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Hobart Paving

Lyrics

[intro sample (on the album):] Do you think a girl should go to bed with a feller, if she doesn't love him? No. [pause] Unless it's me.

I heard she drove the silvery sports-car /
along the empty streets last night. /
Hanging around / with hair-dos like mine. /
No, I haven't seen the kids for some time. /

Picked up her shoes from the red-brick stairway, /
just like a harpsichordist she moved. /
And back upstairs / at half past two, /
with a paper folded, outside the loo. /

Rain falls / like Elvis tears. /
Oh no, / no sugar tonight. /
Out on the high street, / dim all the lights and /
cry coloured tears again. /

And baby, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
don't forget to catch me. / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
Hobart paving, don't you think that's it's time, /
on this platform with the drizzle in my eyes? /
And baby, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
don't forget to catch me. / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
Hobart paving, don't you think that's it's time? /
The ticket's in my hand, the train pulls down the line. /

Rain falls / like Elvis tears. /
Oh no, / no sugar. /
Out on the high street, / dim all the lights and /
cry coloured tears. /

And baby, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
don't forget to catch me, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
don't forget to catch me, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
don't forget to catch me. / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
Oh no, no sugar tonight, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
Oh no, no sugar tonight, / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
No no, no sugar tonight. / (Don't forget to catch me.) /
Don't forget to catch me...

Credits

Composition:
Vocals:

References

You may have heard of Elvis. The sample at the start may well be Alan Bates.

Trivia

Here's the band talking about the track, shamelessly pinched from Melody Maker:

Bob:
That was supposed to be a cinematic thing about American tenement blocks. But it doesn't do that for anyone. So it's not about American tenement blocks at all, do you know what I mean? The idea was, she used to live there, but she got rich and moved away, and now she's going back. I got the idea from a horrible Seventies airbrushed painting I saw in a book called Rock Dreams of Diana Ross going back to where she used to live.
Pete:
Jarvis does that in Sheffield. He drives round Sheffield in a limo, laughing.

And a comment from Robert Orchard who is a fan living in Croydon;

I work in Croydon (Pete and Bobs home town), and I used to cycle to work. One morning, I was listening to So Tough, to Hobart Paving, and I stopped at some traffic lights, about a mile from where I work. I looked up and saw the words Hobart Paving on the back of a van, and nearly fell off my bike. Hangover - No, they tend to go after cycling for five miles. Drugs - No, hadn't done anything like that since Uni. Must be true then. Hobart Paving is the name of a construction company in Croydon. The mundane truth behind one of SEs songs is now revealed.

Yoz Grahame wrote to say;

"Hobart Paving" was covered under the name "Catch Me" for a film called "Bandits" (see IMDB - it's the 1997 one. Once you're there, look under "Soundtrack"). The song's performed by the fictional band in the film, and they seem to have added an extra verse.

Versions and sources

Hobart Paving
Hobart Paving [single version]
Hobart Paving [us version]
Hobart Paving [video]
Your Head My Voice (voix revirement)[remix of Hobart Paving]


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