Pulp Songs - Razzmatazz Lyrics

Pulp - Razzmatazz

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Album: Intro - The Gift Recordings
Released: 1993

Razzmatazz Lyrics

The trouble with your brother, he's always sleeping with your mother
And I know that your sister missed her time again this month
Am I talking too fast or are you just playing dumb?
If you want I can write it down

It should matter to you but aren't you the one with your Razzmatazz
and the nights on the town?
Oh-oh-oh Oh you knew it and you blew it didn't you babe?
I was lying when I asked you to stay now no-one's gonna care

If you don't call them when you said
And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed
And all those stupid little things they ain't working
No they aren't working at all oh

You started getting fatter three weeks after I left you
Now you're going with some kid looks like some bad comedian
Are you gonna go out, are you sitting at home eating boxes of Milk Tray?
Watch TV on your own, aren't you the one with your razzmatazz

And your nights on the town?
Oh-oh-oh And your father wants to help you doesn't he babe?
But your mother wants to put you away
Now no-one's gonna care if you don't call them when you said

And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed
And all those stupid little things they ain't working
Oh they aren't working at all
Oh well I saw you at the doctor's waiting for a test

You tried to look like some kind of heiress but your face is such a mess
And now you're going to a party and you're leaving on your own
Oh I'm sorry but didn't you say that things go better with a little bit of razzamatazz?
Na na nana na na na... and now no-one's gonna care if you don't call them when you said

And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed
Now it's half past ten in the evening and you wish that you were dead
'Cause all those stupid little things
No they ain't working, oh they aren't working at all.

Writer/s: BANKS, NICK / COCKER, JARVIS BRANSON / DOYLE, CANDIDA / MACKEY, STEPHEN PATRICK / SENIOR, RUSSELL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Razzmatazz Song Chart

Just around the start of the 1990s (after over a decade in the game), Pulp finally began to garner commercial and critical attention. In this time, they endured multiple lineup changes - with Jarvis Cocker being the one constant. "Razzmatazz" was the band's final single on Gift Records before making the major-label move to Island for their next album His 'n' Hers. Whilst it failed to chart, it gained much critical acclaim - a further sign of the mounting momentum behind the band.

"Razzmatazz" details the months after a breakup, with the narrator being ditched by his supposedly far more cocksure girlfriend. The title relates to what the girl thinks is needed after the breakup: some fun, frolics, and 'razzmatazz.' However, as the singer keeps meeting her in the months after, that turns out not to be the case - she winds up putting on weight, going out with a new guy who resembles "a bad comedian," and sitting around in her house all day eating chocolate and watching TV. Eventually he bumps into her at the doctor's whilst he is "waiting for some tests to be done," and he realizes how downhill she has gone since their breakup.

"Razzmatazz" was never released officially on an album, although it was included on the US release of His 'n' Hers as a bonus track, and on the 1995 compilation Intro - The Gift Recordings.

The single contains a trilogy of songs on the B-side which form together to make "Inside Susan - A Story In Three Songs."

"Stacks" details Susan's early adolescent life in Rotherham, UK; "Inside Susan" looks at recounting her thoughts of her late teens as she rides the bus. The final part, "59 Lyndhurst Grove," jumps forward to later in her life where she is the second wife of an architect, living "somewhere in South London," and cheating on her husband to try and alleviate the tedium of everyday life.