sugar mice

• kalp dağlayan, hakkı verilmemiş, müthiş marillion eserlerinden. warm wet circles ile birlikte albümün^* öne çıkanlarından.
  
  evinden, sevdiklerinden uzakta, bir holiday inn odasında yalnızlık çekerken yazmış fish baba bu şarkıyı. "oldukça kötü moddaydım, eski kız arkadaşlarımdan birini aradım, uzun sessizlikler içeren kötü bir konuşma oldu. iyice depresif hissettim." der bir röportajında şarkının temellerini nasıl attığını anlatırken.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7q_ipazlwi
  
  1987 tarihli live from loreley konserinde ise, "this song dedicated, all the unemployed people in europe today, to the romantics, to the dreamers and to those who still have hearts." sözleriyle başlar şarkıya. şarkının sözlerini, hikayesini zaten biliyorsunuzdur, hâlihazırda işsizsinizdir, sevdiklerinizden uzaktasınızdır. yaralar, parçalar...
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4zc0icktu
• clutching at straws albümünde bulunan harika marillion parçası...
  
  lyrics: dick^**
  music: dick/kelly/mosley/rothery/trewavas
  
  i was flicking through the channels on the tv
  on a sunday in milwaukee in the rain
  trying to piece together conversations
  trying to find out where to lay the blame
  but when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
  for when it gets right down to it there's no one here that's left to blame
  blame it on me, you can blame it on me
  we're just sugar mice in the rain
  
  i heard sinatra calling me through the floorboards
  where you pay a quarter for a partnership in rhyme
  to the jukebox crying in the corner
  while the waitress is counting out the time
  
  for when it comes right down to it there's no use trying to pretend
  for when it gets right down to it there's no one really left to blame
  blame it on me, you can blame it on me
  we're just sugar mice in the rain
  
  'cos i know what i feel, know what i want i know what i am
  daddy took a raincheck
  ' cos i know what i want, know what i feel i know what i need
  daddy took a raincheck, your daddy took a raincheck
  ain't no one in here that's left to blame but me
  blame it on me, blame it on me
  
  well the toughest thing that i ever did was talk to the kids on the phone
  when i heard them asking questions i knew that you were all alone
  can't you understand that the government left me out of work
  i just couldn't stand the looks on their faces saying, "what a jerk"
  
  so if you want my address it's number one at the end of the bar
  where i sit with the broken angels clutching at straws and nursing our scars
  blame it on me, blame it on me,
  sugar mice in the rain, your daddy took a raincheck
• daddy took a raincheck, yani babacık yandı, elendi. mükemmel şarkı.