Busy day today, been in the Key 103 office all day working hard some some show bits- got to interview Shayne Ward as well! Ha!- lucky me.
Drove home, with my car practically overheating in the perilous Mancunian rush hour traffic, to make a very 1min quick curry, throw it in some trusty tuppaware ready to eat on the tram some 20mins later. That brings us to now where I've found 5 mins to kick back and let that little thing called digestion happen. I'm sat on a bench at Picadilly Gardens.
I'm rushing around tonight to first interview Sound Of Guns in the Northern Quarter's Roadhouse venue. Then I'm heading down to Oxford Road, the other end of town, to interview Dog Is Dead, an hour later!
At the moment this constant hustle, bustle and relentless living is my norm. I'm finding it hard to switch off from the intrinsic motivation for why I'm doing all this hard graft. Tomorrow I'm up at 4:30 to go and help with some production bits on the Key 103 breakfast show- OJ is covering this week- really excited! My first taste of brekkie radio, I hear it's a grim but eccentric world...we'll see!
Either way, I'm connecting with (some of) the lyrics to this song...Days & Nights by Devlin. I can identify with the relentless non-stop nature of the lyrics but it's a far removed vibe to my life!..I'm having a ball! I gave his album Bud, Sweat and Beers a listen again the other day, reminded me how much I love it..and this stand-out song in particular:
" I've been up for nights and days
And my eyes remain wide awake
Because more than my life's at steak
So I ain't got time for blinkin
All the time I'm thinkin
If this ain't hell it's one firey place
Metallic projectiles fly in ya face
And leave you like human garbarge lyin in drains
I gotta keep my eyeballs open
The only thing thatll minus the pain like ibuprofen is 9milli and k on the case
I don't feel in control like pilots in planes
I'm trapped in this winding maze
I'm an insomniac I'm insane
I've been up for days and nights throguh this crazy life but
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Until they pay me right
My eyes are open wide but
I'll sleep when I'm dead
When everything on my to do list is ticked off,
Then maybe I can drift off,
Until then I'm wide awake, lyin in a daze,
My eyeballs gaze.
Hypnotised by the sound of my wrist watch,
Clickin tick tock.
I'm incharge of the Underground just like Brick Top
So I can't sleep I'd be wrong if I did stop
If I'm focused on writing a verse
You couldn't put me to sleep with a thousand and nine bottles of night nurse
It's likely I'll put ya lights out first
So I'll sleep when I'm restin in peace
Until then I've gotta bless these beats
Till I conquer the streets
If I'm conscious I can't get lost in a dream
I've been up for days and nights throguh this crazy life but
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Until they pay me right
My eyes are open wide but
I'll sleep when I'm dead
If you're drowsy remain in a slumber
My metaphors flow over ya head like a buttonless jumper
I can't sleep till I'm in the sky like lightning and thunder
Sometimes at night I wonder
Is pursuein this dream a blunder
Or the best thing that I ever did
I can't sleep or slip till I'm 6 feet under
Hence the song I'll sleep when I'm dead
You might only need money to survive
But my life relies on a needle instead
I wanna eat steak meals everyday
I'm sick and tired of livin on a diet of beans and bread
So believe what I said
I'll sleep when I'm where
I'll sleep when I'm what
I'll sleep when I'm dead
I've been up for days and nights throguh this crazy life but
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Until they pay me right
My eyes are open wide but
I'll sleep when I'm dead "
