Making Up The Numbers

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Making Up The Numbers

So it turns out I’m alright with bungalows and new builds
Pop music and Richard Curtis
I’ve tuned out my aesthetic snob in my head
I just like being moderately warm and well fed

When I was a young man I was very angry at the world
And it was from this anger that I derived a moral superiority
Oh, I thought that I had standards
I didn’t have standards, I was just a prick

Now …

We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (we’re just pleased to be here)

Right, so, I’ve started reading up about history
In Roman Britain there as a bloke known as the Count of the Saxon Shore
It was his job to protect the English coastline
From the barbarian hordes

From The Wash down to modern day Brighton
Holding back the tides
Pissing out a forest fire
Trying to do a poetry recital at a rave
I think about that guy a lot …

Now …

We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (we’re just pleased to be here) x 2

(Look at us, we don’t care)

These days when I have an idea I do my level best with it
Then send to mate Jim who makes the idea so much more
We don’t argue about who did what bit
But every few months or so we send each other a text saying “love your work”

Now …

We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (making up the numbers)
We’re just pleased to be here (we’re just pleased to be here) x 2

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from The People Who Run The Country, released October 26, 2022
Wright / Taylor

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The People Who Run The Country Sheffield, UK

The People Who Run The Country roll their misanthropic fun wagon of pop into 2022 and suddenly things don’t seem that bad any more. Sure, life might be a shit show but just look at the lights!

Their debut single gained Radio 6 airplay and this Autumn they’re bringing out their debut LP. ... more

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