HOVERCRAFT

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Oh Yeah

Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/oh-yeah/

01 / The words

Written by Piers Wildman

Current recording: Oh Yeah

Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side A 

[refrain omitted]

I gotta head that is swimmin'
I gotta house to paint
I gotta bed full of women
I feel like shit but I done your stir now

Everytime you turn your head
You think you're something special
And you're right to bed
Something that you
Always said would do
Oh yeah

Everytime you think your free
Your picking on someone in authority
You can't be lied to tell the truth
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
TEXT NOTE.

Piers’ original words are reproduced here. The borrowed refrain is intentionally omitted.

03 / The dossier

About this song.

Written by
Piers Wildman
Work
Original song incorporating a borrowed refrain

It enters through a familiar blues and R&B doorway and then becomes another song: borrowed bravado gives way to failed potency and increasingly manic self-exposure.

Source & versions

The borrowed refrain is omitted from the published song text.

04 / The artwork

Visualising the song.

A vintage-style scene featuring a voodoo doll, a record player with a spinning vinyl, a seductive black-and-white pin-up photo marked with lipstick kisses, and various weathered objects, all set against a graffiti-covered wall with handwritten notes.

04 / The archive

The evidence.

Oh Yeah — Original set list
Original set list 1995–96

Period set list documenting Oh Yeah in the original Hovercraft repertoire.