PUBLICITY SEEKING ROCKERZ

i finally got my copy of IN FULL REGALIA in the post a week ago.







i've been listening to it a fair bit. and this one is my favourite:



i see you’re not wearing your red cap anymore
well i heard someone say you thought it was getting too small

well, i wish i knew how to alter it
but i don’t know how to sew
so if you’d like to wear it
then i guess it’s all up to you

standing with your red cap on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped wearing it
i dislike you even more

i’ve heard you’ve not played the guitar for fifteen years, soon
well it’s hard, hard to play the guitar
when it’s way outta tune

well, i wish i knew how to tune it
but i haven’t got the ear
so if someone’s going to do it
then it’s you again, i fear

standing playing guitar on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped playing it
i dislike you even more

i’ve heard that you’re not singing songs anymore
but actually i don’t believe you when you say
it’s ‘cause your throat is sore

you better open up your ear
‘cause there’s a new song coming in
and if you pick, pick up the tune
maybe even i will join in

standing singing songs upon the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve let your dear songs die out
i dislike you even more

standing with your red cap on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped wearing it
i dislike you even more…

i see you’re not wearing your red cap anymore…

“THE RED CAP” the ark

i remember ola telling me and jasmine about this song almost seven years ago (or was it one of the later trips.. i’m not sure, but it was at least five years ago) it came up because we walked past an advert for finnish cider called golden cap, and he told us all about this song he’d written ages ago called red cap. (at least i think it was ages ago, i don’t think it was a song he was working on or anything. but it was a long time ago, the details are hazy) i can’t remember exactly what he said it was about, ex-radicals, socialists who grew up or something, people who get cynical and stop caring.. and he sang the chorus for us right there in the deserted streets of helsinki, surrounded by empty office building and business hotels. i hadn’t thought about that song at all in years, i’d forgotten how it went, but i’m 99.99% sure this is that song, and the chorus sort of rings a bell..that is a fucking long time to hold on to a song. seven fucking years.