Songs: We Did It Anyway
notes / gigs / releasesWe never won an award
We never got on the news
We weren't the talk of the town
We never got a review
No photography shoots
For the cover of a fashion magazine
And if you take a look in the record books
You won't find me
Everything that we've done
Has been roundly ignored
By the makers of taste
And the style reports
In a time yet to come
When they're writing the history
Of the human race, there'll be no trace
Of you and me
But we did it anyway
We were unaware
Much too busy having fun
To know that no-one cared
Because we did have some fun
Yeah, and we did have some laughs
In fact a lot of them were
The best times that I ever had
All the places we went
Everything that we did and we said
It’s amazing to think of all the dancing and drink
And all the people we met
And we did it anyway
Just because we could
If I could have that time again
You know what? I bloody would!
So you can stuff your awards
Forget the fame and the wealth
Because you know I wouldn't swap
This life for anything else
Who needs a glowing review?
Don’t bother asking for exclusive interviews
I don’t need to have a lot of medals and cash
When I’ve got friends like you
And we will do it anyway
Just because it’s good
We don’t need the approval
Of you or anyone
We'll still do it anyway
And it will be great
Who cares if no-one ever knows?
We’ll do it anyway
We’ll do it anyway
Published by Wipe Out Music Publishing
The GRAND FINALE of the whole show and my FAVOURITE song too - I bloody love this one! Every time we did it I would get at least one moment of THE TINGLES, where a certain line GOT to me. Sometmes it'd be the bit about "all the people we met", or Steve saying "I bloody would!" or the "yeah we did have some laughs" and there were times when the Looking At Each Other for "friends like you" bit had to be BRIEF to avoid ACTUAL EMOTION.
Aaah, it was GRATE - this is pretty much the only song of the entire show that I do at SOLO gigs, because it can be taken out very easily. INDEED that was the idea all along - most of the songs for this show are PART of the narrative, LIKE AN OPERA OR SOMETHING, so I wanted to have one or two ('Only A Robot' for instance was meant to be like this too) that SAID something without necessarily pushing the narrative on.
I'm really REALLY happy with this one - I also (ALWAYS) get a bit weepy when I sing "I won't swap this life for anything else" because it is TRUE. Not just my favourite song in the show then, but one of my favourite of mine EVER!
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