Song | Flat of Angles |
Artist | YoungStar |
Album | Late Night Tales: Friendly Fires |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
or worse, someone who knows me walks by. | |
[00:00.03] | I hope you enjoy the finally files Late Night Tales selection |
[00:03.29] | Welcome |
[00:04.74] | To the first part of the four part late night tell story Flat of Angles |
[00:10.03] | Written by Simon Cleary and read by me Benedict Cumberbatch |
[00:15.55] | I’ll miss you, |
[00:18.75] | I’ll miss our walks, |
[00:22.60] | trying to pretend we are in perfect step. |
[00:25.28] | Out of step now, |
[00:28.25] | sick on the floor, |
[00:30.81] | out of the room, |
[00:32.63] | fenced in, trapped. |
[00:35.57] | I can still hear the schoolchildren play outside at their usual 10:30. |
[00:41.17] | It always used to annoy me, as I was trying to sleep, but it doesn’t now. |
[00:44.90] | It seems alright. |
[00:46.92] | A replacement, a continuation. |
[00:51.55] | Their sound jangles around the room, |
[00:55.12] | it sounds so different from where I’ve been. |
[00:58.14] | A party, alone. |
[01:02.35] | Packed in with others, but never feeling so alone. |
[01:07.41] | People dance too close. |
[01:11.60] | She was there, I had only gone because I hoped she would be. |
[01:19.33] | I had arrived early, as the the streetlights were coming on, |
[01:22.85] | so I took a long walk around the block, |
[01:25.99][01:24.47] | taking a few extra lefts and rights, |
[01:27.00] | past the Chicken Cottage and the Costcutter, |
[01:30.71] | then along a crescent that arced me out of my way, |
[01:32.59] | past a group of figures huddled under the entrance to the flats, |
[01:35.56] | shielding the flicking lighter from the wind. |
[01:38.35] | This... area is little more than a traffic island, |
[01:45.96] | a triangle around which cars and coaches stream into town up the bleak Old Kent, |
[01:52.27] | or out into Kent and the coast. |
[01:54.66] | The same faces trudge around there for yeas. |
[01:59.25] | “Spare some change please? Much as possible.” |
[02:01.72] | “You want to buy some weed.” |
[02:03.69] | “Do you have a spare cigarette?” |
[02:06.06] | He always wants one. |
[02:08.13] | And that one about weed was not a question. |
[02:11.12] | There is a Samaritans office between two everely dilapidated buildings on a black-bricked terrace. |
[02:18.75] | It has a thermometer painted on a 10 ft wooden board nailed to the outside. |
[02:22.70] | There is red paint up to the £0 mark, and, an ambitious 10 ft higher, |
[02:26.84] | is written £200,000. It never got any warmer there. |
[02:32.03] | The Man begging in the corner makes me take a huge detour when going towards my flat. |
[02:40.61] | He looks up with a pitiful stare that makes me want to kick the misery out of him. |
[02:46.82] | His dipit wee cup of unwanted coffee. |
[02:50.36] | A child’s sleeping bag. |
[02:52.22] | JJB sports. |
[02:53.58] | A crack, a release, his poor exhaust. |
[02:57.26] | He was lost. |
[02:59.08] | The Broadway. |
[03:03.12] | The Town Hall, such a grand building, all nautical reminiscences, here, far from water. |
[03:10.53] | It would be quite a sight if you could get far back enough from it to take a look. |
[03:13.45] | But my back is up against the black panelling of the gay sauna opposite, |
[03:18.26] | a coach thunders by, and I run past the video shop that I owe £5 to. |
[03:23.05] | Meaning go way back. |
[03:26.95] | I may be becoming one of those people you see in New Cross. |
[03:32.19] | I have a book, peeping out of one pocket, at least want to look vaguely intellectual if someone I know, |
[03:41.03] | I throw down the finish can into the pile between two walls, outside my flat. |
[03:46.09] | Look, there’s the hardware store. |
[03:49.98] | It has a large cutout of a radiant man and woman in overalls, |
