Fishknives

Fishknives is a b-side to the James single She’s A Star released in February 1997.

Tim had written the lyrics to Fishknives back in the Laid sessions in 1993, but the band couldn’t come up with any suitable music. It was jammed at a gig in Paris in November 1993 with a title of Throwing It All Away. Much of the original lyric was then taken and placed into the track Homeboy that Tim was struggling to come up with lyrics for. A version of it appears in the fabled Whiplash sessions.

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It's your birthright
It's home-grown
Passed on from the father side to son

It's a gene pool
It's your landscape
It's conditioning grips you can't break

Get this feeling I'm in prison
Gotta break out, file in fruitcake
Try and fake it
With the real men
Trying to fill my father's size ten
I'm a late child
I'm a love child
It's enough child I am appealing
I'm appealing
I'm appealing
To a need we've all been feeling

Get a suit on
Think you're full-grown
All these grown-ups
Don't know how to break down
See the monkeys
At the party
Getting high on the latest technology
Got to hide you
Got to shave you
For a man you're two genes too few
See the monkeys
At the party
All these apes are chewing on fishknives.
Fishknives (repeat to end)