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It's All Fun and Games Til Someone Loses an Eye (25th Anniversary Re​-​master)

by The Hitchers

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1.
Sooner Die 04:49
Sooner Die I don't want to explain I just want you home again I don't want to complain I just want you home again But if you don't want me anymore If you don't need mc anymore If you don't love me anymore Then I don't want to live on anymore I don't want to blame you But sometimes I could maim you I don't want to use you But use me if you want to But if you don't want me anymore If you don't need mc anymore If you don't love me anymore Then I don't want to live on anymore
2.
You Can Only Love Someone So Much But You Can Hate Them All The Way To Hell. You Can Only Love Someone So Much But You Can Hate Them All The Way To Hell
3.
Big Mug 04:09
Big Mug I'm looking down at you on the floor wondering who's the mug here Or who's the mugger more. I'm looking down at you on the floor wondering who's more broken or who's more bloody sore. I got you one year and you were so dear you nearly brought me to tears. I didn't use you at all. In the press by the wall. then you had to fall. I'm looking down at you all in bits wondering who's the mug here wondering who the tag fits I'm looking down at you all in bits wondering who's more broken or who's the worse for it. How time has passed, the years go so fast. I knew you couldn't last. Then you had to go and let yourself flow and let yourself flow I'm looking down at you in your box wondering who's the mug here wondering if this is mock. I'm looking down at you in your box wondering who's more broken wondering who's been more rocked. I'm looking down at you on the floor wondering who's the mug here Or who's the mugger more. I'm looking down at you on the floor wondering who's more broken or who's more bloody sore.
4.
Killed It With My Bare Hands Now she's doing Liberace on the controls for the TV coz she knows Noel Edmonds's on after the news. And she'd truly madly deeply like to cut his friggin' head off but she thinks her actions may be misconstrued. Coz all her family love him and they'll never understand If her big sister just off the telephone Then she wouldn't have to sit around and be assimilated on her own. No she doesn't want to sit around and be assimilated on her own. In the paper that she's reading are four pages of death notices for bleeding hearts with little else to do. Someone out there sadly missed by family and employees a fine gentleman to everyone he knew. Except his missus she was having an affair and she really doesn’t really care in fact she's kind of glad he's gone. But she doesn't want to sit around and be assimilated on her own. no she doesn't want to sit around and be assimilated on her own. Coz all her family love him and they'll never understand If her big sister just off the telephone Then she wouldn't have to sit around and be assimilated on her own No she doesn't want to sit around and be assimilated on her own
5.
L is for Loss and Losing Lament and Lust and of course Leaving But not grieving O is an unusual letter One and Ornamental, like that sweater Oh it"ll get better, oh forget her And if you hope to be the one some words and terms are just not on V is for Vanity and Values and Varicose Veins and I've got to tell you you've got them all except the values E is for End and Empty E is for Error and most make plenty but we were meant to be can't end so easily And if you hope to be the one Some words and terms are just not on Bet ya guessed that I'm not a Kim fan
6.
Wizard Prang 03:27
7.
U Can Du 04:12
U Can Du Have you ever seen the spaces that are in between the stars? Have you ever really tasted Mars Bars? Have you ever seen the Gods use the moon as a big football in an ecumenical off the wall? U can do it if you really want to Have you ever heard the clouds whisper in your ear? Have you ever really tasted beer? Have you ever felt the earth that's underneath your feet? Have you made all the puzzle pieces meet? U can do it if you really want to and it's not hard
8.
Strachan 05:54
She waited for the match to start to start a fight up with me. She said, "what's that you're watching?", "It's a Programme about art". She said, "A Programme about art?", I said "A programme about art" and then the greatest midfield artist of them all walked out onto the park. The crowd were on their feet and they whistled and they cheered for the tiny wee Scotsman with the copper coloured hair. She said, "You just don't care, You never listen you know" Lukic out to Wetherall and Wetherall to Dorigo. Dorigo knocks it on to Fairclough, Fairclough looks for Speed. Now she's ranting like a lunatic, "I'm switching off that telly". "Look at me while I'm talking to you!" To Strachan now -puts Kelly through There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two know damn well who. The air begins to thicken. Inside the box Strachan has stricken The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -One-Nil She waited for the match to start to start a fight up with me. She said, "what's that you're watching?", "It's a Programme about art". She said, "A Programme about art?", I said "A programme about art" and then the artist tackles perfectly and floats over the park to the waiting Rodney Wallace who knocks it back in to Deane and now the Deane Machine to McAllister and McAllister's just seen that Gordon Strachan slipped his marker and he's free now in space he's got 'em pouring forward spraying the ball all over the place. Now Gary Speed is involved again, he steadies the ball. "am I talking to myself?", she says, "or talking to the wall?" "Will you look at me while I'm talking to you!" To Strachan now -puts Fairclough through There's one man pulling all the strings and twenty-two know damn well who. The air gets even thicker. The 'keepers quick -Gordon Strachan's quicker. The gap unfilled -he makes the kill -Two-Nil. She waited for the match to start to start a fight up with me. She said, "what's that you're watching?", "It's a Programme about art". "If you don't take your grief and bad vibes and get out of my face I'm gonna sit right here and whistle my way through Melrose Place" You could've lit the air in the room with a matchstick, McAllisters cross sets up Strachans hat-trick The gap unfilled -Strachans skill -Three-Nil
9.
On and On 02:42
I see him on a park bench, each day older, sitting on his own. Smokes a pipe, keeps a smile on his face it's frozen oh old times cover him with time Will it go Will it go Will it go yeah! On and on, on and on he's on the only any he knows Doesn't move 'cept the evening goes to his room, doesn't do much else But the old boy must be happy some way Coz on and on go round and round
10.
New Years Eve 1989, walk to a friend's house -this years last time And it hit me just then l'd be out of there down the line 16 years old back then, barely remember when 18 and I'm out of here. You'll all grow up you see, mortgage and family and if you're lucky....old Some day we'll all grow old and die Some day we'll all grow old and die and that's fine, that's cool, just as longs as some people I have in mind die too. That's fine, just as long as they're moulding in their graves before I'm moulding in mine. Come now let's not pretend, it's happening to all your friends it'll never happen to you Then you'll wake up one day wrinkled and bald or grey and if you've paid your way, old
11.
On with our coats and out the door we ran Into town and in the pub again What a laugh, what a great old night Didn't think that it could go so well That old jacket he has worn for years Last I saw it we were just going away A long time away And I miss those days Yeah I miss those ways Life seems so dull today Got a phone call from an older flame But you just know it’s never the same As the last time I held her up Talking rubbish and all kinds of stuff Last I saw her she was, going to spend All her money getting sweet revenge Sweet revenge And I miss those days Yeah I miss those ways Life seems so dull today And I miss them, Yeah I miss them, Yeah I miss them today Yeah I miss them, how I miss them Yeah I miss them today
12.
They threw an Aryan Beach Party last Summer with a crappy Oi band playing Beach Boys surfer greats Jackets of the Afrika Corps with Bermudas covered beer guts Hard earned down the pub indulging hate Let’s see if we can all find someone to scare tonight At the Aryan Beach Party they took off their lacquered jackboots, shiny doc's -swapped them all for flip-flops One held up their bible 'Mein Kampf -It didn't look well worn, laughed and spilled his beer on another ones Heinrich Himmler uniform Just stand aside, give ‘em some space The master race are getting out of their face yeah who would've thought it'd be the case that the master race would be so wide around the waist yeah
13.
Walked up past the old arcades To where the older boats lie dead Got up to the broken bandstand But this all happened in my head I had dozed off, I hadn't moved at all I'd slept with back up to the wall And now I've had that nice dream I think that I might like some ice-cream Walked in my bare feet along the sand To where the water met the land When the water hit my knees I thought that I was going to freeze Some kid's dad gave me some hassle I tripped over his kid's sand castle Kid sat there in tears - mouth open wide I was bright red, I nearly died Later on in the old arcade Twenty pence, Euro '96 Knocked out in the semis by the French A well struck peno by Asterix
14.