[03:52.70] | the woman handing the man a tin of paint, up his ladder, beaming. |
[03:56.18] | It has faded in the sun. |
[03:58.90] | I bought creosote from there, once. |
[04:02.12] | What a night! |
[04:07.26] | Pure ment..! |
[04:09.23] | It was messy! |
[04:11.07] | It was out of hand! It was out of space! |
[04:13.40] | I rapped on that track once, at Bagley’s, remember it?!Skibbadee handed me the mic, |
[04:17.32] | I got to shout “I’M GONNA SEND HIM TO OUTER SPACE TO FIIIND ANOTHER RACE!” |
[04:22.70] | Absolutely fantastic, those days… |
[04:28.19] | The pills these days are not the same, they don’t work. |
[04:31.33] | No love. |
[04:33.78] | I was chatting to this bloke in the kitchen, and he said something, |
[04:36.05] | I can’t remember what, |
[04:36.69] | but I had to push him over, crashed his arse on the coffee table, |
[04:39.73] | ash tinnies and CDs everywhere! |
[04:42.66] | Spilled the lines too, the fat bastard. |
[04:46.29] | I can’t get you out of my head, |
[04:50.98] | your loving is all I think about, |
[04:56.02] | no I can’t get you out of my head, |
[04:58.85] | something something is all I think about. |
[05:00.41] | I can’t get this loop out of my head, |
[05:01.88] | no I think I’ll have to… |
[05:03.54] | I need to sit down. |
[05:06.76] | I can’t stop my leg jiggling, |
[05:09.40] | it wants to be somewhere else. |
[05:10.23] | I need to get out of here. |
[05:10.88] | I can hear sirens – can you hear them? |
[05:11.88] | Then again, they are always here, |
[05:12.92] | the background to day to day life here. |
[05:14.31] | When music is playing, and they come, |
[05:15.82] | they sometimes sync up. |
[05:16.68] | The New Cross Remix, I call it. |
[05:19.01] | I used to... call it. |
[05:22.09] | This isn’t how it advertised itself. |
[05:27.32] | It was fun, it was Technicolour, the music made me feel liquid, |
[05:35.03] | I melted into the company and was chief among them. |
[05:37.15] | I was in the kitchen, pouring pint after pint of water over myself, insisting to a stranger that |
[05:43.71] | “No, no… The drinks are on me!” |
[05:47.38] | I can’t remember what happened after that. |
[05:50.71] | Except her there. I had managed to talk to her, |
[05:57.24] | I was talking about an art gallery, I thought she’d be impressed, |
[05:59.91] | but her eyes kept dancing around the space behind me, |
[06:01.83] | smiles flickered on her lips as her eyes focussed on scenes I was oblivious to. |
[06:06.12] | I heard laughter. It was from my throat, but I didn’t feel it. |
[06:10.75] | I was just trying to breathe life into a long-dead persona. |
or worse, someone who knows me walks by. | |
[00:00.03] | I hope you enjoy the finally files Late Night Tales selection |
[00:03.29] | Welcome |
[00:04.74] | To the first part of the four part late night tell story Flat of Angles |
[00:10.03] | Written by Simon Cleary and read by me Benedict Cumberbatch |
[00:15.55] | I' ll miss you, |
[00:18.75] | I' ll miss our walks, |
[00:22.60] | trying to pretend we are in perfect step. |
[00:25.28] | Out of step now, |
[00:28.25] | sick on the floor, |
[00:30.81] | out of the room, |
[00:32.63] | fenced in, trapped. |
[00:35.57] | I can still hear the schoolchildren play outside at their usual 10: 30. |
[00:41.17] | It always used to annoy me, as I was trying to sleep, but it doesn' t now. |
[00:44.90] | It seems alright. |
[00:46.92] | A replacement, a continuation. |
[00:51.55] | Their sound jangles around the room, |
[00:55.12] | it sounds so different from where I' ve been. |
[00:58.14] | A party, alone. |
[01:02.35] | Packed in with others, but never feeling so alone. |
[01:07.41] | People dance too close. |
[01:11.60] | She was there, I had only gone because I hoped she would be. |
[01:19.33] | I had arrived early, as the the streetlights were coming on, |
