CLOSE UP
You are my friend
I trust you once and then
There’s no room to turn around
Caught up I can’t back down
And I think I hear the echoes of your laugh
From where I am the story’s in two parts

You are my friend
With you my time I’d spend
Everybody sees us near
Our relationship seems clear
Yet I think I hear the echoes of your laugh
From where I am the story’s in two parts

You are my friend
I trust you once and then
There’s no room to turn around
Caught up I can’t back down
And I think I hear the echos of your laugh
From where I am the story’s in two parts

You are my friend
To you my heart I’d lend
But sometimes I’m blind
Your words leave me behind
I know I hear the echoes of your laugh
From where I am the story’s in two parts

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

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

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

Recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by G. Davies at Wud Records Studio One 2015.

Performers:

PJ Speed – vocals
Zak Black – guitars
Maxx Damage – bass
Sven Stiglund – drums

Fun Facts:

• This song is hard to pin down to any particular key.
• This is an interesting piece of music because all the chords are minor – Am and Gm, then Em and Dm.
• Close Up is another song that Pete wrote the lyrics for during the days of Alien Heat.
• Alien Heat never attempted to develop the song at all.
• George created a load of jazz/funk guitar parts for it that Pete didn’t like.
• When Pete sang the vocal melody at the Wud Records studios, George played along and found that the song needed to go in a completely different direction to where it had been going before.
• Cover Up had a rather silly chorus which was dropped.
• There is a possibility of an instrumental version of the original jazz/funk track making an appearance sometime.
• This was a song Pete wrote for his dear friend of many years, Terry.