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Hawksley Workman - They Decided Not to Like Us

Hawksley Workman - They Decided Not to Like Us Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Songs from The God That Comes
Released: 2013

They Decided Not to Like Us Lyrics

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"They Decided Not to Like Us" is the epilogue of Hawksley Workman's one-man show, The God That Comes based off of the Greek tragedy by Euripides, The Bacchae. The song serves as almost a modern-day version of the story because of the similar themes. The Bacchae revolves around the King of Thebes, Pentheus, being upset that his people are engaging in disgraceful activities involving alcohol consumption and coitus.

"They Decided Not to Like Us" speaks about feeling badly about oneself after a night of partying and possibly being judged for partaking in those same kinds of events as in the play.

The idea of "They Decided Not to Like Us" being a present day version of the story is evident in the first two verses with the lyrics mentioning alcohol and worrying about people seeing revealing photos:

Nudie pictures on your mobile phone
Forgotten in the back of a cab
You were just going home
You were too drunk to know

And you'll wake up at seven
With your guts in a knot
Wondering if the world has seen
All the close-ups you took
That you texted to me

The song is different than any other because it was the only one not written for the play. Workman wrote it with Hot Hot Heat's lead singer, Steve Bays, before they had started their Canadian rock supergroup, Mounties.

In our interview with Workman , he revealed what inspired the song. "I sort of had a night of excessiveness and then the next day I had all the self-loathing and guilt that comes with those kinds of nights," he said. Hawksley went on to explain how some people did not like the tune included at the end of the play, but that the point of it was to bring the whole show into the present.

Hawksley Workman - Smoke Baby

Hawksley Workman - Smoke Baby Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lover/Fighter
Released: 2003

Smoke Baby Lyrics

In your underclothes
You went out for a smoke
I call you in
Just before the storm begins
Your last breath of smoke
You let out in the room
It makes a cloud
Like the greyist
Perfect plume

Smoke Baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Cocaine in Montreal
And back out on a plane baby
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me
I'll be half asleep
And you'll get up at three

Casual as a light
Flickers before it's night
Sadness comes
And the daylight turns and runs
As the sun is setting you'll be betting
I'll be getting through
I'll find a payphone baby
Take some time to talk to you

And I have never felt
Quite this close to hell
All this rock and roll baby
Only time will tell
But we're young now, having fun now
On the town now, get around now
It's fine for now
But someday we'll settle down
But not now

Smoke baby

Who'll give you time to cry?
And time to find yourself?

Writer/s: CORRIGAN, RYAN MATTHEW / MCKINNEY, MARTIN DANIEL N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This is the eighth track on Hawksley Workman's critically acclaimed and commercially successful album, Lover/Fighter. Workman co-wrote this song with renowned producer, Doc McKinney, best recognized for his work with The Weeknd and Drake.

Workman has written songs with McKinney numerous times throughout his career and "Smoke Baby" was the first one they wrote together. The song was drastically different from any that Workman had previously written. It opened his songwriting world up to a whole new process he had never explored before. "Smoke Baby" was written in a studio to a beat that McKinney created. In our interview with Workman , he explained what it was like working with him. "The beats that he would cook up always felt to me to be a little cooler," he said. "You just could always feel that Doc was onto something."

It was the beginning of Workman realizing that there were other ways of writing than just sitting down at a piano like he was used to doing. This would later become a norm for Workman when he would take songwriting trips to London, England, Stockholm, Sweden, Los Angeles, and New York to work with pop producers trying to breed radio hits.

Lyrically "Smoke Baby" talks about Workman believing his own hype at the time. "I was kind of this cult star in France and I was living an excessive lifestyle," he told us. "The lyrics now serve me more as an embarrassment than they do as me proudly wearing my rock and roll badge of honor."

The outlandish rock and roll lifestyle Workman mentions is evident in these lyrics:

And I have never felt
Quite this close to hell
All this rock and roll, baby
Only time will tell

And specifically in the chorus, too:

Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol, baby
Cocaine in Montreal
And black out on the plane, baby

Hawksley Workman - Safe and Sound

Hawksley Workman - Safe and Sound Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: For Him And The Girls
Released: 1999

Safe and Sound Lyrics

You slept through the last small town,
I'll wake you up when the next one comes around.
Your eyes are closed, like you truly believe
You're Safe and Sound with me

No looking back, no turning into salt.
The city was crumbling but, baby, we're not to fault.
When things got too rough, I promised you we'd leave.
You're safe and sound with me.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

The wipers clear the windshield of the rain.
My shirt sleeve dries your eyes the very same.
We fit together like the ignition and the key.
You're safe and sound with me.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

You're safe and sound with me,
Just like you always will, just like you always will be.

The glove box light shines bright enough to see.
You read the map like you were reading poetry.
And it just might take you forever to see,
That you're safe and sound with me.

Writer/s: CORRIGAN, RYAN MATTHEW
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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"Safe and Sound" is the tenth track on Hawksley Workman's debut album, For Him and the Girls. Workman wrote about the song on his website: "One night, i quietly wrote, what i wanted to be, the quintessential driving song… it's turned into a rather popular song for weddings…"

In 2014 when we asked Hawksley how he feels about this, he replied: "It's a big life event that you want to celebrate and it's kind of exciting for me that that song has that life."

Workman wrote the song in 1998 on a piano in the apartment he lived in with his then girlfriend. "I had imagined this song as traveling with her at the time and she was asleep," Hawksley told us. "So I guess the images were all there waiting to be plucked."

He continued, "It's interesting that it does come across as a wedding song because in my late teens, I was very pious. So I had a lot of biblical imagery floating around back then. My first few records are loaded with it."

Workman's idea about "Safe and Sound" being about traveling is evident in the first verse:

You slept through the last small town
I'll wake you up when the next one comes around
Your eyes are closed like you truly believe
You're safe and sound with me