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Summer Of 89

from Sledgehammer Songs by Joe Solo

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lyrics

We sang 'Louie, Louie' all that summer
Upstairs at 101 like Joe Strummer
Window open, the whole street could hear us
We'd get the rap on the wall from the neighbours
Second-hand Peavey amp, high as a mountain
You'd drop your sticks nine times at the count-in
To break string well that was one more hurdle
We didn't bleed then it weren't a rehearsal
The suffering was universal

I remember you
How could I forget?

'Teenage Kicks' yeah, and then 'What Do I Get?'
Guitar solos even I couldn't forget
SLF songs working out where the A goes
We were nobodys they were 'Nobody's Heroes'
I wrote my first songs as the windows misted
C-30 cassette til the tape got twisted
Lyrics written on an old fag packet
All for the joy of kicking up a racket

I remember you
How could I forget?
Cos we did time
In the summer of 89

Though looking back is for the broken-hearted
Without you I'd have never got started
A dead life where you like it or lump it
Left me forever when you bought that drum kit
But now you're gone and I won't get to tell you
There'll be no catch-up laughs if I bell you
Just some old band that was never together
I wrote this so you'll live forever
I wrote this so you'll live forever

I remember you
How could I forget?
Cos we did time
In the summer of 89

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from Sledgehammer Songs, released March 1, 2024
Joe Solo

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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry. ... more

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