The Secret of My Success

from Ersatzreal by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS
I get ideas from everywhere
From little books from who knows where
I surf the net and find the lines
Before I know it’s turned out fine
And no-one knows just how this works
They probably think that this must hurt
And they believe it’s what I feel
But I know it’s not really real
All this heartache all this pain
And now here comes that song again
They sound the same maybe it’s true
These songs are all about me and you
I take the words from here and there,
Just things I’ve seen that catch my eye
I hardly have a new idea,
There must be much that passes me by
And late at night when I’m in bed,
The words are spinning round my head
And suddenly they all make sense,
I see at last just what I meant
Or am I reading too much in,
Am I committing the cardinal sin
Of writers all around the world,
Believing art attracts the girls
And now here comes another song
The words just flow they can’t be wrong
Cos they’re from deep inside my head
And this is all that I have said
Another day another song
Another word that rhymes with song
I can’t dissect or I’ll find out
Just what this song is all about

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from Ersatzreal, released October 8, 2007

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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