HOVERCRAFT

Grimsby 1995 → somewhere in the future

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Low

Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/low/

Written by Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman

Current recording: Oh Yeah

Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · A Bottle And A Suitcase

So cold and lonely
You slip right out of town
Left before the life you've left behind
Landed in a strange place
Just a bottle and a suitcase
Never knew that life was so unkind

Never got to be a movie star
Never got to drive a groovy car
Never figured out who you really are
Getting all your gear on tick
But you couldn't get the hit
But you played a mean guitar
You played a mean guitar

I just want somebody to teach me
When things are getting rough
I just want somebody to teach me
And I've had enough
I've had enough

Wish I could get inside your head and see the light
That shines so bright behind your eyes
I should have listened when you said the world is shite
It's gonna be a low until you die
It's gonna be a low until you die
It's gonna be a low until you die
It's gonna be a low until you die

About this song.

Written by
Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
Work
Original

Exile, failed stardom, gear, disappointment and the need for guidance gather around the image of a bottle and a suitcase — the phrase that supplied the companion album’s former working title.

Source & versions

A known older web transcription contains one corrected word.

The evidence.

Low — Handwritten structure sheet
Handwritten structure sheet 1995–96

Original structure/chord chart, identified with high confidence as Low.