[01:22.85] | so I took a long walk around the block, |
[01:25.99][01:24.47] | taking a few extra lefts and rights, |
[01:27.00] | past the Chicken Cottage and the Costcutter, |
[01:30.71] | then along a crescent that arced me out of my way, |
[01:32.59] | past a group of figures huddled under the entrance to the flats, |
[01:35.56] | shielding the flicking lighter from the wind. |
[01:38.35] | This... area is little more than a traffic island, |
[01:45.96] | a triangle around which cars and coaches stream into town up the bleak Old Kent, |
[01:52.27] | or out into Kent and the coast. |
[01:54.66] | The same faces trudge around there for yeas. |
[01:59.25] | " Spare some change please? Much as possible." |
[02:01.72] | " You want to buy some weed." |
[02:03.69] | " Do you have a spare cigarette?" |
[02:06.06] | He always wants one. |
[02:08.13] | And that one about weed was not a question. |
[02:11.12] | There is a Samaritans office between two everely dilapidated buildings on a blackbricked terrace. |
[02:18.75] | It has a thermometer painted on a 10 ft wooden board nailed to the outside. |
[02:22.70] | There is red paint up to the 0 mark, and, an ambitious 10 ft higher, |
[02:26.84] | is written 200, 000. It never got any warmer there. |
[02:32.03] | The Man begging in the corner makes me take a huge detour when going towards my flat. |
[02:40.61] | He looks up with a pitiful stare that makes me want to kick the misery out of him. |
[02:46.82] | His dipit wee cup of unwanted coffee. |
[02:50.36] | A child' s sleeping bag. |
[02:52.22] | JJB sports. |
[02:53.58] | A crack, a release, his poor exhaust. |
[02:57.26] | He was lost. |
[02:59.08] | The Broadway. |
[03:03.12] | The Town Hall, such a grand building, all nautical reminiscences, here, far from water. |
[03:10.53] | It would be quite a sight if you could get far back enough from it to take a look. |
[03:13.45] | But my back is up against the black panelling of the gay sauna opposite, |
[03:18.26] | a coach thunders by, and I run past the video shop that I owe 5 to. |
[03:23.05] | Meaning go way back. |
[03:26.95] | I may be becoming one of those people you see in New Cross. |
[03:32.19] | I have a book, peeping out of one pocket, at least want to look vaguely intellectual if someone I know, |
[03:41.03] | I throw down the finish can into the pile between two walls, outside my flat. |
[03:46.09] | Look, there' s the hardware store. |
[03:49.98] | It has a large cutout of a radiant man and woman in overalls, |
[03:52.70] | the woman handing the man a tin of paint, up his ladder, beaming. |
[03:56.18] | It has faded in the sun. |
[03:58.90] | I bought creosote from there, once. |
[04:02.12] | What a night! |
[04:07.26] | Pure ment..! |
[04:09.23] | It was messy! |
[04:11.07] | It was out of hand! It was out of space! |
[04:13.40] | I rapped on that track once, at Bagley' s, remember it?! Skibbadee handed me the mic, |
[04:17.32] | I got to shout " I' M GONNA SEND HIM TO OUTER SPACE TO FIIIND ANOTHER RACE!" |
[04:22.70] | Absolutely fantastic, those days |
[04:28.19] | The pills these days are not the same, they don' t work. |
[04:31.33] | No love. |
[04:33.78] | I was chatting to this bloke in the kitchen, and he said something, |
[04:36.05] | I can' t remember what, |
[04:36.69] | but I had to push him over, crashed his arse on the coffee table, |
[04:39.73] | ash tinnies and CDs everywhere! |
[04:42.66] | Spilled the lines too, the fat bastard. |
[04:46.29] | I can' t get you out of my head, |
[04:50.98] | your loving is all I think about, |
[04:56.02] | no I can' t get you out of my head, |
[04:58.85] | something something is all I think about. |
[05:00.41] | I can' t get this loop out of my head, |
[05:01.88] | no I think I' ll have to |
[05:03.54] | I need to sit down. |
