breathtaking.