Title: Twenty Years

Releases: Echolalia, Twenty Years

Running Time: 3:50

Also Known As:

Meaning: “

Recorded: Recorded at Mangrove studio between November 2000 to January 2001. Produced by Trina Shoemaker.

Notes: “This song really came together around a melody that Stephanie wrote” “It’s got sort of a countryish feel” “It had many lyric re-writes” - Paul

Lyrics:

He is alive and kicking
Screaming
Calls it gymnastics
Calls it velocity
You spend twenty years climbing
And never change your mind or change direction
And you call it the path that leads to resistance
You have everything you ever need
 
So you sing 'If you can't beat them join them'
All the way up to your floor
Memorise and repeat it
And sing it like you mean it
 
They are talking to me
And I'm nowhere to be found
There's somewhere else I had to be
Call it necessity
Mutiny, entropy
They think I'm down they tell me I should brighten up
That's just 'cos they don't know an explosion when they see one
 
And they sing 'If you can't beat them join them'
All the way up to your floor
Memorise and repeat it
And sing it like you mean it
All the way home to your front door
Yeah you better believe it
Sing it like you mean it
 
They are talking to me
And I am nowhere to be found
 
So you sing, so you sing
If you can't beat them join them
All the way up to your floor
Memorise and repeat it
And sing it like you mean it