[05:06.76] | I can' t stop my leg jiggling, |
[05:09.40] | it wants to be somewhere else. |
[05:10.23] | I need to get out of here. |
[05:10.88] | I can hear sirens can you hear them? |
[05:11.88] | Then again, they are always here, |
[05:12.92] | the background to day to day life here. |
[05:14.31] | When music is playing, and they come, |
[05:15.82] | they sometimes sync up. |
[05:16.68] | The New Cross Remix, I call it. |
[05:19.01] | I used to... call it. |
[05:22.09] | This isn' t how it advertised itself. |
[05:27.32] | It was fun, it was Technicolour, the music made me feel liquid, |
[05:35.03] | I melted into the company and was chief among them. |
[05:37.15] | I was in the kitchen, pouring pint after pint of water over myself, insisting to a stranger that |
[05:43.71] | " No, no The drinks are on me!" |
[05:47.38] | I can' t remember what happened after that. |
[05:50.71] | Except her there. I had managed to talk to her, |
[05:57.24] | I was talking about an art gallery, I thought she' d be impressed, |
[05:59.91] | but her eyes kept dancing around the space behind me, |
[06:01.83] | smiles flickered on her lips as her eyes focussed on scenes I was oblivious to. |
[06:06.12] | I heard laughter. It was from my throat, but I didn' t feel it. |
[06:10.75] | I was just trying to breathe life into a longdead persona. |
or worse, someone who knows me walks by. | |
[00:00.03] | I hope you enjoy the finally files Late Night Tales selection |
[00:03.29] | Welcome |
[00:04.74] | To the first part of the four part late night tell story Flat of Angles |
[00:10.03] | Written by Simon Cleary and read by me Benedict Cumberbatch |
[00:15.55] | I' ll miss you, |
[00:18.75] | I' ll miss our walks, |
[00:22.60] | trying to pretend we are in perfect step. |
[00:25.28] | Out of step now, |
[00:28.25] | sick on the floor, |
[00:30.81] | out of the room, |
[00:32.63] | fenced in, trapped. |
[00:35.57] | I can still hear the schoolchildren play outside at their usual 10: 30. |
[00:41.17] | It always used to annoy me, as I was trying to sleep, but it doesn' t now. |
[00:44.90] | It seems alright. |
[00:46.92] | A replacement, a continuation. |
[00:51.55] | Their sound jangles around the room, |
[00:55.12] | it sounds so different from where I' ve been. |
[00:58.14] | A party, alone. |
[01:02.35] | Packed in with others, but never feeling so alone. |
[01:07.41] | People dance too close. |
[01:11.60] | She was there, I had only gone because I hoped she would be. |
[01:19.33] | I had arrived early, as the the streetlights were coming on, |
[01:22.85] | so I took a long walk around the block, |
[01:25.99][01:24.47] | taking a few extra lefts and rights, |
[01:27.00] | past the Chicken Cottage and the Costcutter, |
[01:30.71] | then along a crescent that arced me out of my way, |
[01:32.59] | past a group of figures huddled under the entrance to the flats, |
[01:35.56] | shielding the flicking lighter from the wind. |
[01:38.35] | This... area is little more than a traffic island, |
[01:45.96] | a triangle around which cars and coaches stream into town up the bleak Old Kent, |
[01:52.27] | or out into Kent and the coast. |
[01:54.66] | The same faces trudge around there for yeas. |
[01:59.25] | " Spare some change please? Much as possible." |
[02:01.72] | " You want to buy some weed." |
[02:03.69] | " Do you have a spare cigarette?" |
[02:06.06] | He always wants one. |
[02:08.13] | And that one about weed was not a question. |
[02:11.12] | There is a Samaritans office between two everely dilapidated buildings on a blackbricked terrace. |
[02:18.75] | It has a thermometer painted on a 10 ft wooden board nailed to the outside. |
[02:22.70] | There is red paint up to the 0 mark, and, an ambitious 10 ft higher, |
[02:26.84] | is written 200, 000. It never got any warmer there. |
