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No hotel rooms or mini-bars
Just sleeping bags in backs of cars
On a mattress of guitars
We're DIY-ing

Another town, another show
Another fast lane going slow
There's roadworks everywhere we go
We're DIY-ing

Here we go again...

Give fliers out all afternoon
And still play to an empty room
Something's gotta happen soon
We're DIY-ing

And one day when we sign that deal
I'll buy a service station meal
To fill the emptiness I feel
We're DIY-ing

Here we go again....

We're given lending up for lent
The T-Shirt money's all been spent
We'll have to dip into the rent
We're DIY-ing

When I grow up to be a star
I'm gonna re-string this guitar
And order something from the bar
We're DIY-ing

Here we go again....

We drop our gear down in a heap
And pray the Lord our dole to keep
We do the soundcheck in our sleep
We're DIY-ing

The promoter's looking scared
By what he's seen and what he's heard
He calls us over, wants a word
We're DIY-ing

"We're agent run, boys, understand?
The bills no longer in my hands
We don't book independent bands
No DIY-ing"

Before we go I turn and say:
"You'll reap the whirlwind here one day
Where the new groups gonna play?
Is music dying?"

He says: "You losers never see
You must befriend the NME!"
I say: "That says it all to me
We're DIY-ing"

Here we go again......

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from An Exile in Fairyland: Early Tracks 2004​-​2007, released January 1, 2007
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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