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Things Are Not Looking Good

from Canadiana by Philip Rambow

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  • Artist Signed Canadiana CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Philip has signed a small quantity of CDs (see photo for example)

    The 6-panel CD artwork is Philip's reflection on the past and the present with a wonderful recreation of an old group photo including Philip as a young man and his passport photo when he left his Canadian homeland for the UK in the 1970's.

    Track listing:

    American Buffalo
    Things Are Not Looking Good
    Out On Your Own (feat. Sharlene Hector)
    Get Even
    Springtime In My Heart
    Oceans Apart (feat. Sharlene Hector)
    Hard Times
    Pigging Out
    Angel Every Day
    Making Up For Lost Time
    Devoted To You

    Includes unlimited streaming of Canadiana via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The 6-panel CD artwork is Philip's reflection on the past and the present with a wonderful recreation of an old group photo including Philip as a young man and his passport photo when he left his Canadian homeland for the UK in the 1970's.

    Track listing:

    American Buffalo
    Things Are Not Looking Good
    Out On Your Own (feat. Sharlene Hector)
    Get Even
    Springtime In My Heart
    Oceans Apart (feat. Sharlene Hector)
    Hard Times
    Pigging Out
    Angel Every Day
    Making Up For Lost Time
    Devoted To You

    Includes unlimited streaming of Canadiana via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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lyrics

There’s a fox in the chicken run,
A diamond down the loo
The scarecrow’s fallen over, don’t know what to do
There’s a tattered coat in the yard hanging off a stick
Trainers on a power line thrown up by a dick
There’s weevil in the cotton field, poison in the well
The microwave just caught on fire, the pick up’s shot to hell

Things are not looking good
Things are not looking good
Life don’t go the way it should
Things are not looking good.

Momma’s in the counting house eating curds and whey
Poppa’s in the barrel house each and every day
My baby brother’s in the barn cooking up the meth
Little sister’s on the own, she’s tweeting bout herself
I tell them of the benefits of staying on at school
They shake their heads and say I’m just a crazy old fool

Things are not looking good
Things are not looking good
Life don’t go the way it should
Things are not looking good

The azaleas are overgrown the clematis is parched
Arthritis is my newest friend I’ve got a fallen arch
Relative to lots of folks I’m living like a king
I know it’s just a bubble, a bubble that I’m in
A lepton fired in CERN arrived before it left
Albert Einstein’s universe is just about to melt

I said things not looking good
Yeah things are not looking good
Life don’t go work out like it should
Things are not looking good

When I started on this road I looked like Yves Montand
Danced like Fred Astaire sang like Sarah Vaughn
Keeping up the vanity you’re howling at the moon
A stranger said the other day I’m like an ancient ruin
The populis is polarised, sense has flown away
New shit always happens I wish it all away

Things are not looking good
Things are not looking good
Life don’t go the way it should
Things are not looking good

Things are not looking good
Things are not looking good

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from Canadiana, released April 24, 2020

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Philip Rambow London, UK

From Toronto to London, Philip Rambow hit the thriving 70s pub rock circuit with The Winkies, then to be recruited by Brian Eno for recordings and touring.

Philip worked with Mick Ronson before delivering two EMI solo albums. A songwriter of repute, he’s authored hits for Kirsty MacColl, Nick Gilder & Ellen Foley.

His 2020 album ‘Canadiana’ was followed by ‘The Rebel Kind: Anthology 1972-2020’ ... more

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