PRS Yearbook (Quick, the Drawbridge) - comments @ The HMHB Lyrics Project

12 Jul 2008

Runrig with special guest Mike Peters

OK, so I’ve taken a longer than usual break from posting up lyrics, and therefore as penance let’s do a song which nobody ever seems to have quoted online before and which I’ve been dreading doing. PRS Yearbook (Quick, the Drawbridge) has some fairly baffling content anyway, but the muddy production just makes it even harder to get to grips with. I expect more than a few comments and corrections on this one. Thanks to Grev, whose efforts I’m loathe to amend much!

See lyrics to PRS Yearbook (Quick, the Drawbridge)

16 Letters Sent:

Kevan

Haven’t got the CD to hand, but I’d always heard the first line as “gibbet”. And “eat one, go on” seems to make more sense than “eat Wonderwall”.

Jul 12th, 2008
simon smith

`but to you, they`ll be like savoury snacks. When you`re feeling really hungry, you can just step out and eat what you want, you know you want to`

Jul 12th, 2008
simon smith

or `eat one, go on, you know you want to`

Jul 12th, 2008
shuggy

Agree with Kevan - I’ve always heard the first line as gibbet and it makes sense in the context.

Jul 13th, 2008
sgd

in the Half Man Half Biscuit song book it says “with the girl you’ve LOVED for most of your life”

and “but to you they’ll be like m’mm savoury snacks”

Jul 13th, 2008
chris

Thanks guys, all suggestions duly applied. I really should get a copy of this lyrics book, but that’d make it less of a challenge really.

Jul 13th, 2008
Grim

Excellent. I’m with you all the way on this, and congratulations to whoever managed it for deciphering “bandanas” - that was a complete mystery to me before. I’m glad it’s not just me who hears “mmm!” in the bit about the hypnotist.

I’d have “Sitting on park bench” as they often seem to be dedicated to the memory of prominent townsfolk and whatnot; and then I think it’s there.

Jul 17th, 2008
Ben

At last!

Sitcom, of course, for years I’ve puzzled myself by wondering what a ’simco’ was, I sort of assumed it was a Wirral based low value supermarket of some description.

Jul 19th, 2008
Ian (Colorado)

Another happy listener here, now knowing that others hear the “mmm”. I feared I was adding extra bits for my own edification.

Jul 19th, 2008
Darren

Surely it’s ’see what they’ve done to the trendy mother fucker’s sitcom’ I’ll be so upset if it’s not that!

Sep 12th, 2008
simon smith

Don`t be upset, Darren, but I`ve always heard it as `from the`.

Sep 14th, 2008
Bruce

Huh… I’d always heard the last line as “I used to think that you had to pretend.” Anyone else get that, or is it just me?

Sep 17th, 2008
Bruce

Oh, and I thought it was “just about to eat one” instead of “just step out and eat one…”

Well done either way!

Sep 17th, 2008
Ben

Bruce, I’ve always alternated between the two - it’s hard to catch (hence this website I suppose)

Incidentally if you’re a Wirral based Brighton fan then we’ve met.

Sep 17th, 2008
zymeck

I always thought it was

“Come see the townsfolk keenly gathered round the gym”

This would make sense with the ‘cloakroom tickets’ in the following line

Sep 17th, 2008
zymeck

just listened to it again - it is gibbet

Sep 19th, 2008