[02:32.03] | The Man begging in the corner makes me take a huge detour when going towards my flat. |
[02:40.61] | He looks up with a pitiful stare that makes me want to kick the misery out of him. |
[02:46.82] | His dipit wee cup of unwanted coffee. |
[02:50.36] | A child' s sleeping bag. |
[02:52.22] | JJB sports. |
[02:53.58] | A crack, a release, his poor exhaust. |
[02:57.26] | He was lost. |
[02:59.08] | The Broadway. |
[03:03.12] | The Town Hall, such a grand building, all nautical reminiscences, here, far from water. |
[03:10.53] | It would be quite a sight if you could get far back enough from it to take a look. |
[03:13.45] | But my back is up against the black panelling of the gay sauna opposite, |
[03:18.26] | a coach thunders by, and I run past the video shop that I owe 5 to. |
[03:23.05] | Meaning go way back. |
[03:26.95] | I may be becoming one of those people you see in New Cross. |
[03:32.19] | I have a book, peeping out of one pocket, at least want to look vaguely intellectual if someone I know, |
[03:41.03] | I throw down the finish can into the pile between two walls, outside my flat. |
[03:46.09] | Look, there' s the hardware store. |
[03:49.98] | It has a large cutout of a radiant man and woman in overalls, |
[03:52.70] | the woman handing the man a tin of paint, up his ladder, beaming. |
[03:56.18] | It has faded in the sun. |
[03:58.90] | I bought creosote from there, once. |
[04:02.12] | What a night! |
[04:07.26] | Pure ment..! |
[04:09.23] | It was messy! |
[04:11.07] | It was out of hand! It was out of space! |
[04:13.40] | I rapped on that track once, at Bagley' s, remember it?! Skibbadee handed me the mic, |
[04:17.32] | I got to shout " I' M GONNA SEND HIM TO OUTER SPACE TO FIIIND ANOTHER RACE!" |
[04:22.70] | Absolutely fantastic, those days |
[04:28.19] | The pills these days are not the same, they don' t work. |
[04:31.33] | No love. |
[04:33.78] | I was chatting to this bloke in the kitchen, and he said something, |
[04:36.05] | I can' t remember what, |
[04:36.69] | but I had to push him over, crashed his arse on the coffee table, |
[04:39.73] | ash tinnies and CDs everywhere! |
[04:42.66] | Spilled the lines too, the fat bastard. |
[04:46.29] | I can' t get you out of my head, |
[04:50.98] | your loving is all I think about, |
[04:56.02] | no I can' t get you out of my head, |
[04:58.85] | something something is all I think about. |
[05:00.41] | I can' t get this loop out of my head, |
[05:01.88] | no I think I' ll have to |
[05:03.54] | I need to sit down. |
[05:06.76] | I can' t stop my leg jiggling, |
[05:09.40] | it wants to be somewhere else. |
[05:10.23] | I need to get out of here. |
[05:10.88] | I can hear sirens can you hear them? |
[05:11.88] | Then again, they are always here, |
[05:12.92] | the background to day to day life here. |
[05:14.31] | When music is playing, and they come, |
[05:15.82] | they sometimes sync up. |
[05:16.68] | The New Cross Remix, I call it. |
[05:19.01] | I used to... call it. |
[05:22.09] | This isn' t how it advertised itself. |
[05:27.32] | It was fun, it was Technicolour, the music made me feel liquid, |
[05:35.03] | I melted into the company and was chief among them. |
[05:37.15] | I was in the kitchen, pouring pint after pint of water over myself, insisting to a stranger that |
[05:43.71] | " No, no The drinks are on me!" |
[05:47.38] | I can' t remember what happened after that. |
[05:50.71] | Except her there. I had managed to talk to her, |
[05:57.24] | I was talking about an art gallery, I thought she' d be impressed, |
[05:59.91] | but her eyes kept dancing around the space behind me, |
[06:01.83] | smiles flickered on her lips as her eyes focussed on scenes I was oblivious to. |
[06:06.12] | I heard laughter. It was from my throat, but I didn' t feel it. |
[06:10.75] | I was just trying to breathe life into a longdead persona. |