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Belle & Sebastian - Ever Had a Little Faith?

Belle & Sebastian - Ever Had a Little Faith? Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Released: 2015

Ever Had a Little Faith? Lyrics

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This track was written by Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch before the band's 1996's debut Tigermilk. Violinist Sarah Martin told NME: "We did it a few days after Lou Reed died. The song predates the band; it's a really old one. It came together really quickly and I guess we were in that Velvety frame of mind. I really love it."

Murdoch recalled to Drowned in Sound : "I stumbled over it a jotter from 1995 or so, and the tune came back to me immediately with every little twist and turn intact."

"I didn't have to change much, I added the last verse," he continued. "I remember the feeling of writing it, and that's the important thing. I thought we (the band) could still get it in recording."

Murdoch explained the track's meaning: "The song was from back in the day, when I often imagined wayward heroines in the same predicament that I was in," he said. "I used to imagine the kind of person that if I wished I could run into, round the next corner."

"The sentiment was based on a sermon that our then minister, John Christie, preached about simply getting through a dark night, and the hope of morning," Murdoch continued. "In this case he was talking about Easter Morning. I always used to leave the church a bit giddy, wondering for the rest of the day how all that stuff should be applied to the streets and tenements of my mouldy old town."

Belle & Sebastian - The Cat with the Cream

Belle & Sebastian - The Cat with the Cream Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Released: 2015

The Cat with the Cream Lyrics

Sitting at the old kitchen table
Peace and health and dreams
Stretching out in the darkness
Mother's up the stairs with her ageing new boyfriend
Cathy's staying in to make sure nothing happens
All aboard the freak parade
I cover up my head and pray
I'm praying for the light
Down amongst the old city chambers
Men in frocks debate all the policy changes
Everybody bet on the boom and got busted
Everybody bet and in the government trusted
Grubby little red MP
Yellow flapping hopelessly

Tory like The Cat with the Cream
Tory like the cat with the cream
I studied you in history
I studied in the library
In days of old when knights were bold
They'd settle it with sword and shield
In days of old when knights were bold
It's settled by the king

Praying for a friend is contagious
Specially when it comes at the old kitchen table
Listening for the swoosh of his quickening paces
Watching for the smile on the bravest of faces
How I wish you'd read to me
s rich in swallows and trees
Get me though the night

Waiting at the old kitchen table
Listening for my code listening for my instructions
Surely now I'm here, I am destined for greatness
I want to be the Queen pulling kids out of rivers
All aboard the freak parade
I cover up my head and pray

Praying for the cat with the cream
Praying for the cat with the cream
I studied you in history
I studied in the library
In days of old when knights were bold
They'd settle it with sword and shield
In days of old when knights were bold
It's settled by the king
It's settled by the king
It's settled by the king
It's settled by the king

Writer/s: SARAH MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER GEDDES, ROBERT KILDEA, STEPHEN JACKSON, RICHARD COLBURN, STUART MURDOCH
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This song is a take on modern politics through the eyes of a young woman. Belle & Sebastian vocalist and songwriter Stuart Murdoch explained to The Independent: "It was after the 2010 (UK) elections and I was thinking about how there was a massive crash and [yet] nothing had changed. So I wrote 'The Cat with the Cream', but I actually only started when I imagined myself as a younger person, what she thought of the political situation. If you can imagine a very naive character and what they feel about things, that translates very nicely to pop."

Murdoch recalled the story of the song to Drowned in Sound : "In the aftermath of the 2010 UK general election I thought to myself, 'one of these days I'm going to write a political song.' Or at least 'one of these I'm going to have to write down how I feel about current events.' And then I didn't do it."

"But I did get a picture in my head of a girl. She was sitting at a big old wooden table in a basement kitchen in an old house. She was alone, comfortable, just finished a big bowl of ice cream, pondering at that ponderous kind of age. And I wondered what she thought of politics and the whole situation. So I wrote the song through her and it turned into Cat With The Cream."

"It was a good thinking table, and for a person in dark times, it was also a good praying table, and we will forgive her if most of the praying she did was for herself."

"I guess, she was praying for someone bigger, braver, wiser to come along than the average 'leader' of the day. In the books she had read there was always a King."

If someone looks like the cat that got the cream, that person is very pleased with him or herself as they have achieved their objective.

Back in the 1950s it appears people were easily satisfied. In 1956 The Four Lads sung on "Standing On The Corner," a hit song from the 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella:

Brother you don't know a nicer occupation
Matter of fact, neither do I
Than standing on a corner watching all the girls
Watching all the girls, watching all the girls go by
I'm the cat that got the cream.
Haven't got a girl but I can dream
Haven't got a girl but I can wish
So I'll take me down to Main street
And that's where I select my imaginary dish

Belle & Sebastian - The Everlasting Muse

Belle & Sebastian - The Everlasting Muse Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Released: 2015

The Everlasting Muse Lyrics

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This song finds Stuart Murdoch appealling for inspiration and receiving the reply: "Be popular, play pop, and you will win my love." It was the first song he wrote for The Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance and it came to the Belle & Sebastian frontman in 2014 during a day off in Switzerland at the end of the band's summer shows. He explained to Uncut: "I was in Switzerland at the end of the tour with the band thinking, 'Gosh... I have to write! I have no idea where these songs are gonna come from.' And I felt like a pleading to 'the muse.' It's not far away from the sentiment of an Abba song, you know, 'Thank You For The Music'. I'm flirting with the spirit of music."

Murdoch told the story of the song to Drowned in Sound : "I had borrowed a bike and was exploring the numerous paths that weaved around Zurich. I fund a nice warm leafy spot and began thinking about the upcoming album. I had a couple of songs lying around, but I knew I would have to get a pile more from somewhere."

"I know that I'm always saying that songs come from somewhere else, but I really believe it. Songs usually come to me just as I wake up, melody and rhythm at least, sometimes the whole thing."

"So while I sat there beside the allotments of Zurich, eating plums from the overhanging branches, I thought about trying to summon the Muse."

"I thought I could use flattery: I would write a song about waiting for the Muse to arrive. I would beseech her to show herself, knowing that the music wouldn't be any good unless she brought her magic."

"So I wrote the words down, and the song became 'The Everlasting Muse.' And it might seem like an outlandish conceit, but really, I would be nowhere without music."

Here are some more songs inspired by or written in Switzerland:

"The Swiss Maid" by Del Shannon (This Roger Miller-penned song is about a Swiss maiden, who is unable to find true love).

"For No One" by The Beatles (Written by Paul McCartney sitting in a chalet while on holiday with his girlfriend Jane Asher in Klosters, Switzerland).

"Smoke On The Water" by Deep Purple (Inspired by a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland which left a layer of smoke that covered Lake Geneva).

"A Winter's Tale" by Queen (Freddie Mercury's lyrics were inspired by the view through the window at Queen's recording studio on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. He composed the song just two weeks before his death).

"William Tell" by Gioachino Rossini (An opera in four acts, the four hour work tells the story of the legendary Swiss 14th century bowman. The opera is best known for the high-energy galloping finale of its overture, which was famously used in the The Lone Ranger TV and radio shows).