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Johnny Marr - 25 Hours

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Album: Playland
Released: 2014

25 Hours Lyrics

So are we erasing ourselves

I am a return
Was born unheard
But anyhow
Me was a word
A word just like now
And so I learned a need
For anyone
And so I know of
Need from anyone

A life ahead
A life of ordinary mind
I said no no
I am a child of the divine
And so I was told
There was no need for anyone
Yeah, I saw my soul
And I was seeing what it was
All lies ahead
For life of shaking off crime
All eyes ahead
And I was working my mind
And so it goes
No need for anyone
And so I forego
A need, no

Well, I am erasing myself
The love I need is out there
Worlds I'm leaving
And the door really goes somewhere
Where all I need is myself
And learn all leads to an end
Worlds, I'm leaving
And this door really goes somewhere

Sometimes you look
And you look just like you learned
And some go on
And on some kind of terms
And ever again we march on
Like everyone
And ever again
I ran from all the freaks and priests
Who were hunting me down with attitude
And the heat and the bricks
Were falling on me like doom
Till I seen just everything I had to lose
And I told myself about all I had to do

Oh I am erasing myself
The love I need is out there
Worlds I am leaving
And the door really goes somewhere
Where all I need is myself
And learn all leads to an end
Worlds, I'm leaving
And this door really go somewhere

Writer/s: JOHNNY MARR, JAMES DOVIAK
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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This autobiographical song describes how a young Johnny Marr used music at school to escape the life that was laid out in front of him. He told NME: "I was immersed in the Catholic school system and an oppressive upbringing, looking at a life of having to consort with people that I didn't want to be around. I realised you need to find some escape to break out of that, and that's when I realized art was a way of escaping, in my case the music I was making or wanted to make."

"I would've been eight or nine, and I knew I just needed to escape the life that I was in," he added. "I got a sense of what might be my destiny if I didn't do that."

Johnny Marr - Speak Out Reach Out

Johnny Marr - Speak Out Reach Out Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Speak Out Reach Out Lyrics

Sophisticated minds
You are your country
Situated in a line
In my city
In a forgotten dream
I can't wake up
Thank you mama
Her Majesty
Hey, hey, hey
The dream becoming reality
All the day

So

Reach out
To somebody's God
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Reach out
To get what you want
'Cause what it takes
Is all there is

My mind it flies
And it alights
On the panes
Every night I'm getting high
In the doorway
The situation's sublime
Lets face it
Taking from the deaf and the blind
Hey, hey, hey
At home in a hole in the ground
All the day

So

Reach out
To somebody's god
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Speak out
Get what you want
'Cause what it takes
Is all there is

I'm strung and wound
Beyond all the harmony
And when I die I'm gonna fly
Economy
My dream's a reality always
Thank our mama Her Majesty
Hey, hey, hey
Sleep under falling leaves
All the day

So

Reach out
To someone you love
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Reach out
To somebody you love
'Cause all you've got
Is all there is
Speak out
To someone you love
'Cause what you take
Is all there is

Writer/s: JOHNNY MARR, JAMES DOVIAK
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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Johnny Marr - Back In The Box

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Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Back In The Box Lyrics

Let me in
Don't stop can't stop
Oh and it's big time
Walk on the wind
Breaking me out
From the inside and the outside
A shock front
Rocked you and rocked you
Double quicklime
Hold the whirlwind
Hanging me up
Like the first time and the last time

Hang on, hang on
The universe explodes
Hang on, hang on
Confusion controls

What's happening
It's shooting me up
Into the big sky
Just everything
Is breaking us out
From the inside
And the outside
Thoughts blown
Rocked and blocked me
Oh, I'm mystified
Chase the whirlwind
Waking us up
For the first time and the last time

Come on, come on
The universe exposed
Come on. come on
Confusion controls

Day by day by day
By North or South
You can't go home
Confusion controls
Hang on, hang on
The universe explodes

Writer/s: JAMES DOVIAK, JOHNNY MARR
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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This is the opening track on Johnny Marr's Playland album. "When I wrote the first song, 'Back In The Box', I knew it would be the opener," Marr told NME, because it's just a celebration of euphoria and ecstasy."

Marr described this to Q magazine as, "a good old-fashioned love song."

Johnny Marr expanded on the song's meaning to DIY magazine: "I'm singing about transcendence and euphoria and ecstatic states, either hearing a record you like, waking up on a sunny morning, being in love," he said. "Or schizophrenia, drugs, all these things that can make you have a euphoric experience."

Johnny Marr - Candidate

Johnny Marr - Candidate Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Candidate Lyrics

Big screen real life
Be a part of the story
Get free it's time
Be a candidate
The things that you wanna say
They disappear into fear
And they're gone then
Mystery always hides in your eyes
Mysteries always found in your eyes

Now the moments come
And the story goes on
When you're feeling young
And you just want fun
Get in the picture come on
Now turn the future on us

Get free it's time
To be somebody's story
Be free it's time
Be a candidate
Pictures don't only fade
They reappear into view
If you want them
Visions, they always flashed
In your eyes

And the moments come
Just let the story go on
And the future return
Now you just want fun
Get in the picture belong
And you think so young

Let the feeling come
Get in the story, come on
Now turn the future on us

Writer/s: JAMES DOVIAK, JOHNNY MARR
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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Johnny Marr wrote this about the great women that have made the impression on him throughout his life. He explained to Under The Radar magazine: "Women seem to have a need and an understanding of what their sense of purpose is doing for them that guys don't. I'm being very presumptuous here, but what I've learned from a couple of women is the idea of: Does this relationship with a child, with a husband, with a lover, with a girlfriend, with what I'm doing, work for my sense of purpose? This is a concept that I don't know any guy has."

Marr's daughter and American singer-songwriter Meredith Sheldon both sing on the track (Sheldon opened for the former Smiths' guitarist on his 2014 tour). He said: "It was very important that I have two women in my life sing on that track. Girls have a song that hopefully guys will relate to too."

Johnny Marr - Boys Get Straight

Johnny Marr - Boys Get Straight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Boys Get Straight Lyrics

It was one of those times
When I wasn't really there
I'm a side effect I said
In town disintegration was
Doing me in
Do me in again

Sometimes so good
Makes me think of revolution
Can we do it again
Something in our blood
Makes people needy people
Consuming again

Boys
Get straight
Shot down
In flames
Small time
Happenings
Too late
Boys
Get straight

Reactivate
Reload

Sometimes so good
Makes people needy people
Getting used again
Some things in our blood
Makes it so easy for them
Consume consume again

Reactivate
Reload

Boys
Get straight
Wild life
Escapes
High time
Happenings
Too late
Boys
Get straight

Writer/s: JAMES DOVIAK, JOHNNY MARR
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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The lyrics for this song were inspired by the situationists of the late '60s. "They were provocateurs," Marr told Under The Radar magazine. "They influenced a few songs on both my solo records."

"I read an essay criticizing the right-on, hipster, left wing so it felt pretty good to not get too righteous looking at your own side," he continued. "It felt inspired to turn the tables and say, 'It's all very well having political correctness, but it doesn't really count for very much when you're harassing some people on the street with your mates when you're all f--ked up on a Friday night. You're on the same side as the enemy then. You're just as gross as the other side.'"

The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries, who were active from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. The exclusive membership was made up of mainly French avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. They were greatly influential in shaping the ideas behind the May 1968 French insurrections.