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Limited Edition 12" Red Vinyl LP
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Beautiful Red Vinyl LP with lyric insert. Also includes download code for full album PLUS exclusive code for a bonus 13 track download album of demo versions of songs that don't appear on any other format of this release! Be the envy of your CD and MP3 buying friends!
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lyrics
To the casual observer, I’m your average, hulking football-playing meathead
Size, strength, athleticism all wrapped up with a photogenic bow
There was a time when that was all it took, to get attention from cheerleaders
These days I play to empty stadiums, there are no cheerleaders left to see me throw
And I threw everything I had, to make you see past all the laptops and the glasses
As you sat with the cool kids; gamers, mathletes, birdwatchers, historians
On the field I was the quarterback, hurling sixty-five yard passes
But in school no-one looks at Superman, they’re far more interested in Clark Kent
I bought a motorbike, but you didn’t look twice
At me when I was leaning on it, looking like a God
You wouldn’t talk to me, so rather awkwardly
I knew beyond reason, it was time for the even to get odd
Pick a team, just pick a team. All you said to me was, pick a team
So I got frameless specs, a cardigan, and quoted sections from the work of Tolkien
But you laughed behind your hand, when I saw you in the library that day
During Science class I stood and recited the Prime Directive, all in Vulcan
Wrote “Photosynthesis is Phun” on walls, I even spelled the Fun with a P.H.
I pitted Marvel against DC comics, learnt to build 16K ZX Spectrums
Sent love letters, poured my heart out to you, exclusively in binary code
But your friends called me a faker, a pretender; my advances were rejected
I was a nobody, an outsider, so I went back to playing football on my own
I sold my motorbike, but you didn’t look twice
At me I as retreated into being who I was
Pretending to be, in the World Series, Hitting the home run of the season
There was simply no more reason to get odd
Pick a team, pick a team, all you said to me was, pick a team
So one night you came to meet me on the pitch, and in the rain
But instead I played a message to you on the Jumbo screen (and I said)
“While you host NASA role-play games, oh-so-realistic
I pour over Sergei Federov’s ice-hockey statistics
In my fantasy world, I embrace my outcast status
Collect NFL passing yards facts and interceptions data
Alone, I throw footballs through the tyres of a car
As alone, you wonder who would win, between Kirk and Picard
And while I may not understand cascades from Kinase receptors
I know stereotyping is the only thing that’s kept us
From seeing similarities between so-called geeks and jocks
Where I see Peyton Manning, you see Dr Spock
I know how to use technology, but you really understand it
Still we’re swimming in the same space on a Venn Diagram
Where intelligence and obsession, meets social ineptitude
I may not be a Whovian, but there’s no need to be rude
I’ve thrown my Nerd t-shirt into the trash
But if you can’t see that my knowledge and my craft
Is equal to your own, then that’s just daft
Go fuck yourself and your knowledge of Schrodinger
If that’s success, I don’t wanna be a winner”
I picked a team, I picked a team, just like you said, I picked a team
You’ve got Berners-Lees, Zuckerbergs, Sinclairs, Teslas don’t forget Bill Gateses
You picked your team you won. Well done, congratulations, it’s the end
You’re Gordon Gecko with html code, instead of power-braces
Still it turns out that you liked me after all, you just had a boyfriend.
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