| Bad Cover Version |
Cocker / Banks / Doyle / Mackey / Webber
The word's on the street: you've found someone
new. If he looks nothing like me I'm so happy for you. I heard an old girlfriend
has turned to the church - she's trying to replace me, but it'll never work.
'Cos every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been & every
time he kisses you it leaves behind the bitter taste of saccharine. A bad cover
version of love is not the real thing. Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited
you in. Such great disappointment when you got him home - the original was so
good; the one you no longer own. & every touch reminds you of just how sweet
it could have been & every time he kisses you, you get the taste of
saccharine. It's not easy to forget me, it's so hard to disconnect, when it's
electronically reprocessed to give a more life-like effect.
Aah,
sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong: It's like a
later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk, like the
Stones since the Eighties, like the last days of Southfork. Like "Planet of
the Apes" on TV., the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in",
like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he's going to let you down my friend.