credits

released January 26, 2022

Recorded Feb-June 1996 at Xeric Studios Limerick, Ireland. Engineered by Pearse Gilmore. Assistant Engineer - Fergal O’Neill. Produced by Pearse Gilmore & The Hitchers. 1996 Mastering - Nick Watson at SRT Cambridge, UK. Re-mastered in 2021 by Richard Dowling, Wav Mastering, Limerick, Ireland.

All titles by Niall Quinn except 9 & 11 by Hoss Carnage. Strings arranged by Carl Hession from Andys Hummings.

Lots of people to thank! Dave Irwin, Hugh Mulqueen, Niall O’Connor, Ian McNamara, Steven Lynch, Joe Browne, Albert Twomey, John Kelly, Eileen Holmes, Tom Cronin, Tom Fitz, Seamie Flynn, Kieran Woulfe, Bob O’Connell, Mark Long, John Quinn. Massive thanks to Edel Ni Dhuinn for everything!
Special thanks to all who built, sailed, steered, mended, reset or got out and pushed or pulled the ship - Alan Jacques, Brendan McCormack, Eoin O’Kelly, Frank Ryan, Donnacha Toomey, Mark Coleman, Paul Healy.

Aoife Harney appears courtesy of her parents Gina and Aidan.
All titles copyright control P&C 1997 Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
Cover photo, Aoife and cartoons -Niall Quinn. Back cover birthday photo - Brendan McCormack. Band photos -Edel Ni Dhuinn. 1997 Artwork The Binman and Murgatroid Art Copyright Murgatroid 1997. 2021 Artwork by EFG Media.
Thanks to Fund:it, The funders and everyone who helped make this re-issue happen. Special thanks to Pearse Gilmore and Murgatroid for belief back then and their permission and co-operation now. 25 Years Ha? … Fuckin ‘ell.

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